In the ongoing search to retrieve any history/documents/photos of my '72 U code Supreme, I thought I would yield some results today.

I was able to track down the phone number of the adopted son of the original owner. The guy is 66 years old now, so I wasn't sure if would be able to help, but I figured it was worth a try.

So I called him up, and after a brief introduction, I asked him about the car. Turns out I was right..he vaguely remembers his dad owning it, and had no info for me at all...bummer.

Oh well...I'll just keep digging.

 

Sounds like you think a 66 year old dude can't remember his teenage years? He must not of been exposed to the car much.

 

I was ever so hopeful, but all he kept mentioning were Jeeps and Toyotas...and he said he seemed to remember the Cutlass, but that was all he had for me.

 

Mmmm yeah, ask me about the 1967 Delmont my Dad had back in 1977 and see how much I remember about it. It was white and had 2 doors. I think.

And I'm a car guy.

 

I have embarked on a similar quest, I was lucky that I have the original owners manual with the original owners name/ date of sale and the selling dealer info all type written on the info section if the manual, my quest is for more information on the tiny dealer that sold it , they seem to have faded in to obscurity , a few days ago I sent a e-mail to the Downers Grove Historical Society requesting info on the dealer , as of today I have not had a response, I was able to find 1 photo of the dealer from 1964 so I know they were in business from at least 1956 -1964,. good luck on your search

 

I'm a car guy too. Here are the cars my family had when I was a kid:

1961-3 -- '47 Ford 2-dr sedan. My actual earliest memory is burning my hand on its black surface on a sweltering summer day.
1963-6 -- '63 Nova SS convertible. Silver Blue with white top and blue interior and a 194 I-6 and three on the tree, which my dad converted to a floor shift with a Hurst Indy Shifter.
1966-8 -- '55 Studebaker Champion 2-dr, coupe. Green and white. Later the old man painted it Candy Apple Red (also for some reason adding a black vinyl top), reupholstered it in bitchin' tuck & roll and swapped a 283 small block Chevy in place of the wheezy old six.
1968-9 -- '64 Buick Special convertible in Wedgewood Blue with matching top and interior (triple blue!) and a 300/ST300 drivetrain. A real stripper -- the only options on it were power steering and brakes. Ever seen a convertible with rubber floormats?
1969-71 -- '65 mustang GT convertible 289 K-code/4-speed, Ivy Green with white top and tan interior, and dealer-installed dual quads(!). My dad's midlife crisis car.
1969-71 -- '64 Rambler Classic 770 wagon, 232 I-6 and Flash-O-Matic (I loved that name) in metallic gold and white with a matching metallic gold interior. Mom's car.
1970-72 -- 1961 Peugeot 403 4-dr. sedan, dark blue (later painted light metallic blue and blue interior with a four cylinder (which sounded like those bubble-top spaceships on the Jetsons to me) and a column-mounted 4-speed. I didn't take the time to learn much about this car as it was a bit of an embarrassment to me, but oddly, I'd like to have one now.
1971-72 -- '71 Toyota Corona wagon with whatever engine they came with and automatic in an ugly butterscotch color with obligatory cheap black vinyl interior. Again, embarrassing, although I thought the console shifter was kind of cool -- it was the first one we'd had.
1972-4 -- '64 Olds Cutlass convertible, Provincial White with black top and black bucket interior, 330/290 with Jetaway. Was nice to have a car with a healthy V-8 rumble again.
1972-4 -- Another Peugeot 403 if you can believe it, because my sisters were starting to drive. This one was beige.
1972-3 -- '72 Datsun pickup truck. Red with black vinyl interior. Pop's company truck.
1973-4 -- '72 Mazda RX-3 wagon. Silver, black vinyl interior. Another company car, and a real rotary-engined rocket. Also made great farting sounds when you downshifted. I couldn't believe a little 1.3 liter engine could have a four-barrel carburetor or go so fast.
1974-7 -- '65 Acadian-Beaumont (Canadian Chev-Pontiac hybrid), Cameo Ivory with black to and red interior, 230 I-6 with three on the tree. My sisters would end up taking this one off to university and driving it until it only ran on four of its six cylinders.
1974-92 -- '67 Chevy Nova 2-dr. ht. Bolero Red with gold interior, 250 I-6/PG. My mom would get this in the divorce and beat it into the ground with benign neglect as revenge against my father.
1974-6 -- '69 Chevy Nova 4-dr. sedan, Dusk Blue metallic with blue interior, 250 I-6/PG. Boring and dependable. Everybody hated it.

That takes us up to my parents' divorce. My mother would never have another car that I didn't give her or buy for her, and my father would continue to have some interesting and sometimes quirky vehicles. This list also leaves out some of his project cars that never quite made it into daily service.

I also have a pretty good recall of my buddies' parents' cars.

 

I'm to lazy to list all may parents cars but here are the stand outs, 57 olds Super 88 purchased from my Grand father as a second car, 57 Chevy Belair, 63 Chevy Impala ( first in a long line of verts for my mom) and my favorite of all my parents cars a Bronze colored 1966 Pontiac Catalina convertible with white interior it was sweet !!!
now my oldest sister had some interesting cars and my favorite of hers was a 1960 Buick LeSabre convertible long, low, sleek and powerful !! I loved that car
and understand the custom crowd loves them and there bringing big bucks now.

