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    FOREVER 409

    Oct 27, 2022 5 minutes

    FOR ANY ASPIRING CAR GUY in the early Sixties, hearing the Beach Boys’ “409” on the radio induced dreams of owning one of the big Chevys. Nineteen-year-old Bob Vencevich was one of those young motorheads.

    Growing up in North Chicago, Illinois, Bob worked at a gas station in 1963. He owned a 1957 Chevy convertible at the time but, inspired by the Beach Boys classic, he and a friend decided one Saturday to stop by the local Chevy dealer to see a 409 in person.

    “I looked around, talked to a salesman, and said ‘I want a 409,’” Bob recounts. “Everyone had a red or white one, but the book had the color chip for a metallic brown. I said that’s the color I’m gonna get.”

    He decided to order the

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