Misc thoughts
Darrel...get that glovebox out and see if your build sheets are there ASAP. If your Olds was a South Gate Olds, perhaps they put them there in yours too. Hurry before they crumble.
I think I have pretty much preserved vs. restored all my cars too. I have yet to paint one in all these years. The AMX and the Starfire need it the worst! The others I can live with for awhile.
Pete--I find it interesting that in Canada, there were slightly different versions of the GM cars. For example, you could get a very similar Pontiac wagon to what I have, but with a 6 cylinder! That is trippy. And there was a Nova, but it was called an Acadian. The full sized Pontiac was a Parisienne, a name which we actually used in the States much later for a full sized Pontiac.
Charlie, your Imperial's "fuselage" styling (curved panels extending down to rockers) seems to have predated that styling direction for all Mopars for the 1971 model year. Interesting. I also did not know they had sequential turn signals.
You may remember from a previous posting that I have a 1957 Imperial that is pretty much a restorable "basket case". The car creeps me out so much that I have never SAT IN IT. That is right, owned it for 11 years and never sat in it. Reached in it, yes. Sat in it, no. Never did anything with it but have it in my garage. When it was flatbed towed to this house, the tow guy just reached in, tied the steering wheel straight, and winched it onto his truck. We rolled it off and pushed it into the garage it is in at our new house. Silly huh.
I find it interesting and really coincidental that at least four of my friends here have 61-65 Olds. I count RickR, myself, Charlie and Darrel. Geez, with a few other people I know, we could re-create a 60's Olds dealership!
