by "WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
Published 10/12/2017 at 19:15
by "WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
Published 10/12/2017 at 19:15
Tags: Mecum Auction
; Photo Dump
; muscle car
STARS: 6
Quiz- which of the cars below has a completely custom body style - which was not offered by the factory that year?
Overall, 10/10 would recommend - tons of cool people around looking and talking about great cars. Parking sucked, but for $20+a few beers, it was a great day.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/12/2017 at 19:21, STARS: 3
Woof!
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 19:25, STARS: 3
At one point, we were standing in between two 427 Vettes that were being started up, to go across the block. That was a lot of sweet, sweet, big block noise!
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/12/2017 at 19:38, STARS: 1
I could die and go to heaven after that
"briannutter1" (briannutter1)
10/12/2017 at 20:52, STARS: 1
Those Poncho’s are excellent. If I bought a new car in 1973, it would be a 455Sd.
"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
10/12/2017 at 20:53, STARS: 1
Thanks for all the trans ams!
"fintail" (fintail)
10/12/2017 at 21:05, STARS: 1
Like the Sunliners and the 62 Galaxie
"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
10/12/2017 at 21:15, STARS: 0
1. Regarding this:
Quiz- which of the cars below has a completely custom body style - which was not offered by the factory that year?
I don’t really care. Maybe the Buick or the Catalina.
2. Some of your pictures are kind of fuzzy. You need to work on your focus.
3. Regardless of the shortcomings in 1 and 2 above, your taste in cars is perfect. You are indeed a fine connoisseur of cars. Please take more photos and post them; in or out of focus.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 22:20, STARS: 1
Those are pretty rare cars. I was surprised to see so many 455 TAs there. Cool cars.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 22:21, STARS: 0
You’re welcome! There were a lot there!
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 22:23, STARS: 0
Yeah the 62 was one of my favorites. It sounded fantastic too.
And the Sunliners are just cool.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 22:28, STARS: 0
Lol the pictures were all taken with a potato, and a majority were taken while I held a beer in one hand. That said, I was obviously disappointed with some of the results, but in a few cases I posted the pictures anyways because the car was so cool.
Very few people will care about the car that was hacked together Frankenstein style, but I found it interesting.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/12/2017 at 22:37, STARS: 1
I’d want to drive it first. Then I’d already be in heaven
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/13/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 1
You mean drive one and race against the other
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/13/2017 at 12:09, STARS: 0
Let’s each get one and race each other!
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/13/2017 at 12:19, STARS: 1
Will you loan me.. I am guessing $60-80k
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/13/2017 at 13:16, STARS: 1
Yeah, that’s about right - if anything, toward the top of that range for a 427, unfortunately.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
10/22/2017 at 12:59, STARS: 1
I’ll take the blue Galaxy that you opened with, but I’d prefer four doors.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
10/22/2017 at 13:01, STARS: 1
You need to work on your focus...
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
10/22/2017 at 13:08, STARS: 0
Yah, I kinda thought the same on your other comment, but I think it was meant in a positive spirit. Considering that I was walking around with a beer in one hand and a potato phone in the other, it’s surprising the photos weren’t worse.
I was torn between the Galaxie and the Pontiac as my favorites. Those two went across the block consecutively, and I spent some time following them through the conga line leading into the building just to hear both of them idle. The Galaxie had a wonderful big block lope at idle, and the Pontiac had cutouts and sounded great, but was much louder. The 406 lope is why it’s the first picture and not the 2nd.
BTW, no one but me cares, but the quiz answer is the Pontiac. The GM bubble top cars *almost* ceased to exist after ‘61. The only one that carried over was the Chevy Bel Air (not the Impala). The rest had formal rooflines. Someone took a ‘62 Grand Prix and did a hell of a lot of metal work to convert it into a bubble top.