Turbojett

Saw a bluish-purple pearl colored '56 Chevy coupe today. Lowered and chrome rims, but it was tasteful hot-rod style, rather than blinged-out. looked pretty good.

hmm. been a long time gone, Constantinople.

have a couple on me.

hey, why are we whispering?

can I play too?

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

Good luck and Godspeed, Cort. (should have gotten to this a LOT sooner)

We don't need no education...

I love them. The sedan, and the Coupe-vertible. the design looks so beautiful and uninhibited. I can't wait to see what the shooting brake looks like; I expect it's just as stunning as the other two.

eh. I've always found those "I know something you don't" stories kinda intriguing.

Ah, the joys of highway MPG in a new car! I remember pullin' 36 or so MPG in the Cobalt coming back to So Cal on I40 from Albuquerque; it was about a year after I bought it. Filled up in Alb, and didn't stop for gas again until Flagstaff. I was stuh-hunned. but almost 48 MPG. maaaayn. that's gotta be like Albuquerque to Kingman or the CA border or so on one tank.

maybe they just don't understand. you must have something if you think it's worth looking into...

why stop there? incorporate all the once proud nameplates that GM dragged through the mud by slapping them on crap cars. LeMans, Skylark, Grand Am, Cutlass, Nova, Malibu*, Impala et. al. (*though this is a case of riches to rags and back to riches, I suppose)

I stopped watching NASCAR when i was about 14 or 15 and discovered that racecars don't have to go in circles. Now I find Nascar boring and tragic at the same time. I would also add Grand Am to your list of race series', but to a bit of a lesser extent. Sadly though, these don't have the same notoriety as Nascar, so they aren't noticed nearly as much. But it does feel good to see showroom stock race cars like that in more recent pictures. And Sam Posey still races that same Challenger that he did in Trans Am.

also, look how few sponsor stickers are on those cars compared to a modern NASCAR racer. Those were the days, back when it was all about the car and the driver, not marketing. It was Parnelli Jones' Mustang, not the No. 24 DuPont car.

Aah, color me jealous! I just love all those old Trans Am cars. We really need to get another race series going like that; it's a crime that the biggest representation of American motorsports to the rest of the world is NASCAR. That's not motorsports, it's a soap opera.

Have to say though, I prefer Parnelli's '69 ride better. not just because I prefer '69 Mustangs over '70's, but because I like the paint job better, too.

the custom crew-cab job on that Chevy truck = Awesome. Race cars = Epic. that Baldwin Motion Stingray in the midground on the Corvette pic = fapworthy.

Sounds exciting! Good luck to ya>

happy birthday!

I could say something, but I think the story speaks for itself. ...I must say I'd like to have been at that party.

hmmm....I think I like the original better...this is something that would have to grow on me. with any luck though, this is just a red herring.

My parents had an old Caprice wagon of that vintage (They've owned a LOT of cars, most of them Chevys). my mom always had trouble getting it into and out of parking spaces because it was so long. And I swear you could fit a Cavalier in the back. That thing hauled though. I can't imagine it was very powerful, but it must have had a mountain of torque; no inclined onramp was a match for that thing. Or at least maybe it seemed that way because I was young, and it was loud. for $900, if it runs pretty well, I say go for it. Then you could help people move (Who needs a Suburban?!)

IIRC, they called them MR-S in the US and MR2 elsewhere... Nope, other way around. MR2 Spyder in the US, MR-S in Japan and Europe. They decided they couldn't call it MRS here because they didn't want us to call it the "Missus," (As we called the previous generations the "Mister") or see it as an old lady's car, or something like that. I have seen some retrofitted with JDM badging though. The nose badge is replaced with a little trapezoidal deal that says "Midship Runabout":