I love that car. We featured it in the past. The owner told me CP was one of the main reasons he took it out of storage and restored it.

Are those tow anchors above the bumper? Looks like anchor points where you would connect a hitch of sorts to tow the vehicle similar to what you would use to tow behind a RV or something?

https://canadianponcho.activeboard.com/t39641075/december-2010-feature-car/

Yep, a factory 4 speed Strato Chief. There has to be a 427 4 speed '69 Strato somewhere.

Maybe member Tony will reappear?

There's a lot to be said about carefully choosing options, as in which to order and which to leave off. That '69 is roomy, easy to work on, has good drum brakes that don't drag, no parasitic p/s pump, just a decent high-compression 350 with a Muncie (originally). As I recall at one point it had some drag strip worthy rear gearing (5-something to 1?) to help that front tire contact patch see daylight. The interior is straight out of a Biscayne except for the dash. Not only Cragar S/S wheels, but real vintage ones with the nice cast caps. I'd also love to see it with tall, skinny blackwall bias-ply tires on steel wheels with Pontiac dog dish hubcaps.

 

There was a time when you could see cars like that around, but for the most part they were on their 3rd owner by then and the tin worm was working silently out of sight to eventually reduce the car to a parts car. Back in the mid-80s when I had an apartment in downtown Toronto there was a Limelight '69 Strato Chief 2-door along Wellesley that I would pass every day. It had rust, but then the owner bought a rivet gun and crudely riveted sheet metal over top of the rust holes, then brush painted it with brown house paint, even over top of all emblems & nameplates. What a sight! A common fate that reduced the numbers of these cars over the years.

 

Along the same note, has anyone heard from strato427 (Doug) out of Brantford? He owns a '68 Strato Chief 2-door post he ordered new with an L36 427, 4-speed, manual steering & brakes, F41, Positraction, tinted glass all around, plus an AM  radio with a power rear antenna. I met him back in 1993 after hearing him ask a seller if the "Catalina parts might fit his 427 Strato Chief", which lead to a 2 hour chat at the International Center. Again, he was going to order a Road Runner but then he got wise and went for a 427-powered sleeper from Forbes Brother Pontiac in Brantford. I can't recall whether it was Nightshade Green or Jade Gold, but at any rate it was some kind of dark green. Hillar's 454 Strato Chief was dark green (and was sold out of Forbes), as is the '69 Strato Chief that started this thread (Galt is up the road from Brantford).

Man, not many original owner 427 4 speed Canadian Ponchos out there I would bet!