My Happy Place is wherever these sweet cars are. This is like going to an amazing art museum and the best county fair ever all at once. Heaven, just HEAVEN!
Thaw was a nice 53 Pontiac Tin Woodie. My mom had the sister car, the 53 Chevy Tin Woodie with automatic power glide tranny and power steering. It was really a nice car.
My family had a 56 Buick Special 2-door Hardtop, just like this one, only in white and yellow. It was absolutely gorgeous. Easily the best car my family ever owned. It really was SPECIAL.
Congratulations on 27 seasons! "Or is it more?" You guys put on such a great show! I tend to watch in slow motion. So much knowledge saved for history. Thanks!
I live in Elkhorn Wisconsin which is about 5 minutes from Delavan and this car show is truly great and the lake setting is unbelievable. I go every year and I recommend it
@@mistermusic140 I've lived in Lake Geneva for 20y and now in Elkhorn. My son lives out by the old Wagon Wheel and we have tried to make it to this show every year. The best place for the best cars. I hope it's not at the airstrip again. No place to stay cool out there.
I attended this great show last year. 2016, This same woody wagon was here. This lake location is fabulous. I took my 2010 Corvette Grand Sport to the show. Great cars and great food. People were really nice....will go again in 2017.
This show is NOT the same as it was back then. Some mental giant decided to have the show on a blacktop old airport runway instead of the lakeside. Very hot and not nearly as nice any longer!! Never go again!!!
Neighbor had a 56 Buick when I was coming up. The speedometer was really unique. It was linear not round and had a red bar that moved left to right indicating the speed.
@Ben, I can do one better...get a 1966 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, make it purple, add in leopard, cheetah, ocelot, tiger, Siberian Tiger, or zebra print, get all kinds of shag carpeting on the inside of the vehicle, get some gold tinted windows, a pair of fuzzy dice on the windshield mirror, and get a pair of road legal license plates that say "BIGTYME" on the front and the back, oh, and make it a hybrid of low rider and muscle car, and that ride will be gangsta.
I grew up near Delavan Have stayed at Lake Lawn Lodge. I have been to this shore when it was in town. Takes me back a bit. Love it. The GTO looks just my first car... 76 Grand Prix. Except in black with white vinyl top.
It amazes me how much thought and time and consideration was put into each & every car from the 50's........ and they all turned out gorgeous in their own rights.
@@HighSockDavid , some of the new cars are still good, though. Also, Mopar came out with some crazy engine and transmission options, including a very nice package that is geared toward old-school Mopar rides, namely, that Hellephant crate engine kit.
We have the only 69 Stage 1 Buick in Canada bought it 1972 then in storage 40 years It would beat a Corvette by over a second in the 1/4 mile hard to believe . .
We can't "go back" to these styles, because Mandrake The Magician is now dead, and we are deprived of his ability to Turn Back Time. And it is virtually Impossible. Common Sense doesn't perform miracles, never has.
I wonder if yu could make a plastic over lay to pop over a small modern car with a similar wheelbase etc. and get the look you want and still have a modern car underneath.
@@dehoedisc7247 , YAHWEH EL ELOHIM made the concept of common sense, and He also can manipulate time, space, and dimensions if He so desires to do so under His Limitless Power and Strength.
I had a 73 Pontiac LeMans with a 400. Had the boat package, so beefier springs in the back made the rear sit up. Had a higher gear, which really brought out the horse power of that detuned engine. I loved the body style. After they dropped the GTO moniker, the Can-Am package was just gorgeous.
Noticed the '73 gto at the beginning. Was kinda surprised that they did a segment on it, but glad they did. Not the best performance-wise, but '73 is my favorite year gto. Not only that, it (as well as the regular LeMans) is one of my favorite cars of all time.
The cars in this video are amazing. My mom had a car with a prism device that showed the traffic lights, but she didn't have a visor. I can't remember what it was - all I can think of is her '56 Chevy Bel Air.
11:48 "In '56 they must have made 9 million of these cars." These sold third after Ford and Chevy in '56. Imports hadn't made much of an inroad yet. I got my dad's one of these in '68 (same color, same Special model except it was the "two door hardtop" 46R. Moved to Montana and used it to pull trailer up into the mountains to cut firewood. It also would pull a full-sized American car up and down the Rocky Mountain highways with no overheating, no problem. A truly great car.
