D99 is the two tone,just needs the 2+2 stripes.

Is D99 the two tone paint, or the two tone mouldings? I thought we had seen Canadian cars with D99 that are single colour but have that moulding?

Thanks guys, my first project, apart from trans pan gasket which is leaking, is the stripes. Hard to figure out exactly the look of them.

Hi John... you mention above that in the closed Broughams you got cloth instead of leather.

Am I correct that in the 2-door Brougham your only options were Blue, Green, and Black? And that in the four-door you could get blue, burgandy, green or black, all non-leather. And the convertible Brougham was only available in gold or black leather.

That's how I'm reading this, anyway:

1969pontiac.com/1969_pontiac_seating.htm

I see the car has an old Alberta plate from the late seventies/early eighties.  Is that the last time it was on the road?

I was wondering why my car sat so high especially in back when the springs in the car are clearly original. On my GM report the car has the option F40. I just figured it was a part of the 2+2 package but with a little research I realized that F40 was a stand alone option of heavy duty suspension (as opposed to F41 ride and handling) i.e. cargo coils. I cut a full coil of the rear springs and the back sits beautiful now (right on the money for the standard suspension ride height as per the shop manual specs and method) but the front needs to drop a touch (maybe 1/2 to 3/4").

Thanks guys! I did take out the tape measure, very interesting...

Overall body length is identical to my Catalina 217.5

doors and quarters are identical

overall fender length is identical but wheel opening in front fender is 1" closer to the cowl accounting for 1" of the 3" difference in wheelbase (119" vs 122")

the other two inches come from the rear wheels being 2" further forward on the Canuck edition relative to the Cat, they just threw the chevy chassis underneath the car with US quarters and let the rear tires be scrunched up against the front of the wheelwell with a very big gap in back. Kind of "two bit" engineering to be honest but I can understand why they did it financially.

-- Edited by North on Tuesday 1st of November 2016 04:19:08 PM

Here is the before and after shot of the trimming of the rear coils.  One full coil was cut, if I had done about 2/3's of a coil I could have left the front alone but I wanted factory (non F40) ride height so I'll need to drop the front a 1/2" or so.  I have to admit I'm anal about factory ride height.

Not many panels are shared as I observe;

Both Bumpers, front valence, doors, glass, roof

Rockers look same but not sure

Hood is different due to different wiper arrangement and hood hinge location
Fenders have different wheel opening location, inner bracing diff and near wipers area diff also
Rear valances are different shape
Trunklid of stratocheif and Laurentian are same as Catalina
Trunklid of Parisienne, 2+2 and grand Parisienne are Canadian only

The frame, cowl, rad support, inner fenders, floor pans, trunk pan, all suspension, gas tank, wheels, brakes etc are completely different of course

Update on the 2+2;

 

Fixed the transmission leak, it was an incorrect o ring on the filler tube

 

Installed a new stock spec exhaust system from Waldron, I stuck with the single exhaust it was ordered with because I want to keep this oddball exactly as built (and it was half price!!).  It fit beautifully with proper tail pipe shape (unlike the Midas crap that was on the car) with no tweaking required and surprisingly it sounds a bit louder than I expected but in a nice mellow factory way.   This is partly because the single exhaust system doesn't use a resonator but the dual system did.   Doing research I realized that the Canadian Ponchos used Impala exhaust down to the clamps.  The factory shop manual has good drawings of the systems and they are completely different than American Pontiacs.  

I found factory stripe residue on the front lips of my door and the fenders so I was able to measure the width of the three stripes (top white, lower two were silver),  I bought the striping material but still hoping to find how the front and rear extremities were tapered before installing them.