Wow,perfect COPO clone!!! Someone buy it......

I LIKE IT! No doubt one of the best looking Chevy's ever made. Change the wheels and drive it. I hope this sweet ride goes to someone that doesn't mess it up. Cheers. George.

i dont get the t h 400 with a 307 thing ???

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i dont get the t h 400 with a 307 thing ???

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Yes, that's the only way in 68 if you ordered a 3 speed auto. There was no turbo 350 until 69, and I believe in 67 you had to buy a 327 or bigger to get a TH400.

There were some odd combos too that slipped through on the assembly line. I had a 68 Laurentian 4 door parts car tha t was a 2bbl 327, slip-o-matic [PG ] and a 12 bolt rear end. Must have just put it in because they were short on 10 bolts. One thing for sure, there was no abuse done to the 12 bolt.  

 

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Back in the late 60s when dad was Reeve of Ancaster, he was having a little meeting on the front porch with another counselor, Wilf Wade. Wilf was a farmer and could talk till the sun went down. We were all sitting there on the front porch, in line of sight in the driveway was Wilfs brand new 1968 Impala 4-door pillared sedan. It was the same colour combo & drivetrain as the Kijiji car above. In 1968 you could get the TH400 with the 307 in the Impala & Caprice models. Wilf didnt have a/c (who did back then?) but he had factory tinted glass in all windows. Wilf owned the car and it stayed mint until he died in 1975, then his grandson got it and drove it like a third-hand-Chevy. It took a few years but it ended up as a derby car. Such a shame...

 

The Impala Custom was a new offering for 1968. Sharing the roof with the Caprice coupe but not the ventless door glass, the Impala Custom coupe was V8 - only from day one. They carried a little "Custom" tag appended to the Impala emblems on the fenders. Meanwhile the bucket seat, console & special upholstery pattern that was the Super Sport package was offered as option RPO Z03 and carried little appended tags very similar to the "Custom" nameplates. That "Impala Super Sport" package only carried those tags on the fenders, plus another pair like them, one in the grille and one on the trunk lid. Full wheel covers were standard but were nothing special. The Kijiji car has Impala Super Sport emblems but is just a Custom with the bench seat. I do like it, but like others have said, I too would change the Rally Wheels.

 

Green was really well represented in 1968. Chevy also had 2 different Mag Style Wheelcovers offered that year, as well as wire type and the regular low cost P01 Full Wheel Cover. Small hubcaps were standard. Rally Wheels were available independent of brake options starting 1968 and were a reasonably priced. They came in both 14" drum brake versions and 15" disk brake versions. Disk brake cars came with 15" wheels and either just the dog dish caps, a different style P01 Wheel Cover lifted from the Buick LeSabre, and Rally Wheels. Corvette offered those handsome turbine wheelcovers (another appropriated Buick item from the Riviera) so I dont see why they didnt offer them on the Big Chevies with 15" wheels. They finally did in 1969.

 

 

 

As for the 12-bolt comment, Chevy / Pontiac didn't throw them into cars without some sort of trigger option. It was year dependent. In the late sixties it was police, taxi or Z04 HD Chassis Equipment offered on Biscayne, Bel Air, Strato Chief & Laurentian series. In the early 70s it was either a YD1 Trailering Rear Axle or sometimes a Canadian-built car with F40 suspension, again specific to year & car line.

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 Cam there is no denying, that you are our resident Chevrolet EXPERT. I am waiting for the release of your first book on our beloved Chevrolet's. Can we get a hint at when we can expect the book to come out. There is nothing like actual facts as opposed to "I think it is" information. Cam thanks for sharing your wealth of Chevrolet and Pontiac information, it is always a pleasure to learn. Cheers. George.

Thanks guys! I'll be here all week. I also do Beaumonts.

My Dad bought a identical 68 Chev used back in 1970.....and he hated it.

He had to work (GM-Tool &Die maker) in Lordstown Ohio,where GM was building the Vega, so he 

would come home to Windsor on the odd weekend, and complain about the 68,the gutless 307 and the poor handling on the highway.

The previous car he had was a 389-1964 Bonneville 4 door hardtop, loaded.....no wonder the 68 sucked for him.

In 1971 he traded it in for a used 2 door 1970 Caprice.....that car he loved.

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Thanks guys! I'll be here all week. I also do Beaumonts.

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ok  Cameron  here we go........mine  is  a 732117111****  car     is  there anything  i should  know  that  you   presume  i wouldnt 

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As for the 12-bolt comment, Chevy / Pontiac didn't throw them into cars without some sort of trigger option. It was year dependent. In the late sixties it was police, taxi or Z04 HD Chassis Equipment offered on Biscayne, Bel Air, Strato Chief & Laurentian series. In the early 70s it was either a YD1 Trailering Rear Axle or sometimes a Canadian-built car with F40 suspension, again specific to year & car line.

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 I've actually had 6 cylinder cars with 12 bolts. For some reason I think 12 bolts were more readily available on Canadian cars than U.S. cars.

 

Thanks

Randy

 

 

My 1st car when I moved from NS back to Woodstock Ont. Was one of these. I bought it from Reg Ferguson Pontiac Buick in April 75. They nailed me hard! Paid way too much, around $1500 and never fixed that POS 307 that had noisy lifters. I took it back twice under their so called warranty, remember OK Used Cars from your Dependable GM Dealer?
Well this was a shining example of what the "sunshine" treatment was. I dropped it off for repair and it sat in the sunshine for the day. The service guy handed me back my keys and said it should be better now. Ticked all the way home, opened the hood and still had the same original leaky valve cover gaskets.
Took it back and they did the same repair again.... Nothing!
I swear the salesman was laughing at me as I told them off.
It was the same color & interior.

cool wagon , but those signs................impressive especially the dealer sign !!!!!