The purpose of this Blog


This blog is to detail my 40 years (1973 - 2013) with a 1928 Chevrolet tourer, affectionately called "The Red Chev".

The acquisition, restoration, improvements and my experiences over the years are covered in as much detail as I can remember.

Some of the later postings include car club outings and other vintage car items that I hope will be of interest to people.

If you have the time, scroll back to where it all started in 1973 and follow the journey.

Thanks for dropping by.

Regards Ray Dean

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

100,000 visitors to this blog.

With this being the biggest milestone for my blog to date, its a good opportunity to say thanks to a few people.

To all who have viewed the blog since the slow start on 15th December 2010 to where it is today.

From the first posting http://my28chev.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/introduction.html which has only been viewed by 28 people, to the latest postings, all of which make up the 730 posts in total.

I can still recall the early days when I thought it would fizzle out at about 2,500 hits, so I am amazed that today (May 2013) where it is on target for 10,000 hits in a 1 month period.

Graph of Blogger page views

To this bloke called Grant Fowler from Gippsland Victoria, for being the motivation to kick it off in the first place, with his blog http://montythe1928chevrolet.blogspot.com.au/



To the 38,909 viewers from the USA

To the  31,000 viewers from Australia

To the 3,600 viewers from Canada

To the 3,500 viewers from the United Kingdom

To the 2,300 viewers from Russia

To the 1,420 viewers from Germany

To the 1,110 viewers from France

To the 740 viewers from Brazil

To the 473 viewers from the Netherlands

To the 363 viewers from Sweden, and those from other areas that have not logged on the statistics.

And of course not forgetting the original star of the show, "The Red Chev"


As purchased in 1973


 
As it is today

Thanks to you all,

I hope you keep coming back from time to time, and as long as I can keep finding interesting photos and articles, not to mention the odd story about "The Red Chev", I will keep the postings coming.

Cheers

Ray














Dont Feed the Bears

Your grand father would have been told, he would have told your father who may have told you:

"Son, don't feed the bears"

But.........................













Car Yards from way Back Then




















Monday, May 20, 2013

Vintage Wrecks & Crazy Dare Devils

Now an accident is one thing, but there are a few crazy hell drivers in a few of these photos.




















































Vintage and Classic Pedal Cars & a couple of Billy Carts

We all had one at one stage, seems like such a long time ago. Maybe the following photos will bring back some memories.