I ordered a 73 Grand Am with the 455SD and 4 speed manual, black with red interior. After waiting 10 weeks for the car the dealer finally called and said my car was in. I went with great excitement and found that after all this time my car had a run of the mill 455 and an auto tranny. I was so pissed I walked away and bought something completely different. Looking back I wish I'd gone ahead and taken it.
I had a '56 Buick Special driver with original black paint with black and white guts....I sold it because that nailhead was so hard to get parts for. Boy I wish I would of kept her .
Civilized times? My father flew the B-47 bomber aircraft in the 50's and 60's with a hydrogen bomb aboard and the ONLY reason that aircraft Existed was to fly to Russia and take out a city of more than a million people, and the aircrews knew that if the order came from the president to "Go" they were on a one way trip to kill and then to die themselves. How the Hell were those times Civilized??? IDIOT.
And we have even more destructive devices today, so you're the "idiot". It also should've been obvious that the guy was referring simply to day-to-day life of the average citizen. Idiot.
@@dehoedisc7247 Well, it's the government that's not civilized. USA is just a Satan's spawn of terror. So was USSR, too. Nobody wants to kill eachother until someone else gives them no choice.
Well I don’t care about defending ourselves against USSR but a lot of those cars existed before most black people could ride in the front of them...so there’s my issue with your comment
My friend's dad bought a brand new 56 Buick and I still recall the colors. Canary Yellow and Cream White. It was beautiful. He eventually gave it to him but by then the colors were faded pretty bad but still ran good. It was then stolen.
@Dadmezz, so the Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford Mustang, Dodge Charger, Chrysler 300 SRT8, Fourth Generation Dodge Magnum, and Dodge Challenger are all chopped liver?
My favorite muscle car that time forgot is the 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner". Beep Beep. The 1st car I ever drove. It was Vit. C orange with a black vinyl top. My mom always said, "She had a 4 in the floor and a 5th under the seat". It had a bored out engine, a 383, My dream car. My 1st car was a 1974 Pontiac SunBird. It too was a 4 gear standard. Another favorite of mine is the 1966 Chevy Chevelle SS. My dad had one that was light blue. heck, my county isn't 5000 people. My late uncle has/had a 1957 Chevy. That thing is smokin'. My mom and dad's car when they were married was a 1956 buick.
Why does it always seem like the older cars were built better ,but mostly looked better ? Dad bought a 57 Buick special in the late 60es , took us to Florida from. Ohio 80 -85 a lot of the trip , got there it needed a brake job , it ran like a singer !!
My dad had a Buick Special-maybe a 56 not sure-I remember the 3 port holes on the side-I remember being on his lap and he let me steer it. I might have been in kindergarten at the time which would have been 63 or 64. I ran it up on the curb before he hit the brakes and stopped it.
1957, Olds made both a Golden Rocket & Super 88 in both sedan & Holiday sedan, which came as a pillarless hardtop or coupe. The Golden Rocket/Super 88 Fiesta wagons also had no pillars. Golden Rocket was base, Super midlevel, & Holiday an option for each. Next up were the longer, top-of-the-line Starfire 98 & its Holiday sedans & coupes. All model lines had the Holiday pillarless "hardtop" sedan & a convertible. Base: Golden Rocket 88/Golden 88 Holiday Golden Rocket 88 Fiesta Mid: Super 88/Super 88 Holiday Super 88 Fiesta Top: Starfire 98/Starfire 98 Holiday This year featured gold-sprayed 371” Rocket 88 engine in both four-barrel & J-2 triple 2V carburetion; no 2V came til ’58 when they capped fore & aft carbs. The J-2 had 3 Rochesters; 1 linked & 2 vacuum-dumped, non-progressive linkage (front & rear gummed up from non-use). They also had a J-2R & J-2-W1 “export engines” with whatever Olds’ Bill Holt & Pete Estes could get away with as a factory engine part for Lee Petty (Olds gave all their parts a number so Bill France wouldn’t call them cheaters). You may have a thin, high 10-1 compression head gasket which some say were part of the package. Dimpled valve covers mean you have rare, semi-legitimate Isky or Crane solid-lifter cam & adjustable rockers for clearance. Most multi-carb J-2’s came on the luxurious 98’s or the small, light, & sporty Golden 88 3-speed column shift 2-door sedan (an early Olds Road Runner-type). Then France saw they went too fast & pulled the plug on them anyhow..
From my memory ( and that's a little questionable, lol ), that '73 GTO looks almost identical to a Pontiac Grand Am. My step brother owned a Grand Am long ago. Beautiful & great running car.
