Lemme try this again, my '57 Chevy the day I bought it.

http://img34.echo.cx/my.php?loc=img34&image=57chevy8qw.png

 

Please help me I'm a loser.

 

Your pic address isnt correct.
Double Click on your picture in photobucket.
When it shows, right click and copy the properties addy listed.
Go to the Hamb and hit the insert image icon and paste it there.
I pm'd you my email if you find it troublesome.
I will post it for you then. PJ

 

Thank you Mike and PeteJoe. I'm good at a lot of things but posting pics ain't one of 'em.

Anyway, here's a pic of my old '57 Chevy taken on the first night I bought it in early '84.
It had a '70 LT1 engine with a TH400 transmission. I eventually turned into a mild custom because I was never into the Cragar street racer look.

The smug smile on my face is because this was the first time I had ever owned a real old American car. I had a '70 Buick Riviera before this but that doesn't count.

I bought it from Rader's Relics for $4500 which was a bundle of cash back then, but it would probably take close to $20,000 to buy a car like that today.

Do I miss it, not really, but I did drive the living hell out of it.

 

That's a great picture! I think I'd have a big smile on my face too if I was standing there. I've wanted one of those since I was about 11 years old, and sometimes I don't think it will ever happen. $4500 may have been a lot in '84 but it pales in comparison to what it's worth now.

Any pictures of it now?

Rich

 

rlackey, long gone man, I traded it for a '62 Impala SS back in '90. I do have some pictures of what I did to it. The guy who got it from restored it back to stock.....shame.

 

Shame, I like 'em stock too, I guess. I'd be scared to do too much to one, but it would be dropped 3" all round for sure (maybe a bit more in front for a nice rake), skirts, a continental kit. I would really like a ragtop, a 283 with the factory Rochester fuel injection, power brakes, power steering, and all the factory options, but then you're talking serious money.

Yep... I'm quite the dreamer when it comes to these.

Rich

 

good deal!

 

Cool!

Much more macho than my early 90's first cl***ic Mustang pic, I ***ure you.

 

Fookin' hell....in 1984 that car was only 27 years old!

Cool pic, Nads.

 

Yeah and I was only 23......sheeeit!!!!!!

 

And you don't look a day over 60 nowdays...

 

Imagine having the peak experience of your life at only 23. I'll bet it's a struggle just filling the time as you await a swift and merciful death.


Ooops!

Sorry, misread the subtext of the picture. That is a great portrait.
What ever your kids think of you at least they will know that you knew all along. Muddy waters says it's the same thing that makes all of these men want to chase a big legged woman down.

 

Yeah, prolly painted it robin's egg blue and put a continental kit on it....

 

Oh dude Ted, you ain't kidding man. This guy was a total kitch loving fool, he had the most over-tarted '59 Ford Retractable, he had the Elvis hair and the Elvis license plate frame with sequential flashing lights. He remebers a 1950s that never existed. He also dug musical turn signal flashers, but he had the biggest stash of original '50s JC Whitney bolt on trash I've ever seen.

He was/is a pretty cool guy, 'cept he done graduated to similarly tarted up PT Cruisers.

Hey Benzine, indeed my early '20s was a good time but God's honest truth I was just about the only young cat in Orlando that owned or even appreciated an old American car.

I loved cruising around in that car listening to The Cramps, Eddie Chocran and Tav Falco, I also got my first taste of a certain something in that big back seat.

Here's what I turned the car into.

 

I'm not entirely sure what the word swarthy means, but when I hear it I think:

Nads.

 

Swarthy Nads, eh? Sounds like a funky condition 'down there' Ha!

 

Wow, so you bought that new?


j/k.......

 

I prefer high olive.

 

Cut the ****, you're a *****. Be proud, be loud. You mean to tell me that you didn't get laid until you were 30?

 

Yeah somewhere around there, I was late bloomer. If I had to live my life again I woulda slayed that ugly girl in the school play, the one everyone called "chap."

 

Did she have a big forehead?

 

Big don't even begin to describe it, it was more like a fivehead or a sixhead even.

 

I wonder if the new owner got the interior reuphostered.

Damn fine looking '57

 

I've had so many 57's, 55-7's really I can't remember em all and STILL love em ,THAT what your puttin that Ply inner garnish in ? , Ya, I know could'nt stop myself