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Pete66

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Hi there Grumpy!
Im from the land where we have a couple of summer-month a year, if we are lucky... Sweden.
And im restoring an Caprice 1966 that was a former dragrace car in the middle -70.

So, what a luck i found your site... with everything under "the same roof" !
Thank you very much for helping out with all this information, i know its a lot of work.

And the guy i buying my car-parts from here in Sweden is also a big Corvette fan, and even have a Corvette-Funny car.
So i gave him the the link to your forum...

Much regards
/Pete
 
thank you!
the more members we have that post ,
the more info will be available to learn from for all the members to look thru.

do you have pictures you can post of your car?
 
From the subject line it looks like you are from Connecticut, but you are living in Sweden ???

Anyways welcome to the forum. Hope you can post some pics of your project.
 
Indycars,
Oh... i see what you mean by "CT", did not now that...
Yes, i mean Chevy Talk.

Grumpy,
I have an old picture here...

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Regards
/Pete
 
Randy_W said:
I think he means Chevy Talk. ;)
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Sometimes I'm not as quick as I would like ! Thanks Randy it appears that you are right !
 

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Pete66 said:
Indycars,
Oh... i see what you mean by "CT", did not now that...
Yes, i mean Chevy Talk.

Grumpy,
I have an old picture here...

img_1.jpg


Regards
/Pete
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nice car!
lots of guys overlook the benefits of those older big chevys, but there much easier to work on and more comfortable to drive than many of the smaller chevys......ID love to find something like that in decent shape with a decent body to have as a project. most guys realize that those cars weight a great deal and take a good bit more hp to make them fast, but you usually spend 99% of your time driving not racing with a street car so it makes a bit more practical sense to build your car to be more drivable and its a good deal more fun to work on when you can actually get access to the parts , which you can do on that car vs some of the far smaller engine compartments that most of us are stuck working with.
one of my friends had a 1968 impala 2 door with a 325hp396 that hes always telling me he regrets having sold
 
Thanks guys,
The car looked just like this when i got it in 2004, and there is no rust what so ever.
Now it's got a 427, and TH400 with maual valvebody and ratchet shifter.
The car was shipped from Canada and sold in Sweden as new in -66, with a 396 and 4 speed.

Sorry to say the rebuild of the car was not in top quality, so i have to remake everything that was modifyed.
I had to stop driving the car in 2005, cause the electrical system was falling apart... making it stalling in traffic.

Regards
/Pete
 
Do you typically pay more or less for US manufacturer's car like that in Europe
than you would pay here in the US ???

BTW, my wife had one of those when she was single and before I new her. Her's had a 283 cu in. motor.
 
Indycars,
If we look at prices for a new car sold here in sweden from... around 1970, i think we had to pay double as much as you guys.
And if we look att the newer 91-96 model i'v seen them go for 1500$-2000$ in US, you can double that or tripple... or more.

Im looking right now on swedish site, lets see...
Caprice -81 Wagon: 4,500$
Caprice -68 Wagon: 29,000$
Caprice -69 2D HT: 24,000$
Caprice -73 Cab: 25,000$
Caprice -91: 4,600$
Impala -65: 25,000$

Regards
/Pete
 
Pete66 said:
Indycars,
If we look at prices for a new car sold here in sweden from... around 1970, i think we had to pay double as much as you guys.
And if we look att the newer 91-96 model i'v seen them go for 1500$-2000$ in US, you can double that or tripple... or more.

Im looking right now on swedish site, lets see...
Caprice -81 Wagon: 4,500$
Caprice -68 Wagon: 29,000$
Caprice -69 2D HT: 24,000$
Caprice -73 Cab: 25,000$
Caprice -91: 4,600$
Impala -65: 25,000$

Regards
/Pete
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Interesting, I wonder if it's the shipping or just the demand for the few cars that are available. I have a
1985 Chevy Caprice that I bought with 34,000 miles. Paid $3400 for the car and it's time to let someone else
have it. What does UPS charge to ship to Sweden, I will split the profits with you! :D
 
Hehe... well, thats the tricky bit of it...
If i buy the car from you, it will cost me twice a much when its ready to run on the street over here.
The goverment is very greedy... the must punish every atempt to make a profit for the common citizen.
If you want 10k, my price is 20k. on the road, aprox.
The freight is the cheap part of it, then we start talking tax and duty and... so on.

Regards
/Pete
 
Government interference, gotta love it. If they left free enterprise alone, world hunger and war would cease to exist in 20-30 years, but hey, they know what we need, not us. :roll:
 
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