It looks like a really well preserved example, wearing the '76-only Lime Metallic. Finding a solid and complete car is the only realistic way to have a nice G-3. The price is way high, but it also signals that the car is solid & might be worth it. Anyway there is negotiating room built in when the price is set where it is.
I also see the Economizer Gauge package. It gives all gauges plus a vacuum gauge (as opposed to a tach) to show when you are driving economically. A 400 small block was last installed in passenger cars in 1976, and the supply of good 400 cores have dried up. I've had fun in a torquey smog-era 400 SBC.
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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
I don't judge a man by how far he's fallen, but by how far back he bounces - Patton
Good if you like eating hotdogs with lots of relish on them ... you can drip and drop eating inside your car.
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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.
My first impression was way over priced but then I looked at the car and thought about it a bit, Can Ams in this shape break $20,000 US and good 73 GTO's also hit and break $20,000.
This seems to be as good as it can get here, especially with the 400 and are those not swivel buckets in there. I think this is a fairly rare piece and with that one year only colour you'd be hard pressed to find a comparable. While I'm personally not stepping up at $24,995 there is bound to be someone out there that will bite on it.
I'd have to drive this car with my eyes closed (which wouldn't be safe). Yuck.
12G car because of the ugly interior.
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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.
-- Edited by DonSSDD on Friday 8th of November 2019 08:14:37 AM
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
That Cutlass S based 442 has the swivel buckets, the only other G-3 that used them beside the Chevelles & Monte Carlos. If I remember correctly the Olds swivel buckets had the center cushion of the seat reversible so that you could have either cloth or vinyl turned out.
The spoiler really is a spoiler as it spoiled the car. I feel that way about Judge spoilers as well (unless it is on a real Judge).
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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
I don't judge a man by how far he's fallen, but by how far back he bounces - Patton
The spoiler on the 442 looks like it is off of something more modern. It does not fit the car in the least.
Yes & yes.
At 17 I used a shortened station wagon spoiler on my '74 Honda Civic ... it fit good.
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Prince Edward Island
'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.
The spoiler on the 442 looks like it is off of something more modern. It does not fit the car in the least.
Yes & yes.
At 17 I used a shortened station wagon spoiler on my '74 Honda Civic ... it fit good.
I'm sure it looked cool! We all did stuff like this to our beaters back in our teenage years, but we didn't expect to sell it for the equivalent of $35K!
I was wondering if it came off of one of these, but there are minor detail differences between the two...