Great programme! My good friend Larry Barbera and his wife Pat with the Austin Dorset has unfortunately passed so the car may well be in new hands now. They also had a genuine Austin Gasser with blown small block which has probably gone too. Both car's are superb and well built. RIP Pat and Larry, your'e sorely missed.
Another great episode Dennis - so cool to see car shows on historic streets right?! Serious car guys there, all great. My fave was the Lincoln, like a boss!
Loving that pearl white Lincoln Mark III. That's one of the few cars that I think look great with a vinyl top, but gotta admire dude for taking it off and cleaning it up. Keeping it simple with that pearl white/black leather combo kind of lends itself to no vinyl top. Also that has to be the most radically low factory roof lines ever offered on any car, like Dennis said, he wasn't sure if it was chopped. I personally like the switch blade 1967 and 1968 Eldorado with no vinyl top a just a bit more in terms of style, but this thing beats the pants off the Mark IV and Mark V or any Eldorado of the 70's in terms of cool.
That Austin ("Dorsette" -did he pronounce that ?) was Great. THAT'S what they need. Driving some of those 50's &60's British cars were often no pleasant drive. I had a 60's Austin Cambridge A60 Countryman Estate (a wagon) and it had no syncro-mesh, on the manual trans box, so you HAD to Stop ! -before engaging the clutch to get down into first. The 'Double-D' clutch method meant you had to depress the clutch TWICE between gears. Make mine a Torqueflite/TH400 or a Dynaflow. We needed some of those auto trans and power assist features on our cars, but all we got was those eccentric elevating indicator/trafficators. Every time I saw an American car over here, they looked years ahead, even though US imports, even Cadillacs usually never had A/C, as this was beyond most Brits at the time. Dennis does a GREAT show and I love his enthusiasm, but you wouldn't want to be stuck on a desert island with him, would you ? Anyway, Hi to all Gearheads everywhere, and regards from DORSET. UK.
I also find it strange that they consider England a separate country from Scotland ,Ireland and Wales,I am pretty sure my dad had a Dorset and we live in SCOTLAND
Dennis, ok Great! Anyways, the 58 CHEvy NAPCO 4WD IS great....I FORGOT THESE APACHES! Interestingly , I did finally, get a pick,up,Truck in 2007: GMC CANYON/2WDR/ac/AUTO/Towing/4 CYL/ .... Anyhows!, the 37 GMC WAS A SIGHt!, I can imagine not many of THESE 37 GMC/ left: esp anything close to OEM/ Survivor.
Why? It could never be matching numbers anymore. The entire front end was destroyed or missing. Why not have a cool looking old ride out of it. I could agree with you if it were a matching numbers car, but for reals, it's his time and money, let a dude live life.
Great programme! My good friend Larry Barbera and his wife Pat with the Austin Dorset has unfortunately passed so the car may well be in new hands now. They also had a genuine Austin Gasser with blown small block which has probably gone too. Both car's are superb and well built. RIP Pat and Larry, your'e sorely missed.
WOW, the 37 GMC Suburban is my choice!
Another great episode Dennis - so cool to see car shows on historic streets right?! Serious car guys there, all great. My fave was the Lincoln, like a boss!
Loving that pearl white Lincoln Mark III. That's one of the few cars that I think look great with a vinyl top, but gotta admire dude for taking it off and cleaning it up. Keeping it simple with that pearl white/black leather combo kind of lends itself to no vinyl top. Also that has to be the most radically low factory roof lines ever offered on any car, like Dennis said, he wasn't sure if it was chopped. I personally like the switch blade 1967 and 1968 Eldorado with no vinyl top a just a bit more in terms of style, but this thing beats the pants off the Mark IV and Mark V or any Eldorado of the 70's in terms of cool.
Extremely sweet!
That Austin ("Dorsette" -did he pronounce that ?) was Great. THAT'S what they need. Driving some of those 50's &60's British cars were often no pleasant drive. I had a 60's Austin Cambridge A60 Countryman Estate (a wagon) and it had no syncro-mesh, on the manual trans box, so you HAD to Stop ! -before engaging the clutch to get down into first. The 'Double-D' clutch method meant you had to depress the clutch TWICE between gears. Make mine a Torqueflite/TH400 or a Dynaflow. We needed some of those auto trans and power assist features on our cars, but all we got was those eccentric elevating indicator/trafficators. Every time I saw an American car over here, they looked years ahead, even though US imports, even Cadillacs usually never had A/C, as this was beyond most Brits at the time. Dennis does a GREAT show and I love his enthusiasm, but you wouldn't want to be stuck on a desert island with him, would you ?
Anyway, Hi to all Gearheads everywhere, and regards from DORSET. UK.
I also find it strange that they consider England a separate country from Scotland ,Ireland and Wales,I am pretty sure my dad had a Dorset and we live in SCOTLAND
Hello Dorset from SoCal! Those Gassers used to run near me at OCIR! Pretty obscure here now!
That Lincoln is sick as f**k.....beautiful car....
Very Nice Red and White 1960 Corvette
NAPCO RULES ! ! ...
Chevrolet Suburban started in 1935. Suburban is the oldest nameplate General Motors has used to date
It's not only the oldest that GM has used, it's the oldest continuously used nameplate in all of automotive history.
Love the MKIII
Sweet MkIII.
Dennis, ok Great! Anyways, the 58 CHEvy NAPCO 4WD IS great....I FORGOT THESE APACHES! Interestingly , I did finally, get a pick,up,Truck in 2007: GMC CANYON/2WDR/ac/AUTO/Towing/4 CYL/ .... Anyhows!, the 37 GMC WAS A SIGHt!, I can imagine not many of THESE 37 GMC/ left: esp anything close to OEM/ Survivor.
Sweet Lincoln
MKIII. Now thats style.
Skip to 16:00 for Lincoln
This video was made two years before the "The Flint water crisis",which began in April 2014.
"Four cilinder engine so it's a nice economical car."
You have to visit Europe more often my friend.
The work that guy did to that 39 Carryall is an example of wrong concept, wrong car.
First off, it's a '37 and it's been street rodded. Looks like a lot of fun to me! So what's the problem?? 🤔
Why? It could never be matching numbers anymore. The entire front end was destroyed or missing. Why not have a cool looking old ride out of it. I could agree with you if it were a matching numbers car, but for reals, it's his time and money, let a dude live life.