Here are some belated uploads by canadiancatgreen that recently showed up at the CC Cohort. Clearly, all were taken during last winter. Now, if you must know, it’s 90-degree weather outside my home as I type this. So, with summer in full mode, a short virtual escape to frozen lands is welcomed.
For today, our junkyard tour will include GM and Ford metal mostly from the ’70s & ’80s. There is at least one ’60s entry and one ’90s model as well. However, the 1990 model is clearly rooted in the ’80s.
We’ll start with the ’66 Chevrolet Impala above.
Now, this Corvette –or what’s left of it– could be either from the ’60s or ’70s. Care to take a guess?
A mid-’70s Eldorado, in period correct color.
Another full-size Chevrolet, an early sample from the long-running downsized ’77-’90 generation.
Let’s move on to some PLC action with this 3rd gen Oldsmobile Toronado…
… and this mid-80s Buick Regal.
First Dearborn product of this post, a mid-80s Mercury Marquis.
How does that ’80s Marquis compare with this one from 1991? Any preferences?
Back to GM metal with this Pontiac from the late ’70s.
The final GM product for this post, a 1989 Cadillac.
And we’ll close with a first-gen Ford Taurus. A once upon a time common car, now nearly extinct.
Fun stuff! That Regal looks better now than my father’s did in the early 90’s.
I believe canadiancatgreen is based in Edmonton, Alberta. It might have been interesting to note the contrast between these winter pics and Edmonton’s weather this week. The city hit a record daytime high of 36.2 C (97.16°F). With records dating back to 1880.
The Bonneville in Canada, at least during this era, were called Parisienne.
Whitewall tires on any Taurus is a faux pas. I am impressed the Regal maintained it’s metallic blue so well. All these cars, with the exception of the ‘Vette, look like they were leading comfortable lives, well into the 2000’s.
Bittersweet feelings seeing the lede shot of the ‘66 Impala. Am I seeing things or did the yard write “1974 Chevrolet Chevelle” on the C pillar?
I’m no Corvette expert, but I’m getting a C4 vibe from that heap. The rear axle is throwing me off, though. Looks like a solid axle, but with disc brakes? Possibly a transverse leaf spring or just a wayward one from a different vehicle?
The late model box Panther Mercury would be my pick between the two. Mainly because I think the styling is better, but the factory probably had the fuel injection sorted out fairly well by then. A good friend from work had an ‘88 Crown Vic that I enjoyed riding in.
That is a C2/3 IRS on the Corvette skeleton.
Yes, in the original cohort photo is easier to see the yard people labeled the Chevrolet as a 1974 model.
The chrome “bars” on the taillights means that 66 Chevy is a Caprice, not an Impala.
Yes, that’s right. It’s updated now.
Actually, it is a ’66 Impala that has taillight covers from a ’66 Caprice. The semi-fastback hardtop “Sport Coupe” body-style was only available on the Impala. 1966 Caprices were available with the more formal-looking notchback hardtop “Custom Coupe,” the 4-door hardtop”Custom Sedan,” or the station wagon bodystyles.
Here’s a link to the 1966 full-sized Chevrolet sales brochure at the “Old Car Brochures” website: https://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chevrolet/1966_Chevrolet/1966_Chevrolet_Full_Size_Brochure/dirindex.html#google_vignette
It’s a great website, by the way. I have it bookmarked and I probably go and look at it at least a couple of times every month.
Ah, that explains it and it’s so obvious now that you point it out. A simple taillight cover swap.
It pains me to look at rust buckets and remember all the oldies ruined by salt when I lived Down East .
-Nate
That looks like a 77 or 78 Eldorado, you can tell by the rear bumper. I would have pulled a couple of wheels and I also would have wanted the engine/trans and final drive out of it…
Might be A 66 Impala Super Sport. one could order the caprice taillights on a SS. Definitely not a Caprice, Caprice had a more formal notchback roof in 66. The impala and SS had the semi fastback corporate roofline.
That 77-90 brown Chev looks to be a 1977-79 Gen 1 version. They changed the taillights to a larger shape in 1980.
The Corvette looks like a burn job. The door intrusion beams make it a 70’s model.
Just “sad ” to see.. Hopefully, parts are keeping other rides going.
The first car is actually a Caprice. You can tell by the tail lights and the roof line. I had one as my first car many years ago.
No it is an Impala with Caprice tail lights because Caprice did not come in that fastback body style but it came with a formal roof line.