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BADGES OF HONOR-HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT ON THE STREET
Badges of honor can be found under the hood on the air cleaner or valve covers or on the outside of a car.The muscle car era made things easy-if you drove a GTO people knew it-they were like rolling billboards for a Pontiac ass-kicking.
Other cars were more subtle-every now and then (back in the day) you'd run up against something really odd.
Like a plain Jane Chevy Biscayne or Plymouth Belvedere 2 door sedan that looked like something your great-aunt would drive.Then you'd see the 427 or 426 badge... that's if the guy wasn't really going pure stealth in a blatant street ambush.
Then he'd take the badge off the car.It's not like you could pop the hood and see what was really happening.
Didn't matter-all you ever saw 30 seconds later were tail lights.
Fortunately most cars were rolling ads for power-they had the badges to prove it.
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THE 57 CHEVY PROJECT-A 50S LIFESTYLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY PART 5:THE END?
At this point Trevor is as close to “done” on the car as any car guy-in other words it’s “nearly there”
He wanted to upgrade the bodywork substantially from his earlier effort because the knew that things such as soft lower edges on the doors would be a future issue.
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MARCH 2010-1965 FORD ECONOLINE TRUCK-NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERY DAY
There has always been competition and imitation in the automotive world. The 60s had a small market Big Three battle with vans that were actually pickup trucks.
The Chevy Corvair van/truck competed against the Dodge A-100 van/truck and the Ford Econoline van/truck.
And no, we didn’t forget the Volkswagen van/ truck, but today we want to talk about Wayne Tutty’s 1965 Ford Econoline pickup truck.
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MARCH 2010-1959 CHEVROLET EL CAMINO-THE TRUCK THAT MIGHT BE A CAR TOO
The 1959 Chevrolet El Camino was the GM response to the Ford Ranchero-both were considered a gentlemen’s truck so you rarely saw these vehicles taking a giant hog to market in the late 50s.
The 59 Chevy was a unique looking vehicle on its own so turning it into a part time truck took the El Camino up a big notch in the “we sure noticed what you’re driving” wars back in 1959.
Al has always been a huge fan of these iconic Chevy car-trucks so when he had the opportunity to own one-he jumped at the chance.
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MARCH 2010-A 57 CHEVY EL CAMINO:THE TRUCK THAT NEVER WAS-WE HAVE IT!
Ben Maerz is a legend in his neck of the woods. He takes a concept that could have been made, but never hit the dealerships. High on his list of the improbable is his 1957 Chevrolet El Camino.
Ben made his own version of an El Camino that could have been built two years before the General actually put one on Chevy car lots. And his El Camino looks like it came out of a factory.
Ben started with a Chevy station wagon and then started to cut away the roof of the wagon. Six years later, he had a truck instead of a kid-hauler from the 50s. Six years was plenty of time for Ben to develop a game plan.
The truck has sloped door posts and no vent windows to give a sense of flow to the new look.
Mission accomplished in this department.
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