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Music reminds me of the track from this sentimental one, about 20 years old now:
https://youtu.be/SR6eirhr1Eg
Andre's large cars fit in that garage with endless room to spare - maybe time to buy another car or three!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
If they put it on during sports programming, I'll never see it on TV, LOL.
Sunday football game. You can just watch through the link above though.
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I'm a sentimental old fool and I've probably watched it twenty-five times yesterday, LOL.
have been the ABC football game because my switched it on and we watched
it for a while--I was reading a Michael Connelly book which was more
interesting to me.
That commercial still brings emotions to the top for me. So sad a story.
The write up about it says the car was supposedly restored overnight
in the time frame of the commercial. Overnight?
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Might get a nice detail and quick tune up type refresh.
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Not sure if you have seen this video but I think you'll enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-Dg3XVdIo
From this video, I can see it's a 4-speed, factory A/C, 427 car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-oyBnknHk
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About 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_c7mVw-9s
The winner(my favorite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2iwOzN0dZg
Someone in Germany recently tried to re-enact it - notice the background:
Not as much smog in the more recent picture.
Yes that E55 has an E63 front bumper. He did says it also had zenon headlights.
I am pretty sure xenons were standard on USDM E55 wagons. Quite a few differences between Euro and NA spec cars then, ours tended to have much more standard equipment. I have to say, watching that driving segment makes me want to go back to Germany.
The moving cargo floor was hilarious. I share his viewpoint on that!
This Youtube channel has similar POV videos showing high/top speed Autobahn driving in diverse cars, old and new
This one from the above channel is interesting, the E63 update to the E55 above (in sedan form), nice speed, especially impressive as this is an older (but very advanced) car:
https://youtu.be/6VV2D1kKmB8
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I hadn't noticed that; good catch.
All the times I watched the short version, I missed the 'Tam Tam' part said by the guys at the downtown cruise-in, implying her name was "Tammy". I heard it right away in the long version. When I went back and watched the short version, I heard it.
BTW, andre--I always liked those Park Avenues. They just look more substantial to me than the preceding ones. The added height is visible, and appealing IMHO. I've probably told you this before, but I always liked that bright green, like spring grass, that was available on those cars although I never saw many. That same color was available on '99 Venture vans when we leased ours, but my wife said things about that color that I could not print here.
link from the original posting
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/q__0/chevrolet-happy-holidays-moms-car-t1
"On a chilly winter day, a man makes his way to the barn to retrieve some holiday decorations. He opens the old wooden doors and inside sits a dusty and broken-down 1966 Chevrolet Impala that belonged to his late wife. The man takes a moment to remember her smiling face behind the wheel so many years ago and sheds a longing tear. Touched by her father's love for the car and his wife, the man's daughter recruits a local classic car club to help fix up the Impala. The team works through the night to restore the car and finally completes the job by giving it a coat of dazzling bright blue paint. The man finds the car in the morning, and after exchanging a few heartfelt words with his daughter, takes it out for a memorable ride."
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Holy heck. Impressive speeds, for sure, but so incredibly dangerous with the speed differential to everything else on the road. I think the tires starting to beg mercy as he was taking a long curve at around the midway mark of the video put it into perspective. For a moment before that, I started thinking I was watching Forza, and I kept expecting him to start peeling up barrier and harmlessly bouncing off other cars.
It's much less common for a dope to aimlessly veer into the left lane there, so although that driver was a bit dangerous, much less so there than here. I've never taken a car above 250 kmh on the Autobahn, always enough traffic to make me feel risky doing more.
This guy must be the village idiot.
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Yeah a completely wrong one!!
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Not even sure that is pebble beach demo derby quality
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It's a bit curious, I think, that GM never really seemed to get into the "luxury" wagon market back in those days. Chrysler's Town & Country wagon was pretty nice, as were the LTD Country Squire and the Colony Park. But with the GM Clamshells, the interiors always seemed rather basic to me. Even the top trim levels still seemed like they were putting utility first, with not much in the way of luxury car aspirations inside.
Door panels with pull straps would have upped the interior IMHO, but the Town and Country didn't have them either.
I have less memories of Ford wagons then. I only really recall riding in a new Colony Park in '76 with the daughter of the owner, as our team won a school magazine-selling contest and our prize was dinner at a restaurant thirty miles away. She drove. It was maroon with woodgrain, but I don't recall the interior.
This was the Buick interior I remembered:
We've talked about this a bunch of times, but even though the Buick had plastic lower door panels, I liked the integrated armrest, versus the screw-on armrests the others were using at the time.
It's a shame that Chrysler never put that Imperial/New Yorker Brougham front-end on their wagons. Some people have done it, after the fact, and I think it looks pretty sharp...
I'm really not a fan of the fender skirts on these wagons, though. While the Olds did it too, I think they look better on the Olds...they make it look less fat, somehow.
With the Mopar wagons, I actually prefer the Dodge and Plymouth versions, because they look a bit slimmer to me. I think the '74-75 Fury/Gran Fury, with the quad headlights, is especially handsome.
2011- an unrestored looking Fairlane and a nice looking 64 Galaxie 4 door post:
2013: Only the Galaxie is there, and it looks like a beauty, the deluxe wire wheelcovers work:
2019: Galaxie is there on different wheelcovers and has found a new friend, a "sleeper" looking 2 door post:
I should drive by this house and see what sits out there now, by its condition, I assume the Galaxie is a sunny day car.
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Reminds me of some I posted awhile back, this is the same house that had a Lark hardtop parked at the curb for long periods. I never saw the sedan, but I saw the bulletnose and the 60 parked outside a lot in the non-snowy season. They were average driver quality cars, presentable enough but not concours:
2007:
2008:
2016:
That '64 Galaxie does look too nice to be sitting outside on the street like that. But, maybe the owner is religious about keeping it clean? I really like that color.
Edit: I really zoomed in on that '64 Galaxie, and I have a feeling that in person, it doesn't look quite so perfect. The hood is a slightly different color, and there's a blemish on it, back towards the fresh air intake in the cowl, where it looks like that pinkish primer they used to use is poking through. And the paint on the trunk lid is very faded and cracked. The fading just looks like reflections in that picture.
Still, a pretty cool car. I've seen worse. Much worse. And owned a few, too
Here's a better shot...
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Those, and '65 Mustangs, to me are the most cliched old cars out there so I wouldn't want either myself, but on the other hand, I can enjoy original/authentic restoration and that Chevy does look like that.
That's a '67 Fairlane 500 in front of it.
RE.: big Mopar wagons of the '70's--I was generally happy with the '74 redesign. It lost the enormous look IMHO. I didn't care for the later ones with hideaway headlights and such, but I remember when they came out, the Dodge brochure saying they were a result of consumer surveys, resulting in things like the center glovebox and coin holder in the glovebox door.
I always thought the '74 Monaco exterior was largely influenced by the concurrent big Chevys--crowned front fenders, large curved windshield with narrow pillars covered completely with bright metal, and the rear door cut of the 4-door sedans also reminded me of concurrent Impalas.
The two-door hardtop was a nice-looking car for the time I think, and a true hardtop. Though, I can't recall when I've last seen one.