I have been a big Canadian Pontiac fan for a long time, but I just found this forum! I have a '66 Strato Chief 2 door post, 63000 miles and original paint. Don't get me wrong, it's a project but its pretty solid all things considered. A guy in the town I grew up in had an original black '66 Strato that was rediculously low with fender skirts and steelies and I thought it was the coolest thing ever back in the late '80s / early '90's. The weird thing is I saw the car that I own now parked outside a book store in 1993, I talked to the guy that had it then and it had 37000 miles on it, and it was "Not for sale"! Weird how these things work out. Glad I found some fellow Canadian Poncho fans.
Stephenzone said
May 31, 2010
welcome. i'm surprised i beat 427carl welcoming you cause he does like a 66 strat
67Poncho said
May 31, 2010
Welcome aboard!!! C2 will be soooo happy that there is another post found!! When you get time, please post some pics for all to see!!
73SC said
May 31, 2010
Welcome indeed, we love pictures by the way
427carl said
May 31, 2010
Big Welcome from Clinton Ontario......i used to have a 66 loved it heres some eye candy..
68sd said
May 31, 2010
427carl wrote:
Big Welcome from Clinton Ontario......i used to have a 66 loved it heres some eye candy..
Did you sell it Carl ? did i miss that?
-- Edited by 68sd on Wednesday 2nd of June 2010 06:34:18 AM
rabbit64cs said
May 31, 2010
""USED TO ??""
and Welcome to the site !! you'll find all you need here !
-- Edited by rabbit64cs on Monday 31st of May 2010 10:56:55 PM
grande jim said
May 31, 2010
Welcome from a fellow 66 lover on the Island!!!
4SPEED427 said
May 31, 2010
Welcome here, and I want to buy your car!!!!!
Beaumont4008 said
Jun 1, 2010
Welcome to the site, hope you have pics.
66_Strat said
Jun 1, 2010
Well I have had a few '66's over the years. I drove a Tremclad black '66 Laurentian 2 door post for a few years in the late '90's. It was an original Butternut yellow with a red interior car, 283/glide with a 12 bolt, reverberator (?) for the AM radio, vacuum release for the trunk car. I also owned a '66 Parisienne station wagon with a 327/ 4 speed set up in it. I honestly don't know if it was a factory 3 or 4 speed car, but it had a 4 speed when I got it, even had tilt, a 12 bolt posi, and the factory tach in it. Sadly it was so rusted that it almost broke in half when I got it towed out of the back yard I found it in. but what do you want for $150?
My current '66, not a flattering pic but this is what it looked like the second time I bought it. I actually bought the same car a year or so before from some guy that said he was "working on getting the registration" for it. So I got it towed to my storage yard, and waited. A tow truck driver recognized the car a few months later and called the cops, turned out it was the victim of some guy that had swindled it off someone else. So the cops seized it and I was out the cash I paid for it, the towing to storage, and the storage itself. Ironically, like a year later, the car showed up for sale by the actual owner, so of course I had to buy it (again). How could I not buy the same car twice?? It's a 283 / 3 in the tree car.
427Carl - man I have all those old pics of your car on my pc, it was super cool!
Here is a pic from 1992 ish of the black '66 I really liked. My friend had bought it in the '80's, and it had been a low car since he got it.
Here's me helping him pull the tired 305 out of it in 2004. It had been sitting for about 6 years at this point. I just saw him last week and he wanted to know if I wanted to buy it. Kinda hard to say no, I have a full plate already! But seeing as I have wanted it since I was 14, I guess I will end up owning it.
And since y'all like pics, here's a '66 Laurentian I drove out to Calgary to see about 5 or 6 years ago. The guy said it was "90% restored" on the phone. Man, I don't know what color the sky is in his world, but needless to say I wasn't impressed when I got there after a 9 hour drive. The same car ended up on the Ed's Project Cars website a few weeks later.
Canadian Poncho said
Jun 1, 2010
Great pics. Welcome to the site!
