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    1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    I'm liking the '65. My mom's first car was a circa 1965 Impala, and it was only a few years ago that it was finally crushed. Not that it ran, as it sat a ways in the woods for a couple decades.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    As much as I love the '65s (my dad had two back in the day), I had to go with the '70 4-door, because a) it strongly suggests the owner is not the sort of person you want to piss off, and b) a little old lady in town has a faded baby blue one (along with a royal blue '73 or '74 4-door post) in her driveway that I would have a very, very hard time not buying if and when she or her heirs decide to sell it.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    I voted for the beatup '70. It just looks angry and used. I want it. I would be a menace on the road with that thing. You wanna drift into my lane? No courtesy honk. I'll just let you hit me.


    Interesting find on that '73 Caprice Classic. It looks to be mid-restoration and eagerly awaiting the hydraulics and subs.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/15/09

    @engineerd should be known as RetardeD: You mean "mid-destruction", but aside from that I agree.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    I was mistaken--it's the '64 Impala that will always be my favourite. Barring that, the '65 four-door has got it. And no, I wouldn't rather the SS, it's too obvious. I just wanna be able to cruise around with ten of my homies in rumbly American style.
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    Image of TENGRAM TENGRAM
    03/15/09

    @Å sjrøllyng pléyя: "Cruisin down the street in my six-fo'

    Jockin the bitches, slappin the hoes"
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/15/09

    @TENGRAM - Jesus built my hotrod.: That, as they say, is what's up. ♥-click for you!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    Yeah, gotta go with the SS. The two-doors of that generation were just too damn slick to pass up. I'd still take the scary-as-hell '70 though.


    Aubergine Metalflake. God love it.

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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    Had to vote for the '74. Because, as you all know, Harry Dean Stanton is a badass, and the life of a Repo Man is always intense.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    Oh, and trick metal flake on a '73 is like putting earrings on a bulldog. Really, don't need it, doesn't fit, looks stupid.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    SS > everything else
    But I also voted for the '60 Chevy just because it's a '60 Chevy and still rolling. Just look at that roofline, the chrome jet trim, all the curves and fiddly bits of trim, the angles...
    truly, a thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    Buddy with our pearly '73 Caprice here needs to find some cool shade to apply that Turtle Wax.

    The swirlz are making me dizzy!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/15/09

    @ЯEVEЯEND POLAЯ CAN SAVE YOU FЯOM THE CAЯPOCOLYPSE: It's always sunny California, there are no clouds, there is no shade...
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    Be honest folks: how many of you have been convinced by the DOTS posts that you want to move to California?
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick:
    (Raises hand)


    The much better weather and complete lack of jobs in the Rust Belt don't hurt, either.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Murilee is secretly on the payroll of the Alameda Tourism Commission. And it's working.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: My Yankee blood is way too thick for that- I would gladly move to the neighborhood of 1972, though.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/15/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: We've even got a '43 aircraft carrier down on the street, er, I mean dock.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Honestly? New Orleans has the same kind of stuff.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/15/09

    @Murilee Martin: Just the thing to round out my collection. Uh, err, I mean store all my crap in. Well, that and to threaten all those little nations on my days off.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/15/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive: Somehow, you can learn to live with it. IRRC, right about now the Bird of Paradise bushes are blooming in the Gourmet Ghetto. Of course, folks also start to get heat stroke when it hits 90. Localized adaptations...
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/15/09

    @Å sjrøllyng pléyя: Ah, but is New Orleans also graced with all the supercars former dot-com money can buy? I've seen everything from an MC-12 to R8s to Teslas to Vectors to Veyrons to Carrera GTs to Enzos to Atoms to DBSs to 959s, and just about anything else you can think of. If that's not a great reason to move somewhere, I don't know what is!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: No.


    But only because of the smog-checks.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Damnit, your'e right. I saw a Ford GT once, though! and an R8! Blew my mind one day when I saw an orange Gallardo pull up to a stoplight, and then after ten seconds another orange Gallardo pulls up right behind it. I couldn't speak, or move.


    How about this, though. No smog checks in Louisiana!

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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/15/09

    @Å sjrøllyng pléyя: Heh... the dad of the kid I tutor when I'm at home has a GT, painted in the Gulf livery of the GT40. Also, in case you need any more convincing, feel free to browse through these. Be warned you will need a LOT of tissues though!


    [www.eurosunday.net]


    There's not much that's as impressive in life as a two-mile long stretch of supercars all doing 120 down the freeway heading out to the twisty roads going out to the coast. I got to drive behind an Atom, with a Miura in front of him and a 300SL in front of that. How freaking badass is that?

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Well. Alright. You may have convinced me to visit your Bay Area on a third Sunday of some month this summer. Damnit.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/16/09

    @Å sjrøllyng pléyя: Let me know when you're thinking of coming out - we'll have to wrangle up some cool car to take on the drive! Hmmmm.... I'm thinking a rental 'vette with NOS possibly?


    I'll see if I can get the guy with the GT to come out and play, too. Maybe even let us drive...?

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    Image of parkrndl parkrndl
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    i'm partial to the '65s, but then that's cause this is mine:



    the same body style as the SS in the poll, but about the same color as the 4-door sedan...


    (wonder if that img worked?)

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/15/09

    @parkrndl: Very nice- when I was a little kid back in the early '80s, the postmistress had one just like that. Even then, with '60s cars roaming the landscape like buffalo once did, I thought that car was something else. Have to admit I prefer the '67, but that muscular profile combined with those wonderful taillights are a Chevy high water mark.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/15/09

    @parkrndl: Lovely. Do you have a better shot of the rear tail lights? I don't remember them being quite like that - and it looks epic.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    03/15/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive: Agreed..love the sextet of tailights!
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    Image of parkrndl parkrndl
    03/15/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: ask and ye shall receive:



    and there's more here:


    [home.comcast.net]


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    [home.comcast.net]


    [home.comcast.net]


    ok, ok, i'll stop shamelessly pimping my car now... i'm in withdrawal because i haven't driven it hardly at all this winter...

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/15/09

    @parkrndl: Day-yum, that's fine. They sure don't make them like they used to.
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    Gotta be the 65 SS. My folks had one when I was in high school... Used to borrow it for dates - good memories in that car...


    All that said, I'd rather have this - belongs to a friend of mine's father...


    Sovren 2007 PNW Historics IMGP3466

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    That's some chunky glitter in the respray on that car. The original brown metallic for those years was far more elegant, with just the hint of pixie dust.


    For older GM, I really prefer the early sixties Impala sedan that my high school girlfriend's mom had - black over red interior, with lots of purposeful chrome everywhere. And I had an uncle with an early '70s Impala, medium blue and very nicely tailored, all tucked in and no drama.

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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    I voted for the bad grin on the face of the "70 Impala, this bumber bumb had to be done at factory
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/15/09

    In reply to 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, With Bonus Big Chevy Poll
    My favorite out of all the cars is the 65 Impala SS.
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