Awesome Ben great job on your rides.

Thanks Kurt, I love your Nova!
Good luck with the trannie!

here's the fleet. anything other than usual maintenance stuff will have to wait till the dollar is better. i had the rear seat recovered in the chevelle and it looks good. we're going to build some fenderwell headers for the studebaker using circle track units as a base. i'm convinced along with a few others that know the car that the current headers are holding back my et's.

 

78 TA 400 Stroker /461..CNC Ported Aluminum heads roller valve train. TH400 3200 Continental
Original 8.5 rear upgraded Moser Axels Eaton Posi C-Clip eliminators-3:42s
Stock Interior and paint. Exercise regularily at St Thomas. 12- 1500 street miles per yr
Best ET 11:46 /121 Enhancements in progress...

Thanks for the comments...Its been fun and the performance bug does suck you in.Hope to go a bit quicker this year.
No under hood shots but its no chrome pontiac blue very stock looking. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Like the car show thing but love going to the track on a Friday night with some buddys.
Love your car has the look ....You have some serious cubic power there...nice.if i sold mine and changed direction then a Nova would be one of my top picks.
A Ventura is something i also would consider.....easy 500 lbs lighter....we shall see

Wow that Beaumont looks flawless. Got your hands full with the convertable.

Nice ! Breather lid is extra awesome. Clearly custom ?

Heres a couple of shots of my 55 having fun with my friends 57 wagon at armdrop, posing with Fatstax and his rat and one of The Boy's(my son)wagon. Ed

Great thread, great rides!

Cool thread, my ride 76 chev lowered, 4 inch chop and 63 biscayne dash 

Bluechev..Like the chop on the PU...not to much taken out.

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Thanks for the compliment on my 68 and yup, the 69 is currently a POS...however it was produced in late June of 69, just before GM Oshawa pulled the plug on the line and is one of 488. That aside, I had a 68 convertible and regretted selling it ever since, then this one came along and couldn't resist the factory color combination. My hands are full for sure, but I ask myself...what else would I do with my time? LOL

Thanks 69ss for the compliment and the thread lots of very nice stuff built and owned by the members here

Here is what I started with.

Here is my truck with me parked behind it at Autofest.

 

 

Great rides everyone. Thanks for posting. I am familiar with some of the cars posted and it is nice to see what others are working on and driving. Cool mix of vehicles.
Keep them coming.

Had a real mix of stuff over the last couple of years

Restored this 76 Stutz Blackhawk with my Dad, it's been sold

Bought this 58 Impala about 80% done, finished it up and sold it

 

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Here's my heap in my heated garage. BTW it's still for sale, I know one of you has $30,000 just looking to burn a hole in yer pocket! Getting it ready for the World of Wheels show here in February. I have to repaint the grill for the show (restoration is 10 years old this summer!)and put new M/T ET Streets on it for the summer. 

It Ran an 11.51 at 117.6 mph in Mission BC a couple years ago. If I don't sell it I'm changing the cam to take advantage of the Kaase P51 heads.

 

It's Show and Tell so...Bikes anyone

Lets keep this thread going. If its cool and has an engine feel free to show and tell

04 FXSTC

 

Friends Custom

"Lost Souls"

Smokin Joe wrote:

Now something completely different. 1930 Cadillac coupe sat as a basket case for over 50 years with three owners in that period. I bought it and put it together. Nominated for a AACA national award 2015 a second at Cobble Beach and two US touring events. Then this year going to NC. in June and NH. in Sept. to put some miles on it hence the high speed gears I had made for it.

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 It's not a rod, but it's sexy as all get out.

 

Some very talented members here. I could not even imagine attempting some of the vehicles posted. Two thumbs up.

It has been a while since I first joined and I have been lurking about reading all of the fabulous posts 

 

 My car was 12 years old when I got it.

 

It all started 37 years ago with a friend driving into the Auto Shop that I was the manager at.  He had a 1967 Chev Impala that he had dug out of a pile of snow on a service station lot in Fenelon Falls.  He asked if I knew of anyone who would be interested in buying it.  I loved the 2 door hardtop roofline and of further reflection realized the 1967 was the Centennial year.  It wasn’t a hard decision after he told me that all of the front end body parts were available --- he worked at a GM dealer and had already sourced the parts.  The car came into my possession with 60219 miles according to the safety certificate dated July 25,1979.

