Thanks for the link!

Sad but not surprising that the air cleaner shown in that listing is off a 396 not a 427.  People dont seem to give a hoot about selling incorrect parts.  Maybe they just dont know.

The air cleaner Im looking for has a short oval snorkel pointing down at passenger side control arm and being an automatic will have a thermo valve part way into the snorkel.

These pictures show the difference in snorkel length between 396 and 427.

 

This is a picture I grabbed in 2013 of the original one off your car car, Dave:

 

 

Somebody will probably use it on a Chevy, or chrome the lid & use it on an SS427.

So Dave, am I to assume that you are planning to restore this one?

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  Now that some critical pieces are missing its getting harder to justify the major resto the car needs.

So the car would make an amazing organ donor for someone doing a 68 2 door.

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How could you even think of parting out such a rare car???

DaveJ wrote:

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So Dave, am I to assume that you are planning to restore this one?

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 Im going to have another look at it and decide.  I sold it (at a loss) because I didnt have the heart to part it out.  Now that some critical pieces are missing its getting harder to justify the major resto the car needs.

It does have those amazing quarters which were full NOS when it was "restored" back in the early 1990s.  I think the doors and one fender were also NOS.  So the car would make an amazing organ donor for someone doing a 68 2 door.

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 Aha... a tough call indeed. 

I was surprised to see it here actually as I thought it had already been parted long ago.

Best of luck on whichever way you go with it.

I imagine it's a hard decision to make, especially with a car this rare and kind of like the quintessential Canadian Pontiac, but you have to be practical too.  It's more of a project than I would be able to take on, I can say that.

But... if you're up for it and can gather the needed parts, more power to you!  You will have my respect, no question!

I can't even take the credit, although it was my brother and his son who did it so the Stevenson's still get credit.

I ended up buying the engine though, guilt free I might add...............!

They scrapped the rest of it, though, a 427 Parisienne 4 door...... talk about rare.....

Not to derail but does anyone remember that really rusty 68 or 69 Beaumont SD 396 that someone had on here way back around 2008-9? I often wonder what happened to it.