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The lowest number shown on the C2 Registry is #109. It's not likely the first since they only have 2.5% of the 1966 cars registered.
My #69 a 327/300 is the third one listed.
My #69 a 327/300 is the third one listed.
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It must have been awful embarrassing for Chevrolet to get beat by a lowly Tempest with a rubber band for a drive shaft and a PowerGlide transmission. 
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For 1963, The 427 engine was not an option that one could go down to the dealer and check off.
The big-block originally nesting in their engine bays was not any sort of production big-block but was what’s known as a Mystery Motor, one of maybe 50 (50, no typo) Mark IIS prototype engines produced in the development of what eventually became the 396ci/427ci/454ci Chevrolet big-block.
The big-block originally nesting in their engine bays was not any sort of production big-block but was what’s known as a Mystery Motor, one of maybe 50 (50, no typo) Mark IIS prototype engines produced in the development of what eventually became the 396ci/427ci/454ci Chevrolet big-block.
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I'd nominate '65 Convertible #003, formerly owned by Jack Pringle of MI and now residing in OK. Appeared at the 1985 National in Boston wearing one of its one-off Mark IV fender emblems (left the other at home in case something happened en route).
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Those Tempests were possibly the baddest cars to come out of Detroit in that era.
They never seem to get their due respect.
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.............Pontiac built some very competitive cars in that era. Here is a good article on that car.http://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/t...t-sports-cars/