It has been a great weekend and week for me. I took off a half day on Friday to meet with the junkyard owner who brought my Nailheads over on the rollback. If you read my previous post, one of these Wildcat's was my parents old car, and the other the yard had and they were sold as a pair. Here they are backing into the yard on the rollback (guys that have had cars come off a transport in front of them know how good it feels):
You can see the yard operator managed to pull my bumper and bumper end away from each other on the white car during the retrival from the woods. Here is the interior of the white car. It has since been wiped and vacuumed:
The inside of the white one matches the inside of my LeSabre, so I have interchangable parts. Here is the inside of my parents old Wildcat, the brown car:
After noticing the carbs didn't match between my Nailheads, I pulled the numbers. This Nailhead in the white car came out of a 66 according to Buicks.net. It's Motor Number was MT 497, and it's Serial Number is 6H297451. Here it is after a few hours with the hosepipe and brush:
Thanks for the pics Joe. That brings back memories. My Uncle Buster had one many years ago that my folks bought after he traded it in. I was very young but I do remember it. It had aftermarket A/C in it and the unit sat on the tranny hump. I remember the silver dash with the large speedo & guages, too. And for some reason the steering wheel seemed BIGGER back then!!!:Brow:
I bet that sucker has the key in the dash??? I don't know why but that is one of the neater parts of old cars 4 me.
Didn't find any loose change. Found a few combs. In the trunk of the white car was a stool and some pots for potting plants. The key does go in the dashboard like it should!
Glad to hear it! Nice collection. Beautiful nailheads.:TU: I'm jealous. :grin: _____________ Rob 1972 Riviera
Wow that pic of the temp controls with that rotary knob just brought back some flashbacks of our 63 Electra. Forgot all about how they were set up. So cool.
That looks like an ignition key set up like I had on an early 60s Corvair. It had both a Lock and Off position. You could take the key out when the car was running, then grab the switch and turn to off. Then turn it on again without a key. A keyless car!! That was back when we didn't lock the car doors either. And my folks used to leave the garage door open open all the time and didn't start to lock the house at night until the 70s. We were less paranoid back then. Congrats on your budding collection, and getting your family car back.
Too Cool!! That red interior is wonderful! Red and Maroon work well together and the coordinating red shift knob, brake pedal and accelerator is neat. I don't recall seeing color coordinated pedals before, I thought they were always black. Very nice.
