Original 400 4-speed 355 N 10-bolt car. Code 76 Daytona yellow, black deluxe interior, manual steering & power brakes. I bought this car in Shelton Washington in 1987 ($1500). The first thing I did to the car back then was removal of the chevy 283 engine that was installed. I stripped the paint, and hand finished the bodywork before spraying it with DuPont Centari acrylic enamel. I drove this car on the street with #64 heads (232/238 HFT cam) on a 455/462 Muncie transmission and 410 gears until 2003, when the racing bug bit me. I swapped the Muncie for a Larry Maxwell T-400 and ran low twelves off the trailer. After running the street engine for about a year I built a new 455 with self ported #62 heads, Comp Cams XE284H cam and a 3400 converter. This race engine (TX1) ran eleven teens @ 120. It only lasted about eighty passes because I installed an inadequate oil pump drive shaft with the 80 lb pump. It twisted the shaft and ate a piston & cracked the block. I used the same crank, pistons & rods in a different 455 block, replacing the damaged piston and suspect Rod. I stepped up to a solid lifter 262/268 Crower cam as well. I raced this new engine (TX2) for seven years, upgrading to E-heads along the way, making over a thousand passes. Current engine is a 455/468 (TX3) It has run 1.38 6.32 @ 108 at Northeast Dragway (5/23/2015 9th pass) and 1.38 6.32 @ 108 at VMP (11/14/2015 61st pass) both @ 3400. After taking about 50lbs of weight from the car in the 2015/2016 offseason I could tell it was running quicker through the year (2016), but didn't get to make passes in good air until November 2016 at Richmond Dragway. My new best pass is a 9.86 @ 136 MPH.

Pictures from the fall of 2014

Here's some pictures of my wagon.
It was assembled at South Gate, Calif. and rolled out of the factory sometime in the last week of March 1966.
It was imported to Sweden, from somewhere in Nevada, USA, in the fall of 2008. The car was of course affected by the desert sun, the interior was toast, the Cameo White paint was fried but the mechanical was quite good.

It was originally a plain jane wagon, the only options were radio, slip diff rear axle, power antenna and roof rack. The third seat and rear power window was standard on Bonneville wagons.

I'm the third owner in Sweden, the first owner just imported it and the second owner, a friend of mine, bought it a couple of months after the arrival to Sweden. He started the restoration by swapping the engine to a rebuilt 389, bored to 400, he had lying in his garage and the engine bay got a well deserved touch up with fresh paint.

He also had the seats reupholstered and added a new carpet to the interior and rear compartment. A power bench seat was installed at the same time, along with a steering wheel in great condition. A new dashpad was installed, bought from a Swedish company that makes them and a new headliner was installed. The set of eight lug wheels is another add-on by the previous owner and the three 421 emblems.

Since I bought it I've added NOS taillight lenses, a NOS gas guage with low fuel warning light, a NOS heater panel, a rebuilt 4034S Carter. I've also serviced the clock, that had been standing still since I don't know when, and made some other minor updates such as a Cibie H4 headlamp conversion and replaced various rubber parts. The distributor is updated with Pertronix II and some more detailing of the engine bay, including a Delco battery topper and a AC fuel filter. To make it to look like a 421 4bbl engine I added a set of chrome valve covers and a chromed air cleaner lid.

On July 9th 2016, I sold the wagon. I got an offer I couldn't refuse.

Previous owner watching his/my Judge get loaded up and being relocated from sitting for years under a 125 year old Douglas fir tree, next to his aluminum river drift boat that was under the carport , staying dry...

We found this '63 Lemans convertible in Minnesota. It originally came from Sedar's Pontiac dealership in Mason City, Iowa. A 31,000 mile, one family owned car that sat so long the engine got stuck and the rocker panels rusted out.

Here is a photo collection of my 1963 Tempest "hot rod" project.

Work on 69 Firebird subframe graft into 57 Pontiac convertible frame. Completed work will allow either configuration of Pontiac motor mounting and transmission mounting. This will be utilizing the Hurst mounting for the front.

65 HT full of bullet holes. 7 found so far. One in driver's side Qtr panel, 4 in the dash, one in driver bucket seat back, one in rear window trim. This car must have been a gangster rig, or moon shine rig.... who knows? The car came out of Montana about 15 years ago. I've been trying to purchase it from my brother-in-law since I first seen it. He sold it to my niece's husband. I finally talked him out of it after 5 years of bugging him. PHS doc shows it was a base GTO with a 3 speed. The only option was back up lights. Color was burgundy with white (fawn) interior. I'll stay with the burgundy but change the interior to black. Someone had done a really poor passenger side Qtr panel fix. I found about 5 lbs of bondo where they attempted to fix it. I have a new Qtr panel skin on hand to fix that issue. Other than that the only other rust is driver side floor pan, and passenger side floor pan under the seat. Oh, and a bunch of bullet holes to fix. The car is not a numbers matching car so plans are to do a complete "frame off" restoration. I have the frame in for powder coating now. I will upgrade to "Hotchkiss" suspension, Tremek 5-speed, and a 455 with the tri-power. I'm going to stuff a posi in the 10 bolt rear end. Lots of changes are in the works. I'll post more when I get time.