The Grand Am was almost the same outside but had the rubberized front bumper. The inside had the interior of the Grand Prix. The Grand Am of that Era was one of my all time favorites.
@@mr.toobigformypants8145 Yes, the Grand Am was very similar to the Grand Prix ( but not as nice, of course. ) The only reason I didn't mention it. was because I was too busy commenting on how much this GTO looks like the Grand Am.........very similar. This GTO looks more like the Grand Am than the Grand Prix did.
I've never been able to find the history on the Impala hood emblem. Chevrolet started using the name Impala on the 58 Chevy Impala but that hood emblem I remember from a couple of early 50s Chevy that my Dad had.
You are 100% RIGHT!!! Even the overpriced Cadillac suv looks like the cheapest suv tin car given as prizes on game shows like TPIR and LMAD but still $20Ks
I was at a car show here in Upstate New York and saw a 1974 Pontiac GTO, the thing is not a lot of people EVEN KNOW that the 1974 Pontiac GTO even exists!! This is mainly because in 1974 the GTO was essentially a Pontiac Ventura (Or Chevy Nova) body style and HAD the Trans Am shaker style hood!! I know what these cars ARE only because I used to see them when I was a kid in 1974 and you just don't see them today, because everybody thinks they are "fake" or think of it as a Nova!! Another car I almost bought SPEAKING OF Pontiac cars, I almost had a 1974 Trans Am Ram Air IV which was weird enough because it not only has two Ram Air scoops sticking off the front of the hood BUT it also had the classic Shaker scoop of the Trans Am as well (sort of like the Firebird in the movie Corvette Summer)!! You just DO NOT SEE THESE CARS ANYMORE!! And again in 1974 I was still riding around in my uncle's 1969 GTO Judge at times lusting after these cars at just 10 years old.....I really miss those old cars!!!
Hello, I use to have a 1939 Plymouth I bought when was about 17 years old, I bought it in Hamlet, North Carolina from a black guy only paid 50 Dollars for it....it had a flat head 6 clynder motor in it.....ran good but no brakes....had to use the hand break, I finally gave the car away......John from North Carolina
Ford came out with seatbelts in 56 not 58. It was called the “lifeguard design”. Seatbelts, padded dash, deep dish steering well and double locks. There are ads for the 56 Thunderbird with the lifeguard design
Speaking of cars that time forgot, I never see the beautiful 1973-'77 Monte Carlo or Grand Prix's at any vintage car shows; not even those that are GM only. I personally love them, but it seems if they haven't caught on at this late date, they never will. Seeing that '73 GTO at the end on the one hand was a little encouraging, but also insulting at the same time as the MC and GP's are more deserving. Still, that '73 was in gorgeous condition; no doubt about it.
Upgrading to a dual chamber master cylinder in that '53 Tin Woody Poncho wagon is a good call, even though it was not original. And this is coming from a "they are only original once" purist. But safety trumps originality. If I did not have double chambers when my brakes went out on me on the freeway years ago, I might well not be here today. Furthermore, the original single chamber m/c would also increase the chance of losing ALL of the car's originality if the owner got in an accident while driving it to a car show. Also, on that '58 Ford hardtop retractable, I wish you had shown that top both being raised, and lowered, in real time, instead of in fast-mo. BTW, Ford introduced optional seat belts in the 1956 model year, not 1958, as stated in this video.
Personally, I love cars that are original or more original than not. There’s just something really special about having a car that is in its truest form. Love it and make it your own with little things, but I say keep it looking as it would in the era it was made. I’m very happy for people that get to have a resto-mod or can swap the engine and change the rims, but I just can’t relate. I guess all car nuts have different dreams. 🤷🏼♂️😃
The Chevy was pretty cool. Tasteful. I would almost would like a little less dressy stuff, but in general the car was very original with a reasonable amount of updates and period correct add-ons.
