Yep, I remember that. Once in the 70's I almost bought a 71 convertible challenger w/a 383 cu. in. motor from a junk yard to restore. If only I had bought that car! Now you can't even find em in a junk yard. Bustramp
i can remember when you couldn't buy a 69 anything at all because it was a decade earlier and the chevy dealer, in 1959, they had these little plastic detailed models cast in different solid collors of plastic that were a little bigger then the matchbox cars and every time each of us kids would go there to look at the cars on a different day they'd give us another one and all of my friends in school used to collect them. my dad didin't have a car then, he worked for the railroad and had his employee pass we could all ride the train down to the city on. there were lots of greyhounds and including ones that made all the local stops and then also expressess that didn't and trailways had more comfortable bussess that only ran the expressess. the railroads were still running their own passinger trains. that were always late because the railroads mostly wanted to get out of the passinger bussiness and each railroad had their passinger trains painted their own different colors. not all the highways were more then two lanes or devided yet. they weren't interstates, they were "u.s. hwy xx". i do remember in the sixty's when the price of the cheepest chevy was something like $2,500.00 or so the chevy dealer also started importing and selling volkswagans for arround $1,700 or so, which was just unbelievably cheep that anyone could make a car to sell for that, even with import terrifs and everything. edsils and desotos were still being made. i thing the cop cars were all desotos or something, because they really used that d2 on the automatic shift a lot. i remember we had the last new packard clippers, someone in town had one, i think it was 54 or 56 it was made. oh i think the pontiac dealer started selling volvos too. the chevy dealer and the pontiac dealer were brothers and the pontiac dealer was also the mayer of the town. and the ford dealer had those 57 and earlier t-bird that were 2 seaters and of course the chevette was a 2 seater with a rediculously big herking engine in it that really sucked a lot of gas. i don't thing anyone bought very many of them. i remember those camaros and chargers. i think everybody thought they were real chintzy junk when they first came out, compared with what they and built up themselves before the 'factory mussle car' era as the dealers trying to sell them called them. then i think there was some tv show that featured car chaises and after that all the stupid kids wanted them. =^^= .../\...
