Thanks you all! Hope to be able to contribute as well as learn. I love all the X cars! The two you see in the picture above are my first ones. My first car was the black '57 you see in the corner, bought it in '74.
It looks like a bunch of you are close to my age. The same as the cars!
My grandpa had a '58 348 4 bbl car when I was about two, one of my earliest memories is my dad buying a "new" used '61 Bel Air 283 car that we owned up until the late seventies, later he bought a '63 Impala as a backup car. They were all four doors (parts cars) but the seed was planted!