'69 Grand Prix, #s 400/4-sp, Silver over Blue

[scuncio]

Beautiful car with the rare 4-speed, in a stunning color combo. Love it.

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[Charley Lillard]

My Dad bought a 69 that color new but it had the smoother looking hubcaps. He would let me borrow it. I would flip the air cleaner lid over to hear that 4 bbl kick in and think I was going faster. I stripped the timing gears at 70,000 miles. What a great car.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by Charley Lillard

My Dad bought a 69 that color new but it had the smoother looking hubcaps. He would let me borrow it. I would flip the air cleaner lid over to hear that 4 bbl kick in and think I was going faster. I stripped the timing gears at 70,000 miles. What a great car.

You didn't have anything to do with the timing gears failing, Charlie. That plastic overlay on aluminum cam gear was guaranteed to fail. A few made it to 100k, but not many. Replaced dozens of those sets in the 70's.

[67since67]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

You didn't have anything to do with the timing gears failing, Charlie. That plastic overlay on aluminum cam gear was guaranteed to fail. A few made it to 100k, but not many. Replaced dozens of those sets in the 70's.

Like Mitch said Charlie, not your fault. I replaced gears in GTO's as low as 20K miles during my brief tenure at a Pontiac dealer in the '70s.

[grantprix]

Originally Posted by Charley Lillard

My Dad bought a 69 that color new but it had the smoother looking hubcaps. He would let me borrow it. I would flip the air cleaner lid over to hear that 4 bbl kick in and think I was going faster. I stripped the timing gears at 70,000 miles. What a great car.

Did that too. If it sounded faster, it was! LOL

[Too Many Projects]

Nice car, that silver on blue is a rare combo and nice to see, along with the 4 speed.

[Charley Lillard]

I know that but it broke when I was driving it and I drove it alot harder than my Dad. My Dad was pissed until the repair shop told him that was a normal occurrence at that mileage.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by Charley Lillard

I know that but it broke when I was driving it and I drove it alot harder than my Dad. My Dad was pissed until the repair shop told him that was a normal occurrence at that mileage.

My dad was like that too. If something I had used in the last month broke when he was using it, it MUST have been something I did to cause it...

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Charley Lillard

I know that but it broke when I was driving it and I drove it alot harder than my Dad. My Dad was pissed until the repair shop told him that was a normal occurrence at that mileage.

My dad was pretty good about that kind of thing.

I broke the Chevelle one time as a teenager (blew the front pump seal of the trans) and left it at the end of the driveway, hemorrhaging automatic transmission fluid into the street.

"I was driving it hard" I confessed, quietly.

After what seemed like a long pause he said "that's Ok. I drive it hard, too".

K

[Derek69SS]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

My dad was like that too. If something I had used in the last month broke when he was using it, it MUST have been something I did to cause it...

I think we're supposed to do that... makes it easier to shame the kid into helping fix it. Cale learned how to swap the transmission in our '01 Trans-Am this summer because it broke while he was driving it.

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

"I was driving it hard" I confessed, quietly.

After what seemed like a long pause he said "that's Ok. I drive it hard, too"

Me: "So, how hard were you beating on it when it broke?"
Cale: "Not any harder than Mom does."