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A view of a sinkhole that opened up in the Skydome
Tourism up 50%….that’s great!!!
Tim
Every town there are a couple places where folks just park cars they want to sell. Those spots move around from time to time or new ones just popup.
There is one such place just down the street from my house. It is just along the side of the road as you are headed out of town toward the freeway and right across from a large super store (grocery). There is often everything from a trashed Ford Taurus and on up to large late model SUV’s. There have even been some classics!! Few weeks ago there was a 1969 Mustang – home made restoration and paint but not a bad looking car. A few weeks ago there as a ’62 Ford Falcon with a bored out 302, dual exhaust.
Today had stop (ok…fine….I always stop!!) and lot at this 1952 Chevy pickup. It was nicely done. I’d give the paint a 7 out of 10, the bed was nicely redone give that a 9 out of 10. The interior was all original or restored to original. Original material upholstery, gauges, steering wheel, dash. Even had the original dash, stick shift and there near the top of the right hand side was the original push button radio. So very cool.
I’m not selling, nor am I considering purchasing and I don’t know the seller. Just thought it was a great looking car. I didn’t talk to the owner but I did see the truck drive up under it’s own power as I was headed to the auto parts store and he was gone when I got back and stopped to look at it. I believe it had the 6 cylinder – but I have an issue with opening up a car without the owner there. Maybe it an an alarm – my 1970 Mustang had one.
This baby looked great. Asking price showed $23,000 obo. Here are some pics:
Chrome look good….$23,000
Phone number is on the sign. Class was good all the way around.
Love the lines on the 1952
Great looking bumper.
Floor bed is very well done.
If you a reader of my blog and you are interested in the truck. Call the guy and I’ll be glad to inspect it for you.
Regards
Tim
One of my readers stopped by my Facebook page for Average Guy’s Car Restoration, Mods and Racing and dropped me a note about his 1971 Mustang Mach 1 he is restoring.
He wrote: “Guys – been lurking here and can’t get enough. I’m restoring a 1971 Mustang Mach 1 which I just made a video of – would be great if everyone could hit “LOVE IT” on the video link: http://bet.votigo.com/fbcontests/showentry/Ford-Contest-1/137096”
Here is the video he posted. Lot of work went into this car.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
via Stolen car alert: 1958 Rambler Ambassador | Hemmings Daily.
Keep an eye out for this car:
Any Northeasterner into AMCs must have seen Bob Majeski’s 1958 Rambler Ambassador over the last 14 years: In the time that he’s owned it, Bob has put 34,000 miles on it driving it to pretty much every major AMC show in the region. Now Bob is counting on that familiarity to bring his car back to him after thieves took it in broad daylight over the weekend.
“I used to joke, ‘Why would anybody ever steal it?’” Bob said. “It’s pretty much the only one around, and nobody needs any parts from it. And yeah, it’s a beautiful car, but it’s a 1958 Rambler, so who’d want it?”
Nevertheless, after he came back from a drive with some friends, mapping out the weekend’s dust-off run for the Connecticut region of the American Motors Owners Association and AMC Rambler Club, he found his Ambassador missing from where he left it earlier that afternoon in the parking lot of the All Seasons Inn and Suites in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
“I’m floored,” he said. “I can’t believe anybody would want to steal this car with AMXs and Javelins around it. All I can figure is that somebody thought they were stealing a ’57 Chevy, and somebody opening a container in South America will be surprised when they see my car.”
via Stolen car alert: 1958 Rambler Ambassador | Hemmings Daily.
If you are over 40, you might remember back when talking to your car was only done to coax it to start or make it to the next service station or when it failed to do either one. Gadgets were limited to a radio with AM/FM and a cigarette liter.
Now days you can give your car voice commands and it can give you a host of information, like my Drivers Information Center (DIC) which runs my C7 Corvette. We can even control the environment on different sides of the car from temperature on down to how much air blows out of your vented seats.
But that wasn’t always the case. If you are way over 30 you might recall the only way to adjust the temperature was to open your vent window.
Recently I was at a car show and if you’re a regular reader you might recall that I love dash boards, especially those that are painted and chromed, I saw a curious feature on a Rambler dashboard(I don’t recall the year). It was labeled “Weather Eye”.
So a little research was in order.
As you may know Nash was an auto maker and through a series of mergers or purchases changed it name to Nash Kalvinater, eventually became American Motors Corporation (AMC). Well they were the first to develop a car heater. Back in 1938 engineers got the idea to run fresh air over the hot engine water and pass it into the cabin. The air came in through the vent in the cowl and passed the air through a heater core filled with hot coolant. Later on they figured out how to keep the warm are in and the cold are out, by adding a fan to keep constant pressure in the cabin.
A year later Nash engineers added a thermostat for the first climate control, dubbed the “The Weather Eye”. Here are some pics:
This was the dash that caught my eye.
