63 vert 50 years one owner
 

negotiations are now happening between me and owner of this 63 Nova drop top.
negotiations are now happening between me and the wife also.

I gave them my number over 20 years ago when I sold them a bumper for this car, asking if they ever wanted to sell, call me.




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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Very cool Chris!!!

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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Great time to buy a ragtop. GOOD LUCK!

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Wow.. a husband and wife in my town have a red 63/64 'vert they have owned since the early 70's. They lived right across from my grade school and I would stare out my 4th grade class window in 1974 or so and watch him do body work on the car out in the front yard.. stopped there 4-5 years ago and they still live there and have the car but it needs redone again..has not been out of the garage since the early 80's..

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

I love people that don't throw stuff out. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]


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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

the seller and my wife have agreed, I can have the car. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img] pick up saturday!!

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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Congrats Chris!

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Congrats Chris's wife!

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Congrats! She's a beauty.

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

good for you buddy!
i can see the smile from here
adam

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Very cool Chris! A week or two ago I saw a Canadian Chevy II convert of the same vintage here locally, and took some pics on my cell phone (no small feat for this technically inept mope to accomplish) but of course now I have no way of downloading them off the phone [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Neat car! I used to have a '64 Nova. I've always wanted a convert. Congrats and enjoy!

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bill Pritchard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Very cool Chris! A week or two ago I saw a Canadian Chevy II convert of the same vintage here locally, and took some pics on my cell phone (no small feat for this technically inept mope to accomplish) but of course now I have no way of downloading them off the phone [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img] </div></div>

Bill, try google+. There is a phone app and you can easily set it up to automatically upload your phone photos (anytime you take one) to your google account. From there, you can put them anywhere you wish.

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

getting crowded here now [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Maybe so, but that looks like a good crowd!

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Congratulations on the Nova! A nice overcrowding to have for sure and also coll that your son is contributing.

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Need to throw in a water pump and heater core to get going. 50 years of gak on the motor is too nasty to blast off in my driveway

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

And so it starts.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

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Don't clean the rest of the engine: smear the gunk onto that shiny orange water pump and make it look like old. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

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https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...026_161909.jpg

And a little tuneup on the radiator

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Very nice Chris!! Congratulations!!</span></span> [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

BIG Congrats!!!
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~ Pete

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

finally got a day off and the weather cooperated, Mike was home from school for the weekend and put cooling system back together. we had the chance to put a few miles on the cars. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]



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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Nice!!

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Very cool car.
Congrats.
I misread the first post. When you said &quot;negotiations are now happening between me and the wife also.&quot; I thought you were talking about the owner's wife.

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elonblock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Congrats! She's a beauty. </div></div>

I guess I am getting old. Once again, I am confused.
Chris' wife?
P.O.'s wife?
The car?
All of the above?

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lynn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Very cool car.
Congrats.
I misread the first post. When you said &quot;negotiations are now happening between me and the wife also.&quot; I thought you were talking about the owner's wife.

</div></div>
the previous owner had a husband, not a wife. She has been driving the car since she got it from her aunt in 1970 as a high school graduation present. The aunt was the original owner. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Nice you have all the history. I really like first gen Novas.
Congrats again.

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lynn</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elonblock</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Congrats! She's a beauty. </div></div>

I guess I am getting old. Once again, I am confused.
Chris' wife?
P.O.'s wife?
The car?
All of the above? </div></div>


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yes, all of the above. I won't say say if that's the wife the previous owner or the car. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

Wow, she is a beauty.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lynn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wow, she is a beauty. </div></div>

Maybe an older guy can verify this, but I believe that is Janis Joplin on the 63 'vert.
(never actually refered to as a beauty, but she had a nice Chevy)

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25 years ago I sold a bumper, now I have it back attached to a different car. still hard to believe [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

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Re: 63 vert 50 years one owner
 

that's awesome!

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Nice score, Chris! Anticipate lots of smiles to the gallon. I've owned half a dozen '62 - '65 Chevy IIs in my life. Liked them all - but my absolute favorite was the little '64 SS 'vert I had back in 1978. 327, 4-speed, A/C, steering and brakes. Went to Jacksonville, FL with that car for the summer. Even back then, got thumbs up everywhere I went. As a side note, what I remember about Jacksonville - trivia wise - was running out to put the top and windows up at about 4:30 every afternoon. Rains on schedule, in Jacksonville...