BRISTOL TOWNSHIP

As a teen in the late 1960s, Rob Leipziger sat at the corner of Woodbourne and New Falls roads in Middletown watching gas station employees road-test Chevrolet Camaro Z/28s, Chevelles and Corvettes.

Many times, "They really got on it, shifting those four-speed transmissions, laying down rubber for as far as I could see down Woodbourne Road," the 54-year-old said recently. "It was my dream to own cars like that."

Now he does.

The owner of Rob's Automotive and Collision Center, one of the largest automotive repair businesses in Bucks County with 160 employees, has amassed a small collection of 1960s muscle cars and has opened a museum to house them.

He said he loves Chevrolet products, so it's fitting that his collection of 1969 Camaros and other high-performance cars now sits inside the former Weed Chevrolet dealership on Route 413 near Ford Road in Bristol Township, about a half mile from his collision center. Admission is free.

He recently opened the vintage car museum and sales location, where he'll also service vehicles, at the former Weed site, which is about 7 acres. Leipziger said he expects his new venture to employ 30 people.

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Chris Coad remembers his excitement as an 8-year-old boy when he accompanied his grandmother to the Chevrolet dealership.
 
He was riding in his grandmother's pink 1957 Ford Thunderbird to use as a trade-in for a new 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS. She wanted a car that would last, so she opted for heavy-duty components. Those selections led her to an Impala SS hardtop coupe with a base price of $3,003. It was one of 66,510 such models manufactured that model year.

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New York artist Jeremy Dean spent his last $15,000 to buy a Hummer H2, cut it in half, modify it and find two horses to drag it around Central Park.

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Long before former President Ronald Reagan's name was added to Washington National Airport, Nancy Windingland worked at the facility that serves Washington, D.C.

On her way to work one day in 1984, Windingland spotted a fellow commuter driving a brand new car she describes as "so cute." She saw the flanks of the white convertible were covered with "wood" trim.

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Dear Doctor: I have a 2005 Toyota Prius that got stuck in traffic on a slight incline. It seems that I can only creep and crawl forward on the battery, and the line denoting battery capacity is getting less and less. I'm unable to move the car forward fast enough to charge the battery. Once the battery is depleted can the Prius move forward on the gasoline engine alone? Richard
 
Dear Richard: In the case describe your Prius should operate under gasoline power. There have been many updates in the computer programming. I recommend you go back to the Toyota dealer. Another concern is the battery will be going on six years old and should be tested for its ability to store the reserve voltage needed.

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Sixteen-year-old Lonnie Mathews was living at home with his folks in 1955, going to school in Londonderry, Vt., and was very interested in acquiring a set of wheels.
 
For $50 he purchased an Ivory Green 1939 Ford Deluxe four-door sedan. "It even had a heater," Mathews recalls. "It was a pretty good old car," he says.

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I get the custom car deal. I just don't get what this guy was going for with his dragon theme.

This guy must be jacked for the How to Train Your Dragon movie.

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Ray Samuels explains that only a few hundred Mini Cooper S Mark II cars like his were manufactured in the 1967 model year. The reason for the limited production, he says, was because most of the British-built cars were destined for the United States; however, the U.S. government altered the safety rules for the importation of the cars, which made any further production impractical.
 
Samuels says evidence shows that his Mini's original owner "used it up pretty good." In 1975, after 39,000 miles the crankshaft snapped and the disabled car was parked with the intention that the engine could be rebuilt. By 1989, reality set in and the owner realized that he was never going to return the car to good health. He advertised the 1967 Mini Cooper S Mark II for sale, which is where it captured the attention of Samuels.

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In 1969, the Fred Bauer Chevrolet dealership in Portland, Ore., was very happy to accept a $100 deposit from steady customer Hal Miller. During the early 1960s, Miller had regularly purchased each new Chevrolet model as soon as it became available, such as the Chevy II and Chevelle.
 
"I had heard that General Motors would produce a new model called the `Monte Carlo'," Miller recalls.

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Airman Second Class Robert Holland was stationed at Castle Air Force Base in central California when he bought a new car in April 1965. Holland purchased his first blue "300 Series" Chevrolet Chevelle four-door sedan with a 327-cubic-inch V-8 engine and a four-speed transmission. Within a year the young man was discharged and drove his car home to Elgin, Ill.
 
Today in 2010, Holland still owns that 1965 Chevrolet. He has had so much good luck with it that in the last 45 years he has owned 19 Chevelle and Malibu cars.

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