Tri-Fives!

By Colin Date

If you’ve been reading my “View” each month, you know I’ve written about Late Great Chevys, Camaros, Corvettes and Chevelles (so far). All cars near and dear to my heart, I might add. I’ve had up-close and personal experiences with all of these cars, and the memories are all happy ones. Except one Corvette “incident” where I took an ’88 coupe in for routine maintenance and the shop ran their parts truck into it– but I digress…

Up until now, I’ve written very little on my personal history with Tri-5s, and that’s primarily because I have none. I’m being honest here. I’m not going to spin some tall tale telling you how I once raced a gray primer-clad ’55 Chevy against a 1970 GTO. No, that would be straight from Two-Lane Blacktop.