Nice looking Vettes with Attitude here please

[Roscobbc]

Perhaps a bit like being in a 'sea' of Range Rovers, Land Cruisers and other similar full fat vehicles and a 'real' ex-US army Hummer joins the convoy!

 

[Chuffer]

Perhaps a bit like being in a 'sea' of Range Rovers, Land Cruisers and other similar full fat vehicles and a 'real' ex-US army Hummer joins the convoy!

Or my mates Dodge Ram that has an exhaust the size of a water main and sounds like a thunder storm turned up to 11 .

 

[Nassau65]

Those tyres need a cleaning. They spoil the look of the truck.

 

[Nassau65]

That’s the trouble with anything black. Fabulous when clean and shiny, horrible when not so. Get that tyre shine out.
A bit like yellowing whitewall or white lettered tyres, great when white, horrible when dirty or yellow.

 

[Roscobbc]

Worst colour is 'metallic' black - if it gets surface scratches from road dirt and kerbside hedges or someone does a cheap mop job it always, always looks dirty and old........

 

[Roscobbc]

Perhaps a bit like being in a 'sea' of Range Rovers, Land Cruisers and other similar full fat vehicles and a 'real' ex-US army Hummer joins the convoy!

Military Humvee is 7'1" wide. '76 Eldorado is 6'8" wide - '80 C3 is 5'9" - C5 is 6'2" - wonder how wide Barry's Daytona bodied C3 is?

 

[Nassau65]

My dad knows only too well how wide a 1976 Eldorado is, got his wedged between the width bollards in Jackson’s lane Hampstead in 1977. Thought he could squeeze through, got stuck/wedged in. Those bollards are still in place today.

 

[Roscobbc]

'Toured' Snowdonia and North Wales back in the mid '70s in a poverty spec Belgian 2bbl 3 speed 289 '65 Galaxie sedan. Went around a flint walled bend so acute that I couldn't get around without scraping a fender......car averaged 22mpg over the 2 weeks....

 

[Daytona Vette]

Military Humvee is 7'1" wide. '76 Eldorado is 6'8" wide - '80 C3 is 5'9" - C5 is 6'2" - wonder how wide Barry's Daytona bodied C3 is?

It is Slim like me, I know when it was going on a trailer once, the driver said it was wider at the back than his previous collection, a Testarossa - I will have to measure it.

 

[Chuffer]

That’s the trouble with anything black. Fabulous when clean and shiny, horrible when not so. Get that tyre shine out.
A bit like yellowing whitewall or white lettered tyres, great when white, horrible when dirty or yellow.

That`s the cleanest you are likely to see it ! Our friends live high up a hill in the Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales and the truck works hard for its living . But as for his three Harley`s , now that`s a different story !

 

[Chuffer]

Worst colour is 'metallic' black - if it gets surface scratches from road dirt and kerbside hedges or someone does a cheap mop job it always, always looks dirty and old........

You are right there Ross, I have had 7 black cars over the years and 3 were / are metallic . Kept saying I would never have another black car after my first one , but they do look so good after a good polish and wax . ( for 5 minutes ) .

 

[Chuffer]

'Toured' Snowdonia and North Wales back in the mid '70s in a poverty spec Belgian 2bbl 3 speed 289 '65 Galaxie sedan. Went around a flint walled bend so acute that I couldn't get around without scraping a fender......car averaged 22mpg over the 2 weeks....

22 mpg was good going on the straight and level , never mind round Snowdonia`s mountain roads !

 

[Roscobbc]

22 mpg was good going on the straight and level , never mind round Snowdonia`s mountain roads !

Car would actually run 25/26mpg on a 50mph cruise - the '68 343 cu in auto Javelin I had 'back in the day' would record a 21/22mpg on 70 mph cruise. Both Javelin and Galaxie were probably a similar weight to a current Ford Mondeo

 

[Chuffer]

I always really liked the AMC Javelin and recall lusting after one at what was probably the 1967 Earls Court Motor Show launch . Don`t see many about these days .

 

[Nassau65]

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22 mpg was good going on the straight and level , never mind round Snowdonia`s mountain roads !

it wasn’t metallic blue with a bright blue interior by any chance. We imported one like that from Belgium.

 

[Roscobbc]

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it wasn’t metallic blue with a bright blue interior by any chance. We imported one like that from Belgium.

Yes, mid metallic blue 4 door 'pillarless' hardtop sedan - 2bbl 289, 3 on the three manual. Registration number started JYF can't recall number 'K' (71/72 registered) - bought it it from Colchester Road Harold Wood for......believe it or not (and if my memory is holding up) £185

 

[Nassau65]

It is Slim like me, I know when it was going on a trailer once, the driver said it was wider at the back than his previous collection, a Testarossa - I will have to measure it.View attachment 10465View attachment 10466

 

[Nassau65]

The Kim Kardashian of Corvettes.

 

[Daytona Vette]

Not sure on the arches or the brake cooling ducts

 

[Daytona Vette]

Looks crisp