 

I paid the immense sum of $225.00 for the car with the instructions to order the front fenders, inner fender wells, and hood.   When the parts arrived I took them to Maaco Auto Body in Oshawa and they put it all together with a fresh coat of Marina Blue paint.

 

My thinking was that the car being a Centennial year vehicle it might just hold its value over the years.    37 years later and the last appraisal in 2015 was for 30,000.00

 

After driving for a while I decided to reinforce the frame under the passenger’s feet as it was not looking too good. 4 inch channel iron fixed that problem.

 

I put a trailer hitch on the car and on our honeymoon took the car to the east coast towing a camping trailer. Got to do the Cabot Trail.  Wonderful trip.

 

 

In 1985 I got a call from Brian Owens, a former mechanic who had worked for me and he told me that there was a 1968 Chev Station wagon in Ajax that was going to the wreckers that day.  It had a 4 piston caliper front brake system and the car was from California. The car had been parked in front of the owner’s house and a neighbour back out of his driveway right into the left front fender of the car.  Insurance wrote the car off and he pulled out all of the parts that he wanted and it was destined for the wreckers.  I looked at the car and the frame was completely solid and bonus, it had disc brakes. Brian had done some research earlier and determined that I could use the 68 station wagon frame on my 67.

 

I asked what he wanted for the car and he said the wreckers will give me $35.00 and that was his price.  I paid him quickly and the he exclaimed “where do you want me to tow it too”?  I gave him directions to the Green + Ross location in Oshawa and the car arrived there within a couple of hours.  My father came to assist me on the weekend and the 68 Station Wagon was put on the hoist and all of the body mounts were removed, Monday morning a tow truck came in a lifted the body off the frame.  The following weekend the chassis was dismantled and loaded onto a trailer and taken to Redi-Strip to be completely stripped and a fresh coat of epoxy enamel put on the components.

 

Over the next winter I rented a storage unit and assembled all new parts to the shiny frame. The scariest part was when I put the front springs in, I had them bound when I installed them and after placing them between the control arms I had to cut the metal that was compressing them.  Totally scared the crap out of me when that spring bounced into place, trembled for an hour afterwards, and I had only cut one..

 

 

 

The next summer I took the car to Jay’s Auto Body and they went over the car quite well and determined that a section of the floor under the driver’s feet should be replaced.   He had contacts in the USA and located a floor section that was shipped to Oshawa.    The car was stripped down and the floor pan put in. By this time the frame was complete and ready to go under the car, but first the old running gear had to be removed.  A little bit of engineering and head scratching and the old frame was removed without any major problems.  The new frame went in and then it was time for a fresh repaint.  I chose a 1968 Corvette colour slightly darker colour than the original marina blue.   The wheels had to be upgraded to 15 inch due to the size of the disc brake rotors.  I chose the popular Corvette 15x8 wheel.

 

The engine had been using a bit of oil and I decided to have it rebuilt, but didn’t want to loose the use of the car for a summer.  Another friend was involved in wreck’em races and had his own special engine and each time he bought another car the engine would come out.  I bought an engine from him and installed it when I pulled my original engine for a rebuild.  Lots of parts were assembled, and the machine shop put it all together and when complete ran it on their own dyno for an hour.  220 horsepower with 195 ft lbs torque

 

Somewhere along the way the 2 speed powerglide was replaced with a TH350.

 

Drove the car for a few more years and during one winter had a friend who was a body man replace the new rear quarter panels that I had bought.  In doing the body work he intended to do a complete repaint and found the area below the windshield to be rusted out.  A decision was made to just fill in the rusted out area with body filler. Years later that would be repaired.  

 

Many trips were take to source parts and things, Carlisle Pennsylvania and Hershey Pennsylvania were 2 of the popular trips that I took over the years   I attended the Barrie flea market (when it was just car stuff) and always came home with something

 

In 1986 the interior of the car was done by Citation Trim and Glass Works, with a correct replacement of the seats, door panels and floor carpets.    Years later the bottom portion of the front seat had to be redone by Larry’s Auto Trim and in 2012 Trim Tech Interiors, Larry’s son, repaired a small snag in the driver’s side again.

