66 Grande in the garage.....only took 2 1/2 months to purchase!!!!

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

RE: 66 Grande in the garage.....only took 2 1/2 months to purchase!!!!

ABC123 · Uber Guru

She has to get ugly before she gets pretty

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

i m really happy with how solid this car is. It looks ugly but it wont take much to clean her up

Johnnee D · Guru

looks fake

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Johnnee D wrote:
looks fake

Hey, I thought only my stuff was fake? Now I'm confused. I didn't realize you pick on other guys too (but I'm happy it's not always me)

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Johnnee D wrote:
looks fake

Not the car just the paperwork wink

hawkeye5766 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

4SPEED427 wrote:
Johnnee D wrote:
looks fake
Hey, I thought only my stuff was fake? Now I'm confused. I didn't realize you pick on other guys too (but I'm happy it's not always me)

This is why Johnnee post only text not pictures..doesn't want to expose himself... biggrin biggrin But it is good to hear from him !! May the battle continue....

hawkeye5766 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Just a light face lift for her Kevin?? and yes...she was a dream to drive.....

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

hawkeye5766 wrote:
Just a light face lift for her Kevin?? and yes...she was a dream to drive.....

I keep changing my mind how far im going on the restore. think I will be going all in by the end of this

hawkeye5766 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

65 SD L79 wrote:
hawkeye5766 wrote:
Just a light face lift for her Kevin?? and yes...she was a dream to drive.....
I keep changing my mind how far im going on the restore. think I will be going all in by the end of this

Only thing that matters to me is that your happy with what showed up. I know it cost you a few bucks to get her there! and of course.....always more work than we expect as soon as your pulling it apart.....

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I love what showed up. If it was not for the roof I would have put the new pan in the floor and drove it

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Out with the mouse motor

ABC123 · Uber Guru

There is a market for that mouse biggrin

Just advertise as an all original 1966 Chev motor wink

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

ABC123 wrote:
There is a market for that mouse
Just advertise as an all original 1966 Chev motor

nope, not for sale. I will take the ill running 327 out of the 4 speed convertible and put the 283 in for now. That car needs passanger side floor pan and new top and it can be just a driver for now. thonk I have enough on my plate

cdnpont · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

We are going to need a flow chart to track all of your work Kevin.

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

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65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

so we have some big time rot where the dash meets the cowl. i can buy the new cowl section but we will have to rerepair the dash. I would gladly buy a dash out of a donour car but my guess woud be they are all rotton in the same place

cdnpont · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

The sheer joy of the rotten windshield channel 65-70.

One cannot truly appreciate the B body without being exposed to this.

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

another issue i see is being this car had a hole for the automatic floor console the hole for the 4 speed hump is a lot more forward. we will have to patch the hole in the floor from the auto hump

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Easy to do Kevin. When I did the black Grande Parisienne in 2012-2013 I took some pics.

The blue part at the back is the patch I added and that hump, although patched up is an original hump.

65 SD L79 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

did you put a bench seat in that one or keep the buckets?

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

That one got a power Strato Bench but other than the console mounting brackets, the hump etc, all the floor metal, is all the same between bucket and bench.