My name is Stephen Landon, and am the owner of a 66' Belvedere II
convertible. Daffodil yellow, with a really nice 318poly. You get to see how awesome your car will look with those "cop wheels" you picked up. I picked up mine for $150 including mint hubcaps, and they turned out to be not the 15x7 copwheels, but the visually identical 15x8 supercoupe wheels. What a deal!
So, as of right now, my ride is on those supercoupe 15x8s with p235/60r15
bfg TA's all around. It looks MEAN! They are painted body color, and have
the stock dog dish hubcaps. You cannot believe how much these things help
your handling/stopping. Now only for the disk brake swap.
Someone once gave me the idea of dropping in a 400 cid motor, with the 440
crank (the old 451 cube short deck block dealy) and I think that's really
cool? The reason I like it, is 'cause in '66 they never
offered the RB engines, only the B engine, the 383. And as long as I make
sure it looks stock, who will know? Also, I have located manual conversion
transmission humps, cause I wanna install a fourspeed in place of my three
on the tree. (I am gonna have to
install sub frame connectors for sure if I install that big block though)
HMMM, what else?
On other subjects, my convertible top latches are both broke, so I have to
shimmy them in there when I need to fasten the top, very unattractive, if i
do say so. If you have a line on stuff like that, please let me know. That
is one of my cosmetic fixes I am working on fixing by the C.A.S.H. method.
It has lots of rust, but not visually so. I never realized how bad North
Carolina cars where, till I moved here, and saw all my friends cars rusting
away. While in storage in Chicago, my car has begun to show bondo cracks,
and I am gonna have to put some money away to have new sheetmetal grafted on
sometime, and a new paint job. Its not a basket case by any means though...
Just somethin I need to throw some money at, or spend the time to learn how
to do all this metalwork stuff.
Bought the car for $6,500, and has givin me no probs, aside from a broken
valvespring, and some self adjusting (they weren't supposed to) pushrods.
Car has never abandoned me, was driven to Chicago by my best friend on four
cylinders, found out that it was the pushrods mentioned above that caused
it, don't know how it happened... Car is fixed now, has somewhere around 122
thousand miles on it, and I personally put on about thirty in the past two
years. (woulda been more, but I have been overseas for about 9 months of
that time ).
Basically, I am just about the same place with my car, that you are with
yours. Abused the piss outta it, and now you wanna pay it back, and treat it
right.
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