That Pontaic wagon did it for me. When I was nearly the age of manhood (old enough fo my driver's license) the was a lady in her sixties that had a '53 or '52 , I can't remember which because I'm now the age she must have been then. At any rate her and her husband had bought it new and it had the straight eight and the slush-o-matic transmission. It had I remember less than 40,000 miles on it and had been garage kept (in the same garage) since knew. So despite it being this slightly faded grass hopper green with a darker green top, the chrome and even the interior was in excellent condition. I had laughingly told her at one time to let me know if she ever wanted to part with it. Well one day we ran into one another and she allowed that she thought she was getting too old to drive and did I truly want her car as she wanted it to go to a good home. I asked what she was asking for it and although I feel ashamed now, when she asked if I thought $50.00 was too much, I readily paid her, before she could change her mind. I didn't keep it too long because I quickly found out that it was no where near a car considered to be seen in around high school if you didn't want to be accused of driving your grandmother's car. I sold it to a nice older gentleman for just under $500. I never mentioned anything to the lady across the alley. Kinda ashamed about that too.. But today, I still wish, out of all the ones I ended up with later, that car.
Cars time forgot? Have the ever watched episodes of Highway Patrol? The 56 Buick Century was featured in several episodes. We had a 55 Special coupe. The old 'nail head' V8 was an extremely reliable and rather powerful engine.
the Buick is great but funny how he is so proud of the modern drive train, the rest of the car is the jewel maybe some day up grade back to a mint original power unit. see his idea however to make it practical.
It's definitely a significant change, since those things came with the Dynaflow fluid drive transmissions. I have a real sweet spot for the 322 nailhead, but I recognize that the Dynaslush isn't for somebody who wants to get anywhere in a hurry
My Happy Place is wherever these sweet cars are. This is like going to an amazing art museum and the best county fair ever all at once. Heaven, just HEAVEN!
The glorious past of American Iron long gone but will never be forgotten 😊👍💯❤️😍💋🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My sister and I use to count how many 4 hole Buicks we saw on the road during vacations. We saw a lot of them!
Thaw was a nice 53 Pontiac Tin Woodie. My mom had the sister car, the 53 Chevy Tin Woodie with automatic power glide tranny and power steering. It was really a nice car.
Time will never forget these cars. Simply the Best ever
I remember the "Crusin Grand" on Friday nights in Escondido in the summer. All those classic cars--wow!😊
My family had a 56 Buick Special 2-door Hardtop, just like this one, only in white and yellow. It was absolutely gorgeous. Easily the best car my family ever owned. It really was SPECIAL.
I'm always in heaven when I get to see the classics.
Congratulations on 27 seasons! "Or is it more?" You guys put on such a great show! I tend to watch in slow motion. So much knowledge saved for history.
Thanks!
I live in Elkhorn Wisconsin which is about 5 minutes from Delavan and this car show is truly great and the lake setting is unbelievable. I go every year and I recommend it
Still open during the plague? How is Wisconsin handling Covid?
Absolutely gorgeous, looks like what a perfect world would look like to me, perfect setting and the best cars on the planet
I live in Delavan and it is a really nice place to live.
@@mistermusic140 I've lived in Lake Geneva for 20y and now in Elkhorn. My son lives out by the old Wagon Wheel and we have tried to make it to this show every year. The best place for the best cars. I hope it's not at the airstrip again. No place to stay cool out there.
I attended this great show last year. 2016, This same woody wagon was here.
This lake location is fabulous. I took my 2010 Corvette Grand Sport to the show.
Great cars and great food. People were really nice....will go again in 2017.
This show is NOT the same as it was back then. Some mental giant decided to have the show on a blacktop old airport runway instead of the lakeside. Very hot and not nearly as nice any longer!! Never go again!!!
Neighbor had a 56 Buick when I was coming up. The speedometer was really unique. It was linear not round and had a red bar that moved left to right indicating the speed.
A guy named "Mack Daddy" driving a pink '52 Chevy, that's as gangster as a classic car show in the Midwest can get
@Ben, I can do one better...get a 1966 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, make it purple, add in leopard, cheetah, ocelot, tiger, Siberian Tiger, or zebra print, get all kinds of shag carpeting on the inside of the vehicle, get some gold tinted windows, a pair of fuzzy dice on the windshield mirror, and get a pair of road legal license plates that say "BIGTYME" on the front and the back, oh, and make it a hybrid of low rider and muscle car, and that ride will be gangsta.
@@paxhumana2015 I've seen those same two colors on '50s era Chryslers, Fords, Studebakers, in addition to GM cars.
@@paxhumana2015 I I’ll man.
That 53 Pontiac tin Woody is absolutely phenomenal
I grew up near Delavan
Have stayed at Lake Lawn Lodge.
I have been to this shore when it was in town.
Takes me back a bit. Love it.
The GTO looks just my first car... 76 Grand Prix. Except in black with white vinyl top.
It amazes me how much thought and time and consideration was put into each & every car from the 50's........ and they all turned out gorgeous in their own rights.
