Jim

I love it. Right up my alley. I've never seen that colour combo on a 66 Grande Parisienne before. Is that original?

Nice Jim! More info. please.

Never took a picture of it, but it was like this (except not so nice!)



I did not have cowl lights or fancy radiator cap, but otherwise the same except red wheels (which I later swapped out for 1950 Lincoln rims that I reversed the rears, and put 5.60's from a Rambler on the front and 8.20's from a Cadillac on the rear).
Dave

My car came from the factory all white with a green leather interior, My Dad was a Body man and a painter so he repainted it in 1972. It was pearl white with a metalic green roof, Buckets, Console 2 spd. 275 hp 327,True Pozi rear diff, Rear defroster, Rear speaker, Heavy Duty Suspention Package. It was a Tent Trailer Towing Machine, and talk about go anywhere in the snow, I wish I could find a Pozi for my new car because it really does make a difference. It had a wiring fire under the dash in the late 80's, so I pulled the motor and trans that have now been rebuilt and are in my friends SD. And the rest of the car saddly went to the crusher because I had no place to store it at that time.Very Sad Indeed.But...I still Have some good pictures.

-- Edited by grande jim on Wednesday 12th of May 2010 10:18:01 AM

I DON'T HAVE A PICTURE OF MY FIRST CAR, BUT IT WAS IDENTICAL TO THIS ONE ONLY IN DARK BROWN. OVERHEATED THE ENGINE ONE WINTER AND STARTED SMOKING REAL BAD. NEXT CAR WAS A 1975 FIREBIRD.

My first car was my father's '69 Pontiac Catalina, which he bought new for $3,000.  He "sold" it to me for $90 in 1978 with 165,000 miles on it.  I made several modifications to it over the following year.  The biggest change was not the hood but what was under it.  I replaced the 265 hp 400 with a 370 hp 428 and a tri-power unit from a '66.  I never got around to putting a posi in it...but it needed it!  The tri-powers may not have provided much power over the standard 4bbl, but there is nothing like the sound of three 2bbls at full throttle!  Summers were a lot of fun with that car!  I sold it 3 years later for $2,700 to a "kid" who wrapped it around an oak tree a year later!  Thank God he walked away from it!

-- Edited by gtodrive on Wednesday 12th of May 2010 03:13:07 PM

-- Edited by gtodrive on Wednesday 12th of May 2010 03:13:38 PM

Come on People...... lets see some more of those first car Pictures...this is Great!!

No pics of it that I have found but first car that was on the road was a 63   PARISIENNE convertible 283. Dark blue with a light blue top. Love to have that car back again.

71 LTD

My first car was a 54 chev 2dr 210, got it at age 14 and promptly took it apart, it never did see the road . In stead at 16 I got a hand me down 78 Ford Courier pick up like the 1 below, don't have any good pictures of my truck. It was sure handy for hauling around all my buddies broken down motorcycles. It was fun, good thing it was only a 4cyl 5speed, anything bigger I'm sure I would have died, that little truck was sideways and airborn on more than 1 occasion. Was nick named the Killer Courier.

Ha ha , were you Captain Stubing or Gopher ?