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Dates stick in my head. It was 35 years ago today I bought my first Pontiac B body. I traded my 65 Canso Sport Deluxe 283 and $40 for a 66 Grande Parisienne 283 glide. It was black, black vinyl top, bench seat with fold down armrest, no power steering! It had Keystone Classics on it too. Very cool....



By the time I sold that car 14 years later, it had factory air, power steering, disc brakes, 12 bolt posi, power seat, power windows, power trunk, power antenna, am/fm reverb, tinted glass, factory tach, tilt, factory gauges (from a US car), 427, TH400, rear window defogger.....................

Needless to say, that B body bug has never left me, but I have had to make it a lower priority these days.

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 08:54, 2008-11-05

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 Carl, we could use ths thread to get everyone's first B body story. I will write mine later today!!! The '66 looks great as well as the ass end of that '67 in the far side of the pic!!!

-- Edited by 67Poncho at 22:54, 2008-11-05

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I just realized, my Pontiac purchases have taken place in the spring for some reason.

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I crushed that 67 2+2! It had a new 1/4 on the other side.....

It was a 396 car, I got it for the engine only.

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Last February I would have paid $2,000. for a good driver's side quarter.
Some of our old decisions make us go hmm.gifhmm.gif.
Now I would buy one to hang from the ceiling but only at a good price.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

I crushed that 67 2+2! It had a new 1/4 on the other side.....

It was a 396 car, I got it for the engine only.


PLEASE, no talk of crushing just for getting an engine - that's such a Ch*vy thing to do!brainless.gif




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 Carl, we could use ths thread to get everyone first B body story. I will write mine later today!!! The '66 looks great as well as the ass end of that '67 in the far side of the pic!!!


my first b-body was a 2dr '62 impala 283 pg, 34 yrs ago. got t-boned by a dumbass that ran a stop sign. never got a pict of that car.



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67Poncho wrote:

 Carl, we could use ths thread to get everyone first B body story. I will write mine later today!!! The '66 looks great as well as the ass end of that '67 in the far side of the pic!!!


my first b-body was a 2dr '62 impala 283 pg, 34 yrs ago. got t-boned by a dumbass that ran a stop sign. never got a pict of that car.


my first 'B' body was a 63 impala SS mild 327 4-speed, full of bondo, parted it, paid $300 spring of 1984, next one was a 62 impala covertible faded orig paint 283 glide $800 bought it oct 30 1987



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Some crappy old pictures of it scanned. Notice the licence numberbiggrin  Still have those plates.  These pics are from 25 to 30 years old...

I particularly like the one with the Pontiac dealer sign. That would be about 1981 when I was parts manager there.









-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 21:55, 2008-11-05

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 21:56, 2008-11-05

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My first was in '79, when I got to Calgary, it was a 68 Parisienne 2 door fastback, 327, paid $150 from a car lot. I think I drove it for a few weeks then parked it after I bought my 65 MalibuSS 283, glide. Sold it to some young guy who loved it and begged me to sell it to him. Got $400. It was a nice dark mettalic brown and I sprayed gold fogging along the body line, It looked good, considering...LOL
  Scanned  the only pic I have of the car

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My first car was a 69' 2+2!
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My first car was a 69' 2+2!
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hey, that looks sweet-where did it go ?



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 Carl, we could use ths thread to get everyone's first B body story. I will write mine later today!!! The '66 looks great as well as the ass end of that '67 in the far side of the pic!!!

-- Edited by 67Poncho at 22:54, 2008-11-05


 Well, my first and still is, my Rag. My Dad bought it for me in the summer of '82 in Newfoundland, while my Mom and my sister and I were vacationing in Brampton, Ont. I was 15. When we got home my Dad asked to fetch something from the basement and there she was. (We had a large basement under our house.) Many, many hours of tlc into this car! Took the bottom and lots of other donor parts from a '67 Strato 4-dr sedan for it. Never drove it till the summer of '95. Sometimes I think the $100 he paid for it was too much plus I believe it knocked 10 years of my life trying to revive it!!! 
 Rolled the odometer to 0 and at the end of that 2 week vacation, my Dad and I racked on 3200miles. Now has @15,000mi. My Dad is gone now, but will have this car till I am gone as well........
 But my first bought car was a '70 Parisienne 4-dr sedan while working at Goose-Bay Labrador in the fall of '88. Lovingly called "Kermit", another green '70, it was a 6cyl and I put in a 4-speed Saginaw behind it! Had the deepest tinted/shaded windshield I had ever seen. The frame is now under my '67 2+2 Coupe.


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Oh man, THAT is ambition!

There's some great stories coming. I hope it keeps up.

I can't believe nobody has noticed the white Beaumont beside the 67 2+2 in the first pic. It belonged to a friend of mine who was killed in a crash a few years before this pic was taken. I ended up buying the car from his dad. I wish I would have kept it. It was a nice 67 Custom, bench seat, 350 had replaced the original 283.

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson at 23:38, 2008-11-05

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Cool story, and cool shot Vince
Is that you with the 80's doo?

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cdnpont wrote:

My first car was a 69' 2+2!
2247471972_2a1bdf65d8.jpg



hey, that looks sweet-where did it go ?



Sold it to pay a debt. $600.
Watched it be trashed before my eyes.

I still have dreams where I find it in a dusty barn after all these years. We all have the dream don't we?
It was a sweet car, and I've never seen another like it.

 



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 When I look back, ambition or stupidity!!!!! But at least I can tell everyone that I did build it and that I have the pics and video to prove it. But all my cars/trucks are like that. But that is how my Dad seemed to have wanted it..
 All the first 4 pics were done during and after I went to mech school in the fall of '87, most of the work done before I was 19! Cut out by hand with a carpenters hammer and chisel. Didn't have anything else...........! Later welded back in with oxy/aset mostly with my Moms coat hangers....I still laugh when she use to cuss at me when she had to buy more!!! Also, doing a carb on the kitchen table apparently is also a no-no!! Who knew? confused Seemed ok to me at the time.......

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Cool story, and cool shot Vince
Is that you with the 80's doo?

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 Yep, that would be me and my big bro taging along for the ride! That '80's doo has parted ways now for the new 2000's skullett!!!!!! (lol) I was probably 16 there..no exhaust, large battery cables running to the passenger floor to a tractor trailor battery because the alternator wasn't charging. Lots of pics capturing the story of this one as everyone should!!! Sure glad I did!!



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Do you still have it Vince?



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Do you still have it Vince?


 Absolutely, Mark!! She will go when I go. She was my avatar for the longest time till all the others wanted a shot in the spot light!!! The first was taken in '99 for a buddies wedding, I drove, and the second is this summer. Got to know 3 gals from Australia and New Zealand and they wanted their pics taken with the car while I played guitar in the background?? Dunno.....



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I do save all decent pictures of Canadian Poncho's to Flickr...
The ones with Nz Lassies go on my locker at work!

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Where are you "in the backgound"?

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Sold it to pay a debt. $600.
Watched it be trashed before my eyes.

I still have dreams where I find it in a dusty barn after all these years. We all have the dream don't we?
It was a sweet car, and I've never seen another like it.

 Funny, I bet we all have that same dream is right!!! I have not seen one either...Options?






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My 2+2 had one option. A rear defogger! A simple car, but in silver with a black top and interior I never saw another in all the time I owned it. I've seen a ragtop with the same scheme, but no HT.

She's barefoot..
She must find it a sweet car Vince!

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-- Edited by cdnpont at 00:42, 2008-11-06

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