Cars of Coolhaven

How about a combined posting of some vintage American muscle? I never get around to post them all here separately, not in the least because I have quite some research to do on these cars. I am not really up to spec with seventies American whales, pardon, cars.

Let’s start with a car that is yellow, and quite well-known: the Chevrolet Nova, better known as the Chevvie Nova of course.

The pictures aren’t the highest of quality, the Nova was one of the first cars I shot on Coolhaven, a couple of years ago. Somehow, it never got posted. Today, justice is served!

Straight on to another big American boat of a car: the Oldsmobile Cutlass. What Cutlass it is? I have no idea. Oldsmobile appears to have named all their cars a Cutlass this-or-whatever in the seventies. Oh well, feel free to leave a note in the comments! I am still not sure whether or not I like this car. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is really ugly, but somehow, I seem to like it anyway. The huge ass, the radiator grille…

I would say it is something like a 1971 model, but I could be way of… Again, any comments are appreciated. Normally, now, I would upload some nice pictures of a vintage Ford I have. However, the judges are still out on that car. To be honest, I still don’t know what model of car it is… Let’s keep that one in the pipeline for now and go straight back to Chevrolet:

From Wikipedia:

The Chevrolet Camaro is a “pony car” made in North America by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors. It was introduced on 26 September 1966 as a 1967 model year and was designed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang. The car shared the platform and major components with the Pontiac Firebird, also introduced in 1967. Four distinct generations of the car were produced before production ended in 2002. A new Camaro is expected to roll off assembly lines in 2009.

Although it was technically a compact car (by the standards of the time), Camaro may also be classified as an intermediate touring car, a sports car, or a muscle car.

Though the car’s name was contrived with no meaning, GM researchers reportedly found the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for “friend” or “companion.” In some automotive periodicals before official release, it was code-named “Panther”, however, the project designation for the Camaro was XP-836 and some early GM photos show the final Camaro body labeled “Chaparral”.[2] Automotive press asked Chevrolet product managers “What is a Camaro?”, and they were told it was “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs”.[3] The name conveniently fit Chevrolet’s “C” naming structure that included Corvair, Chevelle, Chevy II, and Corvette.

And to give you a look into the future, this is how a fourth generation Camaro looks like:

Which goes to show that all the names from the past get screwed over in the present… But, back to Coolhaven, and back to Oldsmobile (this topic is hereby renamed Chevvie and Oldsmobile megapost instead of US cars megapost ) with this enormous Oldsmobile 98, I would guess fourth generation:

Phew! I am glad I got that all online… I hope you enjoy the pictures, please comment on these cars because I know little about them. Next post will be something completely different, I promise!