With seating for eight and power to burn, maybe this is the ideal family wagon for you. Are you tempted enough to pursue this one further? Mechanically fine North East Contact. Dammmmn, This is super cool! Am I reading this right? You are reading it right. It has a donor body. So frame and body were not a match from factory.
So the only way to make the body tag and vin match is remove them and transplant them. At least he is honest about it not being a true numbers matching ride.
So this car is just a smorgasbord of parts from different cars. Eight passengers? You will find the third seat is equipped with two seat belts, as are all third seats in this era of station wagons.
They are an eight passenger vehicle, not nine. Okay, I guess all those thousands of sales brochures, window stickers, titles, etc. However, it only had seat belts for 4 people.
Not on this one either! I bet none, tho theoretically possible. Back in those days you could with the right connection get anything built. Also a 69 Caprice wagon with the L hp built with air not a option available with air. There are many more executive built cars built back then with one off options. The thrill is in the hunt. GM, Ford and Mopar all insisted you could only get cruise control with the automatic trans.
The reason why is because if you were to push the clutch pedal in, the cruise would see the vehicle speed drop, and increase the engine speed to compensate. In a few seconds the engine would red-line! In I ordered a new Dodge B van, with and stickshift. I also checked off the box for cruise control.
The sales manager was a good friend, and he sent the order in with a special note to build it with cruise, and I would add another brake light switch to the clutch pedal, so if the pedal was depressed, the cruise would disengage. The van was delivered with a hand-written note taped to the engine cover, mentioning the fuse for the cruise control was not installed, it was in a plastic bag in the glove box.
Cruise was a over the parts counter accessory kit also. I was a Pontiac parts manger back then and it was very common to have it installed after the car came in and was sold. Chevrolet had the same luxury of these kits also. Yes, all the GM divisions had an accessory Cruise Control kit, but as I recall, the switch control was mounted onto the turn signal stalk.
Anyone can conjure up a story like that, and so without verifiable proof, this is simply a nice restoration in a non-factory color. Chevy guys always think they have the holy grail of cars, and that their surpasses anything anyone else has. The seller claims to have the original bill of sale and window sticker easily verified by an expert. I know the owner and this car. He is well-known for having cornered the market with GM big block, 4-speed cars mostly convertibles.
Every car he owns is beautiful and well worth the money. We can see why your in search of the Wizard of Oz….. Very nice and would love to own it.
Had the luck to have a friend that had a 69 Brookwood wagon with the L and a 4-sp. Car was scary fast and I believe one of just a few built. Wish i would have bought that one. So, he pulled the vin plate from the original car and transfered it to this California body? The feds would like to get to know him better, as that is illegal. Give me a break.
It just says he used a rust free donor for parts. He probably cut pieces off of it. Is there some law that says that after X amount of parts it then becomes a different law? So, you want to name call, idiot? It is illegal, period. Taylor Vincent, that as long as nothing was hidden or advertised incorrectly, it was OK. You learn something new everyday.
For about 5 years I rode to work in a 67 , Caprice, four speed with every option you could get. It was not a wagon, but a 2 door hard top. My neighbour bought it when it was a year old. A fast, comfortable car. They just love to try and discredit every car they see. My 8th grade history teacher, a Mr. He said it took 3 months to get the car.
The window sticker looks legit to me. Even though he admits It is a reboot that is totally illegal. I saw this car two days ago on eBay. Manual Transmission Conversion Post by kras » Thu Mar 02, am Just finished a manual transmission conversion on a 9C1.
Remove automatic trans and remove engine from front cradle. Remove cylinder heads and perform DOD delete on engine and install camshaft, valve springs, and headers. While body is lifted off of powertrain brake booster was removed and drilled hole in firewall for clutch slave cylinder. Camaro clutch pedal assembly could then be bolted in place. Lower body back onto powertrain. Transmission shifter lined up and bolted in place where factory automatic shifter was installed.
Modified automatic transmission cooler lines to adapt to manual transmission so factory transmission cooler could still be used. Spent hours reviewing GXP and Caprice wiring schematics to determine modifications that were necessary to factory Caprice body side harness.
Most modifications were adding in circuits that were missing from factory harness. These were done using factory terminals and installed into factor connectors. Also the Caprice PPV has a heavy duty engine cooling fan system completely different from a GXP and requires circuits removed from undressed fuse panel and adapted to PPV cooling fan system.
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