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Vette(s): #1-1974 L-48 4spd Cp Med Red Metallic/Black deluxe int w/AC/tilt/tele./p/w-p/b/
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#2-1985 Bright Red/Carmine Cp.L-98/auto
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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!
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!
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Vette(s): 1972 conv, 4-speed, 350, 200hp, numbers match, rally wheels, war bonnett yellow w/white top. good condition, nice driver.
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.
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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Adams' Apple said: It's NOT PINK! It's "Salmon", according to GM. 
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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This one is pink.
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Vette(s): #1-1974 L-48 4spd Cp Med Red Metallic/Black deluxe int w/AC/tilt/tele./p/w-p/b/
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#2-1985 Bright Red/Carmine Cp.L-98/auto
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Dat looks like a fiddy tree....a pink un. Elbis would lurv it!
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