Ran across this, and thought that the juxtaposition might amuse some people here as much as it did me.

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I love his encounter with the gas filler. As I (just happen to have :) mentioned in another post recently, it's my favorite way any car manufacturer has ever configured one of those. At least my favorite way I know about. It's possible someone somewhere has done an even cooler one, but if so, I've never heard about it. :)

(It's also funny what a big deal he makes out of all the chrome. Not only was the 150 the cheapest, and thus least-decorated, Chevy, nineteen fifty-eight was the banner year for chrome in their lineup. If Chieftain saw a '58 Impala, he'd realize that by comparison the '57 150 is about as blingy as an M48 Walker Bulldog, relatively speaking. :)

My father bought a '57 210 two-door sedan rolling chassis when I was in middle school. (The 210 was the mid-range full-size Chevy, in between the 150 and the top-of-the-range Bel Air.) We poked at it for a few years, thinking we'd make either a driver or a mild street rod out of it, but in the end Dad decided it was just too far gone. (It appears in Warrior's Legacy in completed driver form.)

At the time (mid-to-late '80s), the Bel Air two-door hardtop and convertible and the Nomad two-door wagon were the only really valuable ones; nobody cared about sedans, four-doors, wagons other than Nomads, or trim levels below Bel Air. Nowadays, the really desirable ones are so stupidly valuable that the "lesser" versions have also appreciated into the stratosphere, inaccessible to normal mortals. If the guy who bought that 210 shell from my father did have the wherewithal to restore it as he said he planned to do, it is presumably worth a god damn fortune now. And so much for that, as the poet said...

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