Hungry Eyes

[laconicsax]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbstkXowlAc

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. He did *so* much better than that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7a9D92Je2s

[Frank Cannon]

2. Eric Carmen is like a god to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KlhhvfAhM4

Not a Rickroll.

[CreekDog]

3. That was him? Damn. Never knew that. Pretty good.

He has a great voice, but his other songs were kind of cheesy IMHO.

[RetroLounge]

5. Sure did...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFUYm5QFUE

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. That's the other one

I just have to hear the first two bars of either of those songs and I'm instantly back in 1972, in my '66 Chevy with an AM radio.



Oh, how sweet it was — and how bitter.

[RetroLounge]

7. I came to them a few years later

via cassette tapes I made from my older friend's collection of LP's.

and listened to the Raspberries while cruising in my '65 Impala.

:hi:

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. What color?

The first car for which I had driving privileges was a '65 Bel Air — 250-inch six, Powerglide and an AM radio with no pushbuttons. It was Sierra Tan Metallic, and a sled.

[RetroLounge]

9. Originally white with a red interior.

It was a $400.00 purchase. Sitting in a guys back yard, 4 flat tires, rust holes, weeds grown halfway up the car.

It had been repainted blue, an earl sheib any-car-any-color $69.99 special paint job. Awful.

I parted the weeds at the front fender and saw the words that made my heart skip a beat: Super Sport

So I took her home and disassembled her to the shell and rebuilt it from the ground up, and when I was finished, I had the following:

1965 Impala Super Sport.
Black with a stock black interior.
327 4 bolt main.
Bored .060 over.
Heavy cam.
.202 heads.
650 Rochester Carb
Hooker headers into Custom dual exhaust.
Power Glide.
3000 Stall speed.
4:11 posi from a Chevelle SS.
Blackwall 50's on the rear, 60's on the front
Stock everything else, including the SS wheel covers.

Owned it for 5 years before a drunk driver rear ended me...

God I miss her...

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. I feel ya, man

:pals:



But I cannot resist the opportunity to twist the knife a bit. :evilgrin:







(That's as close as I could come.)

[RetroLounge]

11. Oooh, the Cragars are a nice touch...

:hi:

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. I wouldn't own a mid-'60s to early-'70s A, B or F-body Chevy

without putting Cragar SS wheels on it. I've seen pics of El Caminos like mine with Chevy SS wheels, and they just don't quite cut it.

Oddly enough, perhaps, SS wheels look great on Corvettes. :shrug:

[RetroLounge]

13. Yeah, but if you are going to stay stock, can't beat the SS caps

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Those were only on Impalas and Caprices

I'd still prefer them, though, to the SS wheels that came out in '69. Those scream "Pontiac" to me for some reason, not "Chevy."





I erred in my earlier post, though. I should've said Rallye wheels, not SS.

[laconicsax]

4. kick for the daytime crowd