1/3/2024 0 Comments Rust bros cars![]() The full-size Pontiac Parisienne (Canada's B-platform, top-of-line sedan with vague links to both the Bonneville and the Chevrolet Caprice, only … different) is also represented. Sprouted from the forehead of the Acadian-Canada's maple-coated Chevy II-Beaumonts were intended to tickle the premium fancies of the moderately well-to-do, becoming their own model line in 1966 and even offering big block power in Sport Deluxe trim (which also featured full consoles and bucket seats), making them kissing cousins to the Chevelle SS. Mixed in with the Dodge and Plymouth crew are Javelins, AMXs, and a gang of Pontiac Beaumont Sport Deluxes, with the latter never having been offered south of the border. Right outside the museum's side-door is the highway-facing lot that houses the attention-grabbers in the collection, the cars that cause people to pull over, pull in, and start kicking tires. This Canada-by-way-of-Australia-only specimen is one of over a dozen Canuck-specific cars in the collection. ![]() Most were Fords, but somehow, this one's a Merc, and I'll never see another one in my lifetime. Originally built in Canada as a coupe, and shipped Down Under to be finished, at the time the pickup bed at the back of the Ute was the largest automotive stamping in the world. Mike Hall Rust Valley Restorers Mike is cast in the Rust Valley Restores series which was released on December 6, 2018, on History Channel, and on August 23rd, 2019 on Netflix. I see an Alpine, Chevies, rods, a Model T, but the real show-stopper is a 1946 Mercury Ute-probably the only one in the country, and perhaps the only example left in North America. He wants to take me inside and show me some of his finished projects, which are mixed in on the floor with cars belonging to the White Post's owners, Vance and Keri Tierney. ![]() ![]() "I've got another one of these Sport Satellite rags, a numbers-matching '60 Road Runner 383 four-speed, two '70 Super Bees, a '70 Coronet wagon, a '67 Formula S, a few Demons, and a Duster 340 four-speed Go-Wing car, although that one's just a shell," he tells me as we walk down the dirt road from the overflow paddock to the museum. The Mopar angle has lead him to some interesting places, with a number of low-production Dodges and Plymouths now haunting the grounds. ![]()
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