Name That Car!

[marcr1230]

This shouldn't take long
This shot is a crop from an image taken from my car, through by bug splattered windshield, while traveling in Wisconsin this weekend:


http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6039/5902594238_df05c86611_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frozen_photons/5902594238/)
DSCF0013 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frozen_photons/5902594238/) by marc1230 (http://www.flickr.com/people/frozen_photons/), on Flickr

[Gerry M]

1958 Impala

[Paulbe]

Wow---a genuine 1958 Chevy Impala!
Back when they used to build REAL cars! :-)
Paul

[nikon_sam]

I didn't know the Impala was that old...my guess was a '58 BelAir...

[marcr1230]

you guys are good:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6041/5902094529_12726e8542_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frozen_photons/5902094529/)
DSCF0014 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frozen_photons/5902094529/) by marc1230 (http://www.flickr.com/people/frozen_photons/), on Flickr

[marcr1230]

This reminds me of the second annoying feature on the X100 - the firmware update reset the image sequence numbers to zero - pain in the @$$

[Gid]

This reminds me of the second annoying feature on the X100 - the firmware update reset the image sequence numbers to zero - pain in the @$$

Not mine.....

[marcr1230]

apparently if you use a separate card to update the firmware - the image number stays the same - and if you put an older image in the single card after the firmware update - it will read it and revert the number to what you want based on the file name of image on the card. all a bit hokey, the camera should save the image count during an update of firmware...

[Keith]

Ahh ... a car from an era when the price of fuel was neither here nor there and the average family probabaly owned two such vehicles.

Beautiful though ... and sadly missed when you look at the exciting hybrids on offer! :rolleyes:

:D

[Paulbe]

Interestingly enough--all the things you see on that car--the "Continental Kit"--the fender skirts--the rear roof illuminated louvers--were available from the factory. Just check it off on the order blank.
The only suspicious thing I see are the side pipes--O/W everything could be original.
We also need to see the front hood to see if it had the newly released 348...
Ahhhh! The good ol' days...
Paul

[nikon_sam]

Ahh ... a car from an era when the price of fuel was neither here nor there and the average family probabaly owned two such vehicles.

Beautiful though ... and sadly missed when you look at the exciting hybrids on offer! :rolleyes:

:D



#1 thing I miss on today's cars are chrome bumpers and personality...:bang:

[Michael Markey]

Can`t remember the model or year.

[kuzano]

Wonder Bar radio (station seeking by push of a button...) and the under dash chrome vacuum ash tray. A small chrome fan shaped tray with a hole in the back... flick your ashes in the hole, or slip the butt of the cigarette in the hole. A vacuum hose sucks them in and deposits them in a closed canister on the firewall under the hood.

Actually both those options were added in 55 or 56, at least by 57. Yes, Impala new in 1958. Highest model in 1957... Bel Air.

I bought a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 2 door hard top in 1970 for $695. 36,000 original miles, 327 cu in, factory continental kit, wonder bar radio, vacuum ash tray, fingerhut star embossed clear vinyl seat covers on since new.

One of my best buys ever.

[rxmd]

Wow---a genuine 1958 Chevy Impala!
Back when they used to build REAL cars! :-)

Makes me think of this crash test video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ptUrQOMPs) of a 1959 Chevy vs a 2009 Chevy.

The 1959 car looks nice, but it kills you. Pity about the car though.

[Paulbe]

kuzano--yep--VERY nice buy--but the 327 wasn't original...:-)
Maybe it's a 283?
Paul

[Ezzie]

Can`t remember the model or year.
'57 Fairline

[Steve M.]

My cousin had a 1958 Impala with a 348 and 3 deuces back in the 60's. I sneered at it because that's just a truck engine, and it had that 2 speed Powerglide transmission, but he took me for a ride and scared the beejesus out of me, so it ran plenty fast.

[kuzano]

kuzano--yep--VERY nice buy--but the 327 wasn't original...:-)
Maybe it's a 283?
Paul

You're right... it was a 283. The 327 came out in 1962, and my chevy with the 327 was a 1964 Impala. So many old chevrolets.

[Michael Markey]

Thanks Eirik.