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CHEVROLET!

One hundred years old today.

Founded on November 3, 1911, Chevrolet has sure had its ups and downs. I remember the Ford vs Chevrolet sales competitions of the 1940s through the 1960s. What a time it was.

And quite a comeback over the last couple years.

100 Years of Chevrolet

Did you ever own one? What are your memories?

I had a Vega. Not the greatest car in the world ...

Tom
 
We have the 100 Years of Chevrolet exhibit at America On Wheels...

I have owned 3 Chevy cars over the years...a 1968 Camaro, a 1973 Vega Kammback, and a 1982 Cavalier wagon. My dad was a Chevy man for years, but after his 1969 Caprice which we all hated, he moved to Oldsmobile, starting with a 1973 Cutlas Salon.
 
The first car I ever owned was a 1987 Cavalier, purchased in 1995 and I owned it for nine years, many road trips and four different back and forth between Calgary and Ontario... It wasn't one of the slugs with the automatic, it had the 2 litre engine coupled with a 5-speed manual transmission which was a very rare combination...

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100 years, quite a marque.

The only Chevy I owned was a 1968 Z-28 Camaro. Certainly a good Chevy to own, and lots of fun to drive. Loved that car . . .

This link will lead you to a great bio on Louis Chevrolet, a <span style="text-decoration: underline">very</span> interesting and accomplished bloke and famed car racer:
https://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/History_of_Louis_Chevrolet

With the inevitable demise of the internal combustion engine upon us, will great Chevrolet's name likewise be relegated to the dust bin with Oldsmobile, Plymouth and the other great U.S. made marques? I hope not!

Here's to Louis Chevrolet! :thumbsup:
 
It's been dead-stored for years now, but I still have "Pegasus IV*," the 1951 Styline De Luxe Coupé my (late) great aunt bought new, her fourth and last black Chevrolet. She gave it to me in 1973 when she stopped driving at age 86! A friend and I had a ball driving it back the 700 miles or so from Chapel Hill NC to the Albany NY area.

I guess I'd better go out to the barn tonight and pat Pegasus on the nose, huh? :smile:

*I never found out why, but she had named all four of her Chevrolets "Pegasus"!
 
I've got a '60 Chevy 1ton panel truck -
just turned 5700 miles on it.
The clutch slave cylinder is leaking badly.
I wonder if I can get it covered on the 12,000 mile
warranty?

- Doug
 
Ok I confess I own two Chevs right now, (an S10 and a 64 El Camino) and have likely had 15 more over the years.
Corvairs were a 60's favorite of mine, not to mention a 427 Impala, a 454 Corvette, and a Nove race car.
I've come clean now about cars other than British.
Does this mean I have to repent for the rest of the Queen's reign?

:bow:
 
Had a 1964 Chevy II Nova SS, palomar red. Kept the car almost 10 years. One of the best USA cars ever!
 
judow said:
Had a 1964 Chevy II Nova SS, palomar red. Kept the car almost 10 years. One of the best USA cars ever!
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The 6 cylinder or the V8?

I had a POC '65 non SS.
 
The Chevy I'd love to drive coast to coast:

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1956 Bel Air Sport Sedan

<sigh>
 
NutmegCT said:
The Chevy I'd love to drive coast to coast:

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1956 Bel Air Sport Sedan

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And here's your video to go with that notion:

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My father became parts manager in a large Chevy dealership in his teens and retired as a parts manager in a Chevy dealership. I worked there part time as a high school student and for a couple of years in college. My sister was a parts manager in a Chevy dealership for most of her career. I remember the Corvette launch in '53, the 265 V8 intro in '55, the Corvair and the rest. We lived in a house at the edge of the used car lot. That dealership was a second home to me – I think I spent as much time there as I did at home.

Lots of memories re those V8's. We supported many of the locally successful drag racers and a few of the sporty car racers with heavy discounts and access to the “good stuff” in the parts catalogs. One day we got a call from John Fitch in Lakeville CT looking for some Corvair part. I don't remember if we delivered it or he had someone pick it up but he got it that day.

The owner was one of the most honest businessmen I've ever met. I can remember him once refusing to put a fake lower price on a bill of sale so the buyer could pay a lower sales tax when he registered the car. The car was being bought for personal use by the owner of our largest customer – a leasing outfit that bought hundreds of cars yearly.

He (the dealership owner) also offered to pay my way through college if I couldn't afford it.

But – my old man didn't want me working there forever. At one point I started waffling about going back to school in September & told dad I'd rather just work in “parts” for a year. He said he'd fire me if I did. Good move on his part.

Over the years I owned 2 '57 Corvettes, a '58 and a '77. Also had an 80hp automatic Corvair and a '63 Corvair with the turbo. Bought a Caprice station wagon in '77 – that was the only new Chevy I had. At one point I ordered a Vega but when it arrived I was appalled by the thing and didn't buy it.

Tom - thanks for reminding us of the 100th.

Good ol' Chevy.
 
Speaking of Chevy and John Fitch...(and good causes) For a modest contribution to the Chip Miller Foundation for Amyloidosis reasearch https://chipmiller.org/ you get a great DVD, Fitch's autograph and a pin...(got mine last week and I've watched it 3 times)

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We get the publication "Automotive News" here at work, and a few weeks ago they sent a commemorative edition for the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet. There are a mess of neat stories, facts, and info in there. One story that caught my fancy was of a lady who purchased a '57 Chevy brand new, still drives it, and it's the only car she's owned in those 54 years. It has 117k miles on it, and the engine has not been rebuilt. In August of this year it got it's 23 muffler...21 of them were free due to the Midas lifetime guarantee.
 
Bought a '64 Corvette in 1986 and a '85 Corvette in '90. I've enjoyed both the ownership and the driving these last 25 and 21 years.
 
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