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Post by trailboss on Apr 16, 2018 23:32:09 GMT -5
I have been digging through the Trailboss files to find documents on a new job hunt...ran across this pic of my wife and sis in law, 1981....She got a flat in my '69 Chevy Impala...it had Cragar Mags on it and wide tires, it had to been a bear on a roadside fix for him. As luck would have it, this officer had a photographer form the California Highway Patrolman Magazine for a ride along that day....Ponch and Jon were nowhere to be found.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 0:34:08 GMT -5
I have been looking at 66-69 Impalas. Glorious land yacht muscle car.
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Post by trailboss on Apr 17, 2018 0:59:40 GMT -5
Yeah... that was a 2 door coupe, 327 with 4 bolt main, all original paint and interior .... regret ever selling it.
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Post by crapgame on Apr 17, 2018 6:59:01 GMT -5
Very cool Charlie!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 9:50:09 GMT -5
Yeah... that was a 2 door coupe, 327 with 4 bolt main, all original paint and interior .... regret ever selling it. Charlie, that is exactly the kind of Impala I have been looking at. A 427 SS is unobtanium. Was that 4 bolt main 327 factory? I have been reading some discussions about whether or not GM ever built one. Some guys are saying they did it for truck use, but did not put them in any of their cars. I understand your seller's regret. |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 17, 2018 10:02:58 GMT -5
4 bolt main was stock.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 10:26:43 GMT -5
Cool. Was it a 4 speed manual? That would be sweet.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 17, 2018 10:52:10 GMT -5
There is a reason the LAPD officers call the CHP, "The Auto Club with Guns".
Having lived in California for many years and encountered many of those guys, they were always polite and friendly while doing their job.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 17, 2018 11:09:17 GMT -5
 Stopped one time in my younger days to help a middle aged lady with a flat, and while getting spare out of trunk, moving car up and down a mans face peeked up from the back seat. That ended my Good Samaritan day.
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Post by trailboss on Apr 18, 2018 1:02:33 GMT -5
Cool. Was it a 4 speed manual? That would be sweet. No it was auto on the column. By todays standards with a new Camaro or such, probably not much...but when the secondary kicked in back then, I showed rice burners what an American cruiser was.....that thing had a killer A/C too...you could frost the balls off the abominable snowman. |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 18, 2018 1:22:24 GMT -5
There is a reason the LAPD officers call the CHP, "The Auto Club with Guns". Having lived in California for many years and encountered many of those guys, they were always polite and friendly while doing their job. My buddy was a San Jose police officer, he said CHP stood for Can't Handle Policework. Gotta dig that bumper jack, sure beats the hell out of the stripped screw scissor jacks the Chinese supply us with now...they SUCK! I noticed that the wife had to exit in the bushes, got as far off the road as possible...good tactics! |
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Stopped one time in my younger days to help a middle aged lady with a flat, and while getting spare out of trunk, moving car up and down a mans face peeked up from the back seat. That ended my Good Samaritan day.
