We had this same color 1973 Caprice brand new but the sedan version. My dad loved it. He didn't want the 4 door hardtop version, had to be the 4 door sedan. It was such a nice car. I still remember the new car smell for that one. My dad always said he wanted to be buried in that car - which of course he wasn't. It had such good Air Conditioning, cold. We lived in Texas, he bought it at Henna Chevrolet in Austin. Lots of good memories . . . I would love this car today that is for sure!
I remember back in 1975, I saw one at the dealer in South Philadelphia, PA for $2.5K in excellent shape. I have save $1500.00 cash and tried to borrow $500.00 plus $150.00 sales taxes and registration but the bank told me no!
Back in the day there were zillions of these. I find it odd that GM offered 4 different greens and 3 blues. Here in Wisconsin these were total rust buckets and many ended up in the junkyard by 1980.
The car looks stunning, a real ride from those days prior Arab petrol embargo late 1973, a real shame. I love this full size GM car, but what I`m not agree with is the lack of real temperature and alternator real gauges, something missing in Ford LTD models as well, and in this area, Mopar C cars, even de A ones were superior regarding this crucial and not so expensive features. Apart from this, all them are gorgeous and somehow, missed ones as well.
Absolutely beautiful! My 73 coupe was the dark forest green with black top and interior. I had the split bench seats also, a nice option. Yours is optioned better than mine was, you have electric windows and cruise. Mine had the rubber bumper strips though, but should have gotten the side strips like you did. Did your car come with dual exhaust or did you add that? I recognize the plugs in the exhaust manifolds! Removing that stupid air pump and plugging the manifold ports was one of the first things I did to the car when my parents gave it to me, disconnected the EGR as well. Did your air filter cover come with that 400 sticker, or did you add that. My air filter cover was plain black, no decal at all. I drove that car for about 250K miles, mostly troublefree, on the original engine and transmission. I would have kept driving it if it hadn't gotten so rusty. You have a beautiful time piece, please take special care of it for me, I am so envious! If I could have most any car in showroom condition, it would be my old 73 coupe...Perhaps with some money for fuel though!
Thanks for your story! I will take good care of it, I guarantee! The car came with single exhaust and I did the dual set up. The sticker on the air filter is an add on by me. It came with the big bumper guards in the front, but I removed them, because I don’t like the look of it, makes the front looks “heavy”! These Chevrolet full sizes were some of the best cars overall; looks, handling, ample performance, very simpel technical and durable drive trains. I just❤’em.
@@carscloseup Same here buddy! The only issues I had with my 73 was the "constant velocity joints" in the driveshaft. They only lasted about 70K before they started whining. Tried rebuilt driveshafts but they were NG, had to replace with new. But looking back, I was a kid, and way too hard on the car. Original 400 and turbo 400 tranny all the way up to 250K miles, when the northeast rust killed it. I remember everything about that car and how to work on it. Wish I could have done a "frame off restoration on it", but it was too rusty in the end. Love the "400" sticker on your air filter cover, even though the poor 400 small black had been choked way down by that point.
@@donk499The engine has the torque of a much stronger engine, doesn’t feels like it’s choked at all. The transmission is a TH350 on the 400 version. This car has never been restored, never welded, but has had a paint job at one point…
@@carscloseup Well, like I said, I was a kid when I had mine, and was pretty darn rough on it... So, I'm sure the 400 developed plenty of power. Perhaps I was misinformed about the tranny, I remember the shop telling me it had a turbo 400, perhaps not. Yours looks wonderful, could never tell it was painted...
I love those GM V8s. They were always smooth, refined and durable.
Now,this is a car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They dont make them anymore
We had this same color 1973 Caprice brand new but the sedan version. My dad loved it. He didn't want the 4 door hardtop version, had to be the 4 door sedan. It was such a nice car. I still remember the new car smell for that one. My dad always said he wanted to be buried in that car - which of course he wasn't. It had such good Air Conditioning, cold. We lived in Texas, he bought it at Henna Chevrolet in Austin. Lots of good memories . . . I would love this car today that is for sure!
My parents bought a 73 Impala 2 dr new. It was butterscotch metallic with a parchment top and interior. It was beautiful!
Great car! Congrats!
I remember back in 1975, I saw one at the dealer in South Philadelphia, PA for $2.5K in excellent shape. I have save $1500.00 cash and tried to borrow $500.00 plus $150.00 sales taxes and registration but the bank told me no!
@@johnmadow5331 I’m sorry to hear that! There has been numerous cars in my life, that I had to walk away from due to lack of funds!
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I had a chocolate brown coupe with black cloth interior it was a very nice comfortable car and lasted a good long time too
Back in the day there were zillions of these. I find it odd that GM offered 4 different greens and 3 blues. Here in Wisconsin these were total rust buckets and many ended up in the junkyard by 1980.
The car looks stunning, a real ride from those days prior Arab petrol embargo late 1973, a real shame. I love this full size GM car, but what I`m not agree with is the lack of real temperature and alternator real gauges, something missing in Ford LTD models as well, and in this area, Mopar C cars, even de A ones were superior regarding this crucial and not so expensive features. Apart from this, all them are gorgeous and somehow, missed ones as well.
@@guillermojimenezcastelblan8456 I agree, those idiot lights instead of gauges is an insulting way to cheap out…
Absolutely beautiful! My 73 coupe was the dark forest green with black top and interior. I had the split bench seats also, a nice option. Yours is optioned better than mine was, you have electric windows and cruise. Mine had the rubber bumper strips though, but should have gotten the side strips like you did. Did your car come with dual exhaust or did you add that? I recognize the plugs in the exhaust manifolds! Removing that stupid air pump and plugging the manifold ports was one of the first things I did to the car when my parents gave it to me, disconnected the EGR as well. Did your air filter cover come with that 400 sticker, or did you add that. My air filter cover was plain black, no decal at all. I drove that car for about 250K miles, mostly troublefree, on the original engine and transmission. I would have kept driving it if it hadn't gotten so rusty.
You have a beautiful time piece, please take special care of it for me, I am so envious! If I could have most any car in showroom condition, it would be my old 73 coupe...Perhaps with some money for fuel though!
Thanks for your story! I will take good care of it, I guarantee! The car came with single exhaust and I did the dual set up. The sticker on the air filter is an add on by me. It came with the big bumper guards in the front, but I removed them, because I don’t like the look of it, makes the front looks “heavy”! These Chevrolet full sizes were some of the best cars overall; looks, handling, ample performance, very simpel technical and durable drive trains. I just❤’em.
@@carscloseup Same here buddy! The only issues I had with my 73 was the "constant velocity joints" in the driveshaft. They only lasted about 70K before they started whining. Tried rebuilt driveshafts but they were NG, had to replace with new. But looking back, I was a kid, and way too hard on the car. Original 400 and turbo 400 tranny all the way up to 250K miles, when the northeast rust killed it. I remember everything about that car and how to work on it. Wish I could have done a "frame off restoration on it", but it was too rusty in the end. Love the "400" sticker on your air filter cover, even though the poor 400 small black had been choked way down by that point.
@@donk499The engine has the torque of a much stronger engine, doesn’t feels like it’s choked at all. The transmission is a TH350 on the 400 version. This car has never been restored, never welded, but has had a paint job at one point…
@@carscloseup Well, like I said, I was a kid when I had mine, and was pretty darn rough on it... So, I'm sure the 400 developed plenty of power. Perhaps I was misinformed about the tranny, I remember the shop telling me it had a turbo 400, perhaps not. Yours looks wonderful, could never tell it was painted...
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