1966 L72 Impala In UK

[3macs1]

I'm looking for any information/pictures on this car. I'm pretty sure I know where it is now. Anybody...anybody?? Bueller?

Are you thinking this one Mark??
http://www.showdownmusclecars.com/inventory/C119273

[mssl72]

Hi Joe,
That one is a different car. Especially since it's all together!

[Stitch]

Hi Mark,
I haven't seen him for many years but I'll see if I can get his phone number and try to call him , I took a lot of pics of the car at the time and gave most of them to him so fingers crossed he still might have some.
I know the car was very clean and original when he got it , all matching #'s , original intake/carb, idler pulley etc . He kept all those pieces together so I hope they're still with the car .

Ron

[mssl72]

Hi Ron,
I contacted my friend today about it. This has got to be the same car. There are some time slips from the drag strip in the UK. I think he told me it was running 13's. The previous owner was the guy that brought it back to the States. I'll try to get more detail. From what I understand and saw the fiberglass front hood is long gone. The car currently doesn't have bumpers at all on it, I just don't know if the fiberglass ones are around either. It looks like there still is a lower front valance. Here's how it sits now. Take a look at the drivers door...notice that sport mirror???

[Stitch]

Hi Mark,

13's eh , well you know how the saying goes - the older I get the faster I was . With that mirror it certainly looks like the same car , what's with the different fender scripts on the one that Joe posted ? .

I managed to get a phone number for him and just called , he was sitting in the sun in Barcelona eating lunch . He says he's still got some old pics and he's going to scan and email them to me , I'll post em as soon as .

Ron

[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: