CORVAIRWILD
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Way back in 1976 my dad bought me a '67 Parisienne 2+2 convert. As you have obviously guessed, this was a Canadian Poncho, more Chevy than Indian. Anyhow, he gave me the car for my 18th birthday in 1978, and it was a summer to beat all! I was missing a hubcap, and a friend with a screwdriver in his back pocket found one (on a 2+2) at a local VW dealers back lot, and suggested we go get it that nite. I went with a different friend, and the car looked too good to "part out", so he went there the next morning with his dad, and bot the car, another '67 2+2 for $150. It had been the dealerships secretarys car, and was similar to mine with buckets console 283PG and this one had power windows and head restraints
We had a great time terrorizing the 'hood all summer, he put dual exhaust with royal Scott glasspacks, and I went with 2.5" w Corvair Turbo mufflers. We also put a Holley double pumper on his little 283, and fuel would dribble out the tailpipes! I would tinker with the car, tuning it while he was attending college classes. Guess who graduated with a degree and who's a dropout?
After a few months of foot to the floor fun, I bot a '67 442, and he blew the 283, so we went looking for a big block, and ended up discovering a 409 in a junk '57 Chev station wagon.
Long story short, the 409 was a 348, it was junk, cracked block, so we found a 409 in a truck junkyard, he had it rebuilt and mated it to a TH400, and that's the pix in my profile.
We both kept our cars for many years, but seldom drove them after the next summer. The frame on mine was so rusty I had it changed from a '66 Caprice and then parked the car for 15 years. He moved away, and eventually blew the poorly rebuilt engine.
So 35 years later I'm ready for a real 409. I saw a sweet fully restored '62 Impala SS convert in Palm Springs Cal last fall, red red 409-409, but $55,000. I also have on my bucket list a '65 Parisienne Custom Sport convert that I would have built with a 409-400 5 speed. Pontiac of Canada offered the 409 in the all new '65's, and that's were we got the exhaust manifolds from for my friends '67. In fact the 409 was offered for the entire model year, and the Mark IV 396 wasn't available until 1966. So that's were the remaining 409's ended up I guess. Production was still very limited, and CanadianPoncho has all the low numbers.
BTW, that's me 36 years ago with the afro!
I'm also looking at a '65 Catalina 2+2 hdtp, 40+ options 4 speed 421 3-2's A/C PW etc... We'll see how that goes!
We had a great time terrorizing the 'hood all summer, he put dual exhaust with royal Scott glasspacks, and I went with 2.5" w Corvair Turbo mufflers. We also put a Holley double pumper on his little 283, and fuel would dribble out the tailpipes! I would tinker with the car, tuning it while he was attending college classes. Guess who graduated with a degree and who's a dropout?
After a few months of foot to the floor fun, I bot a '67 442, and he blew the 283, so we went looking for a big block, and ended up discovering a 409 in a junk '57 Chev station wagon.
Long story short, the 409 was a 348, it was junk, cracked block, so we found a 409 in a truck junkyard, he had it rebuilt and mated it to a TH400, and that's the pix in my profile.
We both kept our cars for many years, but seldom drove them after the next summer. The frame on mine was so rusty I had it changed from a '66 Caprice and then parked the car for 15 years. He moved away, and eventually blew the poorly rebuilt engine.
So 35 years later I'm ready for a real 409. I saw a sweet fully restored '62 Impala SS convert in Palm Springs Cal last fall, red red 409-409, but $55,000. I also have on my bucket list a '65 Parisienne Custom Sport convert that I would have built with a 409-400 5 speed. Pontiac of Canada offered the 409 in the all new '65's, and that's were we got the exhaust manifolds from for my friends '67. In fact the 409 was offered for the entire model year, and the Mark IV 396 wasn't available until 1966. So that's were the remaining 409's ended up I guess. Production was still very limited, and CanadianPoncho has all the low numbers.
BTW, that's me 36 years ago with the afro!
I'm also looking at a '65 Catalina 2+2 hdtp, 40+ options 4 speed 421 3-2's A/C PW etc... We'll see how that goes!
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