This is my old car I bought in 1973 and sold it in 1980. The car was a 396-325 automatic on the column. original motor was replaced before I bought it.I replaced the transmission with a exchange unit from Sears, sold the original 12 bolt rear end and installed 10 bolt from my brothers 68 El Camino.The options on the were rear rear speaker, light monitoring system, am radio, vinyl top.

This was my first car I owned. I hot rodded it though the years until I sold it to guy in Campbell River., I was the one that had it  painted it orange, changed the interior from white to black. I don't have any good photos of the car.

rgk wrote:

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This was my first car I owned. I hot rodded it though the years until I sold it to guy in Campbell River., I was the one that had it  painted it orange, changed the interior from white to black. I don't have any good photos of the car.

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i just got in and had a minite and thought i would see whats new and was excited to see that canadian poncho does it again! i'm excited to see that a previous owner of the 'mystery' s/d was on line and answered a ton of questions. randy do you mind if i pm you to ask and answer a few questions for me. thx dave 

 

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Tin Man Auto wrote:

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rgk wrote:

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i just got in and had a minite and thought i would see whats new and was excited to see that canadian poncho does it again!

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You shouldn't be surprised Dave!!!

 

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ahhh, thats just it, i'm not surprised, "i'm excited" i know my place!! i bow to the masters

 

Tin Man Auto wrote:

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

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Tin Man Auto wrote:

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rgk wrote:

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i just got in and had a minite and thought i would see whats new and was excited to see that canadian poncho does it again!

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You shouldn't be surprised Dave!!!

 

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ahhh, thats just it, i'm not surprised, "i'm excited" i know my place!! i bow to the masters

 

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Soooooo  Awesome....   to have the story and the so quick,, crazy ...

 

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This is my old car I bought in 1973 and sold it in 1980. The car was a 396-325 automatic on the column. original motor was replaced before I bought it.I replaced the transmission with a exchange unit from Sears, sold the original 12 bolt rear end and installed 10 bolt from my brothers 68 El Camino.The options on the were rear rear speaker, light monitoring system, am radio, vinyl top.

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just had a talk with randy, the owner of the car from 73~80, great guy, and was able to answer more interesting questions, mentioned a chaps name to me (who was a previous owner as well) that can help with alot more history of the car and ironically is a body guy thats been dealing with us for the past 4-5 years restoring a few cansos, so thats a nice. will call him in the a.m. as well. randy also mentioned that he may still have the original diff gears and torgue convertor from that car. aw crap hit the 'control' button by mistake and it went to bold writing.....what the *^%# dave out

 

What a great story! Lucky to find past owners so quickly. I've been trying to find the past owners of my car for 20 years and no such luck. I have faith that CP will flush out an owner sooner or later.

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I love it when things like this happen on here!

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And we owe it all to you, YOU THE MAN!!! I'm sure when I say this, that i say it from all of us, "THANK~YOU TODD, THANK~YOU VERY VERY MUCH." YOU'VE CREATED THE COOLEST SITE FOR CANADIAN CAR ENTHUSIEST FROM COAST TO COAST. I swear if you weren't so far away i'd plant a great big wet one on 'ya and buy you a beer after that just to show i still respect you, but...well, you know! 

 

hello there, well yesterday i went over to the island and bought this 68 sd 396 beaumont from dave , i thought it would be a good project to have around and i was picking up a few parts for another project anyway. lol it was a fun day and dave showed me his parts bin, if you guys ever need any parts for any gm's you are working on and you think its a tuff part just ask dave hes got a truck load of them. lol

Great story! Nice car, I like the original colors.
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hi ron, do you want to sell the side chrome of it? lol.......just had to do that back at 'ya. it was good to meet and have you over yesterday ron. maybe if i get over your way you can give me a 25 cent tour of your shop. look forward to getting together again. cheers dave

-- Edited by Tin Man Auto on Wednesday 2nd of March 2011 09:33:31 PM