 

In 2003 the clear coat had turned a milky colour and I decided that it was time to do a MAJOR.Restoration.   I took the car to Don Butt Auto Body, Oshawa, in the fall of 2003 and left the car with him.  I knew the quality of work that he did and had no concerns about the outcome.  I took 2 years for the work to be completed. (He has a very busy retail shop) and also does a limited number of restorations.  His restoration staff includes 3 people.

When the car was stripped to bare metal a number of issues showed up.  The area below the windshield was the largest concern as that portion of the car when assembled was 3 individual pieces and each piece had to be welded in sequence.   A donor dash was found from the USA and it too had to be split back down into those 3 pieces before the installation could take place.  The rear quarter panels were split and moved out a bit to enhance the quarter panel lines. The engine had been taken out and completely detailed.

The instrument cluster was refreshed.

 

I kept checking in on the progress, anxious, yes, worried no.

 

Since getting the car back I have had to redo the front disc brake with different rotors as the original rotors were obsolete. At one point I had paid 275.00 for just one original rotor.  Much anguish on deciding which way to go for a replacement.  The Corvette had a similar hub system and that was used with a 5500 disc brake rotor that fitted over the hub.  Brakes work fine. 

 

The transmission had earlier had a shift kit put into it and I decided that I had enough of the jerkiness of the shift.  (getting older)

The transmission was rebuilt and the kit removed.  Also while the car was at the shop they looked at the differential and determined that it was not in good shape.  It had been making noises for quite some time and the parts required to repair it were also obsolete.  I just left it and drove for another 2 summers saving up enough for the rebuild.  In 2013 I left the car with Lawrence Transmission in Toronto and they had some reasonably good used gears that they were able to use in the rebuild.  Better than and additional $500.00 for a replacement plus labour.  It was determined that the axles were badly scored and needed to be replaced as well. 

 

The car is a pleasure to drive and there are not many 67 Impala’s at the car shows, I am usually the only one. The license plate reads “67 Plus”   My father used to give me $100.00 for my birthday and one year I decided to do something significant and purchased the personalized plate.

It reflects the fact that the body is a 67 and the frame is a 68 Station Wagon.

 

The car left the Oshawa plant on May 7, 1967 and was shipped to Regina Motor Product, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  11,631 models of my Impala were built in 1967.

I don’t have any information as to how it got to Fenelon Falls, Ontario but it had been registered in Ontario for about 5 years prior to my getting the car.

 

In 2014 the original engine started blowing head gaskets and after replacing them twice I decided it was time to replace the original 283. I stumbled upon Exceltec Auto in Markham.  As I drove by I saw a Lotus Europa, Corvette, Bentley, and a 67 Impala Convertible, I had to investigate.

 

I went in and talked to Doug Lamb for an hour and it was decided that we would install a 350 Crate motor.

 

I also decided to have Exceltec put in a tilt column. The steering box had previously upgrade to a 2.75 turn circle.

 

I have had a trailer hitch welded on the back and we mount 2 bicycles for our touring excursions.  Great for doing Wine Country.

 

I now have a set of gears for the rear end which will be job one after the snow is gone.

 

I don’t attend too many Show and Shine but prefer to go for a drive to one rather than the same one each time.

 

This is my passion..

 

 

Cliff Taylor

 

That was a lot of work, but a pleasure to drive

 

 

57150 wrote:

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Found this 66 El Camino for sale on this site, it's getting close to being finished.

 

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 hell of a job glen.

It is difficult to condense 37 years into a few words, I was concerned about how much to  put in.

There are some details missing..... the cruise control went in with the tilt.....

 

Thanks for the comments

Cliff

Here is a couple of shots from the 90s of an old front engine dragster we use to run at Cayuga called "Longshot" but we called it "LongSnot the worlds slowest dragster". Had a 350 scavanged out of dads old station wagon. Ran high 13s all day long...lol but was a ton of low budget fun. Learned alot and got the smell of rubber in my brain for a lifetime.