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Rebecca Harrington loves her family’s 1957 Post Chevrolet coupe and says she’ll happily travel anywhere in the eye-catching blue and white finned cruising machine.
“We love it, we take out three-year-old son in it all the time, to all the car events,” The Mudgee resident told Dubbo Photo News when she rolled up for a Sunday cruise after a night at the drive-in.
“We just found it and loved it, we wanted something we could take the little one in and it just fit our profile.” Husband Chris couldn’t agree more – he said he’d been looking for something a bit different that would become part of the family’s lifestyle as well as a hobby in itself. “We came over to the Drive-in to see The World’s Fastest Indian. It was a bit of a shame about the weather but it is what it is,” Mr Harrington said. “We’ve owned (the car) for five years. We bought it from an importer in
Sydney. It’s running a 350ci V-8 with a Muncie four-speed and just the original diff. We bought it as a tidy cruiser to cart us all around in.”
He said it caught his eye because there aren’t many ’57 Chevs around at the best of times, there are far fewer two-door coupes and only a per centage of them are the Posts.
“I like the ‘posted’ car, I’ve got a mate with the Bel Air, which is pillarless. He said he gets heaps of water and air into the car through those little trims. The post gives it that structural integrity.
“And they just look cool as well.”
The car is not the original colour scheme.
“It came from the factory as a two-tone green, we like this colour, it looks great.”
By day, Mr Harrington works as a fitter at the Ulan coal mine so he also has the skills to do much of the work on the Chevvy himself, which he reckons is another part of the enjoyment of owning such a cool classic ride. He’s pleased the Mudgee car scene is growing. “I’ve got one mate who has a ’69 Camaro and he’s building a ’52 pick-up at the moment. There’s a good car scene building in Mudgee these days. We have Coffee and Cars there once a month now and we get a few cars to that.”
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