About 1979 or so I bought a 67 Grande Parisienne wagon from the second owner. It was a well optioned 396 car. The car is long gone, crushed in the late 80's/early 90's sometime. (Please don't ask......)
Tonight I discovered the warranty booklet for the car and also realized the Protecto Plate is still stuck on the back page.
Does anyone know how to decode it? I sure don't. I know the date, dealer code etc but not the line under "Winnipeg". (I blocked the last 2 digits of the VIN, just to be safe.)
I know the car had the following options (plus more I'm sure)
A31 power windows C60 air conditioning G67 level control G80 positraction L35 396/325 horsepower M40 TH400 trans N10 dual exhaust U15 speed warning speedometer U69 AM/FM radio
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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
It hurts to look at the couple of pictures I do still have of it.
I paid $750 for it. Had to do a valve grind (1 burned exhaust valve)
Put about 30,000 miles on it. It was my trusty 4 season beater, cause wagons weren't cool then like now. Heated like a furnace in the winter, cooled like a freezer in the summer.
Oh, the agony.......
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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
1967 2dr Biscayne. L36, M40, G80, K05, F41. #'s. 1967 Impala convert. 283, glide. Parked in the garage since 74 and hasn't moved. Soon to be BB 4speed.
It pains me when I look at the picture of that car. To think that I used it as a beater......
When I bought it, the original dual exhaust with resonator tailpipes were still on it.
Such a great highway car, hot in winter, cold in summer, smooth, quiet, decent power and pretty good fuel economy when I swapped in the 2.56 12 bolt posi from my 69 GP 4 door hardtop 427 car.
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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
Carl, check your micro fishe assembly manuals. It may say in the front of the assembly manual how to stamp the protecto plate with the options in the proper locations etc. I have this page in my 67 Chev assembly manual(US version) but the US protecto plates are different than the one you posted.
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1967 2dr Biscayne. L36, M40, G80, K05, F41. #'s. 1967 Impala convert. 283, glide. Parked in the garage since 74 and hasn't moved. Soon to be BB 4speed.
Well that sure was an awesome looking car. That must have cost a pretty penny back when it was new. I wonder what Mr. Peras did for a living, he was clearly very knowledgeable about his cars. I can't see a car like that being in dealer stock, it would have had to been customer ordered in my opinion.
The area he lived in then (almost the same area as now) is one of the "nicer" areas of the city.
I guess you might say it was THEE area to be in 25-30 years ago.
Lawyer, doctor maybe?
Yes, not likely it was pulled off the lot I am guessing.
Kind of a strange one too, no tilt, no cruise. It had 3.07 gears with posi and the level control. I would have though level control for trailering, but the gears are pretty tame for towing in those days. I would think 3.31 would have been an optional ratio maybe? The 4 speed cars had 3.31.
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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
I know it had a big 2" hitch on it when I got it because I had the ball mount insert in it when a Chevette rearended me in Winnipeg. No damage to the wagon but it sure messed up the front of the little "T" body...
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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
going by the vin it looks to have been built the middle of january (30,7xx) ,the selling date is the 31st of january ,only week or so spread
on January 9th they were at 28,477 cars in, some 2223 cars apart it seems they built 300 some full size cars a day in 67,so roughly 8 days after the 9th ,so like around the 20th of January 1967
-- Edited by 68sd on Saturday 13th of November 2010 01:34:09 AM
I had the option of buying that maroon one years ago. I believe it was the guy who 67Poncho got it from. He had sold a car to a guy from Kansas City, and I was about the midway point geographically between buyer and seller, so I offered our yard for the meet. While he was her he showed me pics of it and gave me details but I just couldn't do another car at the time and sadly passed on it.
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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
Funny you ask this. At the risk of hi jacking the thread a little (sorry Carl), check out the name on the protect-o-plate from my Beaumont. Originally owned by a C. Tempest (who lived a block away from where I grew up.)
"So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think... The good outnumber you, and we always will." Patton Oswalt
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and put in smaller cars. 
