WahooSteeler Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Totally badass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankTheDog Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 5 hours ago, NHMJXJ said: Very cool ride! 5 hours ago, 89 MJ said: By no means exotic, but harder to come by than most exotics. My boss’s 59 El Camino. He bought it in 1960, the year he graduated high school, and has never sold it. Originally it was a 6 cylinder with a three on the tree. In 1966, he drove the El Camino down to SoCal to visit his wife’s uncle. Jim and his wife’s uncle then took the El down to Tijuana, Mexico to get the interior done in black diamond pattern leather. That interior is still in it, and is in excellent shape. On the way to SoCal, he also bent some pushrods running it through the mountains. He had to fix it when they got to his wife’s uncle’s house. Fast forward a few years, Jim is working in a body shop when a rolled over 66 Chevy full-size with a 300 horsepower 327 comes in. At this time, the El had about 40,000 miles on it. The 66 only had a couple thousand. Jim took the engine out of the 66 and dropped it in the El. In 1976, Jim opened the Auto Center. He decided that it was time to redo the El. He repaired the rust, painted it blue, put on turbine wheels, a 66 Belvedere grille, and side pipes. Everything you see on that truck today is original to the restoration in 76. Even the tires. The El now has a bit over 70,000 miles on it and he puts a couple hundred on that every summer. More pictures of the Elco! Beautiful ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 2 hours ago, FrankTheDog said: More pictures of the Elco! Beautiful ride. I only have 1 of other of the Elco. After this show though, I drove the 65 Coronet Hemi convertible and Challenger Demon. A Lil Red Express A Winged Warrior and Mopar show at the house of the PO of my MJ’s father. My cousin’s 72 Lemans GT (not a T-37 or GTO) A 68 Shelby GT500KR convertible that my dad drove his neighbor around in decades ago. 1 of 318. My Dad’s 54 Studebaker Conestoga Wagon. He bought this car with the roof cut off, so he chopped it. It had a 9” with 4.10s and a posi, a Chevy 355 with dual quads, and a 5 speed. Now located in Belgium. 1 of roughly 400 My mom’s old 46 Chevy and my Grandpa’s 34 Chevy Master Town Sedan. It had an SBC with a tripower. He drove it every day during the summer since the 80s. Unfortunately, in 2016, he was in a crash in that car and neither are around today, but the weather was beautiful that day and it was how he would have wanted to go. Roughly 900 of those cars were built between 33 and 34. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankTheDog Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Sorry about your Gramps, those old 30’s cars are the last thing you want to be in in a wreck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 They are. Especially considering that Chevy cars were all wood structured until halfway through 36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 spotted this bad boy a bit ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad R Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 We aligned this the other day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad R Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 I worked on this to day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeyyank Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Picking up my daughter and saw this exocar. Had a V8 back there. Have to imagine this thing can move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser54 Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 5 hours ago, Chad R said: We aligned this the other day Just another frumpy sedan.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muncher Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Pretty exotic to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Rivian R1T. Finally saw one on the road 6/15/22 6:30pm, east bound 237 in Santa Clara, CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser54 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 237? I don't think that road was there when I lived in San Jose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Damn, how old are you @cruiser54? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser54 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 It had a different number when I lived there. Or we used a name for it. I remember 17, 101, 280. I lived in East San Jose and worked in Palo Alto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHMJXJ Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Pretty cool ad page for the Rivian line ... https://rivian.com/r1t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeyyank Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Saw this today at Costco. Probably the only Ford I would ever droll over and want. Also saw a bunch of sweet rides doing the Crown rally through Vail this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeyyank Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Saw this sexy machine out for a walk this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Some kind of Lamborghini???, 9/7/22 7:00pm, north bound 680 in Alamo, CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad R Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 First time I have been able to get a picture of this car . It belongs to a guy that lives in our town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Some kind of McLaren, 7/29/23 4:00 pm, south bound 280 in San Jose, CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaman09 Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Saw a Ferrari 360 at Home Depot the other day. Ferrari's are a very rare sight in this town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ωhm Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Had one ↑↑↑ show up at The Dearborn Classic Car Show on Saturday. YR?? unknown. Requirement: 1995 or older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manche757 Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 1959 Jeep FC, Forward Control, spotted this morning at the post office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olddude Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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