Little brother’s ‘66 300

[Clover]

i just got my “little” brother’s very first car out of the barn for the first/last? time this year. Here are pics that I just took. It mostly sits since about 1986 when we modified it. I’m gonna go drive it for a bit.

 

[Clover]

More pics

 

[detmatt]

Be careful with it, I still want first right of refusal!
This is the reason I put my Coronet R/T on eBay a couple of months ago, there was talk for a minute that it might be available.

 

[Xenon]

Why doesn't “little” brother do something with it.....?

 

[stubs300]

Leather interior, I likey! A/C's been removed, I also have the dealer plate on my trunk too.

 

[Ripinator]

i just got my “little” brother’s very first car out of the barn for the first/last? time this year. Here are pics that I just took. It mostly sits since about 1986 when we modified it. I’m gonna go drive it for a bit.

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Really gorgeous car. I think you should "drive it a bit". . . Scorch red too - One of my favorite colors.

 

[Clover]

Another flawless drive. What a pleasure. Every few years younger brother will put a few hundred miles on it. I can drive it anytime but I’m old and lazy. He came very close to selling, since he so rarely uses it but doesn’t need to and couldn’t bring himself to sell his first car. (I store it for free). It’s a turnkey cruiser that runs high 13 sec quarter mile on turbo blue but will run on pump gas.

 

[Ripinator]

Another flawless drive. What a pleasure. Every few years younger brother will put a few hundred miles on it. I can drive it anytime but I’m old and lazy. He came very close to selling, since he so rarely uses it but doesn’t need to and couldn’t bring himself to sell his first car. (I store it for free). It’s a turnkey cruiser that runs high 13 sec quarter mile on turbo blue but will run on pump gas.

Wow! Can you tell us a little more about the car? It seems to be a well-optioned car: leather, A/C and maybe originally a 440 TNT car.

 

[Clover]

It is originally a 383 vinyl-bucket car. We built a balanced ‘67 440 .030” over with 11.5:1 domes that we notched for valve clearance. It runs the biggest Comp Cams hydraulic that was available at the time. The heads are ported and polished 906s with modified valve geometry. We built headers because they were not available back then. Exhaust is custom 2.5” with equalizer pipe into hemi mufflers, then 2.25” out the back.
Pulleys (except the a/c bypass) and p/s pump, as well as front discs and engine wiring harness, are from a ‘72 NY donor (at least it was a four-door).
The trans is a later hemi (four clutch packs) with valve body mods (including part-throttle kickdown) and custom TCI converter.
The air cleaner needs to be modified to clear the a/c compressor and we never got around to it.
We moved the custom-made rear springs 2” inboard and installed a 1970 B body Dana 60 with Zoom 4.10:1 gears and all new Timken bearings. This thing is bulletproof!
The leather seats are from a ‘67 Imperial Crown Coupe.

 

[Clover]

Also the front suspension was completely rebuilt including all new bushings, larger aftermarket front sway bar and we added an aftermarket rear sway bar that is tucked way up. The fuel line is 3/8” back to front, including the sender.
The rear wheels are Cragar SS 15x10” with T/A 295R50x15.
It actually sits up a little bit more than the pics show but the trunk is full of parts right now.

 

[Clover]

It also runs the recurved distributor and electronic ignition system from the ‘72 NY.

 

[detmatt]

Just gotta lose the headrests and transfer the title and it’d be perfect!

 

[Clover]

Just gotta lose the headrests and transfer the title and it’d be perfect!

I love the headrests, although they are vinyl...

 

[Clover]

Okay, Ric’s next for a cruise, after I feed Miss Abbey.

 

[detmatt]

Bob I know we’d all love to see Miss Abby too!

 

[Clover]

Two more mods on the 300: I made a tilt column from the original and a donor ‘65 NY (four-door) unit combined; dual electric fans in place of the original unit.

 

[Clover]

Here’s Abbey. She’s a happy girl!

 

[Clover]

Here she’s not squinting.

 

[live4theking]

Beautiful car and cute pup.

 

[ImpJay]

I request to post more of Miss Abbey!