Lovely car, 

Happy resto mod fella. Enjoy.

This black GP looks very nice. If it can attract $60K then it's time for me to get my 69 427 Parisienne coupe appraised.

"Pride is 60k"

I wonder the price is then?  Quite a bit less I would think.

What a beautiful car. One with anything other than a 2 or 4-barrel 327 would be very rare.

Although a Grande Parisienne might make a nice resto-mod, and that car appears very nice, it would make me sick to my stomach to think that trendy and passing-fancy modifications would be made to that specific car. It is his car after all, but I don't agree with his decision to butcher the car if it doesn't sell at his high price within 1 week. That just sounds so ignorant and foolish.

I may sound like a purist but I have seen unique cars like this have their uniqueness obscured with stupid modifications that are just to the owner's taste. The uniqueness is replaced by very myopic mods. I also don't know how the owner can state as absolute fact that only 4 are registered in Canada with the 396. Who knows, it sounds believable as they are rare, and time and attrition have taken their toll. And Mr. Stevenson harvesting big blocks...   

Again, like the 1967 Strato Chief wagon posted yesterday, it appears to have D99 moldings. The skirts along with their rear moldings are absent in the pictures, and appear to have been balanced out by removing the front wheel opening moldings.

60 grand seems like a ton of money and it is, but try to find one worth restoring, then spend time in body shop prison and check the receipts in the end and you would be ahead time and money getting the best car that needs essentially little or nothing. That is assuming that car is solid and not just a surface repaint over filler. Back in 1983 I looked at a Grande Parisienne coupe that was really clean and original, but then I saw deep lumpy rust distortions under the original turquoise paint on the quarters where the wheel lip meets the fender skirts at the top and got really scared.

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What a beautiful car. One with anything other than a 2 or 4-barrel 327 would be very rare.

Although a Grande Parisienne might make a nice resto-mod, and that car appears very nice, it would make me sick to my stomach to think that trendy and passing-fancy modifications would be made to that specific car. It is his car after all, but I don't agree with his decision to butcher the car if it doesn't sell at his high price within 1 week. That just sounds so ignorant and foolish.

I may sound like a purist but I have seen unique cars like this have their uniqueness obscured with stupid modifications that are just to the owner's taste. The uniqueness is replaced by very myopic mods. I also don't know how the owner can state as absolute fact that only 4 are registered in Canada with the 396. Who knows, it sounds believable as they are rare, and time and attrition have taken their toll. And Mr. Stevenson harvesting big blocks...   

 Again, like the 1967 Strato Chief wagon posted yesterday, it appears to have D99 moldings. The skirts along with their rear moldings are absent in the pictures, and appear to have been balanced out by removing the front wheel opening moldings.

60 grand seems like a ton of money and it is, but try to find one worth restoring, then spend time in body shop prison and check the receipts in the end and you would be ahead time and money getting the best car that needs essentially little or nothing. That is assuming that car is solid and not just a surface repaint over filler. Back in 1983 I looked at a Grande Parisienne coupe that was really clean and original, but then I saw deep lumpy rust distortions under the original turquoise paint on the quarters where the wheel lip meets the fender skirts at the top and got really scared.

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Good round up.  I am not sure how you would be able to find out that there is only 4 396 GP's registered in Canada?  How would you go about verifying or researching that statement?  It beats me.  

The front license plate bracket does not appear to be on the front valance (passenger side) either on the car but I do like the sleek roof line without the roof covering.  That is one option that I despise, but that is only my opinion and mine is staying put as that's how it came from the factory.     

Nice looking car though.

Lets not forget this thread from early April:

https://canadianponcho.activeboard.com/t66465639/396-emblem/

I sent along the 396 emblem and learned it is a one owner car and has been knocking around for years but just got restored and back in business. BTW its in Alberta. This is an amazing story to me so I'll take some time and post it in the lounge some day. 

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Wonder what 'resto mod' will mean in this case?

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A house of horrors!

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Yeah, my fears exactly.  I always have to bite my tongue in cases like this as while I appreciate the uniqueness and rarity of these Canadian cars, who am I to say what an owner does to their own car.

That said, ads like these frustrate me as they take a similar form to a ransom note:  "Leave $60K in unmarked bills in an envelope at the base of the old oak tree or the car gets it..."