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When cars were cool [Chevy]
Bits & Pieces ^ | August 2 2009 | unknown

Posted on 08/02/2009 5:52:19 PM PDT by Daffynition

Each August, Chevrolet Outdoor Billboards line Woodward Ave in Detroit for Cruise Weekend. These billboards feature classic Chevrolet muscle cars & great tag lines!



TOPICS: Business/Economy; History
KEYWORDS: automakers; bygonedays; chevrolet; daysofyore; generalmotors; gubmintmotors; musclecars; thedeadbeatofamerica
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To: Daffynition

If you put any one of these cars into production today—just as they came off the line way back then—they could not build them fast enough to keep up with demand. I want someone to build me a new 1971 L88 Vette, Blk/BLK...


61 posted on 08/02/2009 6:50:03 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: 50mm

That Chevy is really pretty. I have my ‘57 Lincoln now, it’s out in the garage - just sitting there, lol.


62 posted on 08/02/2009 6:50:42 PM PDT by potlatch ( There is no education in the second kick of a mule.)
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To: potlatch

Just drive it to church on Sundays? LOL


63 posted on 08/02/2009 6:53:34 PM PDT by 50mm (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: mnehring

Did you happen to see the new aftermarket SOHC 427 w/aluminum heads and intake on the market? If this was coming out of the Ford factory I bet their stock would skyrocket!


64 posted on 08/02/2009 6:54:19 PM PDT by kickonly88 (I love fossil fuel!)
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To: All

http://www.carsinbarns.com/


65 posted on 08/02/2009 6:56:55 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (If I had any further to go,I'd be there.)
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To: Daffynition

YES! Oldsmobile forever!


66 posted on 08/02/2009 6:57:17 PM PDT by clodkicker
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To: dalereed

“Itt’s got 1,367,000 miles on it and counting.”

Sounds like it’s just getting ‘broken in’..

:)

I hear ya tho..I wish I had keep many of the cars I’ve had in the past.

57 chevy, 59 chevy, 65 malibu convertible, 55 Ford Victoria,48 plymouth coupe, and many more.

Just think of the money I’d have invested by now!

:)


67 posted on 08/02/2009 6:58:54 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: dalereed

yep.


68 posted on 08/02/2009 6:58:54 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: Doogle
do you folks have “cruise nights” in your area of the country?

I live just north of Detroit and once the weather turns summer, well, cruise nights are every F'n weekend everywhere. Restaurants, bars, even churches will host a cruise night.

Summer time in S.E. Michigan is cruisin' season.........

69 posted on 08/02/2009 7:00:03 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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To: dalereed

Oh yeah.

And the 67 Firebird 400 that I posted earlier.


70 posted on 08/02/2009 7:00:47 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Hot Tabasco
30,000 cars. Wowsers!

WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE

71 posted on 08/02/2009 7:01:49 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: FrdmLvr

The boyz usually keep track of this stuff for me ...I’ll look on netflix. Thank you! ;)


72 posted on 08/02/2009 7:05:57 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
30,000 cars.

That's all????????

73 posted on 08/02/2009 7:06:25 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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To: devane617

74 posted on 08/02/2009 7:09:24 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
A lot of the cars on those billboards were designed by the great Harley Earl. Earl died in 1969. His official web site http://www.carofthecentury.com,which I think is run by his son, is extremely critical of GM management starting in 1959.

A few points about Earl. First, he tried, in 1957, to bring in women engineers, claiming that women knew what they wanted, and that women would increasingly be decision makers in buying cars. Second, he was trying to get GM to "go small" with some of their cars, while maintaining quality. GM fought him on this, as larger cars meant larger profit margins. Earl did not want to make econoboxes. Here is a prototype Monza from the early 1960s. It freaks me out how ahead of it's time it is:

Third, he fought the bean counters that took over GM tooth and nail until his retirement. The Corvette, the 57 Chevy Bel Air, the Chevrolet Apache pickup, and many others came from him.

I think the maddest I ever got at GM was when they brought in the actor to play Harley Earl in those Buick commercials. I believe Earl would have spit on the Buicks they were advertising. Those vehicles were what Earl fought against his whole career.

The thing I'm saying is that visionaries and engineers like Earl knew where autos were going, and were trying to take us there. The MBAs and bean counters wanted to maximize profits by creating a cartel with Ford and Chrysler and stifle innovation. Imagine if in 1960, GM had gotten ahead of the Volkswagen and Toyota invasion with quality small cars. Imagine if they had brought in female engineers to design cars specifically to appeal to women.

If you loved the cars in those billboards, say thanks to Harley Earl. Almost all of them were his babies.

75 posted on 08/02/2009 7:10:49 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
OK .... 40K

The Woodward Dream Cruise is the world's largest one-day celebration of classic car culture that attracts over 1 million visitors, and more than 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles.

76 posted on 08/02/2009 7:12:06 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
Here is one of Earl's concept cars:

It's the Oldsmobile F88. GM killed it because the Corvette was being designed that year. All of the cars were supposed to be destroyed. A GM employee crushed a junk car and hid this one for years. It fetched 3 million at an auction in 2005.

77 posted on 08/02/2009 7:29:09 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball; devane617

Earl was USA’s Dr. Ferdinand Porsche ... designers who worked under Earl went to Porsche, IIRC. And don’t forget, the Russian Arkus-Duntov who made Devane617’s Corvette a powerhouse.


78 posted on 08/02/2009 7:34:19 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: devane617

It may just be easier to invade Cuba and take their Chevy inventory as reparations. ;)


79 posted on 08/02/2009 7:37:41 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

Those are all great cars and nostalgic, but remember:

When “rustproofing” didn’t exist and your quarter panels had terminal cancer in a few years? Remember when all the chrome lining fell off around your wheel well?


80 posted on 08/02/2009 7:40:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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