I feel so blessed to have been a kid during this time. now all cars look alike
As a 16 year old this is mostly correct 90% of the stuff on the road look the same but it does make these old cars even more desirable.
@@HighSockDavid , some of the new cars are still good, though. Also, Mopar came out with some crazy engine and transmission options, including a very nice package that is geared toward old-school Mopar rides, namely, that Hellephant crate engine kit.
Very nice display of American classics,,those colors on cars of the 50's were impressive
The Buick skylark is a work of art
We have the only 69 Stage 1 Buick in Canada bought it 1972 then in storage 40 years It would beat a Corvette by over a second in the 1/4 mile hard to believe . .
The '56 Buick was one of my Grandpa's cars that I learned how to drive in the late '60's
My favorite car is the 1956 Buick Special hands down. Buick is my most favorite GM built car.
I did not forget these cars
I've got that header wrap on my headers and it's awesome! Still looks new and it's been on for a few years now!
Why can't we go back to these styles "NOT IMPOSSIBLE" JUST TAKES COMMEN SENSE. Great video keep them coming.
they are beautiful works of art just not aero dynamic enough to meet mileage guidelines
We can't "go back" to these styles, because Mandrake The Magician is now dead, and we are deprived of his ability to Turn Back Time. And it is virtually Impossible. Common Sense doesn't perform miracles, never has.
If we did then classic cars wouldn’t be as cool.
I wonder if yu could make a plastic over lay to pop over a small modern car with a similar wheelbase etc. and get the look you want and still have a modern car underneath.
@@dehoedisc7247 , YAHWEH EL ELOHIM made the concept of common sense, and He also can manipulate time, space, and dimensions if He so desires to do so under His Limitless Power and Strength.
that 53 pontiac, people would do anything to own a car like that, very nice
Wow! All so nice, these guys know there cars.
The Poncho.
Two thumbs, WAY UP!
it looks like heaven
Wish I was there 🙂👍❤️💯🔥🔥🔥
What a beautiful set of cars!
that green and white car. so beautiful.
The 58 Ford retractable hardtop top is nice!
I had a 73 Pontiac LeMans with a 400. Had the boat package, so beefier springs in the back made the rear sit up. Had a higher gear, which really brought out the horse power of that detuned engine. I loved the body style. After they dropped the GTO moniker, the Can-Am package was just gorgeous.
I saw the 52 Coral Chevy in Forest Park, Illinois at a cruise night. About 8 minutes into the video.
Really nice car!
Nice! Brings back memories of my childhood going to car shows. Thanks for sharing.
Noticed the '73 gto at the beginning. Was kinda surprised that they did a segment on it, but glad they did.
Not the best performance-wise, but '73 is my favorite year gto. Not only that, it (as well as the regular LeMans) is one of my favorite cars of all time.
The cars in this video are amazing. My mom had a car with a prism device that showed the traffic lights, but she didn't have a visor. I can't remember what it was - all I can think of is her '56 Chevy Bel Air.
11:48 "In '56 they must have made 9 million of these cars."
These sold third after Ford and Chevy in '56. Imports hadn't made much of an inroad yet. I got my dad's one of these in '68 (same color, same Special model except it was the "two door hardtop" 46R. Moved to Montana and used it to pull trailer up into the mountains to cut firewood. It also would pull a full-sized American car up and down the Rocky Mountain highways with no overheating, no problem. A truly great car.
@eclemensen She probably just wanted to sweeten up your disposition! Lol
My mom ha a 55 Century she really loved. I loved it too, it really ran nice at the Famoso Drag Strip! Lol
They are not forgotten
'56 Buick Special, Green and White like this one, my Dad's. Fun to drive.
My dad has a ‘73 Grand Am. I never knew they had a GTO that year too.
I ordered a 73 Grand Am with the 455SD and 4 speed manual, black with red interior. After waiting 10 weeks for the car the dealer finally called and said my car was in. I went with great excitement and found that after all this time my car had a run of the mill 455 and an auto tranny. I was so pissed I walked away and bought something completely different. Looking back I wish I'd gone ahead and taken it.
I had a '56 Buick Special driver with original black paint with black and white guts....I sold it because that nailhead was so hard to get parts for. Boy I wish I would of kept her .
A pink and white 1952 Chevrolet DeLuxe Bel Air hardtop, with wing tips on the bumpers, and even mini tail fins on the rear fenders.
