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wished they'd put the high beam switch back on the floor.
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Feb 1, 2025, 4:50 PM
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Until high beams are fully automatic.
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Legend [6946]
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 4:58 PM
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This is like my first car. 1960 IMpala paid $500 for it in 1968. This one in the photo is for sale online for $99,990. Oh well.......
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:02 PM
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Twd days after turning 14…..no restrictions. 69 years, no accident and two speeding tickets.
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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two speeding tickets
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:10 PM
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Almost 65 years, just one ticket for driving too fast.
I was 17 had a VW that flipped over. I was not driving (in the back seat with Carol) but had to say I was for insurance purposes.
I have been pulled over from time to time, but being a good soul (and a cop), they always let me go.
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:05 PM
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I learned to drive in my dads’57 Chevy
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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I learned office
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:12 PM
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Orange Phenom [14645]
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My Dad's 1964 Plymouth Valiant was the weapon of choice for me!***
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:37 PM
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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Re: My Dad's 1964 Plymouth Valiant was the weapon of choice for me!***
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:40 PM
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Did it have the push button transmission, my buddy Evan had one we dated in.
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Rival Killer [2613]
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Re: My Dad's 1964 Plymouth Valiant was the weapon of choice for me!***
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:51 PM
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My 57 Ramler had the push button transmission.
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Orange Phenom [15000]
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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Tug! You dated Evan?
Feb 3, 2025, 5:06 PM
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He was/is a good looking guy, but we each had our own girl.
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Orange Phenom [14645]
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Dynasty Maker [3569]
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:38 PM
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Started learning to drive at 8 years old by my grandpa 😳 he also started my dad at 8 years old. I was driving down the road by myself at 12 years old in a car he bought me called a Simca or Simka. Not sure of the spelling. I think it was a French car and just fugly. It was a straight drive. Got my 1st trail bike for Xmas when I was 6 years old and got larger ones as I got older. I learned mostly in the mountains near Flat Rock, NC where my grandpa had a mountain property with a jeep and dune buggy.
My first car was a Trans AM when I was 14 years old. Drove it all through high school and 5 years at Clemson. One thing I can say about driving so early is I am not afraid of driving anywhere whereas I see other women who get really nervous on the interstate etc
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:45 PM
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One night I was playing pin ball in a pool room and met a drop dead beauty who had a 454 Bandit Trans Am parked outside. We became best of friends, still are.
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Dynasty Maker [3569]
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:51 PM
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That body style looks like mine. It was a 1978 silver with red interior. I didn’t have t-tops though.
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:56 PM
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That was a stock photo. In the day the t-tops were often stolen off Trans Am and Vettes.
That car was light and super fast.
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Dynasty Maker [3569]
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:30 PM
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Omg it was so fast. I got caught speeding so many times!
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Rival Killer [2626]
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:36 PM
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Still have my 1979 Trans Am 10th Anniversary.
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The 454 was a Chevy engine. Pontiac had a 455, but stopped using them in 1976 due to emissions regulations. The 1977 Y82 SE (so-called "Bandit" edition) Trans Am had a 400 motor. The ones with air conditioning weighed nearly 4000 lbs.
The mid/late 70s was not exactly the high point for American Muscle.
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:46 PM
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Wow York,I can't top that one.You must have been a tall
8 year old and even 12. Those were big cars.I'm glad I
didn't get in your way on the highway.LOL!!!
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Dynasty Maker [3569]
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:54 PM
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I know you were! I sat on a pillow at times 😆
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Top TigerNet [31057]
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14? In the 70s, you could get a permit at 15, license at 16
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:50 PM
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When did it change?
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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Re: 14? In the 70s, you could get a permit at 15, license at 16
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:53 PM
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In the 1960 that was 14.
Kids were Ok to drive back then, now the age should be 40 after many driver training classes and mental evaluations.
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Dynasty Maker [3569]
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Re: 14? In the 70s, you could get a permit at 15, license at 16
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:57 PM
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I got my permit at 15 but actually drove by myself on the roads starting when I was about 12. I know it’s crazy as $hit 😳. Never got caught
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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its crazy as $hit
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Feb 1, 2025, 5:58 PM
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no, it was YORK
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Heisman Winner [83003]
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Heck, I was driving a SCHOOL BUS at age 16 in 1971. In 1972, I was the envy
Feb 3, 2025, 5:31 PM
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of all the other bus drivers, as I was awarded a brand spanking new International VEE-EIGHT school bus. Everybody else was still stuck driving 20-30 year old Chevy six bangers.
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Re: 14? In the 70s, you could get a permit at 15, license at 16
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:37 PM
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It changed in 1967 in South Carolina. That’s the year I turned 14, so I had to wait another year to get my license. Yet we lived in a rural area so I was allowed to drive at 12, as long as I stayed on the “back roads.”
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:00 PM
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Got my Learners Permit the Monday after my 14th bday. 2 weeks later got my restricted License, which allowed me to drive alone during daylight. As you said, they didn’t really enforce that part, so I was driving at 4:30 AAm every day delivering The Greenville News. I was driving a Corvair, so I really was “ unsafe at any speed!” ( Ralph Nader on the Corvair)
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Commissioner [1265]
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So, 59 years!***
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:01 PM
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:14 PM
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So you are the one who ran over my mailbox while delivering my
paper.
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:19 PM
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Good fun? as teens can remember driving down the highway and attacking mail boxes with Sun Drop bottles at 60mph.
