1966 L72 Impala In UK

[mssl72]

Ron!
Cool pictures! Thanks for contacting your buddy about the car. I'm sorry his lunch with the sunshine was interrupted! That's great that he's going to send more pictures. Yes, I think my friend said 13's. I emailed him about it again.

The car on the link that Joe posted is actually just an Impala. This car is an Impala Super Sport, so the frender scripts are different. Also about the car on the link...it's an L72 clone. It used to belong to a friend of mine. Another buddy that really knows his stuff went over to look at it and found a bunch of stuff wrong including all the 6k markings ghosting under the new silk-screened markings on the tach face. The car was originally a 283/3 on the tree.

Here's another picture of the passenger side. Another sport mirror on that side too. The guy who has it in Oregon had started a restoration and was going to put it back to stock, which is why it looks the way it does now. I hope he didn't toss the glass bumpers.

[mssl72]

Well, it's time to bring up an old thread and post an update on this car. The extremely detailed restoration was finished the end of October just in time for it's 50th birthday (it was built the last week of October). It was returned to stock form since it wasn't very far from stock at the time it was acquired. It was found in LaGrande, Oregon in 2007 and the restoration started about 6 years ago. The former UK owner Andy C. may still be out there somewhere. The current owner is interested in more history on the car for obvious reasons. Here's some pictures so that nobody says "without pics it didn't happen"!
We'll start with a few old pics first:







As found in Oregon:




At it's new home:










The process begins:









with temporary 390hp air cleaner:

[mssl72]

Done:

[454_Malibu]

Wow,, very nice....

[427TJ]

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Love the N96s and tall ribbed blackwalls.