balthazar

^If you would call the Aztek 'cute', then yes; it's 'cute'. :blorf:

That guy must be short, or that's a BBBC.

Aztek 2.0, but worse. The Sonic a clean, tidy, aggressive lil car, not too big for ANYONE, yet here's this lil monster.

Ya; AR TTs, or best yet : AR 200Ss! Then again, I could groove on Salt Flat Specials, too.

Yeah- period-correct would be the way to go; agreed. Cragars are overdone (within my lifetime)- tho they're classics and look good; if it were me they'd go.

2nd gen: of course. The break... and the F/S <> intermediate thing always makes me forget. Tho thats some coin, if I were primairily a Chevy guy, I could be happy with this one for a long time. A 327 4-spd combo would be about the best powertrain combo for you, no, Camino? You have some real thinking to do on this one, IMO.

1st gen Elkys are hot property....

It's a Chevy- you can get a complete interior at 7-11. Unless you meant the 327/3-spd; you might have to go to Target for that. I see NO reason to NOT call & ask the price.....

OooooooOOooooooO!! Camino, you kno I like this gen ('64-67) best. Why no price?? Bet it's no less than $10K.

That last line made me chuckle, Roger. Another light day for my truck, tho it did move a 12-ft trailer loaded with some junk, but it was just inside a storage lot. I prepped my '64 Catalina to move for the first time in many long, neglected years. Two tires hold air, two do not, but luckily I have a P-60 with good shoes. I was concerned the wheels might be locked up (frozen brakes), but the fronts turned fine... meaning I likely won't have to pull it with the 2500HD.

Not much to report the last 2 days. Snagged (3) 10-ft downspout sections Monday, and 4 bags of concrete mix & a wheelbarrow today. I use my tailgate as a workbench in the field. I assembled a 15-ft long downspout with 90s at each end on the gate- siliconed and screwed. I mixed numerous buckets of concrete (custom blend) on the tailgate, too. Both those jobs now done AND have been paid on. I said it before : a really well-thought-out tailgate design, with some provisions for working off it (I have a few experience-suggested ideas...) could make for a strong advantage in the segment.

Those measurements are all snarky-malarky. EPA gives a front hip room measurement with no regard if the car has a console or not.

WRT the criteria here, it is a tough choice. For a moonshine car, I might go with a stripe-delete Buick GSX, the 455 Stg 1 is still stout in '72. One could do the same over at Pontiac & get the top 455 in a LeMans coupe vs. the flashier GTO. I do like Camino's thought on waiting for the SD455. Matador would be the stealthiest, but there's no big HP mill option. Ultimately, you KNOW I'D be rebuilding the '49.

You've gotten me interested in doing a story. Any suggestions on the type of questions I could ask? I've got the first one down - Why'd you start this business? - but beyond that I've already gotten writer's block Always at least consider the who, what, when, where, how & why questions. How has the business changed, what period/circumstances did you prefer & why? Best singular deal / rarest vehicle thru the yard? How has Gov't regulation impeded on biz? What's your vision/plan for the future / how long to you intend to continue the business? Will you consider willing your business to balthazar of Central Jersey??

'60s Novas are in no way 'forgotten', my friend.

'largely forgotten but cool' makes for a relatively tight noose, IMO. Moltar's '68-69 Rivieras strongly fit that criteria tho, IMO.

Oh no - I merely make reference to it's blubbery, shapeless fuselage. The size is

Front headroom in my car is listed as 35", which is about 3" less than the current, towering, generic family sedan. I have zero issues with it because I'm not one of the lumbering golums this forum seems to be festooned with . Buick does NOT list different headroom dimensions for different body styles, just by series. I don't believe its the seats: the GM '59-60s don't yet have dropped front floor pans (that happened in '61), so even tho the front seat cushion is low to the floor (9.6") and your heels are closer to your butt's level than anything else I've been in (frt legroom is 45")..., that low roofline does have a minor price. I'll GLADLY pay it, tho. If I look at the specs for '64 Pontiac, PMD DOES list different heights by bodystyle but it's hardly noticeable : Catalina 4-dr hardtop frt headroom: 38.4", 4-dr sedan: 39.0". It may well be noticeably more on the '59-60s tho, in fact I believe it must be. Windshields are a solid indicator of this. In comparison, the P-64 has 43" of legroom and a seat-to-floor height of 10".'59-60 has to be the extreme of these interior stylistic proportions.

NIce to see regardless, so thanks! I am in the (seemingly perpetual) 'liquidation mode', and will be for the foreseeable future. Next week I am rolling my '64 Cat off it's concrete perches to make room for a box truck box, and the '64 will get stripped for parts. I have the remains of the '60 Bonneville (seen on this board elsewhere) and the scraps of a '65 Bonneville to strip also. NOW at least I have a place to store all these parts until they go.

I don't care for the 2-dr sedans because the greenhouses are so much taller than the hardtop (about 2"). And I would never take a B-60 unless every last B59 was somehow gone. The whole 'this other custom one sold for...' is a buncha crap. That aside, this is far more interesting to save than the '73 Delta 88 referenced elsewhere. Looks pretty solid, and the price is decent even for a tightwad like me.

just kidding.... Production was actually 3716 (still quite rare).

Took an early morning run to the scrap yard today. Believe it or not, this is 660 lbs of steel & cast iron. I think that 10" gas main was around 250 lbs by itself. Currently, the yard I go to is paying $12/100 for cast iron/heavy steel, so this paid $79.20. Eh; it cleans up my back yard & gets me fuel money. Not that I live in a junkyard; I just 'find stuff / stuff follows me home'. Best haul was a few months ago- I had all sorts of mixed alloys: brass, copper, aluminum - that run netted me $299. • • • Here's a pic when I got my '04 in '06. Only difference today is I upgraded to 265s vs the factory 245s seen here, and I seem to prefer my trucks without center caps, because they have been off for about 3-4 years now, and my Ford ran capless for maybe half it's life with me (15 yrs). I dunno.

glitter, glitter... gleam, gleam. I'm going to ignore those Cadillac tail lenses back there- they fit, IMO.

Thought I'd try a 'journal' for a month on this subject. Too many folk believe trucks 'never' carry anything in the bed or be very 'trucky'. To those unfamiliar, I have a 2004 Silverado 2500 HD CrewCab, DuraMax/Allison/3.73s. Mileage is currently about 106K. • • • Today I towed, then pushed a '70s Dodge camper van around on a piece of private property- repositioning it at the owner's request. Section of chain & a cable/clevis shackles to pull, the ol' 'tire hung by chain over Dodge's bumper' and the ol' 'shopping cart push' to guide it backwards. It was momentarily tempting to get it up to maybe 50 MPH.... DuraMax didn't even feel it.

Some more from yesterday's Macungie PA Wheels of Time show :