Photo Thread: Cars! Cars! Cars!

[Bennyboy]

http://picasaweb.google.com/bennyboy420/CarShowRioLinda?authkey=Gv1sRgCO77gteE8e-KwAE#slideshow/5339186016713327762

[mth44sc]

1. all I got are truck pics

damn!

[Bennyboy]

2. Trucks! Post em here!

[mth44sc]

3. Those are some beautiful hot rods and restorations

all I got are the old used up variety. I'm sure if ya did a little work on 'em :-)

[Bennyboy]

4. Those are awesome...

Is that a 36 Chevy in the first one?

[mth44sc]

5. Sorry

I don't have a clue. It was just one of many that I found one day. Here is another that was there. Those two look like they deserve saving!

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Man, I'd love to have that '56 SWB

I'd prefer it be a Stepside, though. And I'd change the wheels.



Here's the El Camino once more:

[Bennyboy]

32. This is my kind of truck right here....

[flvegan]

6. My baby:

[lizziegrace]

11. I like the newer Mazdas

If I can ever afford a newer car, Mazda's are on my list.

[lizziegrace]

7. My inheritance

[flvegan]

9. Mmmm...big block 427, sidepipes...oh, that's nice.

[lizziegrace]

10. Dad's still showing it after it was completely restored.

and both parents are holding it out as man-bait...their oldest daughter can't find a man! :P :eyes:

[flvegan]

12. Has that one been through NCRS yet do you know?

[lizziegrace]

13. NCRS?

??

[lizziegrace]

14. Oh, I know what you're talking about

(love google...)

I don't know. He'll be here in a few weeks. I'll ask.

[flvegan]

15. National Corvette Restoration Society.

They and Bloomington Gold are the two "be all end all" Vette certification orgs (IIRC).

Most folks with a beauty like that at some point take it to them for judging. Just curious.

[lizziegrace]

16. I think he shows it at Corvette-only shows

in the Pacific Northwest.

His insurance will only cover the car if it's locked in his garage or constantly attended if he has it outside. He's been offered over $100k for it.

[flvegan]

18. If those numbers match

(I think you said it was an a/c car, and IIRC it's a 427/435) it's worth far more than that.

[lizziegrace]

19. All the numbers match

he bought the car in the 80's and the only thing that wasn't stock was the racing clutch. The only time I've ever gotten to drive it. :)

It's a 427 but not a 427/435. My father said that there are more 435's registered than were actually manufactured...

I'm executor of their estate. If they still own it when he passes away, I'll have to sell it and the 2006 convertible. I'll keep you in mind. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Here're the '67 427 engine codes:

IL ... 427..390 .. 1x4BC, Spec. Cam, Hyd. Lfts & 4-Spd
IM . 427..390 .. 1x4BC, Sp Cam, Hyd Lfts, K19, 4-Spd
IQ .. 427..390 . 1x4BC, Spec. Cam, Hyd. Lfts, Auto
IR .. 427..390 .. 1x4BC, Spc Cam, Hyd. Lfts, K19, Auto
JC .. 427..400 .. L36 Engine w/3x2BC &4-Speed
JF ...427 ..400.. L36 Engine w/3x2BC, K19 & 4-Speed
JD .. 427..400.. L36 Enginew/3x2BC & Powerglide
JG .. 427..400.. L36 Enginew/3x2BC, K19 & Powerglide
JE .. 427..435.. 3x2BC, Mech. Lifters & 4-Speed
JA .. 427..435. 3x2BC, Mech. Lifters, K19 & 4-Speed
IU .. 427..435...3x2BC, L71 Enginew/Alum. Hds, 4-Spd
JH... 427..435..3x2, L71 Eng. w/Alum. Hds, K19, 4-Sp
IT .. 427..430*. 1x4BC, Heavy-Duty Eng, M22 4-Speed

*The true '67 L88 hp rating was never publicly disclosed; the 430 hp
figure was released for '68 and was a deflated rating.

http://www.427corvette.net/stats/1967_corvette_production.htm

[mth44sc]

8. Just fell upon this flickr site

it ought to keep you looking for a bit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31333586@N07/

[Bombero1956]

21. here ya go

my brother's new bike

[Bennyboy]

29. Sweet.

love that stock Cuda....

[Strong Atheist]

22. Wow. My dad would have loved that. He was a car buff... nt.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. Here are two that I took at a client's event:

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. I'll have the '69

Absolutely beautiful lines on the Chevelles that year.

