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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby TomBlake » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:52 pm

Now that we have a lot more members and more people checking out this site.
Does anyone know anything about the '55, it was sold out of Shelton CT in 1966.
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby dinotheweirdo » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:36 am

Was this ever plain orange ? if so found a couple of shots in those slides from Kevin Dunn .
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby TomBlake » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:50 am

Dino...Yes it was plain orange for a short time. After the orange paint job it took several weeks to get lettered.
unbelievable the stuff that you are making come to the surface and the stuff people have saved over all these years.
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby TomBlake » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:48 pm

Here is a couple of dated pictures when it was orange without lettering. Looks like it took more than a couple of weeks to get lettered, money was real tight in those days.
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby dinotheweirdo » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:55 pm

Ok ...I think we have a match...63-64?
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby TomBlake » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:52 pm

I can get the dates pretty close to actual.
The plain orange with no lettering and the flat tire was taken on 5/23/65 and that was the first day the orange paint went to Dover.
The first picture I can see lettering on the car was taken on 6/27/65.
That puts any pictures of the plain orange '55 with no lettering between 5/23/65 and 6/27/65.
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby Billy Casey » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:52 pm

Your rite tom about the money ... running a gasser back then was tuff on the wallet ... 1st paint job put me in a financial bind..My brother Eddie took me and my not yet wife to mass at saint Anne's in yonkers every sunday and all i prayed for is that i didn't brake anything .... God didn't answer my prayers to often back then :D what great memories Billy
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby TomBlake » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:11 pm

Billy...Amen, but those days were probably the best and can't be replaced today.
I did see in some of your posts that we had something in common, we were both running E/G but looks like we missed each other by a few years.
E/G cars like yours ran quicker in the later years.
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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby Maso » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:44 pm

Hay Blake...

I think I found it...!!!

Go see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszoT9OGiv4&feature=related

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Re: Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G'er

Postby TomBlake » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:01 pm

That was pretty funny since the guy wasn't hurt.
Messed up the '55 pretty good. :roll:
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