While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.
Chevrolet's "Holiday Ride" YouTube video has been making the rounds and, well, once you're done wiping away the tears from watching this heartfelt narrative of grief and car restoration, you'll notice there is more Chevy history than the Impala at the center of the story. We'll spare you the recap (or maybe we're just out of tissues), and put the video right here.
As for the cars, let's start with that Impala convertible. It's a 1966 and, based on the air cleaner and fender badge, sports a 390-horsepower 427 cubic inch big block. Mom had a heavy right foot, it seems.
Then there's the shot of the local auto shop, conveniently located in a town where people only drive Chevys. There's a new C8-generation Corvette, a 1967 El Camino, a 1955 Bel Air, a current Blazer, a C10 pickup and a Suburban. The El Camino's grille gives it away as a '67, although we're guessing the hood is borrowed from a Chevelle SS. The pickup is has the glued-to-the-windshield rear-view mirror, which editor Terry McGean pinned as a 1972 model year. The Suburban has aerodynamic mirrors and does not have any badging at the top of the fenders, which puts its model year in the mid-1980s.
Then there's another shot with a second-generation Camaro in it (the Camaro and the pickup are also re-used as background material in the shop interior interior shots). We have this pegged as a 1973, owing to the combination of the split bumper and sport side mirrors.
Did we get it right? Are there further determinations you can make about these cars? Are there any other cars we missed? Sound off with your carspotting expertise in the comments below.
