And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That's not a bubble top roof! I had a 62 Impala 409, 2-4- 425 hp, 4-speed in 65 or 66. Bought from a friend for 1,200 dollars, but sold it back to him when I got a yearly insurance bill for 1,300 dollars. Bought a 38 Chevy coupe with a 283 Corvette engine for 700 dollars and insurance dropped to about 300 dollars (a year!) so I could pay my college fees. What a time to live if you liked fast cars! Bubbarust
We owned a 64 sedan, "flat" widows ended in that year. It isn't a 409 ci SS, aa the metal trim strip doesn't have a metallic finish. Ours had a 327 and was fast as h*ll.
Gas station near by sold me a 283 out of an SS, put in my 66 SS ElCamino, had a 396, awful fuel milage, break the tires loose at 60 though, the SS 283 was one sweet engine, pinned the speedo few times see what it had, that engine was kind of special from the factory, all I could figure, cause I could not find enough room to top it out, just kept winding out long after 120, big heavy vehicle, smooth as glass way up there, could barely feel the engine working, no crank vibration at all. Somebody stole it, local cop had it, my little sister saw it hidden behind the guys bought behind his barn, got it back, stolen again two weeks later, was on jack stands, probably a thief with a roll-off, because the wheels where off it.
tie between '62 Impala & '65 Malibu for best looking Chevy ever...of course not counting split-window 'Vettes.
ReplyDeletenope, '61 bubble the hands down winner if the decade.
DeleteThat's not a bubble top roof! I had a 62 Impala 409, 2-4- 425 hp, 4-speed in 65 or 66. Bought from a friend for 1,200 dollars, but sold it back to him when I got a yearly insurance bill for 1,300 dollars. Bought a 38 Chevy coupe with a 283 Corvette engine for 700 dollars and insurance dropped to about 300 dollars (a year!) so I could pay my college fees. What a time to live if you liked fast cars!
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I had a '62 327. That's when I learned you didn't have to have a 390.
ReplyDeletelotta dead weight.
DeleteWe owned a 64 sedan, "flat" widows ended in that year. It isn't a 409 ci SS, aa the metal trim strip doesn't have a metallic finish. Ours had a 327 and was fast as h*ll.
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ReplyDeleteGas station near by sold me a 283 out of an SS, put in my 66 SS ElCamino, had a 396, awful fuel milage, break the tires loose at 60 though, the SS 283 was one sweet engine, pinned the speedo few times see what it had, that engine was kind of special from the factory, all I could figure, cause I could not find enough room to top it out, just kept winding out long after 120, big heavy vehicle, smooth as glass way up there, could barely feel the engine working, no crank vibration at all. Somebody stole it, local cop had it, my little sister saw it hidden behind the guys bought behind his barn, got it back, stolen again two weeks later, was on jack stands, probably a thief with a roll-off, because the wheels where off it.
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