Great pics Carl! Good to see you still have great vision....  

hawkeye5766 wrote:

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4SPEED427 wrote:

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The Chevy crew cab is factory built for the government.

The 68 Bonneville with hideaway headlights is quite rare, an option offered late year. Owner had documentation to prove it's authentic.

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 Thinking that would have been a rail crew cab? There is one for sale out west (1966) soooooooo tempting !!!!

-- Edited by hawkeye5766 on Saturday 1st of April 2023 01:19:23 AM

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 do it Jim

mike667 wrote:

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 Found an article on it. With the documentation too.

 

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 Bit of a funny sidenote! The guy who wrote that article is Diego Rosenberg. He is the guy in my picture wearing the hoodie, holding his phone. I took a picture of him taking pictures of the car.

I had been messaging with him since last summer regarding various Canadian Pontiac details, as well as some other unique Canadian vehicles. We agreed to meet at the show. We had just met, were standing near the street when we saw this Bonneville to by and I said "Look, someone added hideaway headlights on the Bonneville". He ran to the street and took a picture of it going by, then proceeded to explain to me that it was actually a late year option on those cars. And with that, the guy pulled into the show and parked almost exactly where we were standing. He has perfect documentation (as shown in that article) detailing the late year option.

It was interesting talking to Diego, he's a genuine car nut and a wealth of information on all makes an models. He isn't so much interested in mainstream cars/trucks as the unusual.

A couple from a small Olds show I went to. The red one was best of show. Guy did it at home in his garage, beautiful job.

Do you have a full pic of the 69 Impala ?

Great shots Carl. That 68 Bonny is freaking loaded. I wonder if T83 ever snuck onto an Executive or Catalina.

Dollar/time conversion wise, it would be equivalent to a 52k car today. which really doesn't say much of todays way overpriced garbage, but back then... that was right up there and the real deal.

Yes, gold would have been really nice, elegant, better reflect the lines on the big car than red imop. But such were the days when everyone seemed to want a red ragtop, not that old stodgy gold.

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Ernie lives a few minutes out of town from where we stay. Have you not seen his creations? Built from scratch. Amazing. And he drives them. One of his dwarfs he has driven over 50,000 miles.