EO Z/28 is back

[1968RSZ28]

One advantage new cars will always have: SAFETY!

Check this out, 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U

Paul

[X33RS]

Not that big into safety.  I think that's been pounded in our heads a bit too much over the years. 
   Neither of us can stand air bags and I'm not that big a fan of ABS either.  Also gotten a little sick of the all the plastic on these new cars.   Too bad safety started ruining the looks of cars in 1973 and has just progressively gotten worse since, now in more ways than just appearances.
    I guess we look at it a little different, I could step out of the house and run over by a bus too but that doesn't make me dress like the michelin man 

[BULLITT65]

Funny that is my thinking. But we don't drive to far away and are able to avoid a lot of the busy times on the road.

[1968RSZ28]

With children in the car the majority of the time I think differently. 

Paul

[X33RS]

Funny that is my thinking. But we don't drive to far away and are able to avoid a lot of the busy times on the road.

Yeah I think we have alot in common when it comes to this stuff Bullitt, we are in the same situation, we don't really drive that far, 90% in town, and we avoid busy times as well.   We have been known to take long road trips in the classics several hundred miles away for a mini vacation but I also usually work a car event into that somehow, lol.   We only live once and I can't take the darn things with me when I'm gone.

Besides that, we live in a part of the country where we can drive them year round and enjoy without snow and road salt.  It's one of the biggest benefits of being out here.  It's definately classic car friendly.

[X33RS]

With children in the car the majority of the time I think differently. 

Paul

Naa,   we all grew up in the back seats of classics, without seat belts even, and we all turned out just fine    Funny back then nobody gave it a second thought.   That gets back to all this garbage of society pounding safety into our heads that I mentioned earlier.....too much TV.

 Of course our kids are a big concern, but we've never felt their lives were in any danger just because I decided to drive a nomad, or a camaro, or....   No more than if I drove a new car.   I learned to drive in a nomad, manual drum brakes, manual steering, which became my daily for years after right up into the late 1980's.   
Actually I tend to believe we get noticed more on the road in a classic, rather than a cookie cutter car that blends in.  You still have to worry about the idiots but that's the case no matter what you drive.   I also find that we tend to drive the classics differently, more defensively, more cautious, and stick to back roads alot.  That type of approach keeps you out of 99% of the trouble you'll find.

Or, maybe we are just living on the edge Paul with disaster right around the corner

[FortLangleyBC]

Great video Paul!

It is amazing how the engineering has developed with respect to absorbing the energy...

[BULLITT65]

Funny, when I was a kid, my sister and I would ride around in the back of my moms 67 Austin Healy (no seat belts, factory). Or my dad had a 71 VW BUS, and while it came with seat belts I can't ever remember digging them out from under the seat to wear them. Most of the fun was moving around inside that car.
It as become so ingrained in me growing up around cars with out belts, that my wife still reminds me to put one one when we get into our newer cars.

As far as safety goes now a days, yes I purchase the top notch car seats, for my kids, and they ride in them as long as possible weight/height wise, because it is safer. Once they have outgrown them though, they have all got in a 60's Camaro, Mustang, with a lap belt only. I also plan to run lap belts in my 56 Chevy for them.
 
So yes Larry I am with you.
Maybe someone will call Child protective services on us, for driving them around in a older (unsafe) car, but I think they are fine.

Could it be this "rough" upbringing rub off on them and they may want to drive a classic when they get older???

I can only hope they are picking me up from the old folks home one day in a Classic daily driver...

[X33RS]

Haha, you and me both Austin.   

[rspallina]

Did not sell....bid goes on!  Bid up to $160 and auction house said it would take $200

[FortLangleyBC]

Hey Rob -

Do you mean $160,000?!?!?

[FortLangleyBC]

Just checked - no sale at $100k over the last selling price - WOW!

[rspallina]

something going on with that car....Clem was driving it across the block!  Clem what happened???

[FortLangleyBC]

Very strange indeed

[69 Zee]

If it doesn't smell now,  it's gonna !  

Car was bought by K78288 (Owner/Brad @ Team Camaro) for a measly $15K and all original born with drive-train ? ...that's a give away price.  His last post (Team Camaro) in ref to the car was May 16th 2014 "Not much to report lately, its been way to cold to fire up the furnace in the garage and work on it."  Then he vanished without ever again posting any pics of it completed.. Odd.     Wouldn't you want to show of the "Fruits of your labor" ?  Then it showed up on ebay in Dec of the same year (2014) and sold for a measly..IMO  $59,100 (There were non-orig's selling for that price at the time also)... Odd !    AND now it reached $160K on the auction block at Meacum and it didn't go to a new owner ?    That's $100K profit in about 7 month   Somethings smells fishy here !...JMO

I'm wondering if the ebay sell wasn't a shill bid and K78288 won his own car.  Who would know ?  Now everything smells from the color to the $100K one could made on this sell