 

If you remember the 70's you were there

 

Earlier car I knew of my family having was a Graham Paige of my grandfather's before the second world war.

My dad had a 48 Plymouth, it rusted, grandma ran 2 50 DeSotos, one died, the other got sold as a parked dead one in the 90s.
Granddad had a 56 Olds 88 4 door, sold as parked dead in the 90s. A 60 Olds 88 4 door, in a garage, sold in the 90s. A 63 T Bird sold in the late 80s.
75 Ford Econoline, this was grandma's till she stopped driving in 03, this was the last of the 4 vans. Two of them, a 71 and 72, my aunt destroyed in NY.
I have the 73 Club Wagon that's the fourth one, drove it two weeks ago.
Great Aunt had a yellow 70 Cougar that belonged to a family friend that got mugged and died in NYC.
Family friend had a 73 Chevelle that ended up with my granddad, also sold off dead in the 90s.
One 72 Monte Carlo which I still have. (Granddad had 7 cars when he passed, 2 Olds, a DeSoto, a Van, a Chevelle, a Monte Carlo, and a Bird.)

I think my mom had a 66 Cutlass when she met my dad, he had a 65 Chevelle or something. I think he did the Paul Newman trick with the seat belt wire to the
Cutlass. He got a 71 Corvette in the Air Force slightly used in 71, still has it. That 73 van I have showed up about then. I learned to drive on a 78 CJ7 that has since become one with the earth. Mom had a 80 Monte Carlo with _NO_ *****. Sold it for a 90 Grand Marquis, took my driving test in that one. There was a 86 Bronco they bought new that we kept until 04 or so.

That's about it to the modern age. Got a 67 Airstream that is now mold green that needs a loving restorer and a 67 Bronco that is in better shape, but also needs a loving restorer.

 

Wow...talk about a hijacked thread.. geez.

 

Sorry about that -- it was all in aid of saying that maybe the original owner's son's memory will come around.

 

My Dad's stand out car was a Ford 56 Crown Victoria 2dr with the 312 Y block. Was a very reliable nice car Dad had long before I was born. We had a 73 Datsun Wagon 4cyl 3 spd manual on the floor, only new car my parents bought. Red with White interior. My Mother had no business driving a standard, see had it screaming in second more than once. The only new truck my Dad bought was a 67 International 2 ton to haul water to the oil field. A 6cyl 4 spd I believe and dad said it was a lemon, wheel bearing issues. He was a Ford man for years after owning a shitty 76 1/2 ton then two terrible Ford Fox bodies, a 4 door Fairmont and 2 door Zephyr, we didn't own another Ford till the 89 3L Taurus. Our Silver with Maroon super comfy interior and equipped with air, tilt and cruise 75 Cutlass 4 dr with s 350 Rocket which got drove really hard. The HEI and TH350 dyed and it developed a knock after many hard miles. It had a seized caliper and was sold for scrap. He sold it and it was on the road another 5 years. Our best car my parents owned, a tan and beige 81 Delta 88 4dr, less comfy beige interior but air, tilt and cruise with an Olds 307 and TH250C with 2.41 gears, bought for $500, a steal in 1990 especially with a constant minor maintenance it saw since new till the original owner, an old Woman who owned it, parked it a year before. It just needed a new modulator valve and only needed normal maintenance till it had over 400,000 km. I stole that 307 and TH250C to go in Dad's 78 chebby 1/2 ton. Timing chain skipped around 450,000 km. It still ran good but I had another 307, so RIP. The TH250C trans, first gear didn't make a day behind my mild 403. The 81 also got a best of 32 mpg Imperial, usually high 20's highway. By the time I got it, was more like 26 mpg, more wear and tear. By the end low 20's mpg. Still for the day, a big V8 car that was comfortable and keep up just fine with traffic getting that mileage without OD was impressive, non CCC to boot being a Canadian car. Anyone wonder why GM outsold everyone else, our 81 was a good example. We also had an 82 Dodge Diplomat Police Interceptor. White, Cop car blue showing through in some spots. Had a 318 with 360 heads, Thermoquad with electronic fuel control, a A999 and super tall gears. It had a huge 120 amp alternator, power steering and trans cooler. It got high teens for mpg but could bury the 120 mph speedo. Being a Dodge it was finicky, Mom would half flood it, plenty of mornings. Probably leaking well O rings in the Thermoquad. Dad had a 76 GMC, 78 and 83 Chebby trucks, he never owned another Ford truck till he passed in 05. Mom still has a 95 Taurus, I told her to buy it after the 89 was wrote off, still runs good. A few others like a Chevy Citation but the reliability of the Olds Small Block is why I own two cars powered by GM's best 350 till this day. I can still find early to mid 70's Olds 350's in good original running shape. No other motor from that era was as good IMHO.

 

I Think you mean:
If you can remember the 70's you were not there