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Old 02-07-2011, 11:28 PM
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Default 66 "Safari" wagon

This is a rambling of everything I can think of. I'm sure I forgot some stuff, I have been building this car since 1989...

power windows, power vents, power door locks (converted to electric), tilt, wood, gauges, 4-speed, buckets with headrests and passenger recliner, 3-point seat belts in front and outside rear (welded captured nuts in door pillar and rear inner wheel house), third seat with three seat belts, NOS vent shades, NOS child door locks in rear, NOS door edge guards, Bonneville trim inside with carpeted load floor when seats are down, new headliner, custom door panels, hazard flashers, woodgrain, power antenna, rear load leveling system with Airlift airbags and load switch/compressor from mid-80s Olds, 16" space-saver spare (same diameter), 15x7 rally IIs, front disc brakes, all new front bushings, balljoints, Gabriel Gas Ryders, steering linkage from end to end, fast ratio gearbox, power steering cooler, 68-70 reinforced upper a-arms, custom fully welded upper and lower 69-70 style rear control arms with urethane bushings, custom rear triangulating braces, 3.55 posi with main cap studs, tig-welded ring gear spacer on a 2.92/3.08-series "big gear/big shaft" limited slip carrier, rebuilt rearend with all new bearings, seals, NOS 3.55 gearset, custom spring pre-load booster springs (approx 600# pre-load), NEW from scratch 3" non-tapered driveshaft, fully-boxed transmission crossmember solid-mounted to the frame (not O.E. rubber mounted), not a spot or spec of rust ever in the floors, original 1966 Texas road soot, never stripped off. Car soldnew in Austin, farmers car, drove it to get the mail in town. Had 11K miles on it in 1977. Second family put 120K on it before I bought it in 1988. It was originally Reff Turquoise Irridescent, but when I boughht it, it was three shades of brown (if you know what I mean...

What else?

Dome lamp/reading lamp from the mid-70s... NOS parts I have never installed: rear bumper, "P-O-N-T-I-A-C" spear for tailgate. Other parts to go on it: "B-O-N-N-E-V-I-L-L-E" tailgate spear, maybe... all vinyl roof chrome trim (always wanted a big-a** black pebble-grain vinyl roof!). Bonneville stainless ribbed rocker molding all the way down both sides, all the pieces, was gonna maybe paint the same red in b/t the ribs instead of polished or black!

NEW PPG windshield. NOS tail light lenses (installed). Oh, '66 GP front end with parking lamps (duh...) with NEW repro lenses when you could buy them... '68 Executive wagon second row and third row seat. Third row added by painstakinly drilling out all the spot welds for all the brackets and hinge mounts, then welding them all in place, including factory rear seatbelt bolt-plates welded in under the rear floor.

Jeez, I know there's more... I'll think of it.

Oh, ya, had a big-a** turbo on it at one time!
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