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![]() ![]() this shot is from my 1st "solo" visit to California (without parents) in 1974. We were visiting a friends brother stationed in Sacramento and bought the 63 Split window for $1800. It had all the day 2 stuff on it, black side pipes, WIDE Ansen sprints with corresponding wide bias plies and flares We did the coast Highway down to LA and traded the wide Sprints for a set of 5 63 knockoffs with Michelin radials that we found on a guy's 69 SS396 El Camino ... poor guy, the rear tires we traded him wouldn't fit under the rear wheel wells and his air shocks were not functioning ... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] That made the Corvette look stupid with the wide flares and skinny knock-offs, but we knew the value of original parts over day 2 stuff way back then ... the car DROVE way better with the OEM sized tires/wheels though
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Cruising Woodward 30 years before the Dream Cruise:
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Jim - great photo of yr split window at sunset. Ahhh....memories!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]
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Here's a recently unearthed photo of my future mother- and father-in-law along with a few of their friends, circa spring of 1950 (just before they were married). My in-laws are on the left....my father-in-law's Studebaker Starlight Coupe is on the right.
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Bill Pritchard 73 Camaro RS Z28, L82, M20, C60 |
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Neat picture Bill!
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was digging through some old pictures and found a couple of gems:
My 1st 1969 Camaro, taken in 1974 I think. It has the NVY 302 plates on it from my 56 Chevy. 307, Turbohydromatic, disc brakes, positraction, F-41 suspension & factory air (the car was "cloned" into a Z28 within 6 months after I sold it. One of those RARE factory air automatic 69 Z/28's). ![]() Yeah, I added the Corvette Rally wheels with the 67 centers ... I stopped counting but that was the 1st of ~80 69 Camaros I have owned over the years ... The 1956 Chevy Delray, taken in 73 or 74. This is overlooking northern Lake Michigan in the background and I think it is Manitou island out there. ![]() Engine: stock 302 from a 68 Z28 with a 62 Corvette FI on it. Note the "correct" fuel filter ... and the "correct" placement of the fender emblems on the prior picture. ![]() We took it to the 1st Bloomington (2nd?) Corvette show: ![]() and everybody wanted to know where it came from. (I replaced the plenum with an early 57 when we were there). I told everyone it was Zora's West Coast press car and was the prototype for the 57 Fuel Injection (I had a correct air cleaner on it as well). People noticed the one piece bumpers and the CA frame and bought the "story". We had it in the swap area and were selling parts as I recall.
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I guess I had too many pictures in the above post, so I split it up:
August 74 in California, this is the 63 Corvette we paid $1800 for in Sacramento ![]() A car I wanted in Sacramento, but it was not for sale: ![]() later that week, down the coast: ![]() Wednesday night we were here: ![]() That night was the 1st time we had ever seen a low rider ... San Diego later that week: ![]() ![]() camping in Nevada: ![]() and In Colorado: ![]() there was a huge flood at this location 2 years later ... http://www.super70s.com/super70s/Tec...g_Thompson.asp
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Great pictures, Jim, thanks for posting.
A lowrider in '74???? Man, that absolutely had to be the start of that trend.
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Bill Pritchard 73 Camaro RS Z28, L82, M20, C60 |
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Terrific Jim. That looks like some good - good times! Keep 'em coming!
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Look at all of those long haired people [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
Cool stuff! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
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