Does someone have an original decal in the trunk of their 66 full size Canadian Pontiac? I'd like to see where the decal goes and the assembly manual doesn't show it for 66.
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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
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
That's the one. I just want to make sure I slap it on in the right location. Little things like that (properly placed decals etc.) make the difference to me on our old cars.
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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
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Carl, from what I've been able to discern, it looks like the posi decal was to be placed opposite the Jacking instruction. But it could have been placed whatever the worked felt like it at the time. It's not like they'd pull a car to repair for a misplaced trunk decal would they?
Just make sure it's not placed too perfectly! I just kind of slapped it on mine.
Another thing is the repop is vinyl, so it probably would be happier on a brace than on a flat. Imagine the heat in the sun.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
And thanks to our member 77srx, I got a great reply today. As you recall, he has a beautiful original 66 Parsienne and upon my request he sent me some trunk lid shots.
Well, that's interesting. Now that I look at the two shots, I see our trunk lids don't have the same inner structure! I guess a post car and a hardtop are different?
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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
Yea, just as I thought, not the same at all Carl. I'm assuming 77srx is a view of the right hand side of the lid??
I dug through my CP picture archive on Flickr, and it looks like the post and 4 door sedan decklids are longer than the 2 and 4 door HT, ragtop and 2 door Grande.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
Open trunk lid, Peel backing off decal, close eyes, raise decal sticky side out to shoulder height, arm out walk forward until you contact the decklid. Authentic Oshawa 66 placement complete.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
Yup, pretty much what I am starting to think. I really doubt they had a jig to get them pasted on straight. I just wanted to at least pic the correct insert on the inner skin but I'm going to put it on up and to the left like on the hardtop.
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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
Open trunk lid, Peel backing off decal, close eyes, raise decal sticky side out to shoulder height, arm out walk forward until you contact the decklid. Authentic Oshawa 66 placement complete.
Classic!
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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
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And likely with a cigarette in my mouth in those days!
... and after "lunch" on a Friday.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.