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Author Topic: Definatley GM, definately '59 but not an FC...  (Read 19204 times)
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« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2006, 09:46:21 PM »
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Camera played up a little last night, but here are a couple of shots:



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« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2006, 10:51:30 PM »
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Ahoy Captain,

Where do you attach the ski pole?

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« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2006, 04:43:17 AM »
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Ed,

I like the way that you've used photoshop skills to reverse the images but keep the badges reading normally.   Wink
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« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2006, 08:54:04 AM »
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 ;)How kool is that??a custom with out even being customized!!i love it,would love it even more if it was parked in my driveway,nice purchase i must say ;)jamie
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« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2006, 09:18:06 AM »
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Harko, I was just saying what my wife says when i come home with parts "you had to buy the dearest didnt you"
sure i would take the hardtop over the taxi anyday.
These were often optoined with electric goodies like power bench seats, kinda like a baby cadillac. looks like smick nick.
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« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2006, 09:29:53 PM »
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Ed,

Clearly the Enterprise needs a mate, how about this one? A snip at $20,000.



Full details are here;

http://www.myclassics.homestead.com/1960BuickElectra.html

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Now that I've got the beige with the grey, I'm looking for the cream, the bone, the ivory and the off white
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« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2006, 10:59:35 PM »
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John,

One land yacht is enough for the time being, but thanks for thinking of me.

I've followed that web site from time to time - the guy has some interesting cars. Do you know him?

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« Reply #27 on: May 26, 2006, 02:27:56 AM »
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Yes I do Ed.

I bought a car from him. I'll call you.

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« Reply #28 on: May 26, 2006, 04:28:43 AM »
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Hi All,  the owner from new is name Jennie Cochron,now l maybe wrong,but in the 1950s theres was a famous singer name Eddie Cochron and he write a song call Jennie Jennie,it maybe owned by the wife  Roll Eyes STRANGE,and if you know music Eddie died in the early 60s in a car smash,and the Stray cat has his guitar. Cheers from Alfio
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« Reply #29 on: June 03, 2006, 10:16:58 AM »
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Some better photos















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« Reply #30 on: June 03, 2006, 10:27:10 AM »
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Beautiful, Ed - I love it.  Everything is sooo big

There'd be some massive engineering in the B 1/2 pillars, holding up those massive rear doors.

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« Reply #31 on: June 03, 2006, 10:32:10 AM »
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I wonder what they were like on side impacts? Looks good but openned up like that.
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« Reply #32 on: June 04, 2006, 09:47:49 AM »
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g'day, i know its wrong for a bloke to say the word gorgous, but fast eddie that is one GORGOUS piece of metal,
                                      Cheers Rusty
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« Reply #33 on: June 05, 2006, 06:48:50 AM »
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Thanks for the comments guys. I can't wait to get it registered and float off into the sunset!
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« Reply #34 on: June 05, 2006, 08:00:48 AM »
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We drove around the block in this thing last week, laughing like schoolgirls. To imagine roads full of these enormous barges beggars belief.

It definitely floats everywhere.

It was great to see Ed so challenged driving a such a huge car from the 'passenger' seat, changing gears on the wrong side of the column, and nearly hitting every parked car along the way.

When he gets this registered and takes it out and about you MUST take the time to check it out. Its a work of art, when car design was about how a car looked, not how safe it was when an incapable driver smashed it into an innocent tree.

1959 Chev Impala - 100% design over function Grin

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« Reply #35 on: June 05, 2006, 08:26:13 AM »
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the design room harley Earl (GM designer and tailfin inventor) worked in had a sign on the door that read "Art & Colour", no wind tunnels, just drawings and dreamcar prototypes in the room.
One of my mates had a 60 coupe deville that he bought from a wrecking yard in the states and regisered it over here still in its sunburned paint, the car was bulky and wide but didnt seem to have any more leg room than a FC, When being a passenger it felt real weird being ten foot away from the driver and having no steering wheel infront of me, going alongside other cars was cool.
It didnt have the soft ride anymore as he chopped the springs rite out but it did feel like it need both lanes.

Remember image is everything, thirst is nothing.
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« Reply #36 on: March 12, 2007, 06:58:02 AM »
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Registered and on the road... On the way home from Stanwell Park.

This one is of a big launch. Got the revs up, side stepped the clutch and bang, the mighty 283 had the big girl reaching for the sky...  Wink

Well sort of... I emptied the rear bags and pumped up the fronts...  Grin

We put one too many bodies in the boot...



The plates say it all





It really is this much fun...



If you want your very own '59 Impala, follow this link:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=230101410008&rd=1&rd=1
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« Reply #37 on: March 12, 2007, 10:12:09 AM »
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hey bandecko, thats loco, i nearly bought this the other week for a temporary run around, my mate owned it for a few years but its made its way south.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250087194498&sspagename=ADME:L:RTQ:AU:1

check the price
looks like your going to have fun with the switches there,
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