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#1
05-10-2013, 11:43 AM
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Finally getting the 60 Ventura restored!
My dad bought a 60 ventura back in the late 80's or early 90's out of Ohio with only 30k origional miles on it, and drove it home on the origional tires! (tires wern't good!)
His first brand new car was a black 60 with the marron tri tone interior, he bought this 60 because it had the marron tri tone interior that is mint! Carpet, seats, door panels, headliner are excellent and need nothing. Even the steering wheel is mint with no cracks! He has always been going to restore it, but has always had other projects to do, and the time has finally come. It needs fenders and has a couple spots in quarters, but trunk, floors, and frame are nice. He has all new stainless side trim, bumpers have been rechromed, nos grills, head light bezels, and a ton of other nos parts are going to be used. He has 2 complete 60 4 bolt main tripower motors that have been built for years, he is going to use one, and put the big exhaust manifolds on it. He also has a complete 60 4 speed set up, but since the inside is so nice he didn't want to cut up the floor and carpet, so he is going to keep the automatic in it. He hasen't decided what posi he's going to put in, a 3.90, or 3.23. Also he has a set of the correct 60 8 lugs that are redone, that he was going to put on, but in the past year he has been thinking of going with a set of stock steel wheels with nos poverty caps, since it seems like every 60 you see at shows now have 8 lugs. Here are pics I took this mourning just before he left to drop it off at the body shop:      Oh, I also forgot he is going to have it painted solid black, like the one he ordered new, he dosen't care if it's not origional, it's what he had in high school! And it will be driven, not a trailer queen 
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05-10-2013, 01:18 PM
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Nice car! I'm a fan of maroon so that would be my choice, but black will look great too. I'd go with the 3.23 rear since it will remain an automatic; the Hydramatic transmission has a pretty low first gear ratio, so it will still have plenty of pickup from a start.
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05-14-2013, 09:36 AM
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05-14-2013, 11:04 AM
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That car looks good enough I'd have driven it as is. Nice piece. I'll be looking forward the what he finished car looks like.
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05-14-2013, 11:06 AM
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Yeah, what Mike said.........
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#6
05-14-2013, 11:53 AM
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love the body lines of a 60
please keep us posted with pics |
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#7
05-14-2013, 01:47 PM
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Low gear on the "super hydro aka jetaway" is 3.97 so the rear gear is not that critical. My 60 has a 3.08 with the safe-t-track and has no problem with "take-off"
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05-14-2013, 05:57 PM
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WOW No wonder my 55 star chief would lonch so well. I new they had to have a super low first gear in them. GT. |
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05-14-2013, 07:22 PM
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55 hydro is not the same beast as the 60 super hydro (just for the record) but the low gear is similar but even a little steeper...something like 4.07 or something like that...so same deal. Too bad you can't get the 60 super hydro to shift like the ealier 4 speed hydros like your 55 had....but that topic has been beat to death.
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#10
05-15-2013, 02:53 AM
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Yeah, '55 Hydro was 4.08 first gear. Worked great with 3.08 rear, even in a 4,200 lb. car I had ('58 Tri-Power in '57 Chev wagon).
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#11
06-04-2013, 09:13 AM
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Update:
The body shop got the front clip off, rear chrome, and some of the exterior chrome, dad went and got the car yesterday, and were pulling the motor and trans, and the car goes back to the body shop tommarow.
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06-05-2013, 11:56 AM
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Here are some pics, 2 of my grandfathers, and dads mechanics who are brothers, that worked in our shop back in the late 60's and early 70's came down and wanted to help yesterday, they are pictured along with one of there sons who also joined us in the shop yesterday. This is right when the motor is ready to be pulled:
    The car is headed back to the body shop this afternoon.
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06-05-2013, 02:02 PM
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What needed restored? I thought the first pic was of it done
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06-05-2013, 09:38 PM
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When I found my rust free '63 Catalina I was origianlly on the hunt for a good '60. I really love the '60's. Tha is going to be tough looking in black. Mark L
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#15
06-05-2013, 11:26 PM
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Fenders had some rust as well as a couple spots on the quarters and a little on one rocker, pass door glass cracked, some of the chrome is pitted.
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06-08-2013, 07:17 PM
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Should look killer in black with the tri tone maroon interior! My favorite combo. I would switch to a four speed while it's all apart. Then it would be perfect. JMO.
Rob...
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10-02-2014, 12:21 AM
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UPDATE:
The guy doing the work goes south for the winter, and lost his only worker in the shop this spring, but even though he is very busy, he got the body soda blasted, and all metal work done, and body primed. He was going to try and shoot the body next week. The frame just went off to get powder coated, so it should be back in the shop shortly. We took the rear end and suspension pieces back home with us to put all new brakes, and change the pumkin to a 3.23 posi, and install all new bushings and ball joints in the control arms. Hopefully a couple weeks from now the frame will be back to rolling and be done, ready to get the body put back down. Sorry for the crappy pics, cell phone didn't take very good ones:   It's funny how the soda will take the paint right off, but didn't bother the factory chalk marks on the firewall:    Just a teaser on the paint, he painted the windshiled wiper cowl already: 
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10-02-2014, 03:59 AM
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Cool car,
Full size and 2 doors Thanks for the pic's John L.
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10-02-2014, 09:49 AM
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Here's mine with poverty caps...and Black.
 Four wheels disc brakes ruled out 8 lugs.. I have 3.42's in this car but preferred the 3.23's in my other 60 with stock hydro.. This car has 54K on it...and not a spot of rust...but incorrect interior.. Thanks for parts...
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#20
10-02-2014, 11:42 AM
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Troy your car looks great! Your pics really makes us looking forward to seeing our car done!
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