Your last sentence has triggered a memory I'd completely forgotten about..
I bought my second (and final) PC in 2002,a Monaco white automatic from a man in Ipswich. I lived in Coventry at the time and part of the deal involved ferrying an o/s rear wing from a chap in Balsall Heath down to the vendor. It just, just fitted into my Lada Riva saloon with the passenger seat reclined all the way,the wheelarch in the front footwell and the tail light surround brushing against the headlining over the back seat.
This is the Cresta,the old farmer who bought it new died in about 1977 and it sat in the garage until his widow passed away in 2001. I had it a couple of years and did nothing with it,sold it on and last heard of it up in Newcastle about fifteen years ago. I hope it survives,it wasn't a bad old thing.
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The boggo One-Fifty model....1957 but in this entry-level car the side trim resembled that used in 1956 cars. "Blue Flame" sixes in these going by the 235 displacement (if that is indeed what the figure is referring to rather than the size of the shipment!) but you could theoretically get the new fuel-injected small block. I've seen one so fitted but the guy said it wasn't original.....
I like these, I reckon the fins look better with the simpler side trim....
There's a great long bar in Rock & Roll heaven.......
I found one of those 57's in a scrapyard here years ago, may have been the legendary one in Norfolk whose name is currently missing from my ancient memory. The 235 is the Blue Flame six, I had one in my first American car back in 1976 which was a RHD '59 Impala Sport Sedan aka 'flat top' reg WXT4. It had been sitting around for years yet once a fuel line was fitted from the pump to the carb it fired up and ran very well without even cleaning the plugs. You could still get the fuel-injected 283 V8 in the range of 1959 full size Chevys but that was the last year they were available, after that only Corvettes had that option.
Edit: the scrapyard was Priors of Yaxham, it had loads of 50s US cars from local bases plus quite a few LHD British cars too, presumably as they were being posted to Great Britain the service people decided to buy a LHD British car for our tiny roads and have it shipped over, I recall seeing an F-type Victor and an upright Anglia among others.