Cars for more civilized times.
Civilized times? My father flew the B-47 bomber aircraft in the 50's and 60's with a hydrogen bomb aboard and the ONLY reason that aircraft Existed was to fly to Russia and take out a city of more than a million people, and the aircrews knew that if the order came from the president to "Go" they were on a one way trip to kill and then to die themselves. How the Hell were those times Civilized??? IDIOT.
And we have even more destructive devices today, so you're the "idiot". It also should've been obvious that the guy was referring simply to day-to-day life of the average citizen. Idiot.
@@dehoedisc7247 Well, it's the government that's not civilized. USA is just a Satan's spawn of terror. So was USSR, too. Nobody wants to kill eachother until someone else gives them no choice.
There’s a lot of things wrong with that statement...
Well I don’t care about defending ourselves against USSR but a lot of those cars existed before most black people could ride in the front of them...so there’s my issue with your comment
My friend's dad bought a brand new 56 Buick and I still recall the colors. Canary Yellow and Cream White. It was beautiful. He eventually gave it to him but by then the colors were faded pretty bad but still ran good. It was then stolen.
Bummer!
Love the old classic designs compared to the bland designs of efficient cars of today.
@Dadmezz, so the Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford Mustang, Dodge Charger, Chrysler 300 SRT8, Fourth Generation Dodge Magnum, and Dodge Challenger are all chopped liver?
Back when cars had style, class, and character.
My favorite muscle car that time forgot is the 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner". Beep Beep. The 1st car I ever drove. It was Vit. C orange with a black vinyl top. My mom always said, "She had a 4 in the floor and a 5th under the seat". It had a bored out engine, a 383, My dream car. My 1st car was a 1974 Pontiac SunBird. It too was a 4 gear standard. Another favorite of mine is the 1966 Chevy Chevelle SS. My dad had one that was light blue. heck, my county isn't 5000 people. My late uncle has/had a 1957 Chevy. That thing is smokin'. My mom and dad's car when they were married was a 1956 buick.
56 Buick wow!
Very Good!... #219 ✝ {4-19-2023}
i had a 1973 pontiac lemans sports coup gold with dutch yellow cream vinyl top 400 engine exsactly like this gto
Why does it always seem like the older cars were built better ,but mostly looked better ? Dad bought a 57 Buick special in the late 60es , took us to Florida from. Ohio 80 -85 a lot of the trip , got there it needed a brake job , it ran like a singer !!
My dad had a Buick Special-maybe a 56 not sure-I remember the 3 port holes on the side-I remember being on his lap and he let me steer it. I might have been in kindergarten at the time which would have been 63 or 64. I ran it up on the curb before he hit the brakes and stopped it.
1957, Olds made both a Golden Rocket & Super 88 in both sedan & Holiday sedan, which came as a pillarless hardtop or coupe. The Golden Rocket/Super 88 Fiesta wagons also had no pillars. Golden Rocket was base, Super midlevel, & Holiday an option for each. Next up were the longer, top-of-the-line Starfire 98 & its Holiday sedans & coupes. All model lines had the Holiday pillarless "hardtop" sedan & a convertible.
Base: Golden Rocket 88/Golden 88 Holiday Golden Rocket 88 Fiesta
Mid: Super 88/Super 88 Holiday Super 88 Fiesta
Top: Starfire 98/Starfire 98 Holiday
This year featured gold-sprayed 371” Rocket 88 engine in both four-barrel & J-2 triple 2V carburetion; no 2V came til ’58 when they capped fore & aft carbs. The J-2 had 3 Rochesters; 1 linked & 2 vacuum-dumped, non-progressive linkage (front & rear gummed up from non-use). They also had a J-2R & J-2-W1 “export engines” with whatever Olds’ Bill Holt & Pete Estes could get away with as a factory engine part for Lee Petty (Olds gave all their parts a number so Bill France wouldn’t call them cheaters). You may have a thin, high 10-1 compression head gasket which some say were part of the package. Dimpled valve covers mean you have rare, semi-legitimate Isky or Crane solid-lifter cam & adjustable rockers for clearance.
Most multi-carb J-2’s came on the luxurious 98’s or the small, light, & sporty Golden 88 3-speed column shift 2-door sedan (an early Olds Road Runner-type). Then France saw they went too fast & pulled the plug on them anyhow..
13:14 Tick Tock Tach fellas! ⌚️
I had a Ford Failrlane 500 1964, best car ever, a little wide...
