I brought the Cutlass to a charity car show to collect food for a children’s cancer support network. Sorry no pics of the 1966 427 Corvette convertible but everyone has seen one of those, right? How many times do you see a Pontiac Grand Am, and much less two on the same day?

 

Doh! I almost forgot the token Olds content.

 

Good for you. I loved the pictures.

 

Awesome pictures as always. Made my heart jump a beat seeing that red 62 300 letter car. My grandpa owned the identical car but not a dual quad letter car. Same colors. 62 300 is so on my list of must haves.

That tan and brown Pontiac looks very low mile original. Was it? Holy Buick colors on a Pontiac Batman.

 

Nice pictures, nice Grand Ams. Thanks for sharing. Hope the charity was successful.

 

You are correct, 68K miles. The current owner told me he bought it from the original owner who had it in PineTop as a second car for his wife and it sat in their summer home garage. Original owner bought it as a birthday present for the wife. I neglected to snap a pic of the initials adjacent to the pinstripe on the side with her initials. Cool story and history for this car.



And on top of all that, the guy has a second Grand Am the same year and color (white 1973) as the other guy. What are the odd of all this coming together at a tiny charity car show?

 

WOW an old International Travelall.

 

Love the Chrysler 300.

 

I agree, that 300 is sweet.

 

Yeah, that is the ORIGINAL family truckster. I wondered about the gas filler cap on the passengers side front fender. Anyone have any info on that? Was it a second gas tank? If so, kinda a strange location, right?

 

I think there is only one gas tank. I think they changed the gas tank filler tube location in some particular year (from the original driver side to passenger side or vice versa).

 

IH Travelall had the fuel filler on the passenger fender, the aux tank would have been on the drivers side as I recall.

 

My "memory" thinks it was the way they were. If you ever see it again, find out more. I would assume it had an inline 6.

 

Our next door neighbor had two of them at the same time. He was a shop teacher at a local H.S. He drove one of them to school all the time. The other one was his hunting vehicle. They had kids same age as our family. Our dad's would throw us into the one and we'd head out hunting most weekends.

 

There was one gas cap on the drivers side rear quarter panel and another on the passengers front fender, behind the tire. That’s the one that perplexed me.

 

Thanks for including a pic of the Travelall. Even though the red Chrysler and gold Cutlass were very nice, the Travelall brings back memories.

 

Spent many nights in the mid 70s sitting in Drew Ricciuti’s dads 1971 travelall. It had a 10 foot whip antenna, seemed like we were talking to four different states on his modified cobra CB. Many very cold nights. Encouragement to finally mount a starduster on top of the garage and get a Royce base station. Social media 70s style.

 

Classic classic times and memories. CB radios. Like you said social media 70's style. CB = Citizens Band by the way. That's a big ten four.

 

Travelalls were the original short busses in my town when I was a kid.

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I couldn't get past the Chrysler 300.

 

Thanks for sharing... The International Travelall must have gotten a lot of attention, not too many of them around...

 

I sent one of my older brothers the pictures of that 300. Here was his reply.

Chris and I went to see a 57C and a 62H for sale for $2300 & $1700 in around 1974 at a big corner lot place near 8th and Monaco, the H was black w/tan leather it had a 2x4bbl like that one That 62 Chrysler is one fugly beautiful beast The guy also had a 60 Travelall 4x4 highboy and a 48 Jeep w/metal top body retrofit I will never forget the beaming smile on Grampa Wentworths face when Chris and I delivered his 300 back after we borrowed it after a weekend for a Chris tuneup plus thorough rubbing compound + wax job and a fresh set of spinner hubcaps, lol it was not unlike the pic you sent That 413 in that car was one amazing sleeper and humiliated many a doofus street racer lmao...

Funny coincidence that guy had a Travelall also. loved being the youngest then. I got to sit on the armrest on the front power bench seat. Watching that curved dash. Rambling down the highway. Good times. He also had a 54 Crown Imperial with a hemi at the same time. Ending up also owning a 70 300.

Even Marilyn Monroe got it. This is her convertible 62 letter car.

 

That Travel all brings back lots of memories, great utility type car/truck. As I remember working in the local gas station(didn't we all) it was a bitch to fill that front tank, had to sip it in to get it full....Tedd