Keep em coming!!

I would agree, the patina is just right. As i mentioned before do the small things to get it running and cleaned from top to bottom, interior work and detail.

Great score, original owner did his homework before ordering all those cool options!

Question,

I’m not familiar with this item marked with red arrow. Is it factory, or aftermarket?

Thanks.

It’s actually the heater control. Apparently something went wrong with lever in the control in dash and they relocated switch to bottom of dash. One of the cables is also mounted under the dash. Back then they did what they had to I guess.

Ha, I thought it looked familiar.

Thanks.

Any rear photos, deck lid, bumper, tail lights, trim.

I think that under-dash "Stereo Magic" contraption is an aftermarket reverb unit to simulate high-fidelity, stereophonic sound. Very vintage Day 2 stuff. Find a knob for it and keep it there.

Very cool!

There wasn’t a bumper on car. I have the brackets. I’ve already found a used bumper that will match up to patina of car. Since it’s had a tail panel replaced they never drilled the holes and put emblems or trim back on. I’ll be on the hunt for some used ones.

More pictures. Pulled front drum. Metallic shoes are still on car. Also found more numbers and date codes.
Transmission is original. Vin is on side of case. Block is a 962 coil is original still has delco decal.
Rear sway bar still has decal on it. Springs have part number decal.

Great stuff, Bruce, congrats and thanks for all the detail & pics!

More pics.

Floor pics.

This clip holds the wire harness for the transistor ignition. I’m assuming this isn’t on any other chevelles not equipped with transistor ignition.

Did I mention car was Ziebarted. Yellow plug in door jamb. Might help explain how it survived.

Some body condition photo’s

The “Powertrain” is awesome on this car.

It was mentioned that this car has a power antenna.

If so, anything left of the motor assembly and mounting brackets?

Here ya go, for parts only on wepay.

Same vintage 60’s “stereo magic” unit by the Tenna company.

No power antenna. It has a rear antenna though.

Awesome time capsule!

does it have spiral shocks up front?? And can you show more of Radiator or tags if it’s got.

Thank you for sharing. This is what NUMBERS MATCHING means in my book.

No spiral shocks. I can’t find any tag on radiator. I’m shocked at condition of radiator. The core doesn’t have any bent fins. Remember the old trick of putting screen in front of radiator to keep bugs out. It has screen in it. I’ll post pics of radiator I took some today.

Radiator pics.

Found another radiator picture. Notice the style of plugs used to cap trans cooler. It’s a 3 core radiator by the way.

This is the dealership my barn find 66 chevelle came from. Notice all the new cars are ‘66 models. Wonder if mine is there somewhere.

How mzz as y miles does it show? Any paperwork?

Holley sight plugs?

Does look like those. But those brass plugs might be stock from the factory.

75k miles. No paperwork still have a couple spots to look for buildsheet/broadcast sheet

So definitely not the original Rad. A 4 speed Rad would not have the trans cooler lines. But still a CORRECT Original Harrison Radiator with Finger Guard. Very nice ��

Brass plugs in the Harrison bottom tanks are Factory on some of the 65-66 GM models with manual transmissions.

I’m not sure this ‘66 SS still has it’s Factory installed radiator?

On a high horsepower such as this car, I would think it would have the wider 4 row radiator, as that is what Pontiac used on their Tri-Power 360 HP for the 65-66 GTO’s.

Many of the 1965 360 HP with manual transmission GTO’s from the factory had these slotted brass plugs in the bottom tank.

Photo below (difficult to see here) shows the plugs in the tank on a 15160 mile 1965 GTO Survivor.

The “top” tank on this ‘65 Survivor had the radiator code stenciled in white paint.

The fact that this ‘66 SS is a relatively early built 10D = 4th week of Oct ‘65 for the ‘66 model year, it could have a carry over radiator from the previous year?

There is a member on this forum which owners a 4000+ mile GTO Survivor with the 360 HP / manual trans that also has these brass plugs.

Chris.

Great find. Congratulations and thanks for sharing all the photos. Everyone of us here would love to find a car like this. Phil Woj.

Evaporust the chrome reverse and put them back on with bias plys.

No offense but I seriously doubt it. If we start stretching the “anything can happen” tune to comparing Pontiacs to Chevelle or a 360hp to what would be in 375hp ( 4 row wide tank ) to convince ourselves of things that we really don’t need convincing on., we open up a hornets nest for every guy who wants to claim his car is all original and God knows we have enough of that out there.

A 66 SS 360hp 4 speed car would not have a 4 row rad. Could you order one? Sure. But not something that would come standard. It would also be very unlikely to get an Automatic Trans installed in a factory 4 speed car. A carry over Rad would be from a 65. A small block. The 4th week of October was by no means EARLY in my book. I know nobody is claiming absolute here but we have plenty of heavy documentation on Radiators in 66 SS Chevelle. They aren’t interchangeable with Pontiac and not even close to what a 65 Chevelle Rad would be like.

Anyway. Sorry to get off track on your great post Bruce. Just adding my experience to the mix.

Thanks for all that info. It’s hard to get across in pictures but lookin* at car it doesn’t appear that radiator has ever been out of car. It still has the original voltage regulator on it original coil etc. it just doesn’t look like it’s been messed with. But who knows.

Bruce

Note the Upper Tank code in your photo.

Letter G That’s a July rad. Probably of 67. Over counter replacement. Hence the filled/capped holes.

Side of Rad. on strap. Driver side. You will find a stamped letter code also. Likely F G or H
Example of letter A here

Found letter code on side its an F

Looked today for build/broadcast sheet no luck but I did find this tag in springs of driver side bucket.

Awesome. Interior Broadcast Sheet!!

I’d need to see it up close to decipher the hand written codes I can barely see but no matter. It’s a Birth Certificate

I see 13817 in the upper left corner. You can actually make it out better in pic than in person. I’ll try to get better look and write down what it says.

Within that orange circle to the right it looks like 7_3 S can’t make out middle letter cuz of spring imprint. But interior code is 763 S which is black bucket with headrest code