Can anyone DeCode this??

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

RE: Can anyone DeCode this??

Ghost Post · Poncho Master!

Feel free to blame me Ray...I'm the one that was driving without my glasses..

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

I have faith in you to Represent Carl!

What thread is it?

-- Edited by 73SC at 15:03, 2008-10-29

eeluddy · Uber Guru

Nice lookin' bus!!

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

is that a radio delete car?

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

Astro Jet wrote:

is that a radio delete car?

Yes it is, a radio delete, with manual steering and brakes, but a power tailgate window.
I didn't get a hold of him today to see if he got keys cut, I'll try him again tomorro.
And here the emblem on the front fender...

-- Edited by sixtywagon at 22:13, 2008-10-29

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

You'll have to change your user ID to 68 wagon....

I would not delay this deal too long. Seeing what is available out there for that price makes me think it's a good buy.

Brings a tear to my eye cause it reminds me of my 67 Grande Parisienne 396 wagon.

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

sixtywagon wrote:

Astro Jet wrote:

is that a radio delete car?

Yes it is, a radio delete, with manual steering and brakes, but a power tailgate window.
I didn't get a hold of him today to see if he got keys cut, I'll try him again tomorro.
And here the emblem on the front fender...

-- Edited by sixtywagon at 22:13, 2008-10-29

Way Kewl! Someone with a very limited budget ordered that car but they had their priorities straight. Get the biggest motor you could afford, the rear window for convenience, and forget about everything else. Did you look underneath to see whether it has a 12 bolt - and maybe a posi? wink

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

Went by tonight but he didn't get the key cut...He said there coming over tomorro, to do it. Didn't have my camera with me today, and had to get home to watch the Flames....GOFLAMESGO!!!!

1965CS · Guru

Carl Stevenson wrote:

The 1-5-16 means first shift, month 5 (May) and day (16). We know it's a 68 so the year is a given.

Anyone know how many shifts were there back then? confused

My VIN search sheet from GM says the production date was April 1, 65 but the car's tag says 2-3-31. Just wondering if it took 2 shifts to build it? weirdface

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I wonder if the second shift runs past midnight and that is how they determine the date? Tag stamped on March 31, car finished April 1?

Or maybe it's an April fool's joke!

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 19:20, 2008-11-01

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

Well, Don't think I'll be buying this one....Got it running today(he got a key made) Runs good, No tranny fluid, add some, it goes into gear OK....Look underneath....and

-- Edited by sixtywagon at 23:09, 2008-11-04

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

The pics aren't good, but thats the frame, right behind the trans x-member...The rest of the frame looks good, but I don't like the look of this.

SD 396 · Poncho Master!

That is a typical spot for these frames to be bad. I know of several people around here (Ontario) looking for 2 door frames.
It's too bad, the car looked really good from the initial pics.

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

It is in real good shape. But I can't justify $1500, for a car with a rusty frame, no matter how nice it looks. I almost didn't check under the car because the rest was so rust free, And I went there with the cash in my pocket...

-- Edited by sixtywagon at 23:26, 2008-11-04

67BBSD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

sixtywagon wrote:

The pics aren't good, but thats the frame, right behind the trans x-member...The rest of the frame looks good, but I don't like the look of this.

Well-your a smart guy take advantage of the "frame rot" not many people will buy it that way-tell him your sorry can't pay $1500 because of the frame but would pay $500 for parts-theres no way you can't make money at that ! He'll eventually call you because anyone he tells that the frame has rot won't even come to see it. The car is not junk it just has more issues than you originally thought-don't let it go to the crusher.

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

I don't really think he'll let it go to the crusher, he seems emotionally attatched to it. But, he still thinks the motor is worth $1000., I told him its nothing special, other than its a 327, and it has low mileage, but someone told him "it was a corvette motor" because they seen a corvette at one time with the same motor in it.

67rag396 · Poncho Master!

Would a 68 wagon fit on a 67 rag frame?
If so I can help

Rick

67BBSD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

67rag396 wrote:

Would a 68 wagon fit on a 67 rag frame?
If so I can help

Rick

It should, the overhang at the rear from the body mounts back would be longer but that could likely be saved from the wagon-big project to pull it apart like that, have to buy it cheap. Too bad its not in Ontario-it would look good in the driveway even if I just used it to store parts in !

-- Edited by 67BBSD at 00:02, 2008-11-05

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

It would be nice to have, but I have my 60 wagon as an ongoing project and didn't want another "project" car.

67Poncho · Uber Guru

Come on sixtywagon!!!! A man with only one project on the go is a man with too much time on his hands!!!! (lol) I have about a dozen on the burners here......!!!!!! Odd to have a frame that rotten, especially out west here. I have seen many a roted frame, but the body showed the same rot as well. Was it kept inside in a garage most of it's life after use on the road? If so, my '67 Grande wagon was the same way and if fell apart from the bottom up. That's why am converting a '68 Laurentian wagon into the '67 Grande.
As for frames, a '67 and '68 Chev or pontiac should fit. A buddy of mine in Goose-Bay Labrador put a '67 wagon frame under his 2-dr and just cut the rear overhang. My Convert came from Colberg Ont and you Ontario guys will know what the frame will look like as well as my home province of Newfoundland!!!!! In '87 I put a rust free 4-dr Strato frame I got from Goose-Bay Labrador under my Rag as well as the rest of the bottom of the car!!!! And in '97 for my '67 Coupe, I put a Goose-Bay '70 4-dr Parisienne frame under as well. Just had to section in the rear of the frame where the rear bumper bolted on.
Depending on the rest of the undercarriage, it does look like a solid car!!
SD 396, if you are talking B-bodies, I know first hand that 4-dr frames will work under a 2-dr or Rag as I was told outright that they would not. Plus I took the complete bottom rocker to rocker from that '67 Strato 4-dr and spliced it into the Convert in '87.

-- Edited by 67Poncho at 11:52, 2008-11-05

-- Edited by 67Poncho at 11:54, 2008-11-05

-- Edited by 67Poncho at 01:07, 2008-11-06

67rag396 · Poncho Master!

Thanks for the confirmation that the frames are interchangeable.

Rick

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

Lots of experience there.
I just don't have the room to store another vehicle, I'm living in a basement suite right now til I can get my Own place(hopefully with a garage)
I'm not sure if it was in a garage or not, its been sitting in a driveway between two houses for the past three years(uncovered). Aside from the frame issue, it needs the brakes bled(easy) and the trans was out of fluid , the only other thing wrong was the drivers door wouldn't open, he said he used to slide something between the window to open it from inside.

57poncho · Uber Guru

Who would of ever thought talking about putting a wagon on a 2d frame glad to see more people thinking my way. In the past it would of been pull out the motor and trans and send the rest to the shredder

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

He called me tonight and basically told me he'd take $1000 for it. Too bad I don't have storage for this, but I'm looking....