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Old 09-06-2013, 10:24 AM   #1
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Wife's 66 Panel

After going to a car show my wife got tinkeritus and wants to get her grandpa's 66 panel on the road and fixed up.
Here are some pictures I snapped with my phone as it sits. It has been sitting for 22 years over at her parents place.
Needless to say...SHE has got a project LOL ( yes I will help her)
Gotta clean out all the trash and rats nests and get it over to my place to start tear down.
Anyway...here is the start of a long journey....
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Old 09-06-2013, 07:09 PM   #2
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Looks good to me, hope ya'll enjoy it
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Old 09-06-2013, 07:26 PM   #3
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Looks like a good start to me. I miss the 3 on the tree in my old 61 Brookwood wagon. It's a pretty good theft deterrent these days... nobody knows how to drive one!
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Old 09-06-2013, 11:04 PM   #4
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Great start! Is that a 250? 4 inch side covers will say so.
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Old 09-07-2013, 01:47 AM   #5
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Welcome to the forum

Looks like a fairly decent panel to start with.

Do you have a plan of any sort yet?
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Old 09-07-2013, 08:04 AM   #6
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

WOOOOOOOOOTTT !!!!!

I do love the look, its great to start with a turd (visually) and polish it up to be a diamond.

Will be following this build.

Remember, we LOOOOVE Photos here, every bit of progress will be a triumph.
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Old 09-07-2013, 10:01 AM   #7
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

Diamond in the Rough!!! I'm in...
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Old 09-07-2013, 10:43 AM   #8
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

Pull it out of there and clean it up. A little gas, plugs, coil clean the points and I bet it will run! Good luck!
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Old 09-09-2013, 06:10 PM   #9
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

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Looks like a fairly decent panel to start with.

Do you have a plan of any sort yet?
Plan.....yea the plan is pretty much whatever my wife wants to do with it. LOL! As soon as I get time I will get it over to my place and get it running, I know I would like to drop it or maybe airbags... but It is my wife's project really. it was her grandpa's....so she gets to call most of the shots...I am what is called "the labor" on this build.
I know I will add a rear seat so we can take our kids around in it.

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Great start! Is that a 250? 4 inch side covers will say so.
I am not sure yet...but I will post as soon as I can get the block #'s and find out...The bigger the better!
We do plan on keeping the 6 cylinder in it!
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Old 09-09-2013, 06:21 PM   #10
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

The data tag on the inside of the glovebox had a paint code of 505AA
tracking that code down the original paint was dark green.

The color under that ugly brown ( door jambs..firewall..etc..) is light blue or
turquoise, and the interior color is saddle.
i am confused because the dark green trucks had green interior from what I can tell researching on the ol internet.

So the data tag on the glove box is wrong on the paint code...or someone did a color and interior change along the way.
Her grandpa bought it in the mid 70's and it was already brown when he got it.

I guess it dont really matter, the wife is playing with color combos to make it two tone.
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Old 03-26-2014, 08:34 PM   #11
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Yes it is a 250cid.
not sure why the pictures went huge all of a sudden in the first post....strange.
HOPEFULLY I can get this thing over to my garage soon now that the weather is a changin!
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Old 03-26-2014, 08:48 PM   #12
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I like it!!! I think it might be in better shape than mine was when I got it!
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Old 03-26-2014, 09:07 PM   #13
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Any ideas on how I can get the Earl Schieb " I'll paint any car for $99.95" 1970's turd brown paint off this thing without messing up the original blue/white two tone underneath it to much?

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Old 05-12-2014, 06:08 PM   #14
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

No updates on the Panel yet..(Sigh*) need to get it to my house.
soon....I hope.....soon
But my father-in-law also gave me his dads old 68 c10 lwb.
250 cid, no transmission..but is a automatic truck.

here is a pic as it currently sits.
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Old 05-23-2014, 09:26 PM   #15
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Re: Wife's 66 Panel

Love that patina '68.
I'd be all over that.
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Old 05-23-2014, 09:31 PM   #16
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Thanks Bomp, Yea I like the patina also...not going to change it. It even has the old double bubble side window truck topper on it. LOL
My plan was to get these 2 trucks to my place this weekend, but it started raining pretty good the last few days. I might have to wait till it drys out again.
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I am wanting to tear into these trucks something fierce!..oh so bad.....yes sir!
Be much more fun than my current project...a 87 ford ranger 4x4 in the middle of a engine swap.

Maybe I should post a pic of the 66 International short stepper pickup sitting there also. ( another truck my FIL gave me)
That thing has perfect patina!
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Old 05-23-2014, 10:07 PM   #17
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here is the 66 international.
this thing would be sweet bagged laying frame.
use a 350/700r4 combo under it.
wonder if it could just put the body on a chevy frame?..hummm......
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Old 05-24-2014, 05:01 AM   #18
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Those will be some awesome projects... I wonder how long it would take a vehicle to completely sink in the ground.
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