NEW CHEVY BILLBOARDS POSTED AROUND DETROIT

[bigguy]

These are purported to be actual billboards in Detroit , Michigan put up by GM.
(Can anybody from that area confirm?)
This is definitely cool !

NEW CHEVY BILLBOARDS POSTED AROUND DETROIT

[Flat6Valk]

unfortunately, the brand has been ruined.

[old2soon]

At one point in my life i could just hear the engine and tell you without looking-G M Chrysler Ford. Looking at it i could tell you the year without pausing to think about it. My ex fatherinlaw hit that particular nail square on the head years ago. His take was that a lot of the stuff built in the late 70s early 80s looked like the box the italian running shoes came in. Not a lot of difference these days between some of the manufacturers. RIDE SAFE.

[Gryphon Rider]

I wonder whey they didn't use these cars?:

[old2soon]

Gryphon Rider-because yer talking the difference between a bologna sandwich and a lobster dinner.  Yours of course bein the sandwich.  RIDE SAFE.

[Tx Bohemian]

At one point in my life i could just hear the engine and tell you without looking-G M Chrysler Ford.

Reminds me of the joke about the guy bragging he can tell what kind of car it was by just hearing the engine start up. So his buddies were going to test him. 
They blindfolded him and someone started up a Chevy and the guy says "that's a Chevy, probably a Corvette with a 327" and he was right.
Then they started a Ford and the guy says "that's a Ford Mustang with a 289" and again right on the money.

Then someone accidently knocked over a metal trashcan that rolled down the street a bit and the guy says "I know that one, it's a Dodge..."

(FYI: this joke can be converted to M/Cs, I've used it on my HD buddies!)

 

...stuff built in the late 70s early 80s looked like the box the italian running shoes came in. Not a lot of difference these days between some of the manufacturers. RIDE SAFE.

I've said for a long time that us "babyboomers" ought to feel selfish!! From the late 50s to the early 70s we took the best of everything... best cars, best clothes (bellbottoms, haltertops, hot pants, etc...), best music (Beattles, Buddy Holly, CCR, 3 Dog Night, etc...).
You got to feel sorry for the youngsters nowadays, they are just grabbing for straws!

[rmrc51]

I've said for a long time that us "babyboomers" ought to feel selfish!! From the late 50s to the early 70s we took the best of everything... best cars, best clothes (bellbottoms, haltertops, hot pants, etc...), best music (Beattles, Buddy Holly, CCR, 3 Dog Night, etc...).
You got to feel sorry for the youngsters nowadays, they are just grabbing for straws!

I really do agree with that statement! The babyboomer generation, had the best of the best! Unfortunately I don't see anything in the foreseeable future that will compare. I hope I'm worng for the sake of our grand kids.

[Oss]

That was GREAT  Always wanted a 68-69 camaro with the oversize v8  was it 425 with 450hp?

Loved my 73 Monte Carlo  even if it got less than 10 mph at the end


But my first car was a 57 Olds Rocket 88.  Not fast off the line but it would float along with the needle pinned well over 120

Thank goodness I never had to stop in less than a mile at that speed as it werent gonna happen
You could mover the wheel from 9oclock position to 3oclock and still be going straight ahead  
Played chicken a few times, hit some stuff, just didnt matter the thing was a tank

[MarkT]

That was GREAT  Always wanted a 68-69 camaro with the oversize v8  was it 425 with 450hp?

427, I think Oss.

[Oss]

what did we do before GOOGLE?

http://proformanceunlimited.com/chevy.html

apparently there may have been a 427-450  and also a 350-390 unless this site is just
reworked improved motors  Either way they were great engines

I just remember drooling over the camaro and firebird for those years
and the Vette............oh my

But I think Olds started it all with the rockets

[John Schmidt]

Baby Boomers got the best of everything? Not so fast youngsters.    I grew up in the late 40's and early 50's, when Rock & Roll really started to kick in. That's when the 6vdc systems went to 12vdc, when a/c came into its own in vehicles, and the old flatheads(RIP) be they six or eights, gave way to the overhead valve v-8's and 6's, and the automatic tranny came into its own. All the muscle cars of the 60's & 70's were built on a continuation of what was started in the mid-late 50's. Unless you worked on it, built it, ran it, chased skirts in it......you didn't live it. That period was the foundation of the Baby Boomer period.

