Tail Fins and Chrome. Totally Awesome if you are a classic car nut!

[Stan R]

Unbelieveable!!

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[holdem]

I agree ! I didn't get to see enough 57 Chevy Belair 2 dr hardtops though.

[theboydoutdoors]

I love all those old cars, when I was a kid I had just started driving after taking drivers ed. class at school, 16 years old at the time.
It was about the time my dad bought an old service station, you know the kind of place where they cleaned your windsheild, checked your oil , actually worked on your engine if you needed something done. You know tune ups oil changes flats repaired. Actually had employees pumping the gas for you and giving you some real service .
So Dad performed those services at his place, customers would bring in all kinds of cars to be worked on. Lots of times they would find out they couldn't afford to get the car repaired.
Dad would buy them for nothing a lot of times . He would repair them , then I would get to drive them till he got the next one in that I might want . I worked for him after school and on Saturdays, so it wasn't like I got em for nothing.
My first car was a 65 Mustang convertable it came in with a blown head gasket dad bought it for 400 bucks we fixed it , I paid to have it painted, the top was in perfect shape so I drove it for most of my freshman year. Second car was a 58 chevy impala convertable,had a messed up tranny, and needed paint in the worst way. top had to be lifted up and down by hand cause the motor to operate it didnt work. But it was so friggin cool , big 348 , automatic, dual exhaust with cherry bomb mufflers, super fast and just sounded so BA. I had to have it. Traded Dad the Mustang for it, never did have it painted tho. Blew up the engine one night coming home from Six Flags doing a hundred on the old DFW turnpike. About this time Dad got in a 57 chevy four door, wasnt as cool as it could have been,but it was running and my 58 wasnt so I traded in the 58 for it. didn't keep it to long it just wasn;t "cool" fourth car was a 63 impala 2 door only had it a couple of months when I pulled out in front of a little old lady. Entirely my fault I just didnt see her, T-Boned me right on the drivers side totaled my car. By this time I had graduated and was working full time, so i went down to the local Honda Motorcycle dealer and bought a brand new 1978 Honda 500cx, rode that thing all summer , but them winter hit and had to have another car, Got a 68 impala 2 door, loaned it to my Dad one weekend and he rolled it coming back from Burleson, totaled it. Got a 62 Chevy II after that one . A 6 banger so kinda like driving Granny car didnt like it much and didnt keep it very long. Then it was a 78 Dodge Coronet with a 318 automatic and a factory 8 track . Had that till I joined the army and moved away.

Now days its strickly 4 x 4 trucks.