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Old 08-06-2002, 05:31 AM
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I graduated in 1970 and my high school parking lot looked like a cruise night. 65 GTOs, 67 Chevelle SS's, Roadrunners, 442s, Camaros, Mustangs, GTX's, Chargers(mine), Challengers, Superbees, Cudas you name it. I do remember seeing a Daytona 500 Charger in Waco around that time also (wanna say it was Orange) and a couple red white and blue AMXs. Wow, its no wonder I'm obssessed!
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Old 08-06-2002, 12:54 PM
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These are shots (poor) of my '69 SS(427) Chevelle circa 1981. This was the norm in those days and this was my daily driver and not real good in Minnesota. Notice the missing inner high beams, fog lights, garter belt not to mention all the decals on the back windows. The car was definitely a lot of fun in those days. The car ran very well with the low rise 2x4 set up that I got from Racer's Exchange for $200!!
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Nice Pix Rick.
I had those fog lights too on my 70 back then...
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Old 08-06-2002, 07:16 PM
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Where was the Hood? lol
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I couldn't bring cut a hole in the SS hood (even though they were a dime a dozen in those days). Shortly after the picture was taken, I found a Malibu hood in LeMans blue that matched perfectly so that got the blade.
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One of the really fun parts of that era was that you could pull up beside a car and know what factory motor was in it. Today every Z28 has a LS1 from the factory. It was fun to see chev 283,327,350, 396, 427, 454 emblems. On Chrysler products you ALWAYS looked for the HEMI. Ford could be anything from the 289 to the gold 427 emblem. I forget what color the 429 emblem was.
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