# Looking for a vintage Chevy? Here's your chance. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861 "2013-09-14T19:55:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/1 "2013-09-14T19:55:51Z")
Interesting article on the NYT about a guy who has a large field full of 50s, 60s and 70s Chevy cars and trucks. Some are technically new (though in rough shape), having as little as 1.4 miles on the odometer and the shipping plastic still on the seats. Weird guy, the owner. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/2 "2013-09-14T20:51:21Z")
Got a link? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/3 "2013-09-14T21:56:48Z")
Humm. A Chevy? Sure, why not? Got a link? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/4 "2013-09-14T21:59:33Z")
Is this it? It’s not the NYT, but it seems pretty similar. > **[Incredible 'time capsule' of vintage Chevy cars discovered locked-away in...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352919/Incredible-time-capsule-vintage-Chevy-cars-discovered-locked-away-dealers-garage-17-years--ONE-mile-them.html)** > > They may be over 50-year-old and covered in dust, but the vintage Chevy cars of Lambrecht dealers in Pierce, Nebraska, are young at heart - and they have the mileage to prove it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/5 "2013-09-14T22:36:21Z")
_Oh Goddammit!_ Now I’m gonna be obsessed with this for the next couple weeks! :mad: I’m a sucker for a Field Rescue. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/6 "2013-09-14T22:54:34Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Is this it? It’s not the NYT, but it seems pretty similar. > > [Incredible 'time capsule' of vintage Chevy cars discovered locked-away in dealer's garage for 17 years - some with only ONE mile on them | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352919/Incredible-time-capsule-vintage-Chevy-cars-discovered-locked-away-dealers-garage-17-years--ONE-mile-them.html) It’s too bad the person who wrote the article didn’t know what the cars were. He’s called a Monte Carlo an Impala, and a Bel Air a Biscayne. Of course, you have to be a car nut to realize that, but it makes me wonder how accurate the rest of the article is. There is a beautiful 62 Impala (possibly a 409) in that group that I’d give my middle nut for. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/7 "2013-09-14T23:06:30Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > There is a beautiful 62 Impala (possibly a 409) in that group that I’d give my middle nut for. A pair and a spare? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/8 "2013-09-14T23:43:26Z")
Okay, I just spent the last hour looking at the pictures of all 500+ items. A whole bunch of mid-sixties 1/2 ton pickups that never sold! Most of them already have internet bids around $2-4k. The new Indy Corvette is already up to $35k. It would be cool to be the “original owner” of a truck made before you were born! [https://www.proxibid.com/asp/AuctionsByCompany.asp?ahid=1530](https://www.proxibid.com/asp/AuctionsByCompany.asp?ahid=1530) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/9 "2013-09-15T00:49:25Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Is this it? It’s not the NYT, but it seems pretty similar. > > [Incredible 'time capsule' of vintage Chevy cars discovered locked-away in dealer's garage for 17 years - some with only ONE mile on them | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352919/Incredible-time-capsule-vintage-Chevy-cars-discovered-locked-away-dealers-garage-17-years--ONE-mile-them.html) :smack::smack::smack: Yeah, that’s the guy. I’m fuckin’ losing it. By the way, the first photo on the NYT article is of a Ford Falcon. ::rolleyes:: ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/10 "2013-09-15T00:59:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > :smack::smack::smack: Yeah, that’s the guy. I’m fuckin’ losing it. > > By the way, the first photo on the NYT article is of a Ford Falcon. ::rolleyes:: You an buy me a car to say thank you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/11 "2013-09-15T01:26:29Z")
How much trouble to get a 50-year-old car running? Gotta be more to it than new tires and a battery. How about seals and gaskets? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/12 "2013-09-15T02:02:10Z")
In other vintage car news, Ford is preparing for the 50th anniversary of the Mustang. As part of the planned celebration, they wanted to track down the first one ever sold. They were able to determine that Gail Wise had bought the first Mustang ever sold on April 15, 1964 (two days before they were officially supposed to go on sale). So Ford contacted the Wises to see if they could help track down the car. Which turned out to be pretty easy - it was parked in their garage. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/13 "2013-09-15T03:48:50Z")
I wonder if the American Pickers tried to make a deal for [the signs](http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/09/15/automobiles/collectibles/15nebraska-slides-16.html). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/14 "2013-09-15T05:00:23Z")
I like the “Weiner Dog” air filter sign. But not $400 like. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/15 "2013-09-15T10:58:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Okay, I just spent the last hour looking at the pictures of all 500+ items. A whole bunch of mid-sixties 1/2 ton pickups that never sold! Most of them already have internet bids around $2-4k. The new Indy Corvette is already up to $35k. > > It would be cool to be the “original owner” of a truck made before you were born! > > [VanDerBrink Auctions, LLC powered by Proxibid](https://www.proxibid.com/asp/AuctionsByCompany.asp?ahid=1530) Holy crap, I don’t even know how to drive a manual and I want some of those. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/16 "2013-09-18T21:13:17Z")
If I ever get the money, I’ll be paying [this dealer](http://www.countryclassiccars.com/) a visit. It helps that I have a sister a couple hours to the northeast. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/17 "2013-09-19T00:06:32Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > If I ever get the money, I’ll be paying [this dealer](http://www.countryclassiccars.com/) a visit. It helps that I have a sister a couple hours to the northeast. We have [this place](http://www.memorylaneclassiccars.com/thumbs.html), about a mile from here. I’m presently drooling over the '39 Caddy convertible. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/18 "2013-09-19T19:02:07Z")
As is my wont, I’m drawn to the used Fords, especially the Club Wagon. Can’t you picture a dozen flower children piling out the back? This strikes me as a very clever way to make a chunk of change from a closed business; it appeals to nostalgia and emotion, things that can’t be quantified or realistically valued so the prices paid will be wildly varied. At the same time, people will pay to clear the vehicles from the location, which saves the company a ton of money. Those poor Corvairs. You can call it a Monza all you like, it’s a car w/ a terrible reputation. Almost as bad as the Pinto for sale, a 1972 which is one of the three years w/ the ‘little design flaw’ that gained it such notoriety. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/19 "2013-09-19T19:06:11Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > They were able to determine that Gail Wise had bought the first Mustang ever sold on April 15, 1964 (two days before they were officially supposed to go on sale). So Ford contacted the Wises to see if they could help track down the car. Which turned out to be pretty easy - it was parked in their garage. Fuck me. :smack: And I thought I was cool because the Mustang my parents bought off the showroom floor and that I learned to drive in and which my mother drove for 25 years was in my garage… but I’m 4 years and two months later than this one. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861/20 "2013-09-19T19:44:59Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > As is my wont, I’m drawn to the used Fords, especially the Club Wagon. Can’t you picture a dozen flower children piling out the back? I don’t recall if it was a Club Wagon or a panel van with seating for twelve but that’s likely what brought me home from the hospital. Dad owned one when I was born. I’d love to have a first-generation Ford van for myself. One of the few old cars that I would be able drive with no problem, no distracting half-acre of hood. That Corvair pickup for sale at my earlier link isn’t bad, either. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-chevy-heres-your-chance/668861.md?page=2)