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Playmaker [360]
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:21 PM
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67 years this coming April. Got my license in a '54 Chevy.
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Orange Immortal [61731]
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'54 Chevy
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:24 PM
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I learned to drive in a 54 Chevy.
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:33 PM
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Learned to drive on a 1959 Chevrolet Apache. The hardest part was using the floor starter when the dang thing knocked off when you were at a stop light on a hill with someone tailgating.
I was driving at 9 or so as all good York County kids did back in the day. Became a legal driver in 1971 at 15. My sister is older and go her license at 14 in 1967.
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1955 @ age 14 in a straight stick 1949 Ford coup..
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:56 PM
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But used mom’s 1949 DESOTA one weekend at age 15, drove out to a Saluda River cabin outside Charlotte with 3 buddies to shoot off some cherry bombs off the dock while having my very 1st beer, then two, and leaving the wooded property on dirt road I got woolsey, went off the road at 45mph and hit the largest pine tree ever grown, pushed that huge engine back into firewall, knocked me out for a few secs while buddies thought I was dead and started running up the road for help..
Long story short, they came back when I came to & yelled, we walked miles to the main rd, used a phone booth to have a taxi come get us for the remaining 25 miles home by midnight.
And I wasn’t allowed near anything to drive not called a bicycle for ONE Full Year!
Mom got an upgrade to a 1951 Chevy 4-door.
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:47 PM
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The day I turned fifteen, my dad took me to get a beginners permit. When we got back home, he sold me a 62 corvair for $100. Drove it all through high school. I remember dad telling me the day I bought the car I needed to check the antifreeze. He was laughing his @ss off when I came back in the house and told him there was no motor under the hood. I had no idea that it was an air cooled rear engine car.
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:49 PM
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Nice! Anybody know what the button on the far right is? I do.
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Feb 1, 2025, 6:50 PM
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Starter.
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Feb 2, 2025, 12:26 AM
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Yes, starter. Back in the day, cars didn't have a solenoid to automatically engage the starter gear to the flywheel - it was manual via that pedal.
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Re: How long u been driving?
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That was referring to the pic following the blue Impala.
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Feb 1, 2025, 8:43 PM
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60 years. Got my restricted license at 14 in 1965 in a 1960 Ford Falcon Wagon.
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Re: How long u been driving?
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Feb 1, 2025, 8:57 PM
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The first time I really drove a car all on my own without anyone around I was 15. I didn't have a license.
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Got a permit in SC at age 14 in 1961 at the DMV office on Laurens road. Restricted driving between 6am to 6pm. Took the test in a 1938 Chevy 2 door sedan with a floor mounted 3speed trans and a 48 chevy motor. Drove to jr high in a 1949 Hudson Commodore. The girls definitely weren't impressed. Then the first year in HS drove a 1953 Chevy 4 door with powerglide trans and a 56 Chevy 4 door 3 speed manual. Going home via Cleveland street could get the 53 up to 80 down the hill toward G'ville Tech.
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TUG....STUPID ME! I WAS TRYING TO HIT THE UP VOTE
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Feb 2, 2025, 6:31 AM
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THINGY AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE FRIGGING DOWN VOTE.
I WOULD HAVE NEVER DOWNVOTED THIS KIND OF POST NOR YOU IN PARTICULAR.
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TUG, hope you saw my prior post about my mistake. I passed my
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driver's exam in our 1959 Chevy Wagon, when I was 17. My parents had a strict rule against any of us four driving before that age, and even then, they were begrudging when we asked. Both would say, "Don't ask to use our car!" They, also, made it clear that they would never..,and they meant never...become involved with any car we might want or have. And they never did...not one penny, no help with buying, paying or insuring.
Thus, every car I've ever owned has been my own doing without ever involving them.
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Clemson Icon [27120]
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TUG, hope you saw my prior post about my mistake. I passed my
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driver's exam in our 1959 Chevy Wagon, when I was 17. My parents had a strict rule against any of us four driving before that age, and even then, they were begrudging when we asked. Both would say, "Don't ask to use our car!" They, also, made it clear that they would never..,and they meant never...become involved with any car we might want or have. And they never did...not one penny, no help with buying, paying or insuring.
Thus, every car I've ever owned has been my own doing without ever involving them.
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Re: How long u been driving?
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I first rode a Suzuki 185 dirt bike at 11. Let off the clutch, popped my first wheelie into a Lincoln Continental, and took my first flight over a Lincoln's trunk.
Yeah, it was technically a ride and not a drive, but I accomplished "3 firsts" in a single outing on that day.
Started driving a car at 15, the family white Galaxy Ford 500. I really impressed the girls with that ride 😆
Stock photo included, family belongs to others.
1970 Galaxy
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LOL, younger kids have no idea what that thing on the far right and far left is.
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Maybe not even second from the left for some.
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Re: How long u been driving?
Feb 3, 2025, 5:22 PM
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Speeders stat
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That '59 Impala is a big money boat today!
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My LEAST favorite year Chevy from those years is probably the '57, which most want to drool over. I'll always be partial to an Ol 55, since that was my first road car.
https://youtu.be/X3QJ7RWsVbA
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probably the '57,
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I would choose '55, '57, 59, and '65.
The Chevy I had most fun in was my buddy's '63 SS convertible. He was the only teen in town with a wealthy Pop.
It was an incredible car.
I also dated in his Pop's Olds 98.
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I always thought that a 63 SS with a 64 SS interior would be just about perfect.
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Being a small block man, I would have to go with the 300 HP 327 and four speed, of course.
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