Good Lord... somebody buy this Pontiac!

Found our H.A.M.B. Taxi - and NO I didn't PhotoShop this, hee.

http://www.nex-tech.com/FreeClassifieds/Public/AdDetails.aspx?id=45482&cpage=17

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OMG!! A HAMBer has to pick that up!

 

Can you children say "Swapmeet Hauler"???

 

Wonder what those had under the hood? The big one I assume? Like 455 or whatever Pontiacs "big one" was?

 

What's better...2-doors or 8 doors?

How come everybody bashes 8 doors?

 

What?

You never saw a ten door 55 Chevy airport wagon....?

 

yep, it'd make a purty good parts car, got too many doors for anything else.

i think you could stick a 40mm AA gun in that thing, it's big enough and MIGHT have its own airspace.

 

needs some reeeeeeallllly long flames

 

Come on, I know somebody's dying to photochop this thing...

 

New thread topic:
Is it cool to drive an 8 door longroof?

 

Needs about a 10 foot ragtop.

 

It says 1964, but must be about a 1968.

 

Posted this one awhile back;if eight is great then ten must be the end!

 

Greg,
(There's all kinds of opportunities with what I'm about to say so I ask everyone to, please, show some restraint.)
My wife once told me of a car like that which was used in this area to run people from town to town. The called the one here the "Beaver Bus." (Here's where the jokes go.) I guess they were like depot
hacks or something. That might evplain the big ol' roof racks. Could building something like that have actually been cheaper than buying a bus back in the day???

 

That's an airport limosine. Today, they use passenger vans for the same thing, but until the 1970s you didn't really have the large van of today, so they had coachbuilders stretch these cars out. They're fairly rare cars, like hearses and ambulances. I've seen photos of one based on a '50 Chevy Styline - they were made for a long time.

Appears to be a '67-'68, would have a 400 or 428 most likely.

 

Is that in Russell, KS? I'd love to get that car. We have 4 kids and my wife is always trying to get more.

It isn't a 64, it looks a lot like our old 1969 Pontiac Safari station wagon. Except ours was green and had that wonderful wood-paneling wallpaper on it. And of course, only had 4 doors.

 

Thats a Home Owners Association's best friend right there.

 

Local country and western band from around here "The Circle B Cowboys" had one of those to drive to gigs years ago.

 

I'd chop that!

 

For the next year and a half It is the poor glassguy I REALLY feel sorry for

 

I've seen the cheker version of that, ten doors for the airport, both wagon and sedan......Roach.

 

4" photoshop.

 

yeah, but why not go over the top and make it the HAMB Drags shuttle for the drunk people to get home from the track?

 

Even with just 8 doors would need some serious iron in the frame!

 

my buddy owns a bar called REDS
I just sent him an email that i bought that
Told him my car hauler is delivering it this week

 

It's a '68, and the engine most likely is a 400. I tried to buy one just like it from an old man at the Chickasha, OK, swap meet a coupla years ago. He had removed all seats except the first two and filled that space from floor to ceiling with crap.

Unfortunately, he wanted $5K for it, and I sure didn't want it that bad.

 

We had one when I was growing up. My dad painted the doghouse and first 4 doors, then had to turn it around and paint the back half. It was great for parades and tailgating at football games. I remember fitting all 31 kids from my 4th grade class in it.

He sold it before I got my license...probably a good move by him...

 

There already is one in the HAMB family......MINE
Not quite a hot rod, but it does have 3 pedals (292/3spd)
Debuting at the 2008 HAMB Drags.........

 

Here in the PNW those kinds of rigs are used to haul logging crews out to the woods. We call them "crummys" for some reason.