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A very nice 69 2+2 "clone" restoration. Worth the read...
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A very nice 69 2+2 clone restoration:
http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=265403

Lots of pics:
http://www.musclecarrestorations.com/gallery2/v/GM/Current/Pontiac-Laurentian-69-000/?g2_page=1

-- Edited by 03cts sport on Saturday 26th of September 2009 04:08:41 PM

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The owner is on this site.  He's in Seattle, but originally from Sask.

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I think there is a thread on this forum somewhere too, from quite a while back.

That car is amazing. I shudder to think about ever using it to actually drive!!!

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After all these years knowing this Laurentian this is the first time I'm actually reading that it was not an original 427. I was always led to believe it was a factory 427. I was told by someone who knows how much was spent on the restoration. Let's put it this way, buy a house or restore a car confuse Of course the whole family angle would make a nice feature in Astro News Flash.

-- Edited by 73SC on Saturday 26th of September 2009 05:43:29 PM

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Sorry for the apparent double post guys, as I hadn't seen it before.  Very well chronicalled in pictures.  They sure don't make 'em like that any more.  (Great stance to the finished product.)

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73SC wrote:

After all these years knowing this Laurentian this is the first time I'm actually reading that it was not an original 427. I was always led to believe it was a factory 427. I was told by someone who knows how much was spent on the restoration. Let's put it this way, buy a house or restore a car confuse Of course the whole family angle would make a nice feature in Astro News Flash.


        I AM SURE IT WAS A 427-385 AND HE PUT IN A 502  confuse

 



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I had it in my head I had read somewhere it was a small block car and not a 2+2 but I could be wrong. Time to dig up that thread with the restoration on it. I remember seeing some incredible detail in those pictures.

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Great story, and they make no bones about it being a clone. Nicely done.

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eeluddy wrote:

Great story, and they make no bones about it being a clone. Nicely done.


It would be hard to call myself a car enthusiast if I had a negative comment about it being a clone!

 



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Carl Stevenson wrote:

I had it in my head I had read somewhere it was a small block car and not a 2+2 but I could be wrong. Time to dig up that thread with the restoration on it. I remember seeing some incredible detail in those pictures.


Yes, it was a his Dad's Laurentian bought new in 69 and the brother has written a 350 2bbl. As a Laurentian it was all over the web for years with the 427 but as I said this is the first time I see it was not a factory big block car.

 



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Wow   don't you hate that, when people take out  smaller engines, and install bigger ones?  lol

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Wow   don't you hate that, when people take out  smaller engines, and install bigger ones?  lol


The very roots of hot rodding!!!

Been doing it since my first car..........

 



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Carl Stevenson wrote:

I think there is a thread on this forum somewhere too, from quite a while back.

That car is amazing. I shudder to think about ever using it to actually drive!!!


Beautiful and extremely well restored. Didn't he say he has over $300 grand in the car?

 



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427carl wrote:

Wow   don't you hate that, when people take out  smaller engines, and install bigger ones?  lol


The very roots of hot rodding!!!

Been doing it since my first car..........

 


Thanks for the reminder!!!handshake.gif   Since my car, is not a clone of anything, or a tribute car, I was not sure, what to refer, to it as   Its a HOT ROD!!!   eyepopping.gif

 



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It is a wicked car in every repect. Perfectly done with no expense spared.

But heh, if "money were no object", I'm sure a lot more of us would do the same thing to a family heirloom or first car...make it the ultimate expression of what we'd always dreamed it could be. But at the same time, Isn't the original appeal and "family"patina kind of lost when everything but the frame, some trim and bodyshell is replaced? Maybe not? I guess I'll never know.

If you had unlimited resources, would you do a dream CP?

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Hmmm, I see a new thread starting entitled "What would your dream CP be if money is no object?"

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1970 Acadian Super Sport  "stock" 427-385  400 turbo A/C tinted glass black vinyl top, chrome trim around doors,  Chrome SS wheels   RED w/red leather buckets tilt console guages 

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