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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #30 on: March 30, 2018, 07:15:26 AM »
Wow, 300 HP!  You'd be able to pass anything except a gas station .... !

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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #31 on: March 30, 2018, 09:38:48 AM »
Another Buick classic - - 1963-65 Buick Riviera!!

Classic lines...and low and cool! :cool:  :1: :thumb:




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...and then, in 1971, the famous "Boat-Tail" Riviera!



 
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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #32 on: March 30, 2018, 04:59:23 PM »
Another Buick classic - - 1963-65 Buick Riviera!!

Classic lines...and low and cool! :cool:  :1: :thumb:




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...and then, in 1971, the famous "Boat-Tail" Riviera!




Bill Mitchell ....... the man knew how to design a classic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mitchell_(automobile_designer)


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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #33 on: March 30, 2018, 06:23:21 PM »
Sharknose is even better, IMO:




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Here's a custom Skarknose spotted in Scottsdale.







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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #34 on: March 31, 2018, 02:19:53 PM »
On my 2009 Alaska trip I stopped one night at a cabins/campground near the junction of the Cassier Hwy and the Alaska Hwy. Also there was the Bentley tour. There were about a dozen early cars and several "newer" ones.



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When they fired them up in the morning -- oh what a glorious sound!
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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #35 on: March 31, 2018, 02:22:45 PM »
Check out this: http://www.bortzautocollection.com/
Lots of Detroit "concept cars" from the fifties and more.
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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2018, 02:50:29 PM »
On my 2009 Alaska trip I stopped one night at a cabins/campground near the junction of the Cassier Hwy and the Alaska Hwy. Also there was the Bentley tour. There were about a dozen early cars and several "newer" ones.



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When they fired them up in the morning -- oh what a glorious sound!

Driving Bentleys to Alaska?

Now THERE's a crowd not short of a bob or two!

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Re: Here's a classic car you don't see every day...(NGC)
« Reply #37 on: March 31, 2018, 03:22:45 PM »
Anyone else recall the fire that destroyed GM's nearly brand new hydramatic plant? Livonia, MI 1953. Their only hydramatic plant. It was replaced w/in an extraordinarily short time; I think using an empty, nearby K-F plant. For 3 or 4 months Oldsmobiles were getting dynaflow transmissions. A neighbor had one. It could actually smoke the tires. 
A few years later I bought used, the only GM vehicle that worked well for me. A 50 coupe, one piece windshield, 3 speed. Added hi-lift rockers, ignition, 2 - 4barrels, headers, shocks and strapped the rear coils some.  R3~


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