Just came across some pictures of my '68 4-4-2 that were taken in March 1971 and thought I would post them here. Keep in mind that, up to the time that my sister got the car and put on those big tires and mag wheels (around 1974 - the last picture in the sequence), the car belonged to my dad. The picture of the 4-4-2 and the Camaro represent what my parents drove at that time. Dad had chrome reverse wheels and my brothers and I finally convinced our dad to just get blackwall tires (instead of those dreaded, awful looking white walls!). My brothers and I marked in the tire brand name (i.e., made them look like white-raised letter tires) with a paint stick. They always looked good for about two weeks before the white paint turned yellow. Then, we had to do it again. My mom's Camaro had Keystone mags and Dunlop red lines. With parents who drove cars like that (they were in their mid-40s at the time), there's no wonder I didn't buy my own car until I was 21! Dad and mom liked it, too, because they had boys with driver's licenses who kept their parents' cars clean and sparkling all the time! That's me in the yellow jacket leaning on the 4-4-2 - I never would have guessed at the time that I would eventually have that same car in my garage some 34 years later.

Randy C.

 

Here's another one of me in my service dress khakis, taken in March 1970. See those awful white wall tires!

Randy C.

 

Great history photos of your car. I assume you haven't changed at all and still look the same just like your Olds

 

Well, I did get a few more stripes on my uniform, I got rid of the blue-tint sunglasses, I put on a little? wieght, and the wheels on the 4-4-2 are now SSIs but, other than that, the car and I haven't changed a bit!

 

Nice pictures! Sharp looking cars for sure!!
Yes the whitewalls were out of place on that last pic but the Cragers and white lettering above looks right at home.

 

Very nice!! Thanks for sharing them with us!!

 

Great pics and a great car. Thanks for sharing.

 

love the olds, thanks for pics

 

Very cool pics!

To bad my parents were into Pontiacs growing up.......the large ones too!

 

Yes, fun pictures! When I was growning up we had station wagons...
John

 

Great stuff Randy! Thanks for sharing...

 

Thanks for sharing

 

If I'm not driving my 442 34 years from now I hope it's in my sons garage with cool pics and a story like yours.

 

to be honest I kinda dig the whitewalls on that car.......great pics always nice to have old photos

 

Whatever became of the Camaro? ( Also, cool shoes back then)

 

Very cool! old pics rock!

 

Was too young to remember seeing these cars back then so it is nice to see pictures of actual cars and not pics from a magazine.

 

I like the last photo with the chevelle all jacked up in the back ground .

 

To answer a few questions:

1. The Camaro, which my mom bought brand new in 1967, went to my brother in the picture below. That picture was taken in March 1971. I've attached another picture of the Camaro with my brother and me and our cousins when it was brand new in 1967. It had no power steering and no power brakes. My dad always said that, if you need power steering to drive, well then you are just too #@*% lazy to drive! My brother had the Camaro for a few years and then traded it for a '73 Z-28. Then, he traded this and that, and in 1990 he got and restored a very nice '68 4-4-2 hardtop, M-21 4-spd, 3.42 posi, AM-FM w/rear speaker & 8-track, tilt column, buckets and console, and reclining passenger bucket seat, pictured below.

2. The shoes - I wore them out and I don't have any other pictures of them. I guess you can't find those around anymore! Or, do you mean the "shoes" on the cars?!! I've got only one of the chrome reverse wheels - I don't know what my sister did with the rest of them!

3. The Chevelle in the background - it belonged to my sister's boyfriend. As I understand, the wheels and tires came off of the Chevelle permanently that day and went on the 4-4-2. Personally, I liked the chrome reverse wheels a lot better.

4. Oddly enough, even though my dad thought power steering was a waste of money, the 4-4-2 had (and still has) power steering (and power brakes) when he bought it in February 1969!

Randy C.

 

Nice cars, are those the crossed flags of a big block on your mom's Camaro? 396?

 

I don't have an explanation for the crossed flags on the Camaro. Someone else asked me about that, too. The Camaro had a 327 2-bbl with the powerglide tranny. My brother sometimes had a habit of selling a different story on the outside of his cars, though. I'm wondering if he removed the 327 emblem and put on a 396 emblem. He did the same thing with a '66 Caprice he once owned. It had buckets and a 396 with a console and he put on 427 badges - it got lots of comments but it wasn't what he advertised it to be!

 

love those big letter tires and Cragers! When my Car is done in the paint shop It will have the same set up. Thanks for the Pics!

 

In the 4th pic your sister had it right. Today, I'd LOVE to have a '68 442 that looked like some high school kid had gotten hold of it in the mid 70's. That's cool to me. That's what I grew up with.

 

Thanks for sharing your pictures Randy, they bring back memories of the sixties and early seventies. The picture of you in your khakis reminds me of a picture my wife dug up that she took of me when I was applying for some program or other when I was in Okinawa. I can't remember ever being that skinny and the whites make it look even more so. Weird how a few pictures can start you reminiscing. I also used the paint stick on the letters of my tires. You're right, they never lasted more than a few weeks.

 

Very cool pics!