ATCO is Done!!!!! Been Polishing like a Fool!!!!

Discussion in 'Street/strip 400/430/455' started by Joe65SkylarkGS, Jun 24, 2020.

  1. Joe65SkylarkGS

    Joe65SkylarkGS 462 ina 65 Lark / GN

    Had it out last few weeks. It's been awesome weather.

    Finally have my Sending unit issue resolved, it was so nice to go get a full tank and go cruise!!!

    Sad part is my local track Englishtown's RaceWay Park is gone by the way side but I just found out the other track ATCO is closing next!!!!!

    I got the word yesterday about ATCO, apparentely the same guy or type of Auto storage facility is taking it over next year!!!!

    Anyway here are some pics of my 65
     

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  2. Joe65SkylarkGS

    Joe65SkylarkGS 462 ina 65 Lark / GN

    Sorry hit enter to fast lol
     

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  3. Dennis S

    Dennis S Well-Known Member

    Car looks great
     
  4. thebuick

    thebuick Well-Known Member

    yes it does look nice,looks fast. is the towel on the seat for JUST IN CASE ?
     
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  5. SageSenior

    SageSenior Well-Known Member

    Just found out that ATCO will be purchased by a company COPART, who sell insurance company wrecked cars at an on line auction...
    Sucks.
    TS
     
  6. BrunoD

    BrunoD Looking for Fast Eddie

    Hi Joe,that car looks beautiful,as good looking as can be.Sorry to hear about Atco,another track goes by the wayside,Bruno.
     
  7. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    Beautiful car.
     
  8. Lobucrod

    Lobucrod Well-Known Member

    Sweet!
     
  9. Joe65SkylarkGS

    Joe65SkylarkGS 462 ina 65 Lark / GN



    Hello Mr BrunoD. Missing you buddy. Hopefully soon right. Hope you and the Mrs. are doing well, please continue to keep to yourselves cause this virus is still out there. Better to be safe than sorry. My mom, 76 had it, spent 30 days I hospital, 9 on a ventilator then about 5-6 weeks in rehab. She kicked it's butt!!!!! Thank God for those old tough Brooklyn girls!!!

    Thanks for the kind words guys. I got her in 91 or so, it had the original FireBall V6 lol with power glide!!! Ran amazing I have to add. I remember jockeying it around to a few garages over the first 10 years I had it and it would cruise up to about 60 in first gear then in Drive it was capable of 100 + MPH!!!!! I remembering holding on for dear life too!!!!! Nothing underneath was ever replaced!!!! Bone stock under the painted car, in which it came with zero interior pieces!!!! No panels or rug or headliner it was totally bare inside!@!!!! I'm not lying when I say I have over 8K in the interior!!!!! Years ago no on made repro door panels for the 64,65!!!! I literally waited for them to come up with door panels. When they did, after 500 bucks later, they didn't send the smaller rear inner panels. So....... What the heck good are 2 new front door panels, in which they did they're own design, They said they didn't make rears. So...... Again I had to wait.

    Anways the front two bucket seats are from 1 65 GS in Arizona right out of a junk yard, I think I paid 750 for the pair. Chrome is perfect the driver seat has a tear in the usual spot lol. I just got 2 new covers on sale for fathers day for 310 !!!!! So they'll be installed soon, the rear seat however is from a 64 GTO. It was the only seat I could find that fit!!!! 2 door sedan has a wider bottom seat than the coupe cause they're isn't any protruding arm rest, the seat bottom goes panel to panel.


    Enough rambling, thanks for reading the whole post lol

    Any questions ask away fellers
     
  10. Joe65SkylarkGS

    Joe65SkylarkGS 462 ina 65 Lark / GN

    This may in fact be the first pass ever back in 2002-3???
     

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  11. stg2NW

    stg2NW Well-Known Member

    Glad to see you back Joe! Do you still have the 65 GS?
     
  12. Joe65SkylarkGS

    Joe65SkylarkGS 462 ina 65 Lark / GN

    Yeah man. Still in my rotisserie lol
     

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