At Carl's request I'll tell all interested members about my former 1965 Acadian. The pictures are from 1997. I bought the car for $1000.00 as a home for my fresh, Acadian (Chevy II), recessed oil filter 283. My buddy and I had the engine installed and tuned in a short time and I had a great time prowling the local wrecking yards for parts that were missing. The car came with two sets of bumpers, a spare grill, trunk lid and trim etc. I bought it knowing it had rear spring hanger issues, but hey how hard could that be to fix? This proved to be my undoing as the frame rails from the axle back needed replacing. With not knowing who to ask or where to start I put the car up for sale a year or so later. The frame rail issue proved to be a deterent to all prospective buyers and reluctantly I parted the car out to finance other projects. The bare shell was crushed several years ago. Since I joined CP I have been going to add this car to the registry as I have the Protection Plan Book. Or so I thought......I looked closely at it this morning and realized (after 12+ years) that the book is for a four door sedan. Unfortunately I misplaced or threw out the registration as well. What I do know is the car in the picture was a six cylinder, powerglide, Sport Deluxe, originally Sierra Tan with a Saddle, bucket seat interior, padded dash with a pushbutton radio.
Ooooooooooooh, how bittersweet to read that story. My first car was a 65 SD, same colour, matching interior. It pains me to know that's one less 65 SD in the world...
Any parts leftover from it?
In today's world those frame rails are not such an obstacle as they were 10-15 years ago as these cars are becoming extremely rare. People are building rare cars around gas caps it seems now! I have noticed that has changed a lot compared to the 90's.
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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 it is a painful story to tell even now...I've seen a lot worse cars resurrected and the floors in this car were generally good. With CAD technology I probably could have frame rails made up for it locally nowadays. The car had some previous accident damage where the subframe bolts to the firewall on the drivers side and that concerned me, but the car sat straight so who knows. At least the demise of this car has provided parts to most of the similar cars in the area to keep them going. As far as parts left the only thing I have, to my knowledge is a clean backup light lens and the stainless dashpad retainer.
At Carl's request I'll tell all interested members about my former 1965 Acadian. The pictures are from 1997. I bought the car for $1000.00 as a home for my fresh, Acadian (Chevy II), recessed oil filter 283. My buddy and I had the engine installed and tuned in a short time and I had a great time prowling the local wrecking yards for parts that were missing. The car came with two sets of bumpers, a spare grill, trunk lid and trim etc. I bought it knowing it had rear spring hanger issues, but hey how hard could that be to fix? This proved to be my undoing as the frame rails from the axle back needed replacing. With not knowing who to ask or where to start I put the car up for sale a year or so later. The frame rail issue proved to be a deterent to all prospective buyers and reluctantly I parted the car out to finance other projects. The bare shell was crushed several years ago. Since I joined CP I have been going to add this car to the registry as I have the Protection Plan Book. Or so I thought......I looked closely at it this morning and realized (after 12+ years) that the book is for a four door sedan. Unfortunately I misplaced or threw out the registration as well. What I do know is the car in the picture was a six cylinder, powerglide, Sport Deluxe, originally Sierra Tan with a Saddle, bucket seat interior, padded dash with a pushbutton radio.
Sad to here it's gone, but have you found a new project yet? I know you were looking. There's a guy in town that has one of these and I'm working on him. All original too. If he ever gets serious I'll let you know.
Yup sad but true. One thing I'm learning is patience(not learned) if I owned the car now and had the space I could have just pushed it into a garage corner and ignored it until the frame rails became available. But for now I'll share another couple of pics and one of my new project....but that story is for for another post.
P.S. The truck that we used to tow the car, that's visible in some of the pics is also becoming a collectible on its own, my friend still owns it, a 1973 GMC 3/4 ton Camper Special, 454 Auto ordered new by his Dad. Still has less than 70,000 miles.
Yup sad but true. One thing I'm learning is patience(not learned) if I owned the car now and had the space I could have just pushed it into a garage corner and ignored it until the frame rails became available. But for now I'll share another couple of pics and one of my new project....but that story is for for another post.
P.S. The truck that we used to tow the car, that's visible in some of the pics is also becoming a collectible on its own, my friend still owns it, a 1973 GMC 3/4 ton Camper Special, 454 Auto ordered new by his Dad. Still has less than 70,000 miles.
Crazy day just picked up my "other" black binder containing car info....and low and behold I have the VIN. Does someone on CP have any paperwork showing info on this car like Carl has posted in the past?...... the car is production #6227, most of the code breakers on this site should be able to interpolate the rest from above info.
) if I owned the car now and had the space I could have just pushed it into a garage corner and ignored it until the frame rails became available. But for now I'll share another couple of pics and one of my new project....but that story is for for another post.
