2023 Beach Day

[Beach-Burban]

Originally Posted by MikeB

I lived in San Pedro near 25th + Western back when I was in the Navy. Had a friend whose parents bought a big house on a hillside in Palos Verdes for $60K, which might as well have been a million bucks for me back then.

I'd look up that house's value if I had the address. However, even little 1,000 sq ft houses near where we lived, which cost around $25K back then, are now selling for over $1 million.

Funny, but I just had a flashback. Their neighbor had a couple late 50s/early 60s Corvettes and was a Fuel Injection Specialist who actually did contract work for at least one Chevy dealer. I still remember him having shelves full of complete units and parts in his garage. How cool was that?

Super cool Suburban!

Thanks, MikeB…the Beach Burban is still a work-in-progress, but does photograph nicely!

My parents house cost $6,999.00 new in 1952 and was only 860 sq ft…today, the lot alone is worth a million! Go figure???

I still remember the days (before the internet and E-Bay) where you could occasionally find a Rochester Fuel Injection unit sitting in a box under a table at someone’s yard sale…for around $50!!! Even today, I look inside every box when I go to a yard sale because “you never know what you’ll find”?

My wife and I traveled through TX on our way home from TN this year…and the parts we saw were beautiful and filled with incredibly nice people! CA is home and we feel as though our time to make a big move is behind us now…but if I were a younger man, I’d vacate pronto (however, the year-round beach weather would be tough to leave!).

Woody