1958 Impala was the best looking car that came out of that year.
My stepdad had a 1956 Buick Special 4 door in exact same tu tone color scheme as the 2 door in this show.
THE BEST LOOKING CAR THERE WAS THE WHITE AND AQUA GREEN 56 BUICK SPECIAL.
I remember how the hood lit up. I must have been 7 years old.
From my memory ( and that's a little questionable, lol ), that '73 GTO looks almost identical to a Pontiac Grand Am. My step brother owned a Grand Am long ago. Beautiful & great running car.
The Grand Am was almost the same outside but had the rubberized front bumper. The inside had the interior of the Grand Prix. The Grand Am of that Era was one of my all time favorites.
@@mr.toobigformypants8145 Yes, the Grand Am was very similar to the Grand Prix ( but not as nice, of course. ) The only reason I didn't mention it. was because I was too busy commenting on how much this GTO looks like the Grand Am.........very similar. This GTO looks more like the Grand Am than the Grand Prix did.
I've never been able to find the history on the Impala hood emblem. Chevrolet started using the name Impala on the 58 Chevy Impala but that hood emblem I remember from a couple of early 50s Chevy that my Dad had.
Pontiac Wagon is so nice! Everything on car is perfect. A masterpiece. Cool!!
This guy must have been an AM radio DJ 50 years ago.
Interesting seeing that 1973 GTO. I knew they made them (through 1974) but this is the first I have seen one, albeit on video.
You are 100% RIGHT!!! Even the overpriced Cadillac suv looks like the cheapest suv tin car given as prizes on game shows like TPIR and LMAD but still $20Ks
that 1958 ford fairlane interceptor engine is the same engine that was in thunder road robert mitchum 1958
I own a '56 Buick.
I have a 58 cadillac still on the road my parents bought in 1960. I was 1 year old. Lifelong Southern California car, thank God!
I was at a car show here in Upstate New York and saw a 1974 Pontiac GTO, the thing is not a lot of people EVEN KNOW that the 1974 Pontiac GTO even exists!! This is mainly because in 1974 the GTO was essentially a Pontiac Ventura (Or Chevy Nova) body style and HAD the Trans Am shaker style hood!! I know what these cars ARE only because I used to see them when I was a kid in 1974 and you just don't see them today, because everybody thinks they are "fake" or think of it as a Nova!! Another car I almost bought SPEAKING OF Pontiac cars, I almost had a 1974 Trans Am Ram Air IV which was weird enough because it not only has two Ram Air scoops sticking off the front of the hood BUT it also had the classic Shaker scoop of the Trans Am as well (sort of like the Firebird in the movie Corvette Summer)!! You just DO NOT SEE THESE CARS ANYMORE!! And again in 1974 I was still riding around in my uncle's 1969 GTO Judge at times lusting after these cars at just 10 years old.....I really miss those old cars!!!
Niiice bunch of machines!! You may like Carolina Custom Classics too! Classic unrestored and will it run?, type videos. Have an AWESOME day!!
We had 56 57 59 Buicks super cars .
4:36 that engine has been chromed within an inch of its life
The best is your Jay Leno 1955 Buick Roadmaster. By far.
Hello, I use to have a 1939 Plymouth I bought when was about 17 years old, I bought it in Hamlet, North Carolina from a black guy only paid 50 Dollars for it....it had a flat head 6 clynder motor in it.....ran good but no brakes....had to use the hand break, I finally gave the car away......John from North Carolina
What kind of car is that blue GTS one, out of curiosity?
Ford came out with seatbelts in 56 not 58. It was called the “lifeguard design”. Seatbelts, padded dash, deep dish steering well and double locks. There are ads for the 56 Thunderbird with the lifeguard design
Speaking of cars that time forgot, I never see the beautiful 1973-'77 Monte Carlo or Grand Prix's at any vintage car shows; not even those that are GM only. I personally love them, but it seems if they haven't caught on at this late date, they never will. Seeing that '73 GTO at the end on the one hand was a little encouraging, but also insulting at the same time as the MC and GP's are more deserving. Still, that '73 was in gorgeous condition; no doubt about it.
+++++++++++++++IT MAKES MY 1956 FX HOLDEN +++++++AN AUSSIE CAR+++++++LOOK PUNY++++++++++++++
Upgrading to a dual chamber master cylinder in that '53 Tin Woody Poncho wagon is a good call, even though it was not original. And this is coming from a "they are only original once" purist. But safety trumps originality. If I did not have double chambers when my brakes went out on me on the freeway years ago, I might well not be here today. Furthermore, the original single chamber m/c would also increase the chance of losing ALL of the car's originality if the owner got in an accident while driving it to a car show.
