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Ha, I just fell off my chair.....Rick you certainly are having fun with your build.....awesome!

LOVE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Rick - Gets It! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

Dan

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

Wow....the uber-rare &quot;Packer delete sticker&quot; option [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

One thing is for certain.....this Post Sedan, when finished.....will not be driven over the border for some Brats [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Dan

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bill Pritchard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wow....the uber-rare &quot;Packer delete sticker&quot; option [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] </div></div>

Yes they are. Imagine me finding one, and in such nice condition. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One thing is for certain.....this Post Sedan, when finished.....will not be driven over the border for some Brats [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Dan</div></div>

That's right they DO have &quot;Brats&quot; over there, but a different pronunciation. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img]

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The gold trunk lid ended up having a few small pinholes on the edge, so time to burn Dan's eyes again.
__________________________________________________ _______________________________

Rick,

I love your - &quot;it`s not good enough&quot; attitude [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Integrity [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img]

Dan

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I can't wait to go for a ride in that baby.

GO PACK GO!!!!!

BTW.....the car looks good too Rick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]



[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can't wait to go for a ride in that baby.

GO PACK GO!!!!!

BTW.....the car looks good too Rick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]



[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] </div></div>

No ride until you convert to a Bears fan. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img]

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rixls6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can't wait to go for a ride in that baby.

GO PACK GO!!!!!

BTW.....the car looks good too Rick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]



[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] </div></div>

No ride until you convert to a Bears fan. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img] </div></div>

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

Maybe Dan will take it for a cruise and pick me up around the corner. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

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I would with Rick's permission [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rixls6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can't wait to go for a ride in that baby.

GO PACK GO!!!!!

BTW.....the car looks good too Rick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]



[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] </div></div>

No ride until you convert to a Bears fan. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img] </div></div>

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

Maybe Dan will take it for a cruise and pick me up around the corner. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img] </div></div>

Ok, I'll have Dan put a Bears helmet and jersey on you for the pics as you cruise around your neighborhood waving at the Packer fans.

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[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] Perfect, Let`s do it!

Dan

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] Perfect, Let`s do it!

Dan </div></div>

Yeah, and you have to wear a Bears helmet and jersey too. Also on the jersey it will have &quot;I will not cheer for the Packers ever again&quot;. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

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Go Seahawks [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

Dan

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Go Seahawks [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

Dan </div></div>

Now you're gettin' it.

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[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

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We can't forget wheelhop. I'll ride in the back while those two monsters are up front in their Bear uniform......

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With that much weight in the car - those bias-ply tires will go flat [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Dan

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I seem to remember Dan, myself, and Rick in my chevelle at Goodletsville in 2008 and the bias-ply tires are still fine.

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wheelhop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I seem to remember Dan, myself, and Rick in my chevelle at Goodletsville in 2008 and the bias-ply tires are still fine. </div></div>

Good memory, and good times.

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rixls6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wheelhop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I seem to remember Dan, myself, and Rick in my chevelle at Goodletsville in 2008 and the bias-ply tires are still fine. </div></div>

Good memory, and good times. </div></div>

It sure was......Perhaps us standing in the Corvette Museum.....is what made it collapse [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Dan

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any updates rick? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/drool.gif[/img]

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 300deluxeL79</div><div class="ubbcode-body">any updates rick? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/drool.gif[/img] </div></div>

Should have some soon.

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Soon is GOOD [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

Dan

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[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] yes it is Dan

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

Pretty COLD outside...crank up that heat in the garage Rick!

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Rick has more room in the garage now [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

Looking forward to more progress pics!

