[MARTINSR]

Friday I was on my way home from work and while sitting at a stop light I looked over next to me to see two older (65-75ish) ladies in a 65 SS Chevelle (Malibu?, I never have gotten that right).

I have seen this car around town over the years, lots of years. This lady and her friend (sister?) obviously bought the thing new, or near new. I have seen it around since the seventies. It is a bright red, black interior bucket seat SS. It has been bumped and dinged a lot over the years in the parking lot of the supermarkets but in overall super shape, and totally virgin untouched.

There is also a 64 Impala with an 80ish couple that looks similar.

All I know is they must be driven out of their minds with "youngsters" wanting to buy it.

Now, there is also the 95 year old guy right behind me with the 56 four door hardtop that he bought new. Torquise and white, original paint (rubbed thru on the tops of the fenders of course ). But that is a whole different thing, he hasn't regularly driven it in twenty years or more.

What I want to hear from you guys is about the ORIGINAL owned cars that are still being used everyday because it is all they have.

Brian

 

[BB68]

There is a guy in Carroll IA that has a 66 impala ss brown w/ bucket seats and an auto almost completely rusted that is driven everyday to work.

 

[Bill Pritchard]

I can come close. When we still had my wife's red 69 Impala convertible (we owned it from '83 to '01), I became friendly with an older gent in town who has a red 69 Impala Custom Coupe. He has had it since it was one or two years old. When we first met, the old car was still in reasonably good shape. Although he didn't put too many miles on as he grew older, the car was still driven on a regular basis, and here in the midwestern US, with heavily salted roads in the winter, it is a death sentence. That car should have been junked years ago, and I have essentially told him so several times over the years....but he just seems to be unable or unwilling to do that. Many years ago, I gave him an extra transmission crossmember I had laying around, because his had rusted in half. He does no work on the car himself, and cannot find anyone willing to work on it anymore, because it is literally a death trap. The frame is rusted through in several places, I have no idea what's holding the gas tank in place any more, as there is no trunk floor left (and I mean none), brake lines have disintegrated, etc. etc. I still get a call from him once or twice a year asking me some question about the car, usually seems like he's still trying to figure out some way to keep the car roadworthy. A few years ago someone broke into the car while he had it at work and tore (and I do mean TORE!!) the entire padded dash off, but he kept on driving it.

 

[68L79ELCAMINO]

there is a guy from around here that has been driving a 68 2 door post chevelle for years. It has 327 badging on the front fenders. I'v always wondered if it could possibly be a sleeper L79 car. it is rough but man if it was an L79 i'd like to get my hands on it.

 

[Aaron70Monte]

Funny you should mention this. I just received an email from a 75 year-old woman who says she's giving up driving. She has a 1971 Monte Carlo that she's owned since new with 100,000 miles. She says it's been serviced every 3,000 miles since new. She's asking my opinion of how much it's worth because she's getting offers from young guys of around $800. She says she's also had some offers up to $3,300.

My Monte was one of those cars driven by an old lady with low milage (45,000 when I got it in '96). It was completely unmolested and had minor dents and marks. It fell into my lap basically and I didn't realize how hard it is to find cars in this kind of shape until I started looking for another one.

 

[Cam]

Although I haven't seen it latetly, there was a '63 Impala 4-door sedan in GREAT shape in my home town driven year round by an elderly gentleman. I would see it out in road salt in the winter, but if I saw any specs of rust I'd see the old boy out there in his suspenders touching it up at the first opportunity. He wasn't bad at blending either. The car always looked great. I haven't seen it un maybe 10 years though.

There is a '67 Chevelle 300 2-door post in my end of town that I have seen sporadically. It is a 1-option car with a Powerglide, that's it! The radio block-off is still in place, as well as the die-cast Queenston Chev-Olds dealer emblem. It still has 2 T-3 headlights and an old suicide knob on the steering wheel. It could do with a repaint but overall it looks pretty good.

Another one I see once every few years is a Granada Gold '67 Impala SS fastback. It has 283 and some elderly owners.

Last winter I alerted a friend of a '69 GTO convertible for sale; as it turns out he was the original owner and friends with my parents! We went to look at the car and found that it looked better in pictures than in person as it needed a lot of work. We passed since he wantd 18Gs for a car that needed quarters, wheelwells, doors, hinges, trunk floors, top...

