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66 396 Wagon Kelowna


I know nothing about the car or the seller.

But how rare is this???

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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



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I saw that, and it's much cheaper than the 68 396 wagon in Penticton!

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Looks rough but I hate the idea of it powering a Chevelle.....

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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles 

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That's the engine all wagons should have had!

This would be such a worthwhile and practical project!

Too bad I'm finished scrounging up 396 cars...

And really Carl? I guess we all grow up eventually.



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66 Grande guy wrote:

I guess we all grow up eventually.





Yeah but it took me a while.

That wagon would be so cool with a stick...

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Go for it Carl, its probably better than it looks. A 396 wagon and a 427 2 door post.

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No room I'm afraid, but I will admit to staring at the pictures of this car for a long time and dreaming of doing it.... I have enough cool 66 spare parts for it too, factory tach, 4 speed shifter, I know of a manual trans conversion for it, etc etc.

But alas, my life situation is such that from here on, a second classic car will never be more than a dream.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

No room I'm afraid, but I will admit to staring at the pictures of this car for a long time and dreaming of doing it.... I have enough cool 66 spare parts for it too, factory tach, 4 speed shifter, I know of a manual trans conversion for it, etc etc.

But alas, my life situation is such that from here on, a second classic car will never be more than a dream.


What? No link? I may be interested in that manual trans conversion you have! Since I offed that one to you, I have been searching for another kit for a project...



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It was on Facebook and I'm not enough of a geek to figure out how to post the link!

I don't actually have the conversion, I just know of the conversion sitting in my favourite wrecking yard.

If you ever come this direction, allow yourself an extra day or two and I'll send you to that yard in Minnesota. I can guarantee you would love it there! Lots of B body stuff.

He even has a couple of 66 Pontiacs with air. A 4 speed A/C wagon would sure be cool...

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Hmmm... I've got it!  Convert your Strato Chief back to 3-on-the-tree, sell it to me, then use the funds and your parts stash as well as the 4-speed parts now on the Strato to do up this wagon! wink

I know I know... not going to happen... I was just trying to think "outside the box"... biggrin



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I think rather sell the Trans Am convertible I gave to my wife for our 25th anninversary, buy the wagon and do the 4 speed A/C conversion and have TWO big block 4 speed 66's...

The plan was all good until I said sell my wife's car......

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

I think rather sell the Trans Am convertible I gave to my wife for our 25th anninversary, buy the wagon and do the 4 speed A/C conversion and have TWO big block 4 speed 66's...

The plan was all good until I said sell my wife's car......


 Oooo... walking on some thin ice there... biggrin



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Capital R, Rough/Rusty... and mousey!  It is safe to say that not all of the good ones are out west...

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Neat car, has the very rare air cleaner with the stove pipe to the exhaust manifold.

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Vince, you missed one "R". RARE!

I hadn't noticed the air cleaner Andrew, good eye.

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I would like to find one of those set ups for the air cleaner.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

Vince, you missed one "R". RARE!


 You are correct... I also forgot Ratched! (lol) They are all rare to be still kicking around after 50+ years....  And in all seriousness, the only option is the mill and being stuck, that is questionable... it looks to be a donor only... I bet with the condition of the upper area of the car, the bottom side will be far, far worse.... sadly. Should ask for a pic of the data tag...



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yup that's a serious project that you'd need to be a die hard to fix it.

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Yikes!  It's safe to say that there were a few birds making a home in the rafters!

As far as the interior goes, I think the only thing you could do is rip it out and burn it, unfortunately.

Neat car, but not for the faint of heart.

Darn, it looks like I won't be getting Carl's Strato after all... disbelief

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68sd396rag wrote:

yup that's a serious project that you'd need to be a die hard to fix it.





Says the guy who restored a car that was sitting on a car pile in a wrecking yard...

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2qwik2c wrote:

Neat car, has the very rare air cleaner with the stove pipe to the exhaust manifold.


 

Can you elaborate why this type of air cleaner is rare?  My 68 has a similar type of air cleaner, but the stove pipe goes down on the passenger side to the exhaust manifold, or at least it did when the stock intake was on the car. 



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For the most part that style is non existent on 66's. As you know I've parted out a few over the years and I'd never seen or heard of one until they showed up the odd time on this forum. I think it must be one of the first ever air cleaners of that style.

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Holy moly that is one mouse infested rust bucket!  Probably best off as a doner really.

As for the stove pipe aircleaner I don't have that on my early production 396 in the Grande but it is in another 396 Parisienne Hardtop I picked up a few of years ago.

The only difference I could figure is that the Parisienne is a June 66 production car making it very late so my assumption was that that was a running change.

It would be great indeed to get a shot of the cowl tag to confirm the production date and maybe reinforce my assumption.

In fact the cowl tag looks like it might be the most valuable thing on the car aside from the drivetrain!

 



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Looked good on the passenger side,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, wonder what the driver side was next to? I saw one once in the woods, 2 or 3 ft deep with raccoon or porcupine shiiiit. They came in the trunk and out the grill and vice versa. That one would have a really bad odor.

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Carl is this air cleaner with the pipe shown in the 66 assembly manual?

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