Astro Jet wrote:

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People today often forget that back in the late 60's and early 70's no one wanted or kept factory wheels unless you were broke or an old man!  The first thing anyone did to customize their car was to swap wheels and tires so it doesn't surprise me that some had it done at the dealer before they even picked up the car.  Somewhat like today where a lot people buying pick-ups don't like the factory wheel and have new ones installed  before they pick it up - makes it easy to pick up winter wheels at swap meets.

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   I did it with everything....too   here is my Mustang with mags and chrome rims   lol

                                       and still today.....

69Laurentian wrote:

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Dad put these on the Pontiac in about 1974. Mom wasn't impressed and told him to grow up!

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      Did he take them off ??   poor mom

I recently aquired the original bill of sale from the original owner of a previous friend's 72 Chevelle SS454 M22.

The original owner was telliing me a storey that during the first weekend of owning that car he threw away the factory five spoke SS wheels in favour of Cragar SS, removed the exhaust manifolds in favour of headers and changed the intake to aluminum along with a holley carb removing all the smog equipment-the next weekend he put a hurst shifter in it !

 Another guy I know bought new a 66 Beaumont SD396 4-speed says he negotiated the price so much the dealer sold him the car without the wheels-they picked the car up with old junker tires-they were driving a pick up truck unloaded the junk tires to put on the car and then drove around to the parts department to load the 427/425 crate engine they ordered to put in the car !! needless to say the original 396/360 hp is long missing from that one !

We missed one helluv an era didn't we Ken? We were born about 20 years too late!

67BBSD wrote:

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I recently aquired the original bill of sale from the original owner of a previous friend's 72 Chevelle SS454 M22.

The original owner was telliing me a storey that during the first weekend of owning that car he threw away the factory five spoke SS wheels in favour of Cragar SS, removed the exhaust manifolds in favour of headers and changed the intake to aluminum along with a holley carb removing all the smog equipment-the next weekend he put a hurst shifter in it !

 Another guy I know bought new a 66 Beaumont SD396 4-speed says he negotiated the price so much the dealer sold him the car without the wheels-they picked the car up with old junker tires-they were driving a pick up truck unloaded the junk tires to put on the car and then drove around to the parts department to load the 427/425 crate engine they ordered to put in the car !! needless to say the original 396/360 hp is long missing from that one !

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69Laurentian wrote:

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We missed one helluv an era didn't we Ken? We were born about 20 years too late!

67BBSD wrote:

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I recently aquired the original bill of sale from the original owner of a previous friend's 72 Chevelle SS454 M22.

The original owner was telliing me a storey that during the first weekend of owning that car he threw away the factory five spoke SS wheels in favour of Cragar SS, removed the exhaust manifolds in favour of headers and changed the intake to aluminum along with a holley carb removing all the smog equipment-the next weekend he put a hurst shifter in it !

 Another guy I know bought new a 66 Beaumont SD396 4-speed says he negotiated the price so much the dealer sold him the car without the wheels-they picked the car up with old junker tires-they were driving a pick up truck unloaded the junk tires to put on the car and then drove around to the parts department to load the 427/425 crate engine they ordered to put in the car !! needless to say the original 396/360 hp is long missing from that one !

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I guess, but then we'd be 60 now ! We can still buy them and even butcher them if we want we just can't order them!

 Funny I had my 67 SD396 Beumont and a girl's dad had a 66 Malibu SS 327 4-speed, someone said too bad the Beaumont isn't a stick-I said I didn't get a chance to order it ! hmmm small block stick, big block auto-ordered, not ordered