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

I have been able to make some more progress on the sheetmetal rebuild, and also have found the original owner's wife/widow who remarried awhile after her husband was killed in Vietnam.
After much searching I located where she lived and got a phone number. She answered the phone on the 2nd try, and was very nice and willing to discuss the car.
It turns out her husband Willie Debolt had bought the car without her knowledge, and she was pretty ticked off when he brought it home the 1st time. They had only been married a few months and she didn't want a car payment while they were saving money to get a house.
He taught her how to drive a stick, and while Willie was away in basic training, she and her brother would go out and drive the car around, even though she was told not to let her brother ever drive it.
As the weather turned colder later that year (1969), she took the car over to a local dealer for an appraisal and to see about selling it. She had told her husband she wouldn't drive it in the snow.
Well, the dealer talked her into selling it to him. So it wasn't even a year old when they sold it, and before Willie was killed in Nam the next March.
The owner of the dealer was named Lou Sprague, The dealer was somewhere in the Warsaw, IN area, so if anybody here remembers him and the name of his dealership, that could help me follow where the car went next.

Here are some progress pics showing the rebuild of a very rusty cowl area.
Enjoy

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics..._rebuild_1.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics..._rebuild_2.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics..._rebuild_5.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_14.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_16.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_20.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_22.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_24.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_27.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_29.jpg

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Few more

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_30.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_31.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_37.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...rebuild_38.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...2-dscf7435.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...3-dscf7510.jpg

Shifter hump donated from another car.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...5-dscf7433.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...7-dscf7431.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...8-dscf7445.jpg

After the first panel fit test.
It's all apart again, and the doors have been straightened and some small rust repairs on both.
Should be going to the blaster soon to clean all the donated sections to bare metal, then time for some minor smoothing and a fresh primer coat.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...9-dscf7450.jpg

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

Great job. That looks like a LOT of work!

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

Looking great Rick I'm always looking for progress pictures on this car.I never done any extensive panel replacement like this but it's something I'd love to try.

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

This is the best thread on the whole internet!! Thanks for the updates. Your metal guy does amazing work. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

Neat story on the original owner Rick. Does the widow have any interest in being reunited with the car some day?

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

The car looks great Rick and the story is even better.

Kurt

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

Looking awesome!

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The BEST way to sum of this Tread / Build is INTEGRITY!!!!!!!!

Rick only knows how to do it ONE WAY - The Correct WAY! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif[/img]

Well done! Love it!

Dan

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Neat story on the original owner Rick. Does the widow have any interest in being reunited with the car some day? </div></div>

She might be, but I really need to talk with her again, and have tried today, but no answer.
Hope she does as I would love to get a picture of her with it, and possibly a short write-up also.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The BEST way to sum of this Tread / Build is INTEGRITY!!!!!!!!

Rick only knows how to do it ONE WAY - The Correct WAY! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif[/img]

Well done! Love it!

Dan </div></div>

Thanks Dan.
Got to do it best as possible with what we have to work with, and I've had some great help along the way.

Re: Black L78 1969 SS396 300 Deluxe Post Sedan Found
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rixls6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Neat story on the original owner Rick. Does the widow have any interest in being reunited with the car some day? </div></div>

She might be, but I really need to talk with her again, and have tried today, but no answer.
Hope she does as I would love to get a picture of her with it, and possibly a short write-up also. </div></div>

Try all you can to make this happen.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rixls6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Neat story on the original owner Rick. Does the widow have any interest in being reunited with the car some day? </div></div>

She might be, but I really need to talk with her again, and have tried today, but no answer.
Hope she does as I would love to get a picture of her with it, and possibly a short write-up also. </div></div>

Try all you can to make this happen.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan </div></div>

I was able to talk with the original owner's wife again. I also talked with her husband, who knew Willie very well also.
I mentioned to them about this thread, so they can come see the car's progress.
She says she would like to see the car again when it's done, if she is around the area of Warsaw, IN at a time that's convenient to see it.
Her husband gave me a bit more info on the car, and also another person to contact that was good friends with Willie.
I did get in touch with his friend from Warsaw, and he remembers driving the car a few times, and remarked about how quickly it would accelerate, and how it was a base model with no frills. He also remembers it as an iron head car.
He is also going to look through some old pictures to see if he has any of the car and/or Willie.

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Outstanding Rick - You`re such a &quot;Hound Dog&quot; [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan