Loaded my Acadian on the trailer to take it to the car wash at the dealership where I work. I am degreasing the engine compartment before the repaint. Got there (7 miles) and the wash bay was full, couldn't get in.
Drove 15 miles the other direction to a car wash with a semi bay and did it there. Almost smoked a deer with the truck on the way there. I just bought the trailer in the fall, and I haven't put a brake controller in my truck yet. Sure could have used those trailer brakes when the deer ran across right in front of me.
Number one son helping with the preparation for the trip.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Gorgeous car Carl, you'd best be getting your trailer brakes operating so the car stays looking that way! The day I left Shilo in 1999 (transferred to Edmonton) a deer ran right into the side of the drivers door on my freshly painted 89 Z-71 shorty. I'm sure he survived the incident. As for my door... 6 years in Shilo, not even a close call until then.
Thanks for the compliments and encouragement to get it done!
I am excited about working on it finally, and starting to get the motivation. That has been a struggle this winter. Too much time on here, not enough on it!
Other than the color is different, this is a twin to my first car when I was 16. This one is a lot nicer shape now than that one was when I owned it in 1974...
65 SD's are pretty unusual around here anyway. For that matter, SD Acadians in any year seem to be rare. Too bad, cause I like all the years of Acadian.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Thanks for the compliments and encouragement to get it done!
I am excited about working on it finally, and starting to get the motivation. That has been a struggle this winter. Too much time on here, not enough on it!
Other than the color is different, this is a twin to my first car when I was 16. This one is a lot nicer shape now than that one was when I owned it in 1974...
65 SD's are pretty unusual around here anyway. For that matter, SD Acadians in any year seem to be rare. Too bad, cause I like all the years of Acadian.
I remember driving beside this car all the way from Morris,Mb. to Springfield Illinois!!.Although my car was much much faster as I believe I puled into the hotel parking lot first! HA HA!!
Oh, you were the guys with the top down and the major sunburns??? We were the ones with the windows up and the factory air (now removed) blowing on myself and my pregnant wife!!!
I don't know how that happened. I mean the part that we let you pull into the hotel first, not the part that my wife was pregnant. I've figured that one out.........................
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
It was a (cough, cough) beautiful day here. My (cough, cough) throat hurt so bad I thought I better leave early before I infected someone at work!
I got home a bit earlier than normal (!!!) and found some time to push my car outside and sand the firewall before supper. Tomorrow hopefully it gets some white paint.
Stupid Canadian cars! If it was a US car, I could just paint everything under the hood in black, but no, we had to be different and do our firewalls body color!
"Edit" OOOPS!!! Sorry for the almost X-rated shot of me. Number one son didn't notice the close-to-plumber look when he took the shot I guess!!! I see it now when I posted it. Oh well, look past that sexy 50 year old body at the 43 year old car!
-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 21:57, 2008-05-23
-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 21:58, 2008-05-23
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Actually, you can now buy a big rubber band. You attach one end to a hook you weld to your rad support, the other attaches to your differential yoke. Push the car backwards for about 1/4 mile and AWAY YOU GOOOOOO! Just like those balsa airplanes we had as kids!
Dave, I'm not putting a Chevy engine in there. I'm putting in an ACADIAN 327. Mostly stock, it's actually a 65 327 that even (by pure luck) has most of the right date codes. The heads especially, they are cast almost exactly 4 weeks before the car was made.
It started life as a 250 horse 327. I am debating going with the 250 horse intake and carb (Rochester 4 jet), 300 horse intake and carb (Carter) or a 69 Z28 intake with a Q-jet. I have all 3 combos. Otherwise, stock pistons, L79 cam like Todd just did, stock manifolds, Muncie 4 speed, stock shifter and console.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
yes! going with the chevrolet Z28 intake, would be sweet... Acadian 327, produced by Chevrolet, owned by GM, and sold only at Pontiac dealers.. No wonder they go like crazy! Mint car love the white and tinted glass.. Wish I could find a little car like that....Maybe someday,when I grow up..
I hate wearing a shirt on a nice day!
going with the chevrolet Z28 intake, would be sweet... Acadian 327, produced by Chevrolet, owned by GM, and sold only at Pontiac dealers.. No wonder they go like crazy! Mint car love the white and tinted glass.. Wish I could find a little car like that....Maybe someday,when I grow up.. 