Here is an image from the web that shows a better image of the “Weather Eye”
Here is an image show the “Weather Eye’s” controls
Thanks for reading.
Tim
Car Feature: Mike Cavanah’s 1966 Chevelle “Grand Sport” – StreetLegalTV.com.
This is a very well done car, in my opinion. Modified just enough to make it a powerful machine and still look like a 1966 Chevelle. I say ‘WOW” you will too when you read the article. (see the link above)
The Power Plant And Putting It To The Ground
The motor itself is an LS 418 cubic inch stroker with a Lunati crank and H-Beam rods connected to forged pistons. The top end is comprised of ported LS3 heads with an LS9 supercharger. All the machining and assembly of the motor was performed by Scoggin Dickey out of Texas. Mated to the motor is a T-56 six speed transmission that’s outfitted with an ACT dual disc clutch to help lay the power down to the pavement. All this equaled out on the dyno to an impressive 600 hp and 650 lb.-ft. of torque at the wheels.
Monster Chevelle
Got a monster chevy in the garage? Project or not…let me hear about it!!
Thanks for reading.
Tim
A Nevada prison is giving their inmates the chance to restore vintage cars. Don’t use this as an excuse to go out and get arrested.
See more at: Nevada Prisoners are Bringing Classic Cars Back to Life – StumbleUpon.
Cool!!!
Thanks for reading.
Tim
Here is your weekly installment of Auto Factoids.
This week we are highlighting a few milestones and a birthday and a corporation formation.
Starting out with big Happy Birthday to Ferruccio Lamborghini , born 4/28/1916 in Italy. What many don’t know is Ferruccio brought about Lamborghini, because he was happy with his Ferrari due to frequent and poorly done repairs. They say he confronted Enzo Ferrari and that meeting didn’t go well and Ferruccio decided to build his own cars.
Ferruccio Lamborghini
On the same day in 1953 Kaiser-Frazer purchased Willys. By 1955 Kaiser Industrial (name changed) stopped building cars in the U.S. (only with the exception of Jeep production in Ohio.
’55 Willys Jeep Wagon
’55 Willys Bermuda
4/29/1959 Fords 50 millionth car. It was assembled from specially designated parts shipped to Dearborn from Ford plants throughout the country. It is powered by the 292 cubic inch 200 horsepower V8 backed by a three speed automatic transmission. It sported triple tone gold, black and white interior. It is now privately owned.
1959 Ford Galaxie.
5/2/1918 Chevy becomes part of GM. How did this come about? Here is the short version:
Billy Durant started General Motors after taking control of Buick. He incorporated a we more car brands in with GM including Oakland, Olds and Caddilac. He was forced out of GM and started Chevrolet with partner Louis Chevrolet. Chevrolet did well and Billy began buy more stock in GM (he had kept his shares when he was ousted). He completed his take over of GM by offering current GM stockholders a smoking deal on Chevy stock (7 shares) for one GM stock.
5/3/48 Willys Jeep Phaeton debuted.
1948 Jeepster Phaeton
5/3/49 Packards 50th Anniversary 2000 gold Packards. Yes that did happen. They were painted in a special paint code of Gold. Each were powered with 327 c.i.d., 150 hp engine.
1949 Packard – None of the 2000 were convertibles – only about 600 verts were produced.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
I guess Chrysler….or…um Fiat…can’t seem to generate enough interest in the new Viper selling only 91 cars so far this year. Nor did they sell that great last year only 591 went to new homes.
2013
2014
Chrysler laid of about 90 employees recently at SRT and now the Viper assembly plant is closed until June.
Maybe they can’t compete with…..well you know…..
2014 Stingray
Thanks for reading.
Tim
There were many Corvair owners that braved the wind and brought their Monza’s, Drop Tops and Van’s to the 29th Annual Chevy Showdown today.
Here are some of the pictures.
Parking and setting up
I’d estimate about 20 Corvairs attended. The white Monza was beautifully done!! There were a couple unique Corvair powered entries.
In a previous post entitled “Lost Classics – Trucks – Corvair Rampside” I mentioned that I’d never seen a Rampside in person. Well, I can scratch that off my car bucket list. Here is the 1961 Corvair powered Rampside.
Corvair 95
This Corvair 95 Rampside is in very good condition and got to the show under it’s on power provided by the ‘Flat Six’.
Now the Rampside also came in the Greenbrier packaged. And there was a Greenbrier Corvair there….this great looking 1962 van with the 110 engine.
1962 Greenbrier Corvair Van
AC in front and back!!!
Yup that’s A/C stuffed back here!!!
There now I’ve seen all manner of Corvairs!!! Only that was there was the Corvair wagon.
More coming up on the Chevy Showdown here in Tucson, Az
Thanks for reading.
Tim
29th Annual Chevy Showdown – Corvettes
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