69 427-435 HP tri power, M21, 3:90, monza red, red leather. All numbers match. Off road and sat in climate controlled basement since 1982. 53xxx miles. Never wrecked or messed with.
-- Edited by Gillis on Monday 15th of April 2024 08:13:11 AM
Careful which tires you run if you restore to stock. Bias-belted were tried but not good, but the regular G70-15 with that engine are the stuff power-slides are made of. Car Life magazine tested a '68 L71 roadster (L89 actually) and said, "with a car like this to get high, who needs LSD?". It did many controlled drifts on dry pavement, and if you've ever heard one you'll know that the exhaust note of a solid lifter high compression big block is enough to raise the heart rate. Car Life also tested a coupe alongside with a 327-300 & th400, which they also loved but it was a different animal.
Camaros got white-lettered tires on the '68 Z/28, in '69 all Camaros & Chevelles could get them, but not until '70 could you get white lettered tires on a Corvette or Nova. It just seems wrong. Corvettes went 60-series in '70 and that may have had something to do with it.
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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
I don't judge a man by how far he's fallen, but by how far back he bounces - Patton
Quite a find, more rare than almost anything? How many built?
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
Local,as that old saying goes, they are still out there. Youll have to show that to Blair.
There were likely a bunch of those smashed up and beat to death in the first 5 years. Surprised there was 610 sold new in Canada.
-- Edited by DonSSDD on Tuesday 16th of April 2024 12:04:49 PM
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
Wow! Did not expect to see that when I opened the thread!
The dealer is GM of Canada Zone Product Stock. Does that mean it was a zone office manager's company car, or perhaps ordered to be a display piece at shows, etc.? Or was it just labeled that way if it were a special order car?
I wonder which dealer eventually sold it to the public. I know Bob McDonald's sold a lot of performance vehicles locally back in the day, but it logically could have gone anywhere or if it were a company car the manager probably had the option of buying it after it aged out of the company pool.
Youre spot on. Car was sold through Bob MacDonalds. It was sold before it landed in Halifax. A doctor in Amherst purchased it. He had the car for a few years, then it was sold to the owner of Toys for big Boys in Moncton. That guy had it for a few years as well before it was sold to the city Engineer for Moncton. He drove it for 1 year, then placed it in his basement in 1982. He removed the interior, radiator, and chrome over time to get those things replaced but never got to it. He passed away, and my buddy bought it from his widow in 2016 approximately 8 years after he passed, and it has been in his basement since then. He had every intention of restoring it but he has 2 other restored Corvettes (70 LT1, and 70 L46), and hes downsizing his fleet and his home as well.
Side note: the city engineer had a TON of cars and performance parts, in other buildings, his basement, etc. When this car was extracted from the basement it was flanked by numerous crate engines that he had purchased over the years. They were all high performance motors bought directly from dealerships. L78 396s, L71 427s, LS6 and 7 454s, dual quad 409s, there were 5- 426 hemis from carbs to pan, shelves full of Muncies , heads, blocks, etc. and this was only the stuff from the basement. He had other buildings that housed an ungodly amount of performance cars and parts.
It's great that you know the history of your car. I've had so many where I didn't know anything of their history. I've heard of so many cool high performance cars that came from Bob's, so it was just a shot in the dark.
