Impala-Thon in Philly

[Belair62]

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'46 Lincoln
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drop the gun, get the canoli's.

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[Mr BB Chevy]

Vern good to see you there, you see anything good after I left?.. ha.
must be 10-15 sets of sbc 041 & 461 there.

I looked at a few of the "projects" outside.. eek

[Norm reynolds]

so did any one go was it just a lot of JUNK
I live 10 min from there but did not go
I might have lost my temper with this nut job + it was just to cold to waste my time

[Mr BB Chevy]

seen Vern, talked a few mins.
really wasnt much there, unless you were into scrap metal.
every car outside need a basket case, plus most had no title

plenty of the stuff was mis-labled. (291 head as `66 corvette head had a `70 casting date!) ('61 6 as BB)( Pg car as 4spd) (Bill Grumpy BBC head HA Ha Ha... World casting oval port no porting )etc etc.

i spent about 15 mins inside and 5 outside, then hit 95 south to Tony Lukes for lunch , Chic cutlet with prov cheese & broc rabe. mmmm day wasnt wasted at all

[Verne_Frantz]

I went to the motors first and checked every one, including the misc bare blocks. 1/2 of them were low perf 348s and a lot of those were truck. OF the 409s, only 3 were not truck. There was a '64 340hp, a '65 340hp and a '62 409hp (original deck with a St.Louis VIN.).......(no Z-11 codes there)
The motor in the 6cyl '61 "409 car" was a QA block with a Tarrytown VIN. IT had an X on the front so it was either a '63 or '64 400hp (couldn't see the casting number on the back). Most of the loose parts were pretty junky (IMO), but I paid no attention to the small block stuff. Most of the "good" cars inside were very worn out originals or had missing or changed parts on them, although most had very solid bodies. Clearly the best car there was the Azure Agua '64 SS Sport Coupe. It had it's born with 409/340 and a 4-spd with an unmolested deck and the Tarrytown VIN on it. It was a very uniquely optioned car. It had P/S & P/B but no tinted glass, 1-spd wipers and no radio (originally). There is an aftermarket radio in the dash now and someone cut a hole in the quarter for an antenna. It had a poor quality repaint, the white interior was dingy and worn. The car basically needs it all to make it nice again, but the kicker is it's an original transistorized ignition car! Those cars are exceedingly rare and I've never documented one like this one. All the original engine equipment is there (not even missing the little stuff). It had the correct shifter and tach. And yes, even the original ignition amplifier was there.
I was able to get all the inside cars documented, but there was a 30mph wind across the parking lot and I couldn't hold up to it to doc the junk cars out there.

Verne

[Verne_Frantz]

Some photos of that rare '64:

Here's the deck pad. Surprisingly, I didn't get to this car until after 1:30 and I was the first one to clean off the deck to check numbers! Unbelievable! To most who are used to looking at small blocks or MK-IVs, this might look hooky, but I assure you, it IS genuine.


Some original engine details.


The original Rochester 4-Jet. A very tough carb to find. It's known as the low silouette style (notice the short bowl).


Original air cleaner


This gives me tingles......and I'm not even holding onto the wires!


Sorry for posting so late since the auction starts in less than 12hrs, but I just wanted to share.

Verne

[Tarrytown SS427s]

I have about the same to say about it as you Verne. Not a lot of stuff, but I was glad there were at least a few passenger 409s. It was very interesting to see a QQ suffix in that 64! Also, after taking down the numbers from the 65 409 block, I discovered one of the two Muncies in the transmission section had a matching vin to the 409, but they were in separate lots and will probably be split up tomorrow.. I was able to get the numbers off most of the cars outside, nothing very interesting. The only code that caught my attention was 2Q on the black 63 409 Impala.
Steve

[Norm reynolds]

Do you belive THIS 25.000 for a no title car what worng with this picture
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/1057B-1...sspagenameZWDVW

[agtw31]

you switch the trunk emblems,that shows intent to defraud.

i only see the 6 banger trunk pic in this listing.