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When you're having a quinto-Belvedere tailgate party at the Oakland Coliseum, you pay to park in the official stadium lot, but when you're swilling cheap beer and wolfing chile verde burritos prior to sneaking into the good seats with your bleacher tickets watching a ballgame from the bleachers, you don't want to pay to park your car. That's why me and my cheapskate friends park in the free Coliseum BART station parking lot for most games, where we often have the opportunity to admire vintage machinery driven by commuters. Some of you may remember the Menacing Bee Van from last year, and here we have a quintet of other interesting rides spotted in the same lot. Apologies for crappy phone-camera image quality.
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that buick sport is parked really close to the stop sign, don't they ticket that in california?
That Camaro's almost as scary as the bee van...actually, nothing comes close to the bee van, but I wouldn't go near either.
You ride In what you Enjoy, Fuck what People Think.
Camarouch.
@MazdaEric: he's not in the red zone so he's alright.
@vwminispeedster: And it's a Sport Coupe! I wonder if it has the (carburetored) 3.8 turbo...
Mr. Murilee, that looks to be a '69 CST/10. The grille inserts is the difference.
CST/10 Brotherhood!
Gettin' this sucker way close to a test drive. Fix the alternator issues, and clean out the gas tank and it's onto it's maiden voyage.
that sketchy camero has a nevada plate...why do i automatically think there is a dead hooker in the trunk?
Murilee, that's not a 1971 Nova, it's a 1973, or 1974 nova, because of the bumpers. Pics to come.
For the Nova, it's a 1973 or 1974 model, the 1971 still have their front vent windows. Here some pics from a brochure of the Nova 1971 [www.oldcarbrochures.com]
@MazdaEric: Well thanks to the 3rd gen's huge back glass, it's purty easy to see whats packin' in the rear...
That is, unless the dead hooker is chopped up and hidden in the storage bin and the spare tire well...
This is a 1971 Nova:
This is a 1973 Nova:
and this is a 1974 Nova:
I'm pissed. My comment got eaten. Yes, I spotted the Nova error right away. It's a 74.
I like that the Camaro is a beaten rather than a beater. Seriously. With a sledge hammer.
And I like the visual continuation of the red/orange stripe up the Buick.
The Eldo looks like the fat brother of that Death Lincoln that was on Craig's List.
@UDMan: My 73 Nova was the same color combo as the 74 here, except my black vinyl roof was complete and not "laundau" or whatever you would call this. Is that 74 a hatch?
@TexanIdiot25: yeah i couldn't tell if the rear window/trunk had a tarp over it, like KITT used to have
Damn I like Novas. Guess I'm not over it yet.
@Novaload: Not only is the 74 a hatch, it has the ultra rare fabric sunroof that was provided by ASC as a factory option. I had a 1971 in that same shade of........wait for it...... ORANGE.
I had a 1977 Buick LeSabre I used for (out in the field) dirt track racing with my buddies a few years back. It had the stock Buick 350-4 bbl and 200 trans. Blew the trans twice before I installed a 350. My boss at the time raced a 1986 GT Mustang and we run some very close races. At that time it was the best $200 I had ever spent on racing.
@UDMan: My brother in-law had a Nova in 1990 with that same style fabric roof. It has been the only one I have seen in person. It was one sweet ride with the top pulled back or not.
@UDMan: @beercheck: So UD had an orange 71, I had an orange 73 and Beercheck, if I recall, you had a 75? or 76? Please say it was orange for the hat trick here. We can start a support group.
I dig the Caddy. A '68-'69 Eldorado is on my must have list. One of the best looking Cads ever. The fact that it's a front driver is the only that kept me at bay the first time I had a chance to snag one but I will over look that the next time 'round.
@Novaload: '76, dark green metallic. But I'm not sorry.
That Nova is sweet. Identical to the one my brother had about 25 years ago. Judging by the dog dishes, bench seat and lack of ornamentation, I'd say there's a 250 straight six under the hood. Probably still has the vacuum leaks GM engineered into most of them too.
@Novaload: I still have the Polycast wheels, by the way.
I'll take the Buick. I think it would be fun to have that and a matching '77 Estate Wagon.
@UDMan: I was half-expecting the '74 Nova's front bumper to project three feet forward of the body nose.
Here's the deal, I'm sick of you LEFT coasters showing what's Down The Street, I see kewl shyt every day on the Best Coast, dats right in the good ole NYC, BK to be exact. Parked "Down the Street" from me is 65 Stang, a 67 Firebird convert, 73 caddy, 67 Jaguar 420, 73 914, et al, ad infinitum. Not to mention my own rides; 73 BMW Bavaria, 72 BMW Bavaria, and a 71 2800CS Coupe.Appetite wet enough? I'm gonna start shooting dem shyts tomorrow to prove it. PEACE! Bitches. Daymn Californiacks think they own cardom, F dat shiznit.
PS - Here's one of my rides, the 72 Bavaria parked by the Verrazano Bridge.
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@BlueBomb: damn son! put the glock down and email your pics to murilee@jalopnik.com!! fo sho!!
they've featured Seattle, Denver, whatever.. don't be trizznipping!
Hells yeah, I love that Buick.
@Starlton Heston: Well, from my experience an International Harvester pickup isn't good enough for our romance novelist... but old Euro-stuff oughta be.
@BlueBomb: OK, how do you keep your Bavarias from overheating? I gave up on mine after a couple of years. And being an automatic, I was cooking the tranny fluid too. Nice looking car that was absolute dirt cheap to buy in 1990 but was a real money pit.
On topic: In the late 1980's I was occasionally driving a 1963 Cadillac, tail fins and all, to a commuter train lot in Philly. Until someone boosted my battery one day. There was no inside hood release in '63 Bastards cut the cables too rather than unbolting them.
@BlueBomb: Yeah, send me some photos!
Does Carroll Shelby have litigation going against that LeSabre owner? That one of the most patently ridiculous stripe jobs I've ever seen.
@slantsick: And you have to wear a black t-shirt with a big red stripe up the middle if you ride in the front seat because they are seriously committed to the continuous stripe motif.
@beercheck: My 75 was a dark green metallic, plaid seat(ed), vinyl roofed, hatchback, with 8-track, CB radio and a Sears Tower sized spring mounted antenna bolted to the hatch.
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