My search is over.

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congrats Teej....uber cool styling

 

Congrats. You just gotta LOVE Az. Cars! Just got me one today. But then of course. I live in Az.

 

Yeah, I got it up on my Kwiklift this last weekend (via comealong) and crawled under it and was just amazed. Once I cleared out some spiderwebs and pine needles I could not believe how utterly rust free the bottom of the car was. Not a pinhole to be found in any floor pan, rocker, spare tire area or anywhere! Just a thing of beauty....

 

Yup...the undersides of those AZ cars look like new. You are a lucky guy, teej!

 

Yeah - I think I'd take a rust-free bottom with a fried interior vs. a nice interior with holes under it.

 

The 71 Camaro project I sold this week (Had it for 17 years) so I could buy my wagon did not have a speck of the cancer under it. The guy that bought it pretty much bought it because of these photos.





He handed me the money as I opened the garage for him to see the car. That is why I got the car myself. And yes, the interior was way past sun rotted. The plastic parts would turn to dust when you touched them.

I cannot wait to take a look under my wagon. Hope to have time this weekend. From what I saw, It is going to be the same. The plus with my wagon is that the interior is nice too. Not stock, it has been redone in cloth. But done very nice. I will take it over a rotted interior.

 

At age 16, I owned a '66 Bonneville convertible with the 389 TriPower WITH factory air conditioning, and loaded! Remember, with the right connections, you could order pretty much what you wanted back then. My car was red with red interior and white top. Traded a guy a '68 Impala SS 327 hardtop that I had about $150 in then. Of course, this was in the mid-'70s, gas was a whopping 65 cents per gallon, and I was making two bucks an hour.

 

Here's my floor boards. Not much different than Dencon's wagon... Dry and dusty is a beautiful thing.

 

That is so cool. It just makes the fixing up that much more funner and less stresfull.
Well I am off to go get my wagon a legal to I can start driving it. Got plans with my friends for the car hang outs this coming weekend.

 

Teej -

Wow. Just saw the thread...What a truly amazing machine you have. Congratulations!

Here is a link that may be of interest to you:

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Vintage-Cars-3064/66-pontiac.htm

I saw this awhile back - it dates from 07 - and it really got me wondering at the time, seemed a real mystery. One of the experts speculated that the car was a 2+2 due to its power plant and 4-speed. The owner said it was a wagon. I wondered if a 66 Bonneville wagon like that might still be out there somewhere...thanks for sharing your pics, now I know that a 66 Bon wagon with tripower and 4-speed is out there rolling the roads, and in some way that makes my fascination with Pontiac wagons just a little richer and more fun. Good luck with the car -

I'm curious, had you seen that post before? My guess is that was/is your car? -- or there are two!

Here's a pic of one of my previous project cars - had it shipped across the country, messed with it for awhile..and in the end let it go due to an unsalvageable amount of rust in the tailgate, doors, roof, frame -- sat under some pine trees most of its life in Washington state and rusted from the top down.