Great story, Love hearing about any car that was special built and flew under the radar.

Ian

Cdn Guinand wrote:

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Hey 66 327 sd, thanks for the shout out. After the summer settles down I'm going to make a page on my site that heralds all Canadian only muscle.
As I've been writing for Muscle Cars Magazine I've had to educate myself on the many Canadian only cars (as I wrote the feature on the Rick Yackemic '65 409 Pontiac Parisienne) and trucks of which I have a couple, my '72 Swinger 340 Special (as you called out here) and my '70 Fargo Dude.
Go Canada!!!

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 Hey Cliff, nice to see you found Canadian Poncho through your Swinger!

Cliff and I have been one-line pals for the past two years on another platform !

Cliff is a man of many talents, hopefully you will all get to see them.

beaucarlo wrote:

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what a great and interesting article. being from windsor brought back memories

of when i worked as an apprentice and mechanic at a serve-station from 1968-77.a lot of my friends 

worked at chryslers and built those cars. they used to 'boost' parts and give them to me

[hood-pins, lanyards, signal lights etc.]..also if they bought cars ,they were given the

day off in order to follow the build of their car through the plant .of course there was 

a lot of heavy duty parts installed along with additional accessories.it was a cool era.

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 Bob,

I was one of those guys who worked on the line at Chrysler 1971/72.

I'm probably responsible for putting parts on Cliff's Swinger as it went down the line.. Chrysler sales kept us busy for the two

years I was there. We worked 6 days a week during that time. Great pay in those days too.

We made $5.08 an hour plus time and a half on Saturdays. Production on two shifts was 1,040 cars a day.

Gas was about 40 cents a gallon. 

You're right Bob, the era was cool.

-G