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My very first car


BigTallDad

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When I was sixteen (and rainbows were still in black & white) dad bought me a 1947 Chevy Fleetline.

A little poetic license with the engine colors

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But the plug wires are in the correct firing order (which is actually on the kit's exhaust manifold in raised letters; see previous pic, to the right of the oil filter)

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And the bottom side, taken through the clear plastic base


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The cigar-smelling interior

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Had that '47 Chevy for about a year

BTW the Galaxie kit is SUPERB; ya gotta build one of these

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