Actually there were 4 of the 4 door 426 Hemi cars made in 66 and one actually for Canada, 2 for the U.S. and one for overseas export and they lost track of what would be the rarest car which is a 66 wagon ordered with the 426 Hemi which has not been heard of since the 70s but they have the paperwork for it. Recently they found a 67 4 door Hemi as well.
A friend of mine owned the 66 Hemi 4 door here in Ontario. He lived in a little villagenear Owen Sound called Williamsford. I rode in that 4 door several times, what a sleeper it was, dark brown and steel wheels and hubcaps! I think if I remember my friend Harold told me it was bought new at Islington Chrysler in Toronto by a freshly graduated Veterenarian who said he wanted a hemi car. There were a couple to choose from and he said the 4 door would be better for his Vet business. Harold had it checked out when he aquired it, as he was sceptical of its originality and it proved to be a correct built hemi 4 door and at that time they thought it was 1 of 1. Harold sold the car to someone in Walkerton and he bought a 68 Roadrunner Hemi car in North Bay. Harold has passed away since but his son has the 68 runner and it comes to Owen Sound cruise nights occasionaly.
Not off topic at all, it would be a one off because it would be the only one shipped to Canada. I had heard rumours of the car in high school in Vancouver in the late 70's and then even more in the 80's, I would have loved to have gotten my hands on that car but I did get myself a rare Hemi car in 1981, a 1970 Charger RT/SE 4spd. It was 1 of 4 built and the only one built with leather and power windows. I bought it for $1800.00 U.S. If we only new back then.
Bye the way my friend Harold sold that 4 door car for around $10,000 (what did the one on Barret Jackson sell for, six figures?) and bought the Roadrunner for somewhere around $12,000, we ran it at Cayuga once 12.20 @108 back in the 80's
No the guy who owned the red one also owned the Canadian car and was just about to acquire the Export car so he would have owned 3 out of the 4 cars but the red one sold at BJ last year or the year before.
I remember a post at Team Chevelle many years ago by the guy that runs the www.348-409.com site. He did a 409 swap into a '66 Chevelle SS396. It was not straightforward. The exhaust manifolds would not work in the Chevelle and the oil pan need major rework. I couldn't imagine a dealer getting involved in that for a '64 Beaumont, especially when Canadian Pontiacs only just got the 409 the previous year and they were slow sellers.
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A friend of mine owned the 66 Hemi 4 door here in Ontario. He lived in a little villagenear Owen Sound called Williamsford. I rode in that 4 door several times, what a sleeper it was, dark brown and steel wheels and hubcaps! I think if I remember my friend Harold told me it was bought new at Islington Chrysler in Toronto by a freshly graduated Veterenarian who said he wanted a hemi car. There were a couple to choose from and he said the 4 door would be better for his Vet business. Harold had it checked out when he aquired it, as he was sceptical of its originality and it proved to be a correct built hemi 4 door and at that time they thought it was 1 of 1. Harold sold the car to someone in Walkerton and he bought a 68 Roadrunner Hemi car in North Bay. Harold has passed away since but his son has the 68 runner and it comes to Owen Sound cruise nights occasionaly.
I talked to a guy in Huntsville ONT in 2015 who said a Canadian 66 4 door Coronet Hemi used to live not far from him, and was eventually sold into the United States. Could this be the same car?
I did see another 66 4 door Coronet Hemi about ten years ago at the Don Garlits Museum in Ocala Florida. Very neat.
