TBT…

Some old school Chevy ads… 1962, the sporty version!

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I’m trying to find the Ford and Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth versions too…

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TBT… — 13 Comments

  1. I drove a ’64 Impala SS for some years. Same car as the ’62 with slightly different body elements. It had a 283 engine that was lame. Before the ’64 I had driven a ’58 Chevy with the 283 engine that could only be described as hot. Often wondered what the difference was. Remember the old joke about cars manufactured on a Friday? Maybe the engine on the ’64 had been manufactured on a Friday.

  2. Bob- That did happen… sigh…

    WSF- Yep, who was it, Dietzen that did the ‘rustproofing’??? I remember my mother bitching mightily about the additional cost!

    • We would offer a special Ziebart package to our Alaska customers that seemed to work well. On my personal vehicles applied ATCO plasticized roofing cement (what the roofers called “super nasty”) in the fender wells, rocker panels and other body parts. Always ruined a set of clothes and the cleanup was a bitch. Worth it.

  3. Took my drivers test in 62 Chevy. 6 Cyl powerglide with posi-track, it was a great gravel road car. Not that I would power slide on gravel roads.

  4. WSF- That was it, thanks!

    Ed- LOL, gravel and dirt roads DID teach one how to handle a car, especially if it was raining… 🙂

  5. I have only seen them as of late in restored cars at car shows as part of their displays. Try to find some AMC ads, joking of course.

  6. I have owned the older Chevy’s and loved them.
    My first car was a 1967 Plymouth Fury with a Holley four pumper on a 383 with a police interceptor transmission.
    It was very fast car and I had a lead foot.

  7. OldNFO, I agree about gravel roads. They’re getting harder to find, but gravel allowed a young man who was actually interested in learning technique to sling a car a bit out of control & figure out how to recover, without killing him in the process. You could learn about adhesion limits, center of gravity (and how to change it), powersliding, countersteering in skids, etc., without wadding the vehicle up. Try the techniques we used to use on pavement & you may have trouble.
    ’62 was an oft-overlooked, but interesting, year. The 409, Pontiac 421, Ford 406, & others came out or were big that year.

  8. Senior- Who knows, maybe I can…LOL

    Rick- Same here!

    TB- Yep, and 63 was really interesting with the big motors from the big three… I need to do a post on them! Thanks for the reminder!