O.T. : Old Bimmers Here in La-La Land they're still plentiful and cheap , as are 1800's . Apart from the Lemon Yellow (apropriate colour I might add !) one Pam drove I've never really had much to do with them although I am told they're nice and a few years ago I stumbled across a 3.0 Euro Coupe that was only running on 3 holes , it still had so much power the normal juddering of a dead hole in a 4 banger wasn't overly noticable , certainly the boob selling it didn't know . It was a 197? model , at $700.00 all original and red to boot I thought my son might like ti fix it up for a hot rod but he passed . -Nate
" StoveBolt " It refers to Chevrolet's world beating InLine 6 cylinder engines as the early ones used common hardware on the side covers , similar to that used in coal stoves in those days . You might be surprised to learn that well into the 1960's , many houses across America still had coal or wood burning stoves in the kitchen . FWIW ; many folks nowadays use " StoveBolt " incorrectly to refer to a clean , _stock_ (as in unmodified) Chevy sedan , esp. if it's painted black .
I learned something new today Thanks Nate now I don't feel so left out in the dark about stovebolt. I do remember that visiting my great grand mother and she had a wood burning stove in her Kitchen. They also only had wood burning stove for heat. I guess you would call it a stove, big iron thing in living room with air ducts coming out of it. This was in the mid 80's. She also drove a cherry 56 Buick. I was the only grand kid of her's that loved to go riding in it with her, all the other ones were embarrassed to be seen in it. It was all original was very few miles on it and looked show room new. My grand dad sold it when she stopped driving it for little money. I was very hurt and mad because it was supposed to have been mine. But that's the way life goes sometime. Thanks for filling me in.
Something New & LIFE I hope to learn something new every day , it keeps life interesting . Speaking of life , please realize it is not fair ! anyone who says otherwise isn't in reality . Life is good though ,very good . As I was growing up in the 60's , there were -so- many cherry old cars that simply got scrapped as no one wanted them and I was " too young " to have an automobile , so no place to keep the many cool old vintage rides that were offered to me . As I often say " Life's TOO SHORT To Drive A New Car "
