Dave ... Looks like its now at a much better shop. Great progress ... lots of documented pictures . Pic #127 of the spare template panel for the louvres.... Please do not discard , as i can use it . I had a pair of template saved from years ago , and i can no longer find them .
Paint! The car's in paint! Now they do about 10 stages and 20 cuts and who knows what else voodoo, but there's pigment on the thing which is a big change.
Did you ever find NOS resonator tail pipes for the car?
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1967 2dr Biscayne. L36, M40, G80, K05, F41. #'s. 1967 Impala convert. 283, glide. Parked in the garage since 74 and hasn't moved. Soon to be BB 4speed.
No! If you know of any, let me know. If Garnder can't make them, the body shop will fab and aluminize them, but I can't imagine it's cheap! Here's what I have to go off...
I suppose that full size, Chevelle and Nova each had their own size too. There's no way to tell since I think it came as a welded together tail pipe assembly. The reason I mention this is there's a guy I met years ago who lives in Las Vegas who reproduced the resonators for 66 L79 Nova.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
This listing covers model years 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969 Bel Air, Impala, and Caprices V8 stock with dual exhaust with mufflers and resonators. In these MYs, all body styles and all engines, except the 396SHP and the 427SHP, were stock with resonators. See listing 588616 if you have the SHP 396ci or 427ci or if you would like to eliminate the resonators from your system.
Photo depicts the dual exhaust for 1969 Bel Air, Biscayne, Caprice & Impalas with the stock 396ci or 427ci V8.
The full size resonators are unique to full size only, all others are different. The resonators were made from stainless steel ( not a high quality stainless ). It would be a big task to replicate the resonators properly. NOS ones come up for sale once in awhile. One problem is the resonator pipes were never boxed or protected so the resonators always have some dents in them. There was a stash of nos resonator tail pipes found in Illinois awhile ago. I bought a set and a friend bought a set, they are still out there. I will keep an eye out.
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1967 2dr Biscayne. L36, M40, G80, K05, F41. #'s. 1967 Impala convert. 283, glide. Parked in the garage since 74 and hasn't moved. Soon to be BB 4speed.
Lookin' good Dave!!! However, it looks like your Astro Vent may be up side down. The little thumbwheel is to be on the bottom of one of the louvers, it looks like it's on top of a louver.
Resonators: Here's 2 pics from a 1967 Popular Mechanics magazine rescued from the burn pile regarding the 1967 Impala Owner's Survey. The test car was a '67 Impala SS convertible, L35 396 with N10 duals. They do appear to hang inordinately low.
The test car was a neat one. I was able to figure out that it was an Impala SS convertible in Ermine white with medium blue top, Bright Blue (like the Indy Pace Car) buckets, 396, TH400 with 2.73:1 rear, power steering & power drum brakes, wire wheel covers, Protection Group (bumper guards, floor mats, door edge guards), Light Group (all courtesy lights plus Caprice front lamps), tinted glass, AM radio. The dual exhaust system was optional on the 396, standard on the L36 427 (in '66 through '69). I would fully expect the resonators to be the same ones used for your '69 2+2.
There was a mid year change (my Laurentian doesn't have thumb gripers at all), but are you saying you think they're reversed side to side? I'm not sure that's possible, as they're different side to side, no?
Anyone have a pic of an original so I can see what it's supposed to look like?
Edit: Just checked, my Brougham is the same way..
-- Edited by davepl on Sunday 27th of August 2023 02:45:55 PM
There was a mid year change (my Laurentian doesn't have thumb gripers at all), but are you saying you think they're reversed side to side? I'm not sure that's possible, as they're different side to side, no?
Anyone have a pic of an original so I can see what it's supposed to look like?
Edit: Just checked, my Brougham is the same way..
-- Edited by davepl on Sunday 27th of August 2023 02:45:55 PM
Hmm, the mid-year change was in 1970. 1969 had the thumbwheels hanging from the bottom of a louver, early 1970 had no thumbwheels (and a chrome plastic nozzle like 1969), late 1970 had no thumbwheels, but the nozzle is black and only chrome around the lip of the nozzle. Sounds like your Laurentian has early 1970 in it.
Anyway, it looks like the one in your photo just needs to be flipped 180 degrees top to bottom. As you said, the left and right will not fit in each others holes.
I've been keeping an eye on these in the wrecking yards to see which way is correct. They're always the thumbwheel on the bottom. At the 2018 POCI show in Wisconsin Dells, there was a really nice 69 Bonneville convertible, his L & R were different, but I couldn't remember which way was correct.
Re your Brougham, is that the gold one? Convertible?
No problem. I doubt anyone would ever notice, but as I said a nice 69 Bonneville had them opposite ways which really tweaked me to wonder which way was correct. I suspect the odd car left the factory with either one or both up side down.
Resonators: Here's 2 pics from a 1967 Popular Mechanics magazine rescued from the burn pile regarding the 1967 Impala Owner's Survey. The test car was a '67 Impala SS convertible, L35 396 with N10 duals. They do appear to hang inordinately low.
The test car was a neat one. I was able to figure out that it was an Impala SS convertible in Ermine white with medium blue top, Bright Blue (like the Indy Pace Car) buckets, 396, TH400 with 2.73:1 rear, power steering & power drum brakes, wire wheel covers, Protection Group (bumper guards, floor mats, door edge guards), Light Group (all courtesy lights plus Caprice front lamps), tinted glass, AM radio. The dual exhaust system was optional on the 396, standard on the L36 427 (in '66 through '69). I would fully expect the resonators to be the same ones used for your '69 2+2.
must have been a Canadian built car thing but my 67 Caprice 427 390 hp did not have resonators nor did my 65 L79 Beaumont so said the original owner
