Mike Goble
Well-Known Member
I bought some E3 parts from a guy in Santa Rosa and he offered me this - the original window sticker from a Bavaria that was wrecked. I thought it was very cool.
I would love to see the prices of the other options. I remember the days when one could walk into a Chevy dealer, say 1957, and build/add fuel injection, a four speed, a posi-traction rear axle, and add some other goodies for a TOTAL of a couple hundred bucks. Drive to the drag strip the Sunday after delivery and be a star. Also, few knew at the time, but one could do the same to a '57 Bel Air Hardtop(black of course) with, yes it's true, a factory four-speed on the floor.To think you could have bought 500 tool kits, held on to them and now retire on them....
Mike and Jeff, I am talking early 60s when I flunked out of college three times, drag raced in a 40 Ford with a modified Olds V8 and then a 56 Chevy with a modified 283. Every town had a "Speed Shop" where you could get everything from cams to a complete rebuild and serious modification of an engine. One of my buddies had a 5.12 rear axle in his 57 Chevy. And we cut holes in the hood to accommodate the GMC blowers with multiple carbs.Wow, blast from the past! In 1972, I bought my '69 1600 there off their used car lot on El Camino Real. At that time, B&B was also the local Saab dealership. Fast forward to today and B&B is now part of the VW dealership in Sunnyvale and the Saab business is a parts and service operation for those brave souls who still drive Saabs locally.