 

[deluxe]

64 Chevelle 4 door, red on red 283 powerglide, absolutely mint original owner, little old lady.
64 Malibu SS, Navy blue/blue interior, 283 powerglide, mint original owner old man, old ladies car.
57 Chev 2 door post 150 model, 283, 3spd. Same owner since new, regularly maintained, rarely seen.
And no, their not for sale. DOH!

 

[slpin]

do you think they could see or hear you???

wow! i am harsh! just kidding!

 

[YenkoChevelle69]

There is a gold 71 Chevelle SS running around here. I'm unsure how the car still runs because it is in such terrible shape.

 

[ACES-70]

In this little town, its hard to belive how many Blue hairs are out in the 60 and 70s cars, and alotta them are original ole stuff, we had a 65 Corvair rag top in the service dept we sold new just this past week, I also know of a 64 Impala SS, with a 409 , a 65 Impala, 2 or 3 60s 70s Corvettes,and a 70 pick up, all with original warr tags and books from our store,,, and thats wat I can think of on short notice, also a early 70s 442 around here also,, very common ,, and very cool to see them out and about

 

[MARTINSR]

Ace, I was at a gas station here in town one day about 15 years ago and sitting next to me was a seriously trashed 62 Impala SS convertible, 409 Four speed!!! No kidding, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was stone original and WORE OUT, and the guy looked the same!

I had never seen it around town and haven't since.

Brian

 

[2BlueLS6's]

I saw an old black guy in town here about a year ago with a 69 SS POST (sedan). I've never seen the car before or since, but it had a local tag on it. I jotted the tag number down, but it was misplaced. The guy was shifting it leaving the red light, so it was 3 or 4sp. for sure, had the original wheels and what could've very well been the original paint. I jotted down the tag number, but in the transition to a local police buddy it got misplaced, so my contact may be lost forever.

Good topic by the way................... I like it.

 

[von]

I know of a (old?) fart in Houston that uses a '68 Caprice as a daily driver. Previously a '71 Malibu. He's been known to frequent TC. Let's see if he catches this.

 

[Derek69SS]

About 10 years ago I was in a little town in Iowa (I think it was Nashua or another town near there) and all I could do is stare as the proverbial "little old lady" drove down Main-Street at about 12mph in a rusty black '57 Bel Air 2-door hardtop...

 

[Jimmy P]

In August I saw a 62 4 door Impala for sale on the side of the road, next to a slushy stand. The car was all there and the ONLY thing wrong with the body was a dent in the rear 1/4. All chrome & trim was excellent.
Yeah, the seat was torn and the drivers door panel needed replaced, but the rest of it wasn't even dusty. You could still see factory body paint on the bottom of the floorboards.
It needed paint of course, but it only had 26,000 miles! You could tell it was garage kept and just let go. The guy in the shack came over and started the ole 283. The engine was 100% original. Maybe one tune up since new. That thing idled and sounded just a like a brand new car! Quiet, smooth and no oil smoke. With the hood down you could hardly tell it was running!
The guy was trying to soak someone for $4,000 when after a legnthy discussion he admitted to just buying it for $200!!!!! I would have given him a grand for the time machine......

 

[1966_L78]

Last year, I spotted a guy commuting on several different occasions in a 66 2-door post Chevelle... Nice straight body (at least drivers side and rear), but faded paint and lots of black soot covering the rear panel... 283 car...

I couldn't catch up, but I did get the license plate ##... Unfortunately, because of privacy issues/laws neither my good friend in the Police department NOR my next-door neighbor (manager at DMV) would/could look up the vehicle for an address... I haven't seen it again...

Saw an old lady driving down the street in a 1970/1971 Barracuda... Nice shape, but with her driving like 10 MPH, I wonder for how long... I wonder how often she gets hounded?


When I was in school, I followed a car about 5 miles to the post office... Out climbed this 85 year-old woman... It was a Plymouth Duster with "340" stripes and a 3-speed manual on the floor (bench seat), very nice. Slightly faded paint, and the "340" stripes were cracking. Interior nice except the rear seat, from a dog... We spoke for a while, and she told me of all the people that want to buy the car... I happened to have photos of my friends Demon 340 to show here what could be done... She took my number, but I never heard from her (of course, being in school, I had changed my number the next year and I didn't even think about the old lady)...

 

[gigem]

I know of a (old?) fart in Houston that uses a '68 Caprice as a daily driver. Previously a '71 Malibu. He's been known to frequent TC. Let's see if he catches this.

I know that old fart!

 

[John_Muha]

I bought my Chevelle new from the dealer. Yep, things are slow at the old folks home so they let me play on the computer. Tonight's Bingo night and I'm feeling lucky.