I know I'll get a lot of argument on this, but I'll bet it won't be from anyone in their 60's or later.   

[BF]

Nobody's answered the question yet.  Which is.....are the billboards real?

[Spirited-6]

Not fast off the line but it would float along with the needle pinned well over 120

 
I loved the way the "88" would raise up when you put the petal to it. 

[old2soon]

Baby Boomers got the best of everything? Not so fast youngsters.    I grew up in the late 40's and early 50's, when Rock & Roll really started to kick in. That's when the 6vdc systems went to 12vdc, when a/c came into its own in vehicles, and the old flatheads(RIP) be they six or eights, gave way to the overhead valve v-8's and 6's, and the automatic tranny came into its own. All the muscle cars of the 60's & 70's were built on a continuation of what was started in the mid-late 50's. Unless you worked on it, built it, ran it, chased skirts in it......you didn't live it. That period was the foundation of the Baby Boomer period.

I know I'll get a lot of argument on this, but I'll bet it won't be from anyone in their 60's or later.   

  +1 on what you said. I'm only 66 but been there done that. My first race car was a 51 Ford with the flathead V-8. Memories!! RIDE SAFE.

[Farther]

That was GREAT  Always wanted a 68-69 camaro with the oversize v8  was it 425 with 450hp?

The big blocks in the Camaro was 396 cid and 427 cid.  The 327s and 350s small blocks were very nice too, not to mention the high performance 302 cid Z28s.  

[Master Blaster]

The bottom Big Block Corvette did it for me.  Mine was a 67 427 4 speed roadster.  Red with white top and interior.  The hood scoop was also trimmed in white.  No paracitic drag on the motor, no air, power steering, or anything else.  Just pure brute power on bias ply tires, and I sold it for 2,000 bux.  Who knew back then it would appriceate to 100,000 or so.  When I bought it the dealer in Newport News had about 10 of them ligned up in a row, big and small blocks, roadsters and coupes, even a split window or two, and told me I could have my pick for 2500 bux.  Wish I could have bought them all and stored them somewhere.  I kept it for 5 years, and am still regretting that I sold it.

[Skinhead]

Nobody's answered the question yet.  Which is.....are the billboards real?

I have seen some of them, I can't say I've seen all of them on a billboard.  If you are into cars, you should come to Detroit for the Woodward Dream Cruise.  You'll be amazed....

[Hoser]

The "baby boomers" were those born after the world war when the troops came home, greater numbers because of more men in circulations.  I was born in 1946 nine months after my father came home.  I graduated from high school in 1964 and had the largest class  in history, It still holds that title today.    Boy am I getting old!   Hoser  
http://s617.photobucket.com/albums/tt259/jrlord/Wetmore%20romeo%20Ride/?albumview=slideshow

[..]

They used them at a well known car show in Detroit

You can buy them here

http://www.chevymall.com/Posters/products/115/

[musclehead]

That was GREAT  Always wanted a 68-69 camaro with the oversize v8  was it 425 with 450hp?

Loved my 73 Monte Carlo  even if it got less than 10 mph at the end


But my first car was a 57 Olds Rocket 88.  Not fast off the line but it would float along with the needle pinned well over 120

Thank goodness I never had to stop in less than a mile at that speed as it werent gonna happen
You could mover the wheel from 9oclock position to 3oclock and still be going straight ahead  
Played chicken a few times, hit some stuff, just didnt matter the thing was a tank

I had a 59' olds rocket 88, I called it the 'fish bowl' because of all the glass front and back.  you could lean forward in the seat and still not reach where the glass met the dash.

[Karen]

As a pre-boomer, I have to agree with John. Didn't need no steenking name tags to know what makes the cars were. Nowadays the new ones all look alike.