1973 Chevelle Build found on TC...

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=305042

Most of the guys on that site could care less about the cars we like. That's OK, 'cause I'm not interested in their tastes either

I like the earlier gen. Chevelles...they're just too common.

My dad has had his '70 since 1982...

Surprised to see the number of compliments about the car on TC. Maybe they are finally moving away from the darkside!

I like em they are too expensive here for me to get one and I like varity with my cars.

Most of the 64-72 guys have come around in the last couple of years, a lot of them are buying 73-77s now.

Still a few holdout snobby types, but getting to be fewer of them all of the time.

Roadcaptain S3 wrote:.......a lot of them are buying 73-77s now.

^^^ Isn't that a bad thing?

Oh well, at least we will have more aftermarket support when they start rolling across BJ Auctions.

You see more piping up now, saying they had one years ago.

Rago wrote:

Roadcaptain S3 wrote:.......a lot of them are buying 73-77s now.

^^^ Isn't that a bad thing?

Oh well, at least we will have more aftermarket support when they start rolling across BJ Auctions.

Time to switch to Pacers & Gremlins!

Yeah, could be a bad thing, or a good thing.

I love the fact that the slowpokes are starting to come around and appreciate what they've been missing, but I don't want the prices going up too much either.

74MonteCarlo wrote:

Rago wrote:

Roadcaptain S3 wrote:.......a lot of them are buying 73-77s now.

^^^ Isn't that a bad thing?

Oh well, at least we will have more aftermarket support when they start rolling across BJ Auctions.

Time to switch to Pacers & Gremlins!

Rode in many Gremlins and Pacers as a youngster, along with Chevettes and their ilk.
Not an experience I care to repeat as a middle aged Ward Cleaver type.

I got my car [for life!], but if I didn't already have it & the prices started to soar on these too much I'd just go back to Eclipses. I'm ready for the beatings to proceed, lol!

Then again, I might have considered just moving to Caprices after owning one. Similar weight (depending on your source), comfortable, same underpinnings, & cheap. I'd rather have a two door (not easy to find), but not a bad alternative for something that is likely to never increase in value.

Don't bet on the Cappy value thing, have you seen this?

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=363.2&aid=423&pop=0

$217,000. I am not making that up.

If someone can get 1/4 mil for that, anything is possible.

Applause for this guy's creativity and hard work. 3rd Gen's are more stylish & luxurious (of course that's a matter of opinion) & I think they handle much better too. While the previous gen came w/ more HP they were not bound by the environmental restrictions that came about in 73-74. If our cars did not have to "comply"...imagine what would have been. I think that's why the 73-77 a bodies are so often hot-roded & customized. These cars are the 57 Bel-Airs of my generation. I love them! Didn't mean to rant but can't stand some of the "snobbery" of most websites for the 68-72 models.

I just laugh at folks when they go on their 64-72 rants and then whip out my 'ol standard? Why would you want something that so many others have? I kinda tend to throw out the old adage:

What do Mustangs (insert 64-72 chevelles as the situation presents itself) and hemorrhoids have in common?

Lots of a$$holes have em!

That usually shuts them up!