Grandpa's car

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sorry, technology is hard for old people


[url=https://imgur.com/FQjohhE][/url]

turn up the audio

I give up
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aggiedata
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Car bought from Joe Grillo


GrapevineAg
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1970?
malenurse
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Yes. 442 Convertible
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malenurse
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Yes. My Dad

My sister bought it new. When she traded it in he kept it. It was his daily driver for many years.


ETA. She could have said Great Grandpa's car
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Don't know how to embed video, but this should get you there.

https://imgur.com/FQjohhE
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It's one of my favorites. My friend in HS had one. White convertible.
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Malenurse, was Joe Grillo your dad?
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Affirmative
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Cool! I grew up walking around that dealership as well as Dub Miller Ford next door in the late 80's. I bought my first car across Avenue H at the used car lot next to Jack in the Box.
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My dad once had a white Cutlass Supreme, a '70 or '71.
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I had a '73 Cutlass with a 350, it had amazing performance.
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malenurse said:

Affirmative


I feel like we've met when I was rolling around in ours. I'm from Richmond. My dad's was/is a holiday coupe and he bought it brand new, white with black pin stripes. We have the window stickers and all. But I can't recall if it was at that dealer. Ours has the metal plate in the shape of the state of Texas that was attached to the drivers side trunk area. But I can't recall if that was grillo. Do you know?

I am nearly certain I met you as a younger teen because there aren't a lot of 442 running around Rosenberg. At the time mine and whoever I met with the white one were the only ones I knew off in the 90's. Doug worked on mine back there when he was younger.

My old man ****ed me on it after my mom willed it to me. He traded it to an Ac guy to lay off a 9,000 dollar debt. That's the story as of late master year, he won't respond to calls. So I don't know. I spent a lot of time driving that car around and fixing it up as best I could. I'm so bitter over it that it's unhealthy.
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PLUM LOCO said:

I had a '73 Cutlass with a 350, it had amazing performance.


The '73 Cutlass 350 with an eye watering 180hp?

https://www.hagerty.com/valuation-tools/oldsmobile/cutlass/1973/1973-oldsmobile-cutlass-4~4~2
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Man, that sucks. What year did you graduate HS? I graduated from Lamar in '76. If the name plate was in the shape of Texas, it came from Bill McDavid Olds in Houston.
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I graduated in 1998. However my car was probably at Dunright by Chris just before that and I was in his shop occasionally working on the car. It wouldn't have been rolling around under its own power after rebuild probably around that same time. I would have been a 18 year old kid. Either way, I am almost certain I stopped the owner of a white one like yours for a chat about it because it was so unusual to see. I feel like the car I recall lived in Richmond or maybe Rosenberg and I just can't recall wear but it was an older neighborhood with nice but smaller older on small lots with short drives and small garage houses because I saw it in a driveway one day when I was cruising around. Yes, there was a time I would jump in my car or truck and…..drive around town with no place in particular to go. Just drive through Richmond and Rosenberg and make the loop back home. I lived near swinging door. I might stop by radio shack to talk to some guys I knew there, or Dave's electronics, or maybe grab something at 2M…..depends on how much cash I had on me. Then I'd stop and fill my thirsty 455 up with premium gas. Lol. My best friend owned Doziers so maybe I'd roll out that way and hang out. You never knew. I didn't have jack sheet to do.
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Good on you. My dad had a powder blue white vinyl top. He always regretted selling it and tried to buy it back many times.
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Both my brother's first cars were 442's. A '73 455, and a '69 400 convertible. Back in the day, those were camero/transam destroyers.
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My other sister had a yellow '69 442 convertible with the 400 cid V8. Sadly, we don't have that one anymore.
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Jerry was a race at driver
He'd say "El Sob Number 1"
With a Bocephus sticker on his 442
He'd light 'em just for fun
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