tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847382031474642320.post4571744461854521308..comments2024-01-22T12:47:29.257-08:00Comments on California Streets: San Francisco Street Sighting - 1972 Chevrolet Vega 2300 GT KammbackJay Wollenweberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143862063193463448noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847382031474642320.post-12261243071358818212021-06-01T20:36:24.761-07:002021-06-01T20:36:24.761-07:00Hi James,
I do not own the Hudson. I can put you i...Hi James,<br />I do not own the Hudson. I can put you in contact with the owner if you are interested in learning more about it.<br />Thanks for stopping by!<br />JayJay Wollenweberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09143862063193463448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847382031474642320.post-218646786040343742021-05-31T13:31:46.261-07:002021-05-31T13:31:46.261-07:00Jay. Do you still have the yellow 54 Hudson? James...Jay. Do you still have the yellow 54 Hudson? JamesJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10949735822023214137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847382031474642320.post-69138301130786971732016-01-01T11:11:40.301-08:002016-01-01T11:11:40.301-08:00Right On, Tom. My first 'new' car too. H...Right On, Tom. My first 'new' car too. However, no fisticuffs involved - they replaced the engine. Got 100k miles out of that sucker and loved every mile. Replaced by a '89 SI Hatch, which I also loved and eventually passed on to my middle son who has been a 'Honda guy' ever since. Honda was replaced by 1.8T GTI which I still drive, and love. What a great series of cars.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11193725570783010002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847382031474642320.post-78721089161544787602010-11-08T19:11:57.110-08:002010-11-08T19:11:57.110-08:00The first brand-new car I ever bought was a 1972 V...The first brand-new car I ever bought was a 1972 Vega GT Kammback. It was, hands-down, one of the best handling automobiles I've ever driven, especially after replacing the stock 70-series Firestone Wide Ovals with real, Rayon cord 60-series Goodrich TA radials. <br /><br />It had the best factory paint job I've ever seen on a car - Mohave Gold.<br /><br />The trouble, of course, was the engine -- and after the engine let go, the much larger problem was the way General Motors customarily treated its customers. At age 19, and well up to the task, I came about as close to putting a smart-mouthed Ardmore, Oklahoma Chevy dealer service manager through a wall as either he or I wished to come. After scaring the snot out of him (didn't touch him), I tried to calmly explain why it seemed inappropriate to me to call a paying customer "boy."<br /><br />A button-down businessman type standing by in manager's office, obviously buffaloed by the jerk before I arrived, had a wide grin on his face as I left the office, keys-in-hand, without paying the $45 he wanted for compression-testing an engine burning a quart of oil every hundred miles and telling me "there's nothing wrong with it."<br /><br />That didn't wash me out with Chevrolet, however. My hard-headed, iron-clad family loyalty to the brand led me to buy several other GM cars. <br /><br />And then I bought my first Honda automobile.<br /><br />GM's regular repudiation of trust with customers it had injured by design is one of the great shames and disgraces of the American story. And to think -- we let these arrogant asses beat us out of our metropolitan trolley lines.<br /><br />TOM ELMORE<br />Moore, OklahomaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com