Jamie, I suppose we could always find "something" worse, but you gotta admit, it's pretty bad. :shock: Did you see that roof? :error: Total swiss cheese. I don't think I've ever seen a roof that bad. Was it stored upside down? p Good thing is it's not gonna be hard to replace the standard hood. It's destroyed. If it was an SS hood that would be a true bummer. Did this come from one of those junkyards where trees grow through them? If so, this car is a great save. There's so many more out there too, prolly going to the crushers.
Way cool! thanks. Memory lane. I had a 68 Impala Super Sport Convt with a 327, buckets, console, cruise and the works. Had the car at Super Chevy one year when I sold it. Car now resides in New Jersey. Was an factory color "Mountain Green"?
Awesome car,I had 2 L-72 69 cars. Fast for the size. I now have a 68 SS427 Convert. Great cruiser. 67-69 Full size are just a great all around car. Cannot wait until we see this one done.
I would take a rust-free plain-jane impala and just switch all the stuff over...there's nothing left of that car to salvage! :shock:
The wood is put there so the springs wouldn't sag. Heck, they might be tho only things that don't need replacing! :Brow: I smell a donor car swap of all pertinant parts if the cowl is gone. But what a find! That Factory tach cements it's solid lifter status. Sure hope you keep this board in the loop. Best regards :3gears:
A local guy that I know had an awsome white/white hardtop 427 tri power 4 spd with aluminum heads. His dad bought it new and the body was amazing. The guy worked at a local auto parts store, When he decided to rebuild the engine he took it out and installed a 454. Then he took the top half and set it on a dummy BBC block in the front display window. Yes you know what happened. One night a pickup backed into the large picture window and 3 guys just lifted the whole set up into their truck and drove away. Radar as people called him was devestated. The shop owner refused to turn it into his insurance because he did not ask the guy to display this stuff. It was determined to be worth 4k loss in 1981 That car was so cool. It had what looked to be a 69 SS Camaro hood vent frenched into the hood but just one. The guy said that was original too.
There are actually quite a few rare high performance fullsize cars in this condition out there. I am into station wagons and have had a couple on the radar screen for awhile. Obviously not as cool as this one, but I love this stuff. The problem on the big cars was that the drivetrain used to get poached for a Chevelle or Camaro and the rest gets pushed into a field like this one! A neighbor of a friend of mine has a 1969 Kingswood Estate Wagon with the 427. Non AC, power windows, posi, tilt and woodgrain. Last time I was there he almost sold it to me. Last registered in 1978! Motor is there but stuck from sitting with the air cleaner off. The body is nice but the interior smells like mildew and I am sure has floor issues. It would be fairly presentable with cleaning. 1967 Pontiac 2+2. 428 HO with a 4 speed. Looks like this Impala Rustwise but still has the engine in it. (no trans, though) In a body shop backlot in Western Minnesota. Was for sale for 10 years at an exhorbitant price then showed up 25 miles up the road with the stick stuff missing and a lower price. Now its been pushed onto the backlot to turn to dust. At least this one has a slim chance of survival!
Here's one that was found in a Detroit garage after the owner died with no heirs...well at least mentally...had been sitting in there since 1968... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/275166/an/0/page/7#Post275166 Lots of big 427 cars in the Yenko site under members rides. One of my friends from high school (Philadelphia area) also went to U of Mich same time as me, so his Dad bought him (and his brother who was also there at the time) a brand new 63 wagon for the "commute"..only mistake was, he let the kids pick it out. They chose a gorgeous silver one with a 327 300hp. It went back and forth on that trip across Ohio and Pa. at least 5 or 6 times a year (and a few other places on the Q.T.). Gas was 25 cents a gallon, so no biggee there. That was one very neat car....love to have it today.
That 64 brings back memories, I bought a 64 for a local GM employee in 1975. The car was on blocks and since i was a muscle car guy I went looking for a Mustang, charger, Roadrunner or the like. I didn't have the $$ for one of those but I found this lowly 64 Impala sitting on blocks for 150.00. I went into North St Louis and looked at it. The body was good, interior good, no wheels. I was going to pass and then I opened the hood. A single 4bbl 409 and a 4 spd! I did not have a clue what that engine was but it was huge! I had to have it. I went to my uncles house and conned him into letting me borrow his wheels form the Riv he had out back and together we went to get the car. After mounting the wheels and dropping the car to the gropund it was clear that the front suspension was shot. Well aftewr 4 saginaw 4 spds I gave up and sold it for 1500.00 I felt I had made out on that deal. But I did get that Roadrunner finally 69 383 4spd!
That 64 should have had a B/W T10. I had one of them behind my 63 Catalina 421HO and it held up fine with plenty of abuse. :laugh: :laugh: I have a story like yours, except it wasn't on blocks, it was sitting on the ground. Guy at work said he knew of a 68 442 that looks abandoned out back of an apartment complex. Unimpressed, (aren't all Chevelles SS396? All tempests and Lemans are GTO's, etc...) I assumed it just another old Cutlass and eventually I'd check it out. When he told me it was a convertible, I immediately hopped in my car and went to look at it. It was a 68 442 convertible...Not bad, but had a Pontiac 400 in it sitting a little sideways. Inquired of the apartment manager and he told me who owned it, was still a tenant there, and he's planning to call a junkyard to have it towed out of there. Called in to the office, took the rest of the day off and towed it home that night with the wheels/tires from my Ramrod..not without drama, though...most people would probably give up when the acid head kid said he'd take $50 for it, but it had a lien against the title...OOPS. It was a shyster used car lot in Detroit's ghetto...grabbed the info off the title, stopped at the bank and got a $100 bill, got a big scary looking friend to go with me, and headed up there. He tried to hit me up for the balance (about $850) and I waved the $100 bill at him. He laughed, so we headed out the door. I figured I can part it out for more than $50...He came out and flagged us down and tried again for $500...Nope, held up the $100 bill again...last time...He said OK, signed off on the lien and I was on my way. Then the freaking kid tried to stiff me for more when we were loading it up. Told him to go "romance" a big brown dog... Neat car. New top, mint original black interior, PW, tilt, bench seat, needed paint. Fixed the motor mounts and it started right up and drove. Bought a parts car with the right motor, and sold that Pontiac engine for $250 less thew carburetor...turns out that must have been quite an engine as a guy bought the carb from me later for $100 after checking the numbers on it. Went nuts after he got it showing it to his Pontiac buddies. Oh well... Painted it, rebuilt the Olds 400, correct wheels/tires and drove it for a summer then sold it. Took my wife to the hospital when My daughter was born, and brought them home in it, too. Sold it and bought an Escort Station Wagon....as they say" I was young, needed the money"...
I was young and stupid. It had a saginaw in it so I bought the same for it. I tore up 3 and when I had to piece the last one together from parts I sold it. Now I would use a T-10 or a Muncie. If I only knew what I had. And I could go on and on about other Muscle cars I have owned and sold . hell I even looked at a Daytona or Superbird in 1976 I do not remember which for 900.00. I passed cause I needed to work on it and the garage was too short and I hated the front end. I did kind of dig that spoiler on back though.
