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As I\u2019ve mentioned previously, my father was an executive in two Chevrolet dealerships. Occasionally, I find little Chevrolet goodies amongst all the family history.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a 1962 booklet from the first dealership:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Years ago, I found this old Chevy in the lot where I used to park my car:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A closeup of the bumper sticker:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We were brought up to believe that Chevrolet was the United States and Ford was the Soviet Union. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve never owned a Ford (which probably WAS really based in Moscow instead of Detroit).<\/span><\/p>\n So when I found this 320-page book – \u201cSIXTY YEARS OF CHEVROLET\u201d – (year #60 was in 1972), I figured that this must be some sort of early Chevy bible cherished by Dad that I could now reveal to the world:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Inside this 9\u201d x 11.5\u201d hardcover book were a couple of pages of pictures and text of every year\u2019s cars, beginning in 1912: every model of every full-size Chevrolet, Corvette, Corvair, Vega, Chevy II, Chevelle, truck, Nomad, El Camino\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026and I\u2019m sure I missed a few.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t have the time or patience to scan them all – quick frankly, most of them are boring – so I\u2019ll just pick out maybe one page from most of the decades that I find interesting and insert some personal preferences\/involvement that may or may not be of interest to you.<\/span><\/p>\n THE FIRST CHEVROLET<\/u> (1912):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 100,000th Chevrolet<\/u> (1925):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1934 Chevrolet:<\/span> That middle one is interesting-looking (though the tiny rear window looks dangerous). At least now the wheels don\u2019t look like spoked wagon wheels:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Master Deluxe line<\/u> (1941):<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve never heard of the Master Deluxe line, but the evolution is evident:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Personally recognizing what year the car was made<\/u> (beginning in 1953):<\/span><\/p>\n I must have begun to take notice of year-to-year design differences when I was about 6. \u201953 and \u201954 Chevys always looked the same to me:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026..until I looked at their taillights (\u201853s have boobs and \u201854s don\u2019t):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Speaking of taillights, here\u2019s another Dad goodie: 1959 Chevy taillight cuff links (which I\u2019ve shown on this blog previously):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the next decade, EVERY year of Chevy looked distinctly different to me. \u201953 to \u201965? No problem. \u201966 and up? No clue.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d be curious if the same thing occurred with any of you car aficionados out there, but perhaps with different cars in different year groupings.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One omission, I think (I haven\u2019t read every<\/em> word of this book), is that I could find no mention of almost everyone\u2019s favorite Corvette – the 1963 Split-Window coupe.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the 1963 Corvette page. The top pic looks like it might<\/em> be that model but there\u2019s no \u201csplit-window\u201d mention and I can find nothing relevant when I searched the 0837 model designation number:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s a nice shot of a customized split-window coupe:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After that Corvette page, there are 77 more pages in the book that I didn\u2019t really care about, so I\u2019ll finish the book with a 1972 page:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One final goodie: I bought this little 1964 Bonanza on eBay a long time ago because I watched the show:<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-Gary-Allen-booklet-min.jpg\")
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