67 Belvedere wagon...It's Alive!!!

[Jim 68cuda]

In 2019, I bought this wagon, sight unseen, and had it shipped from Kansas City to Virginia. It's been a long road. But today, for the first time since I bought this wagon it moved under its own power. And it was probably it's first time moving under it's own power in more than a quarter of a century. The original 318 was long gone when I bought this wagon as a dismantled project car in primer and in need of some body work. I found the 383 and transmission on ForCbodiesOnly (out of a 68 Monaco). Body work and paint was the first step (done by a local shop). Then while very expensive OEM material from SMS was crafted into new upholstery by another local shop, My buddy and I went through the engine before tucking it between the fender wells. There were alot of setbacks (the worst of which was finding the torsion bar cross member was rusted from the inside out in a couple places). But today, with the brakes finally done, we bolted the front seat in and drove the car around the neighborhood. Still much to be done, but with hopeful optimism, I preregistered it for Chrysler Carlisle.

 

[Dave6T4]

I used to have a 1967 Coronet wagon. I found it was fairly easy to modify a '67 GTX gas cap assembly to fit it.

 

[Jim 68cuda]

I used to have a 1967 Coronet wagon. I found it was fairly easy to modify a '67 GTX gas cap assembly to fit it.

The original gas cap doesn't seem to fit securely. But I haven't yet put the screws in to hold the filler tube in place to the quarter. If it looks like I'll still loose the cap once everything is secured in place, I have considered going that route.

 

[YY1]

Nice.

Is that YY1 or, turbine bronze?

 

[TxGTX]

That's a wonderful transformation!!

 

[ckessel]

You have a cuz on the west coast. Long live SUV's!

 

[Jim 68cuda]

Nice.

Is that YY1 or, turbine bronze?

Its YY1. But, this is a 67 and apparently there was a difference between YY1 in 66 and 67. Didn't know that until a few years after I had it painted (when I went to the local Auto Body Supply to get a rattle can of YY1 for touch up). The body shop went by YY1 paint code to get the paint, and it ended up being the 66 YY1 which was called Bronze Metallic rather than the correct 67 YY1 Light Tan Metallic. It doesn't look anything like MM1 Turbine Bronze Metallic (which is much darker and has a reddish tint to it). Looks more like its halfway between 67 YY1 Light Tan Metallic and 67 TT1 Medium Copper Metallic (my favorite 67 color). But, I like the color and it's too late to change. It's just a slightly darker shade of tan than the 67 YY1.

I did think it would have at least been on the road a while before someone questioned the color.