1968 427 cars

68 427 · Poncho Master!

1968 427 cars

67rag396 · Poncho Master!

Hi Mike,
Are you the guy that bought the car from PEI?
I don't know about 68 427's exactly, but I have a 67 396 and the 2 years are closely related.
I am located in Calgary and would be happy to help in any way I can.

Rick

68 427 · Poncho Master!

HEY RICK! YES I BOUGHT THAT CAR. WAS IN BETTER SHAPE THAN EXPECTED BUT DOES NEED ALOT OF WORK.
MIKE

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Welcome aboard Mike. Glad to hear that car went to a loving home. A lot of us have GM parts books so finding part numbers won't be a problem. Let us know what you need. If you don't have it already you can call GM historical services and order all the production info for your car. Finding actual Canadian Pontiac specific parts might be a bit more difficult but not impossible, especially now that you are on here. Chassis parts are same as Impala.

Todd

67rag396 · Poncho Master!

Hi Mike,
If you are going to tear the car apart and fully restore it, you will need to collect, or have available a lot of parts. I have so far used pieces from 2 of my own parts cars (some of what remains may help you) plus accumulated pieces from my collection and my bodyman's collection and we only did from the doors back. I also have some reproduction pieces (just in case) that you might want.
Let me know if I can help.

Rick

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Mike

Welcome here! There have been many rare, unusual cool Canadian Pontiacs, Beaumonts and Acadians shown and discussed here, but very few cars that have created as much excitement around here as the one you bought!

As mentioned, if you have the option I would strongly suggest buying a parts car, even a 4 door would be great if you can pick one up. You would be amazed how much I run to my old parts cars when working in my garage.

And I am one of the guys with parts books, accessory books (and maybe the assembly manual, not sure) who is more than willing to help with our questions if I can.

67rag396 · Poncho Master!

Hi Mike,
Here is a car in Calgary that might be useful. It has been for sale for a few years. I don't have room for an additional vehicle or I would consider it. It's the wrong year for me to worry about as another parts car. I could probably be conviced to take a 396 and a posi rear-end if someone was trying to reduce the price of having a parts car.

http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-cars-Pontac-Parisienne-W0QQAdIdZ60562331

Rick

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

WELCOME!!! I Agree that car caused an awful lot of excitement here. Glad to see it came out west, to a Pontiac guy!...Good Luck with the Resto...

Fake68 · Guru

Man, that will be one cool car. Please, please, please post a close up picture of the 427 emblem. Good luck with your resto.

The guys on this site are a wealth of knowlege and help.

Gary

65Camino · Uber Guru

Good to hear another one is saved!

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Welcome! I'm glad to see you posting here, and like the others am relieved that you give the car the restoration it deserves.

I too would love to see some photos and would also like to learn some of the history of the car. Do you know where it came from originally? Was it a PEI car all its life?

Congrats on the purchase of one fine and unique piece of Canadian history!

gparis7 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

This car spent most of its life in PEI, but was actually sold new in Newfoundland and spent its first years on the Northern Peninsula of the Province. The now defunct (apparently) Canadian Classics magazine had a feature on it in one of the early issues of the mag back in 1999 or 2000 as I recall. I've seen the car in person, needs lots of body work but is almost comletely original & definitely worth saving. Good luck to the new owner with the restoration.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

gparis7 wrote:

This car spent most of its life in PEI, but was actually sold new in Newfoundland and spent its first years on the Northern Peninsula of the Province. The now defunct (apparently) Canadian Classics magazine had a feature on it in one of the early issues of the mag back in 1999 or 2000 as I recall. I've seen the car in person, needs lots of body work but is almost comletely original & definitely worth saving. Good luck to the new owner with the restoration.

Thanks for the info. It's amazing that it lasted all those years in the Atlantic provinces as Newfoundland is traditionally pretty bad for rust, along with Nova Scotia. I do find PEI cars to be a little better though as I don't believe they used salt on the roads back then.

I few years back a buddy of mine bought a '48 Plymouth from PEI that hadn't been driven since the '70s. After he scraped all the red mud off of it there was hardly any rust at all!