Also, on that '58 Ford hardtop retractable, I wish you had shown that top both being raised, and lowered, in real time, instead of in fast-mo. BTW, Ford introduced optional seat belts in the 1956 model year, not 1958, as stated in this video.
Personally, I love cars that are original or more original than not. There’s just something really special about having a car that is in its truest form. Love it and make it your own with little things, but I say keep it looking as it would in the era it was made. I’m very happy for people that get to have a resto-mod or can swap the engine and change the rims, but I just can’t relate. I guess all car nuts have different dreams. 🤷🏼♂️😃
The Chevy was pretty cool. Tasteful. I would almost would like a little less dressy stuff, but in general the car was very original with a reasonable amount of updates and period correct add-ons.
makes me feel young,i'm a 61 model.
I own that same Buick a
That Pontaic wagon did it for me. When I was nearly the age of manhood (old enough fo my driver's license) the was a lady in her sixties that had a '53 or '52 , I can't remember which because I'm now the age she must have been then. At any rate her and her husband had bought it new and it had the straight eight and the slush-o-matic transmission. It had I remember less than 40,000 miles on it and had been garage kept (in the same garage) since knew. So despite it being this slightly faded grass hopper green with a darker green top, the chrome and even the interior was in excellent condition. I had laughingly told her at one time to let me know if she ever wanted to part with it. Well one day we ran into one another and she allowed that she thought she was getting too old to drive and did I truly want her car as she wanted it to go to a good home. I asked what she was asking for it and although I feel ashamed now, when she asked if I thought $50.00 was too much, I readily paid her, before she could change her mind. I didn't keep it too long because I quickly found out that it was no where near a car considered to be seen in around high school if you didn't want to be accused of driving your grandmother's car. I sold it to a nice older gentleman for just under $500. I never mentioned anything to the lady across the alley. Kinda ashamed about that too.. But today, I still wish, out of all the ones I ended up with later, that car.
Chevy engines are always the go to engines for replacements.
I remember a lot of these cars, including cleaning the chrome . . . For h.o.u.r.s.
I'm pretty sure you are being subtle. 🤔😂
Yes , with the ole turtle wax !
A labor of love on my 58 Cadillac, and there's tons of it, inside and out!
The days when cars were cars not melted glass the had individual looks
There are 6 in a collection in florida . 73 GTO/LeMans .To 77 Can Ams.
The scene shots are cut back and forth was very distracting.
Cars time forgot? Have the ever watched episodes of Highway Patrol?
The 56 Buick Century was featured in several episodes.
We had a 55 Special coupe. The old 'nail head' V8 was an extremely reliable and
rather powerful engine.
Friends don't let friends drive Fords. More Chevrolets please.
Here at MCC, we love 'em all!
why isn't this a tv show? so many would watch it...
It is a TV show. Check out our air times on www.myclassiccar.com
MyClassicCarTV ah I see.. very good...
you should take a survey thing to see how many people watch it .
Vintage chevy channel wow you don't know much about things do you?
member berries or I just the fact that I only have cable... besides, no body ever lest me use the tv D:
member berries I know a lot of shit just to say lol
One comment was wrong. The first seat belts offered as an option in a Ford was in 1956 and my parents wagon had them.
Part of the 1956 safety package. I know in 1965, it included 4way flashers.
My Buddy in Michigan has the Ram Air one
the Buick is great but funny how he is so proud of the modern drive train, the rest of the car is the jewel maybe some day up grade back to a mint original power unit. see his idea however to make it practical.
It's definitely a significant change, since those things came with the Dynaflow fluid drive transmissions. I have a real sweet spot for the 322 nailhead, but I recognize that the Dynaslush isn't for somebody who wants to get anywhere in a hurry
Buick skylark 1966
Ford called their Connie Kits a "rear bumper mounted spare tire."
13:00 Its just a GTO badging. Its a 73 Grand Am with GTO badging. The real GTO died a year earlier.
The original GTO was a rebadged Tempest LeMans before it became a separate model
@@MyClassicCarTVI know.
Seat belts were a Option on any Ford product. in 58 . They were more about Speed than Saftey
Love how you completely ignored the 75/76 Laguna behind that GTO.
So many cars. So little time.