Today marks the 35th anniversary that I bought Carl's old 66 from a fellow in Edmonton. Hard to believe. Don't know if I'll be around 35 years more down the road, but I know my kids and perhaps future grandchildren will enjoy driving it when gas is $15 a litre!
Could this be a car we saw in the National Old Car Auto Trader back in the 1980s? I know I saw Lefty's '63 Acadian convertible in the Auto Trader around 1982.
It's always great when these cars end up in the right hands.
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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
I still have the copy of the Old Car Trader with Carl's ad. I think it was in 1985? I bought the car from Rod Shula in Edmonton. He was asking $7500. I didn't quibble about the price. I have the 1989 copy of the Old Car Trader with his ad as well.
My original ad when Rod bought it in January (I forget the year but likely 1989?) would have been for $6500 and somehow I missed his ad later that same year.
He came on the train and I picked him up with my daily driver at the train station in Winnipeg. It was -30. We drove to Morris and he drove the car out of our heated garage and headed home. I warned him it had no block heater and that be better either drive all the way in one blast or at least start it once in the middle of the night if he stopped to sleep. I'm not sure what he did.
I went to visit him that summer and in talking to him then I realized I'd made a mistake selling it to him, he is not a car guy at all and I'm not sure why he bought it. He had no idea about the rarity of the car and had long forgotten any of the stuff I'd told him that made the car so unusual.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
