Randy
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Not Firebird?
Your first car ?
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Randy
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Better performance than Kitt??
chazt
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I dig it! That was my second car, only mine was a ‘63. It had a push button transmission on the dashboard. It belonged to my grandfather who sold it to me for $1. He wintered with it in Florida for many years and due to the salty air it began to rust in places. So before our high finance transaction he had all the bodywork done and the car repainted. It was originally dark blue, but Poppy had it painted white after the bodywork. Looked just like this, even down to the deep red interior.
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Florida Man
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'63 push botton, that would have probably been a 225 slant 6. Great engines. They slung a little oil out the valve cover sometimes but stong amd reliable.
Florida Man
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Funny though, my second car was a '71 Dart Swinger with a 318 V8. It had been my grandmother's car. Orange with a black vinyl top and black interior. I'll never foget these metal "buckles" for lack of a better word that were riveted into the seat back. That thing would burn the ever living daylights out of you in the summer. I have no idea why they put then there.
DesertIguana
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1958 Cheverlot Impala 2 Door, 348 CC with a Quad, the bad thing was it had a Turbo Glide Tranny, the worst idea GM had
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Sort of like this Stock Photo.
.Sort of like this Stock Photo.
Florida Man
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I had a 1963 Buick Riviera with a Dynaflow which was Buick's version. In fact it was the last Buick to have one before they changed to the Super Turbine 400. It was a different trans. but the same continuous turbine operation. What a terribly inefficient design. The strange thing about it was it was a floor shifter and from top to bottom, or rather fore to aft the gear arrangement was Park, Neutral, High, Low, Reverse instead of the usual PRNHL arrangement. It always seemed very precarious having reverse below low.
But the car was lovely. It was at one point voted the most beatiful Ameercan body style ever made by some group of muckety mucks. It was white and looked like this one. Mine had the 401 Nailhead. If I were to buy one again I would get one with the GS package: 425 Wildcat with 2 4 BBLs, leather seats powered both sides.
Still, even with the 401 it still had 365 hp. They called it the business man's muscle car.
But the car was lovely. It was at one point voted the most beatiful Ameercan body style ever made by some group of muckety mucks. It was white and looked like this one. Mine had the 401 Nailhead. If I were to buy one again I would get one with the GS package: 425 Wildcat with 2 4 BBLs, leather seats powered both sides.
Still, even with the 401 it still had 365 hp. They called it the business man's muscle car.
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MntnMan62
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I came back to this thread and it got me reminiscing a bit so I started looking for pics of the car. This is the best I could find. Mine was the DX version but same color, gold, as the car on the cover of their brochure. I really liked that car and had lots of adventures in it.