Back in the day, when I had kids, I’d do anything to avoid a station wagon – Get a Jeep Cherokee, an Astro van.
Now, I’d have one, if I could find it. And old full size, especially late 60s, early 70s?
Vista cruiser, but they’d be rare as hen’s teeth. But I’d take a chebbie.
I would drive that ’61 Olds, for sure.
I knew a guy had a Malibu like that. He, the wife and their 4 boys would take off on vacation for a couple weeks at a time in that thing. Think on that one think. Oh HAIL no!
nice collection of pix
but that barge full of vehicles doesn’t look like GM products
I enlarged it as far as I could, and I don’t recall any GM cars with that type of grille
They look a lot like 1949 or so Fords, but I didn’t enlarge it to make sure.
Agree on nice collection .. two pics caught my attention .. the 1940 Buick and Cox Dept Store with the corvair parked nearby. My dad’s first car was a 39 Buick, and he also had an early Corvair too.
Chebby
Warp drive nacelles on the x2000 concept car?
Had me a 2DR Belair hardtop AND a 4DR at the same time – had qa third one I stripped for interior/frame/electrical parts that was reduced to parts and sent to the dump. They were plentiful in North Dakota back in 74-76!
No Nomads of any kind, though!
#2 I grew up on a farm and had pigs and cows when I was in high school. After Fair season my senior year I sold my Champion winning hogs and cows for big bucks and their siblings for about 3/4 as much. I had enough to buy a half ton GMC Sierra with the “new” 350 diesel engine. It came with a 3 year 36k warranty. After two years I sold it as it has a new engine in it. The previous engine had been a remanufactured one. It had also had 5 different sets of heads put on it since it was new. It had 14k miles on it and it had been at the dealer’s repair shop more than with me.
Those 350 diesels where 4 bolt main gas block with different heads and little different pieces. Work at a GM dealership at the time. Those engines where hard to get for warranty work. Had 5 on order to get high enough on the list to get the two I needed.
Looks like we might be re doing some of the stuff from those years. Too bad people don’t learn from history.
The irony is that my wife inherited her grandfather’s early 80’s Delta 88 2-door that had 40k on the clock and the original 350 diesel. I drove that car for 10 years and the heads went south when it had 245k miles on it. It got 25 mpg and had a 35 gallon fuel tank. It had an 800+ mile range on a fuel tank. Heads were no longer available and I hobbled it into a Saturn dealership and got $2500 on it for a trade in. The 2 door Delta 88 had a huge hood, back seat, and trunk. It had plush leather seats and every option available. The AM/FM Cassette CB radio was interesting. The only problem I had with it was the transmission dropped at 130k miles. Everything else was routine maintenance.
There are 57 ways to open a beer bottle on a ’57 Chevy. We found most of them.
Back in the day, when I had kids, I’d do anything to avoid a station wagon – Get a Jeep Cherokee, an Astro van.
Now, I’d have one, if I could find it. And old full size, especially late 60s, early 70s?
Vista cruiser, but they’d be rare as hen’s teeth. But I’d take a chebbie.
I would drive that ’61 Olds, for sure.
I knew a guy had a Malibu like that. He, the wife and their 4 boys would take off on vacation for a couple weeks at a time in that thing. Think on that one think. Oh HAIL no!
nice collection of pix
but that barge full of vehicles doesn’t look like GM products
I enlarged it as far as I could, and I don’t recall any GM cars with that type of grille
They look a lot like 1949 or so Fords, but I didn’t enlarge it to make sure.
Agree on nice collection .. two pics caught my attention .. the 1940 Buick and Cox Dept Store with the corvair parked nearby. My dad’s first car was a 39 Buick, and he also had an early Corvair too.
Chebby
Warp drive nacelles on the x2000 concept car?
Had me a 2DR Belair hardtop AND a 4DR at the same time – had qa third one I stripped for interior/frame/electrical parts that was reduced to parts and sent to the dump. They were plentiful in North Dakota back in 74-76!
No Nomads of any kind, though!
#2 I grew up on a farm and had pigs and cows when I was in high school. After Fair season my senior year I sold my Champion winning hogs and cows for big bucks and their siblings for about 3/4 as much. I had enough to buy a half ton GMC Sierra with the “new” 350 diesel engine. It came with a 3 year 36k warranty. After two years I sold it as it has a new engine in it. The previous engine had been a remanufactured one. It had also had 5 different sets of heads put on it since it was new. It had 14k miles on it and it had been at the dealer’s repair shop more than with me.
Those 350 diesels where 4 bolt main gas block with different heads and little different pieces. Work at a GM dealership at the time. Those engines where hard to get for warranty work. Had 5 on order to get high enough on the list to get the two I needed.
Looks like we might be re doing some of the stuff from those years. Too bad people don’t learn from history.
The irony is that my wife inherited her grandfather’s early 80’s Delta 88 2-door that had 40k on the clock and the original 350 diesel. I drove that car for 10 years and the heads went south when it had 245k miles on it. It got 25 mpg and had a 35 gallon fuel tank. It had an 800+ mile range on a fuel tank. Heads were no longer available and I hobbled it into a Saturn dealership and got $2500 on it for a trade in. The 2 door Delta 88 had a huge hood, back seat, and trunk. It had plush leather seats and every option available. The AM/FM Cassette CB radio was interesting. The only problem I had with it was the transmission dropped at 130k miles. Everything else was routine maintenance.
There are 57 ways to open a beer bottle on a ’57 Chevy. We found most of them.