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Old Oct 28, 2020 | 06:16 PM
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Old Oct 28, 2020 | 07:15 PM
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Welcome to the site! Lots of great information, helpful members and cars/parts for sale on here. What are you driving? What part of NC?
Old Oct 28, 2020 | 07:24 PM
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From his user name, I'm guessing he has a '68 Cutlass. Or he wants one.
Old Oct 28, 2020 | 07:46 PM
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Welcome to the site, perhaps the OP can post just a bit more intro info in the future.
Old Oct 29, 2020 | 05:09 AM
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Welcome to the site! Lots of great information, helpful members and cars/parts for sale on here. What are you driving? What part of NC?
Thank you! '68 Cutlass convertible. Tarboro NC
Old Oct 29, 2020 | 04:11 PM
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Thank you! '68 Cutlass convertible. Tarboro NC
Talk about neighbors... 😎 I am about 56 miles from you. I read through these forums just about every day. I have a ‘66 4 door project that is stalled out at the moment. Welcome aboard, and post some pIctures.
Old Oct 29, 2020 | 05:59 PM
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Welcome! Let’s see what ya got!
Old Oct 29, 2020 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by MuchNeededAdvice
Talk about neighbors... 😎 I am about 56 miles from you. I read through these forums just about every day. I have a ‘66 4 door project that is stalled out at the moment. Welcome aboard, and post some pIctures.
where are you?


Old Oct 29, 2020 | 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MuchNeededAdvice
Talk about neighbors... 😎 I am about 56 miles from you. I read through these forums just about every day. I have a ‘66 4 door project that is stalled out at the moment. Welcome aboard, and post some pIctures.
where are you?



Old Oct 30, 2020 | 04:16 AM
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where are you?

I am in Eure Nc. That is in Gates County. I am 12 miles from Ahoskie.
Old Oct 30, 2020 | 05:00 AM
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Good Looking car! Welcome to the site!
Old Oct 30, 2020 | 07:23 AM
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Good Looking car! Welcome to the site!
Thank you. I appreciate it.
I was worried about the color, but I'm fine with it.
Old Oct 30, 2020 | 10:05 AM
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Welcome! Nice looking '68 'vert, my favorite year. Interesting combo w/ column shift, buckets and console. What's under the hood? Is that your collection / museum in the background?
Old Oct 30, 2020 | 11:01 AM
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Welcome! Nice looking '68 'vert, my favorite year. Interesting combo w/ column shift, buckets and console. What's under the hood? Is that your collection / museum in the background?
Oh no, I wish it was my collection! It's was the photograph the dealer used in the online ad. I'm finding it's a bit of a unicorn. Yes, original bucket seats, column shift, 350 4 barrel, 2 speed ST-300 transmission. Everything is all original except one repaint with factory color and swapped rims. The console is out of a 71 with incorrect insert. I've got an original insert on the way. The build sheet came with the car.

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Old Oct 30, 2020 | 12:29 PM
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Very nice, congrats and welcome aboard.
Old Oct 30, 2020 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 69CSHC
Very nice, congrats and welcome aboard.
Thank you!
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 07:02 AM
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Just spent a little time on the phone with Mr Jay Cutler... He is a decent guy with good conversation. Nice to have good neighbors.😎
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 10:03 AM
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Welcome to the site, it has been tremendously helpful to me. I'm in Asheville and there is a Smokey Mountain Club that gets together a few times a year, you may want to check it out.

Steve W.
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 10:32 AM
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Willow Gold all nice and shiny is a nice color and easy to live with. Looks good on all 68 GM carlines and body styles but especially on higher trim level cars.

And whether you like it or not, it beats the hell out of white, silver or charcoal. Chrysler has an especially heinous gray out now. Looks like a battleship and seems about half the newer Challengers and RAM pickups around here are that gawdawful color.

I think these awful modern car colors and esp interiors are part of why the US is so depressed and divided. When all you see are depressing and bleh white, gray and silver, it's like a spate of gray rainy dreary days. Makes ya crazy...
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 10:56 AM
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The 68 looks great, really nice shape, I'm sure you will enjoy driving it, as opposed to spending far more time working on it than driving it.
I agree, I don't get the "Battleship Gray" and there is a few others out there that will be looked back upon as ugly for many years. Then one day some of them will come back, maybe.

Steve W.
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 10:57 AM
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I'm curious, do they make a blank out plate for the console? In the event you want to leave the shifter on the column?

Steve W.
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Phoenix8990
Welcome to the site, it has been tremendously helpful to me. I'm in Asheville and there is a Smokey Mountain Club that gets together a few times a year, you may want to check it out.

Steve W.
Perfect, thank you.
Old Oct 31, 2020 | 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rocketraider
Willow Gold all nice and shiny is a nice color and easy to live with. Looks good on all 68 GM carlines and body styles but especially on higher trim level cars.

And whether you like it or not, it beats the hell out of white, silver or charcoal. Chrysler has an especially heinous gray out now. Looks like a battleship and seems about half the newer Challengers and RAM pickups around here are that gawdawful color.

I think these awful modern car colors and esp interiors are part of why the US is so depressed and divided. When all you see are depressing and bleh white, gray and silver, it's like a spate of gray rainy dreary days. Makes ya crazy...

Thank you, this was just a few hours ago.
Old Nov 2, 2020 | 02:24 PM
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Welcome! Holding down the clay just west of Charlotte.
Old Nov 2, 2020 | 02:51 PM
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Welcome! Holding down the clay just west of Charlotte.
love it! '63?
Old Nov 2, 2020 | 07:11 PM
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Love the 68 Cutlass. Such smooth lines!
Old Nov 2, 2020 | 07:49 PM
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Love the 68 Cutlass. Such smooth lines!
Thanks, so do I.
Old Nov 3, 2020 | 05:13 AM
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Beautiful car. I really like those chrome SSIII's as well. You can probably sell that 70-72 console and make enough to buy a 68 console and shifter

My 68 with the same wheels:



Old Nov 3, 2020 | 06:11 AM
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[QUOTE=allyolds68;1291015]Beautiful car. I really like those chrome SSIII's as well. You can probably sell that 70-72 console and make enough to buy a 68 console and shifter

My 68 with the same wheels:


Beautiful!
Old Nov 3, 2020 | 06:39 AM
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'64. 34k miles. A storage barn find, bid and drive-away

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