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08-03-2010, 09:32 AM | #61 |
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Re: Best Tow Car
Now THAT is what I call a neat tow car. How many 63 Pontiacs (Parisienne's) have you seen with a 409 AND a 4 speed built by the factory !
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08-03-2010, 10:13 AM | #63 |
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Guess it depends where you are, Tech Man !
Well, these are 64's: Here's my 64 Parisienne Safari project car... documented 400 HP 409 4 speed ( this is the large port, 11:1 engine, using the Z11 cam ). PS, PB, PRW, posi. Colour is Sunfire Red Metallic / Ermine White roof. How many ? One(1) built. Not one pink one. One only built. then, while looking for parts for it, a guy said to me, "hey, I have the pink wagon with a 409" ? He did... sort of. Around 1977, some low-life street rodder needed metal for his project, and cut the roof skin off this car. the wagon was a in a yard ( engine/trans had long before been removed ) with 200 other cars. This guy saw 409 valve cover gasket laying over the hole in the floor for the factory 4 speed shifter, and the tach up in the corner of the dash, and decided yes, this is the one... and took a cut off saw to it. 64 Pontiac Laurentian 9 passenger Safari wagon. Documented 340 HP 409 4 speed... yes, same colour as the 400 horse car. How many ? again, one(1) built I'm actually just about to start work on this one
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Those Safari cars were 'top-of-the-line'
Pete, Post your story on the 'Worst Tow Car'. 1966 International Harvester Travellal. Poor rear suspension. Upper frame section ripped out during a trailer tow to New York National in 1970, and the trailer hit a guard-rail along Sunrise Highway. Left the Travellal there on the side of the road. 3-weeks later, the Travellall was still there. No one wanted it. Engine blew out so much oil-smoke, it looked like one of those neighborhood 'Bug-Sprayers'. A quart-a-day-Charlie' |
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This got my vote....
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Some of us STILL HAVE open trailers and dream of stepping up to a ramp truck !...............LOL
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Back in the day it wasn't unusual for guys to flat tow stocker's or trailer dragsters with old Hearses. Some painted them but most just left them black, if you were lucky you could find a hearse flower car that had a small pickup bed for your tools and stuff.
Neatest combo I saw was a 1950 Studebaker with a Pontiac OHC 6cyl, 4 speed and 1956 Olds rear flat towed by a Hearse flower car with the funeral home name still on it. The car ran in the six cylinder gas class, I think it was I/gas. Pretty neat rig built by a bunch of Airmen from the local Air Base. JimR
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