i have too many projects already, this was my first wagon, now
i cant get enough!!

Hey, I can help pollute the Poncho site with Chevrolet's.

Kind of a unique wagon. Over all in nice shape steel wise, the interior was redone before I bought the car. The guy who owned it before me worked in a upholstery shop, did a wicked job. The car does need a off frame restore to tidy it up, just collecting a pile of parts before I start. It's in the factory colour, but screams to be black with the red guts and and fresh trim.

Hey Mike thats one sweet looking impala! are you sure you want to go black, black shows every mark,spider webs from washing,dust. lots of upkeep.

that 67 is awesome!! ummm and a 427 ? would that be original to the car??

too crazy!!

Thanks for the complements guys. Yup, it's a boat, it's still riding on the oem springs with wore out air shocks and lines ripped off.....but it does sit nice. The car is from the south and came to Ont. in '82 with several owners before me. Chris (aka Arcadian) and I were having tea one day and mentioned he knew of this wagon that he was sure was a big block, I checked it out and bought it. So it is a 427/385hp, 400th, 12 bolt, I think 3.31. Unfortunately it has suffered the same fate as many big block wagons...........it's been raped. Someone cannibalized the drive train and left it with a small block??/350th and a 10 bolt. And fairly Mcgivered. 

I should of got a pic of the trim tag, but it's in storage. Here's part of the line sheet.

ARCADIAN wrote:

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Are you sure you want it Black???

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Al said he would do a much better job on the black paint then yours.

All the dust and crap wont stick to it.

 

the stock colour is great, i wish mine was red!

Here ya go!

First 2 are from May 1979 at Brainerd, before I picked up and installed a roof rack.
You can see how the lower half of the wagon was "woodgrain" with a nice chrome
trim strip that came up over the wheel openings. Note that the racecar is in class
B Production, I ran a 355, big blocks were in A Production back then.

 

 

Last 2 are after I had the racecar painted, still BP (later they merged the A Sedan
Camaros with the Corvettes into one class, GT-1). Sorry, not too much of the
Vistacruiser shows, but in the first picture you can see (I lightened up that part of
the picture, eh?) my top box just inside the tailgate for ready access to tools, and
the jack on the tailgate to keep it out from underfoot. I don't know who those
people are, must be with the car next to me in the paddock.

In the last picture you can see the baby moons I had on it and you can see that
the back is full of spare parts and tools. The taller guy in the middle is me, hard to
believe I was once skinny and had all that dark hair

 

That's about it for my 1969 Vistacruiser photos.

Dave

-- Edited by davelacourse on Thursday 11th of March 2010 03:09:32 PM

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I missed your pics Dave.That wagon was a real workhorse,doing what they do best,hauling racecars.Those are sure vintage eh,look at the pimped out vans in the background.The wheels on the Vette are perfect for the car too.Thanks for posting.Oh and the scallopes I was mentioning were from the Buick.

 

Carl,that was a beauty.Hideaways are mean looking.

rabbit64cs wrote:

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a 65 my friend did last year, I restored the vintage wheels for him. sporting a fuel injected 350/700R4 posi combo.  It was a dry low mile car. previous owner kept the 327 for his camaro.

sorry it's a chevy!!!! but it is SWEEEET !!

-- Edited by rabbit64cs on Friday 12th of March 2010 09:01:37 PM

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Awesome Wagon there Rog, Some day I hope to add 1 just like it to my 65 Impala collection.

 

some heads up between two old beasts the wagon was running a snoty 327 3gear at the time the rag a 396 4gear. first run the wagon spun its tires over halfway up the track with the rag getting me over two lenghts. second run the wagon hooked hard and cross the line at 105 in second gear to the tune of 13.8

1wheelpeel wrote:

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Thanks for the complements guys. Yup, it's a boat, it's still riding on the oem springs with wore out air shocks and lines ripped off.....but it does sit nice. The car is from the south and came to Ont. in '82 with several owners before me. Chris (aka Arcadian) and I were having tea one day and mentioned he knew of this wagon that he was sure was a big block, I checked it out and bought it. So it is a 427/385hp, 400th, 12 bolt, I think 3.31. Unfortunately it has suffered the same fate as many big block wagons...........it's been raped. Someone cannibalized the drive train and left it with a small block??/350th and a 10 bolt. And fairly Mcgivered. 

I should of got a pic of the trim tag, but it's in storage. Here's part of the line sheet.

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This car was very well optioned from the factory. Back in about 82 or 83 there was a 67 427 Impala wagon advertised in the Old Car Trader. I wonder if this was it.