...gestern gesehen und nach 8 Jahren Standzeit in einem Garten wiederbelebt.
Chevy's Black Beauty C1500 454SS
Ein bischen history bei Hagertys geklaut:
https://www.hagerty.ca/apps/valuationto ... 500-454_SSHistory of the 1990-1993 Chevrolet 454 SS Pickup By 1990, the American manufacturers were churning out hundreds of thousands of pickups that were well equipped, comfortable and functional. Performance had for the most part given way to a balance of economy and useable torque. That year, however, one pickup changed all that and greatly influenced the market going forward. This was the Chevrolet 454 SS.
GM already had a winner with their cleanly styled 1988 C/K1500 series pickups. Sales had been strong with these trucks from the onset, but something seemed to be missing from the domestic auto industry in general by this time, and that was muscle. The few vestiges of the classic muscle cars of the early 1970s were now closer aligned to all-around performance cars, with better handle but less on tap at your right toe. Taking a page from the playbook of Chrysler, who over a decade earlier had built the Dodge Lil’ Red Wagon of 1978 & ’79, Chevy took the normally unavailable in the C1500 range 454 cid Mark IV big block and put it into their smallest half-ton pickup. Available as a stand-alone model, only in a Fleetside short box in Henry Ford’s favorite color (black) with a Silverado grade Garnet red cloth bucket seat and center console interior. Granted, at introduction it was in the same tune as the 454’s that were still available in one-ton trucks, but overnight Chevy had a market sensation that saw the few that were built this first year sell for “additional market adjustment” pricing over the window sticker.
Gut, es ist ein Chevy und es war nur frischer Sprit, frische Batterie, etwas Getriebeöl(ca. 3L

), gängigmachen der hinteren Bremsen und einmal Schlüsselzeigen nötig. Der Ruhm geht also nach Flint/Michigan und nicht in ein kleines Kaff am Niederrhein. Trotzdem hab ich mich gefreut den Bigblock im Pickup meiner (Jugend)träume bollern zu hören.
So hat er mal ausgesehen

So zugemoost ist er nun...

Innen noch wie neu, nur das Rot übelst Richtung Lila verschossen....

Und der Geräuschgenerator


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