ARCADIAN said
Jun 1, 2010
Welcome, thanks for the pics!
57poncho said
Jun 1, 2010
Welcome sure sucks to buy the same car twice
427carl said
Jun 1, 2010
427carl wrote:
yes I did sell it my wife bought it.......
427carl said
Jun 1, 2010
Love to see a "white one" being saved I don't mind my car being 1 of 5-6 left instead of 1 of 4-5 left running need anthing for it?
68 427 said
Jun 1, 2010
427carl wrote:
yes I did sell it my wife bought it.......
THAT'S ONE LUCKY LADY!
427carl said
Jun 1, 2010
Thanks She solved my problems by buying "both" cars...
I am a little worried though, as she has missed 2 payments
66_Strat said
Jun 1, 2010
The white one is 99% there - all the stuff missing in the pics was stacked in the trunk or in the car, and most of it was labelled in bags. I got the seats recovered, the door panels are intact as is the dash and the headliner. The rear bumper is junk, I am missing the reverse lights, and the fender "edging" for the drivers front fender is gone. I don't know what that piece is called, it's not the actual potmetal/chrome that goes around the lights, it's the body coloured piece that goes on the forward edge of the fender, around where the lights go - clear as mud??
Welcome indeed, we love pictures by the way
Did you sell it Carl ? did i miss that?
-- Edited by 68sd on Wednesday 2nd of June 2010 06:34:18 AM
-- Edited by rabbit64cs on Monday 31st of May 2010 10:56:55 PM
Well I have had a few '66's over the years. I drove a Tremclad black '66 Laurentian 2 door post for a few years in the late '90's. It was an original Butternut yellow with a red interior car, 283/glide with a 12 bolt, reverberator (?) for the AM radio, vacuum release for the trunk car. I also owned a '66 Parisienne station wagon with a 327/ 4 speed set up in it. I honestly don't know if it was a factory 3 or 4 speed car, but it had a 4 speed when I got it, even had tilt, a 12 bolt posi, and the factory tach in it. Sadly it was so rusted that it almost broke in half when I got it towed out of the back yard I found it in. but what do you want for $150?
My current '66, not a flattering pic but this is what it looked like the second time I bought it. I actually bought the same car a year or so before from some guy that said he was "working on getting the registration" for it. So I got it towed to my storage yard, and waited. A tow truck driver recognized the car a few months later and called the cops, turned out it was the victim of some guy that had swindled it off someone else. So the cops seized it and I was out the cash I paid for it, the towing to storage, and the storage itself. Ironically, like a year later, the car showed up for sale by the actual owner, so of course I had to buy it (again). How could I not buy the same car twice?? It's a 283 / 3 in the tree car.
427Carl - man I have all those old pics of your car on my pc, it was super cool!
Here is a pic from 1992 ish of the black '66 I really liked. My friend had bought it in the '80's, and it had been a low car since he got it.
Here's me helping him pull the tired 305 out of it in 2004. It had been sitting for about 6 years at this point. I just saw him last week and he wanted to know if I wanted to buy it. Kinda hard to say no, I have a full plate already! But seeing as I have wanted it since I was 14, I guess I will end up owning it.
And since y'all like pics, here's a '66 Laurentian I drove out to Calgary to see about 5 or 6 years ago. The guy said it was "90% restored" on the phone. Man, I don't know what color the sky is in his world, but needless to say I wasn't impressed when I got there after a 9 hour drive. The same car ended up on the Ed's Project Cars website a few weeks later.
I am a little worried though, as she has missed 2 payments
The white one is 99% there - all the stuff missing in the pics was stacked in the trunk or in the car, and most of it was labelled in bags. I got the seats recovered, the door panels are intact as is the dash and the headliner. The rear bumper is junk, I am missing the reverse lights, and the fender "edging" for the drivers front fender is gone. I don't know what that piece is called, it's not the actual potmetal/chrome that goes around the lights, it's the body coloured piece that goes on the forward edge of the fender, around where the lights go - clear as mud??