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Re: Golden Oldie... (7/17)
12/3/14 4:24pm

dads2vette

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Ash Fork, AZ - USA

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1981 Red Interior White exterior

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Tell me that's clear plastic on the seats!

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Re: Golden Oldie... (8/17)
12/3/14 4:37pm

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#1-1974 L-48 4spd Cp Med Red Metallic/Black deluxe int w/AC/tilt/tele./p/w-p/b/ Am-Fm/map light National/Regional/Chapter NCRS "Top Flight" #2-1985 Bright Red/Carmine Cp.L-98/auto Member: NCRS, NCRS Texas, Corvette Legends of Texas

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Yeppers...but only on the front seat. Heavy dooty clear vinyl seat covers from way back when... Approve

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Re: Golden Oldie... (9/17)
12/3/14 5:42pm

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WEST SENECA, NY - USA

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1981 Blue Ice Met. w/pearl ghost flames TKO500 5speed. LS1 Swap 3.45 Dana 44.

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Now that's a bitch'n ride. Thumbs Up

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Re: Golden Oldie... (10/17)
12/3/14 6:00pm

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Scottsdale, AZ - USA

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1981 Corvette Two-Tone Claret color, 4 spd, C7 Vert

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Interesting how the rear doors drop another two inches or so deeper into the sill for entry. I used to have a few Caddy brochures of their "extended" length line. The factories must have lost money on those biggies!

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Re: Golden Oldie... (11/17)
12/4/14 2:08pm

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Cars were a lot cheaper to build back then. Cad dint loose money on many cars....they had a monopoly on stuff like this one. Funeral homes bought prolly 80% of them, and limo companies bought a lot, too, as did the wealthy folks. A "regular Joe" going to the dealer to buy one would have made up any difference in the pricing for the fleet sales. Fleet cost on one like this might have been, say $5000/$6000, but Regular Joe would have to pay $9,960(factory list price)or more, depending on options, for the same car.
I think there were around 800 or so Limos built for '64, but this one is a "Sedan"...and I ain't real sure what the difference is between the two. All of them had the 429, 340hp V8. I can tell ya this...it takes up all the space available on our big-truck lift! LOL

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Re: Golden Oldie... (12/17)
12/4/14 4:16pm

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Equinunk, PA - USA

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1972 conv, 4-speed, 350, 200hp, numbers match, rally wheels, war bonnett yellow w/white top. good condition, nice driver.

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Didn't some of them have the 472 cu in engine in them? That may have been a later up grade. I did some minor work on one that came into the garage I worked in in the late 70's. It could have been what was called the V-8-6-4.

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Re: Golden Oldie... (13/17)
12/4/14 6:15pm

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WEST SENECA, NY - USA

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1981 Blue Ice Met. w/pearl ghost flames TKO500 5speed. LS1 Swap 3.45 Dana 44.

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manchestershark said: Didn't some of them have the 472 cu in engine in them? That may have been a later up grade. I did some minor work on one that came into the garage I worked in in the late 70's. It could have been what was called the V-8-6-4.

472's came out in '68 and ended in '74.

The V8-6-4 was a 368 cu.in. used in '81. Very problematic system.

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Re: Golden Oldie... (14/17)
12/5/14 12:36pm

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Adams' Apple said: It's NOT PINK! It's "Salmon", according to GM. Wink

My brother had a pink one in the 50's.

He ALWAYS got MAD and say....... "It's NOT PINK!" It's "Salmon"..........(just like you said).

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Re: Golden Oldie... (15/17)
12/5/14 8:32pm

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Germansville, PA - USA

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1974 Coupe 358ci 4 speed Black w/Medium Saddle interior w/79 custom leather seats. . 1999 C5 Convertible, 6 speed, Atomic orange, Oak interior.

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This one is pink.

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Re: Golden Oldie... (16/17)
12/5/14 11:54pm

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Dat looks like a fiddy tree....a pink un. Elbis would lurv it! LOL

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Re: Golden Oldie... (17/17)
12/6/14 12:27am

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1981 Corvette Two-Tone Claret color, 4 spd, C7 Vert

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