[LeftyMom]

25. That's not Rio Linda. All of those cars run and none of them have primer or Bondo showing.

;)

[Bennyboy]

27. Okay El Rushbo! (Just kidding!!!)

Actually, when I was out there I kind of hung around the neighborhood. What an nice incredibly cool place. kind of reminds me of Elk Grove before all the bay area idiots moved out there and ruined the town. (Just partially kidding!!!!)

It is kind of like Mayberry right in the middle of suburbia. Love it. Close to downtown. Big box stores a few miles away. Great parks all around there, Gibson Ranch...Housng way, way way below local prices. No gated communities. No dickwads and their neighborhood assn's and rules and all that shit. It is like a time gone by out there. There is a great Drive-in (Granites) in which Bill Clinton once had "The best hamburger of my life". Now it is more of a sandwich shop but their burgers are still awesome and the subs are the best anywhere in the Sacramento area. They even come in old school wrappers, wrappers I haven't seen for about 40 years.



Love that small town. No WalMart, No big chain grocery stores. All Mom and Pops. Cars on jacks (I Freaking love that!!!) houses on huge lots, horses, chickens, farms and ranches everywhere, not to mention the iconic water tower and the Archway!





Add all that to the fact that Rush Limbaugh hates it so, Rio Linda is cool as hell....

[LeftyMom]

30. Yeah, I know the area. My 'rents lived there when I was small, ran a little boarding stable.

And I had a high school boyfriend who lived out there, a couple of blocks from the grocery store.

I grew up off of Florin Road back when it was still like that direction- the only grocery store was an IGA, pretty much all the places to eat were local, you couldn't go three blocks without seeing a farm stand in the summer. Everybody had old cars they'd bought for a song and worked on in their own driveways on the weekends. My Dad had an Impala and later a Camaro and a couple of motorcycles, my best friend's Mom had an old Falcon. Kids played outside until dark. Then Elk Grove got all built up, and all that land in between was suddenly worth something. People got all stuck up about property values and keeping up with the Jones', and as soon as one of those old cars broke down again some nosy neighbor would call the county'd tow it off, lest it reduce the value of the house they weren't selling anyhow, and the smart folks saw the writing on the wall and moved farther out in the south county before civilization and the paper prosperity of skyrocketing housing prices totally caught up with them.

[Bennyboy]

31. Yeah that philosophy did not go over in Rio Linda

I remember Tom Sullivan telling everyone that Rio Linda was the next (name an area built out) and that evryone should buy there 20 years ago. My dad bought a house to take advantage of that, but still nothing happened. The values stayed the same.

Funny but I built most of the area around Florin you are describing. The whole greenhaven/pocket area I worked on, made tons of money on. I remember standing at the Hellinick center and you saw nothing at all around there. Tom Winn, of Winncrest Homes, told me, in five years there will be nothing but rooftops here. And it was about three years.

I grew up in Folsom. Not thrilled about how that turned out either.

[LeftyMom]

35. I think the thing that keeps Rio Linda from going the same way is lack of easy freeway access.

That and the reputation for flooding, which really is only an issue off the creek over by the high school.

But you have to drive through North Natomas to the 5 or Antelope or Del Paso Heights to the 80 to get anywhere. Makes commuting a bit of a bitch. If the right developer ever buys up a shitpile of land and greases the right palms to get that area connected up to I-5 or I-80, or some kind of a little spur connecting the two, that whole area will get built out and gentrified.

[Bennyboy]

37. Let's hope that never ever happens....

Actually it is pretty close to 80. Via Dry Creek and raley Blvd, Northgate and Norwood are only about five minutes from downtown Rio Linda....

[DainBramaged]

26. Don Garlits' Museum Of Drag Racing

http://rides.webshots.com/album/288142580eaJufH

[Bennyboy]

28. "The BUS come by and I got on, that's when it all began...."

More cars! http://picasaweb.google.com/bennyboy420/Cars#slideshow/5339422701259853698

[SallyMander]

33. My new (to me) field vehicle!!!

It's a '96 Tacoma, in really excellent condition! We found it on craigslist! :D

It needs a name...



Part of the reason I need the truck (salamander traps) :)

[Bennyboy]

34. Bob.

[SallyMander]

38. LOL! nt

[Rising Phoenix]

36. some car art for my 4 year old nephew

[Bennyboy]

39. How about some ART CARS?!?!?!?

My favorite of all time, The NEVADA CAR!





More photos of art cars adn the ones above http://picasaweb.google.com/bennyboy420/Cars#slideshow/5078937341526029218