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[sask67ragtop]

Thank you. A little info. I have a 1967 Monaco convertible. My dad bought it in the early 1980s. odometer had ab out 41,000miles on it. Being we are a winter climate, that is likely original miles. I bought from dad to 'fix up' in the late 1980s. It was a poly 318 (its not now). I (and my friends) did a lot of work on it over a couple years and really enjoyed it in the summer months. Then life got in the way and I went to school and moved away. It has been stored at mom & dads until this summer. The picture here is the first time the car has seen daylight since 1995, it was under a car cover in the garage. The engine wasn't stuck (we would run it once in a while but not for about 10 years now). With a little tinkering not much actually), rebuilding the carb and bypassing the fuel system we got it running this fall. So this story is kind of a barn find, but its my own 'barn find' that i finally 'got around' to playing with again.

 

[66sptfry]

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[kowalski1970]

Welcome from Virginia!!

 

[ayilar]

Very belated welcome, @sask67ragtop

I own a Canadian-market 1970 Polara convertible that, between the time when she was first shipped from the Belvedere plant, seems to have spent her time in or near Regina, SK. That is where she was when I acquired her. She is FQ3 turquoise, as you know, and was likely repainted (in the correct color) under prior ownership.

Would you happen to know anything about the car's history that has not been posted on this site?

 

[sask67ragtop]

Hello and thanks. I had read your thread about your Regina and was thinking the same - have I seen this car. I don't know anything more than what has been posted. I am going through all my car show / show & shine pictures from around the city & area from the past 25 or so years. From the posted history here, it seems like Regina may not have been at the car shows, but if I find anything in my pictures, I'll post it for you. Specifically one year the annual Mopar Muscle Meet carshow in Southey, SK (30 miles north of Regina) had a convertible theme (mid-late 1990s). Maybe try googling 'Southey Mopar Muscle Meet' and see you come up with. That town was a mecca for all things Mopar and the Mopar Muscle Meet ran for something like 35+ years.
Not sure if any of that helps.

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[ayilar]

Thanks a real lot, and I appreciate very much your going through your photo collection.

I was told that Regina GQ3, my 'vert, participated in annual harvest parades. This would suggest she was not based in Regina per se, but was owned by someone in a farm community wishing a certain radius of the city. The question, of course, would then be "how big of a radius".

If you have folks who might know, and whom you feel comfortable asking, please do!

 

[sask67ragtop]

I assume there isn't a dealership badge on her? That would make it too easy...

 

[ayilar]

I assume there isn't a dealership badge on her? That would make it too easy...

Yep, we have looked -- no dice. I suspect that the car was cleaned out completely when she was repainted under prior ownership. @71Polara383 has told me that he thinks the front buckets have been re-upholstered (in the correct pattern), so any build sheet there is likely also lost.

The car's ownership I can trace back to Woody P. in Regina, who sold it to @Tobias74 (who then sold the car to me). Woody had apparently bought it from "an old guy" but apparently had "no luck" when he "tried to get ahold of the old guy" after Tobias asked him to reach back after I bought the car. My thinking is that this older gentlemann is the person who restored the car (or had the work done), and who would have the history info.

 

[SIPLOWGUY]

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