Old Wagon Pics

beaumontwagon · Guru

Old Wagon Pics

65Camino · Uber Guru

Nice pics. Have that Cheetah as a slot car!

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

I hate doing it sideways

-- Edited by 427carl on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 01:49:41 PM

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

wow those cheetas are a piece of history. i actually have a friend who has one here on the island i have never seen it together but i have seen it.Cool wagons also i like the blue one with the flames

ARCADIAN · Poncho Master!

I ran a Cheeta for two lights on Woodward 3 years ago. Pulled ahead and beat him when I hit 3rd gear. A couple of lights later one of Detroit's finest pulled up beside me and suggested that I not squeel my tires and that I "sure cleaned that orange car"!

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

Chris you are the wagonmeister for sure!

Especially love the 55 (or 56?) Ford racecar and the big Chrysler pushing the rail.

I guess I should scrounge up an old photo and scan it of my 69 Vistacruiser (now THAT was a WAGON - stretched wheelbase, windows in the roof, woodgrain on the sides, comfy fast & stylish, ahhh ...) pulling my race car, eh?

(The Vistacruiser was later replaced with a 454 crew cab dually, but the Olds [Pontiac's big brother, no?] did the job when it needed to)

Dave

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

Love those long roofs Chris, thanks for posting . I like the 55-56 ford wagon also.

beaumontwagon · Guru

No prob.Dave Id love to see your old Vista,Im a fan of woodgrain wagons biggrin

beaumontwagon · Guru

ARCADIAN wrote:

I ran a Cheeta for two lights on Woodward 3 years ago. Pulled ahead and beat him when I hit 3rd gear. A couple of lights later one of Detroit's finest pulled up beside me and suggested that I not squeel my tires and that I "sure cleaned that orange car"!

Thats awesome,some cops get it.

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

heres a wagon for ya

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

Here is a pic of my old 74 Caprice 454. Talk about wood grain. I used to call it my Walley World car from the Vacation movie with Chevy Chase.

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

saw this one at Barrie last year ,really liked it
i think it was 4 thousand ,but i cant really remember

454

-- Edited by 68sd on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 12:02:40 AM

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

since wère talking wagons,,,here is a pics of the wagon I did for my wife, 83 olds cutlass cruiser, hopped up 305....yeah baby ! dailey driver. Ill dig up a pic of it with the fresh paint and Super ETs .

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

beaumontwagon wrote:

No prob.Dave Id love to see your old Vista,Im a fan of woodgrain wagons

I had scanned this one earlier, no race car on trailer attached but it does show both of my Vistacruisers, the 69 and the 72, if one is good two is better, eh?

Dave

beaumontwagon · Guru

Some cool wagons.That limo is crazy.Dave ,those Vistas are awesome,got any pics of the 69 you could dig up?I love scalope on the sides of those ,how the wood grain meets up with it.

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

beaumontwagon wrote:

Dave ,those Vistas are awesome,got any pics of the 69 you could dig up?I love scalope on the sides of those ,how the wood grain meets up with it.

Chris I dug through old photo albums, found a few, I'll scan tomorrow for you, eh?

Dave

beaumontwagon · Guru

Alright,take it easy eh.

pontorquer · Poncho Master!

Nice wagons ! I pulled two 455's out of 1974 Pontiac GrandSafari wagon and 1971 GrandSafari wagon, they had the electric back windows. These cars were HUUUGE ! Wagons are making a come back now...

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

davelacourse wrote:

beaumontwagon wrote:

Dave ,those Vistas are awesome,got any pics of the 69 you could dig up?I love scalope on the sides of those ,how the wood grain meets up with it.
Chris I dug through old photo albums, found a few, I'll scan tomorrow for you, eh?

Dave

Here ya go!

First 2 are from May 1979 at Brainerd, before I picked up and installed a roof rack.
You can see how the lower half of the wagon was "woodgrain" with a nice chrome
trim strip that came up over the wheel openings. Note that the racecar is in class
B Production, I ran a 355, big blocks were in A Production back then.

Last 2 are after I had the racecar painted, still BP (later they merged the A Sedan
Camaros with the Corvettes into one class, GT-1). Sorry, not too much of the
Vistacruiser shows, but in the first picture you can see (I lightened up that part of
the picture, eh?) my top box just inside the tailgate for ready access to tools, and
the jack on the tailgate to keep it out from underfoot. I don't know who those
people are, must be with the car next to me in the paddock.

In the last picture you can see the baby moons I had on it and you can see that
the back is full of spare parts and tools. The taller guy in the middle is me, hard to
believe I was once skinny and had all that dark hair

That's about it for my 1969 Vistacruiser photos.

Dave

-- Edited by davelacourse on Thursday 11th of March 2010 03:09:32 PM

57poncho · Uber Guru

Great pics guys as you all know I love long roofs

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

a 65 my friend did last year, I restored the vintage wheels for him. sporting a fuel injected 350/700R4 posi combo. It was a dry low mile car. previous owner kept the 327 for his camaro.

sorry it's a chevy!!!! but it is SWEEEET !!

-- Edited by rabbit64cs on Friday 12th of March 2010 09:01:37 PM