A Horse With No Name

Still an awesome car though. About time the Camaro tuners started putting something in the face of the Shelby boys. Chris

I think 65 WAS the high sales year, as I was born in 65 and always thought it was cool I was born in the high sales year of the Impala. Chris

Suppose the Smithsonian would cave and let us bring twenty cars? We need a national auto museum so that we can preserve our American auto heritage. There is more beauty in the full width tail light lens of the 66-67 Charger than in every Toyota and Lexus ever built. Chris

Not to mention it probably is more widely accepted from a demographic standpoint. The lowrider guys, the resto guys, racers, people who just love old cars...this car still has a lot of appeal to a lot of people, so putting one on display would be a good way to show the best of GM. Plus it is perhaps the high water mark for the Impala, which was the best selling car of Chevrolet, the best selling brand. Keep em coming boys... Chris

This is why I wanted to get this thread going. I've seen the 57 Seville in person, and to me visuially it is much better than the 57 Bel Air. NICE CHOICE, I like it as well as anything suggested so far. Chris

The Caprice might not make it on visuals, but it does in a way represent GM thinking over the 1975-2000 time period pretty well.

Believe it or not there are a couple of those running around Columbus. I took pics of them and am eventually going to download the pics so I can post them here. Alas, one of them is painted pink. Chris

Let's see what everyone comes up with. It maybe the most famous, but in my mind it isn't the best looking. To me the 55 Nomad looked much better, as did some of the 30's Cadillacs and Lasalles. What else does everyone else think? Chris

Katie, the teenaged girl who lives down at the corner, has an Aztek that color and everything. Steve, her dad, has a beautiful C4 Corvette in an unusual shade of green. That Vette is just damn near flawless. The Aztec was until Katie tried to voilate the laws of physics with it... Chris

Ahhhh....I owned one...Turqoise and white with the two tone turqoise interior. For some reason the 57 looks good in every color but red IMHO. Had a chance to buy a 57 Bel Air two door post that was silver on red when I bought my 55 two door post. In silver/red that car is just stunning. Chris

Since we seem to be on a nudity kick in this thread... NAKED CATS! Chris

Stuupid question...but when you had your bird, how bad was the "heat gain" during the summer with that big back window? Chris

Off topic but... I saw just the car for you today. Yellow 72 Corvette, beautiful, driving down a beautiful tree lined street with the top down. Black interior. Chrome was perfect. You know my passion for C3 cars.

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Since we seem to be at each others throats a little bit lately...let's take it "out into the parking lot" and fight over "cars' instead of stupid stuff. Here is what we can argue about-Suppose you have been picked by the Smithsonian to pick ONE GM car as a historical visual "high Water Mark" of North American car production. Let's suppose the Smithsonian will buy an example of this car and put it on permanant prominent public display. What would you pick? Also-Has to be built in North America, so PCS can't flood us with a fleet of Holdens. My pick-58-62 Chevrolet Corvette. To me even better than a 55 Nomad, 65 GTO, or other notable GM cars. That car just has the look, if you know what I mean. What is your pick...not as your fav. car...but as the all time visual high water mark for a GM car? Let's fight away, guys. Chris

Yuck...however, having done electrical and refrigeration work in food processing plants...I've seen some strange things... Chris

Didn't know you were a ragtop kind of guy. The ragtop on the 4th gen flows better with the car when the top is up than the top on the third gen cars, which is slightly awkward when the top is up. Chris

Lots of C3 Corvettes have somehwat low miles on them, as they were not that much of a real "drivers car." Biggest thing with the 4th gen cars is that some people I know buy a more fuel efficient car for daily use. Like Jay, who had a 94 Formula V8 that he just added Ram air to. I sat across from him in a college class I just took. He bought a Civic because he has a long commute through heavy traffic. But I can't imagine owning one of these cars and not driving it "in anger." Chris

Blizzacks FTW...seriously. I've run them and they make a huge difference. Chris

We have too many Caddy stores around here also. Chris

You should. I saw the coolest 61 Bel Air Fourdoor that had been made into a lowrider, old style, with wide whites and spinner hubcaps, no hydraulics or anything like that. Old GM iron never seem to go out of style. Chris

+1 Bigtime. Let's piss away our heritage completely and then build from scratch. It's got to work at least as well as the last time GM tried that play... Chris

Wow, I love that bodystyle Buick... Chris

Thanks for the links, right now I just want to read about them as I won't have the cash to pull the trigger so to speak for awhile. Glad to know people are fanatical about these. Saw an interesting F body the other day that really got me thinking about these cars...a silver 2002 Camaro that was a replica/pace car for the brickyard (I think it was the brickyard, couldn't get super close in traffic.) I like what you said Longtooth about these cars being the last of the "While Rome as Still Rome" cars. I would agree, which is part of the charm. Chris

I have a basic overview of the 4th gen 'bird (Formula vs. TA, LT1 VS. LS1, etc. ILE, etc.) Would like to know these cars in depth. Websites, stories, anything that would help me learn, please post here. Looked at one today that was about 7,500...nice...Trans AM...Ram Air...94...Silver...but had a salvage title. Think I can do better than that. Still would like an F body in the fleet at some point, but if the economy doesn't improve it ain't gonna come in 2009. Chris