picked up a 73 ventura 2 door , 49k original miles , elderly woman owned it until she passed away in 1994 , been off the road since.
pretty solid car .
as you can see in the pics it has a dent in the pass 1/4 panel and it has a few isolated rust issues - the rear filler/tail panel is rusty and the drivers floor pan where aparently a plastic gallon bottle had been sitting since it was parked and degraded until it leaked and took out the floor in about a 6-8 inch area. the rest of the floors are good , the trunk floor, lower quarters , rear subframe , rockers , are all excelllent.
rear tail panel , nose , bumpers can make this body a 68-72 nova clone too but the nose is pretty darn nice hmmm.
car is a manual drum brakes ,radio delete , rubber floors ,poverty hubcap stripper with a 250 inline/straight 6 and a powerglide. guy I got it from claimed to have someone that would give him $800 for the 6 banger & trans but I will believe that when I see it lol ( yes I asked for the guys number or give him mine)
dont ask me what I am going to do with it cause I dont know ha ha park it with the rest for now of course if someone wants to throw me $3,000 for it as is I would part with it otherwise I will collect parts it needs... gotta grab a sbc from a buddy that could end up in it , got a couple 15x8 vette style rallys , anybody got a couple more 15x 7 or 15x8 ???
thanks for thinking of me on the wheels but I just picked up a couple more rally wheels today and finally took it off the trailer and gave it a bath - it is not as nice as it looks in these pics and I need to get tires mounted on my other rallys for the other side but its always nice to do this to see the potential a car has to look decent - this is what I saw when I bought it lol
early 70s movie with roy scheider (cop in jaws) as a cop who gets in a good cops & robbers chase driving a Ventura- 73 or 74 .Along the Bullitt or French Connection idea . You Tube search seven ups car chase will get you there.
-- Edited by pldmalibu on Friday 3rd of February 2012 04:59:37 PM
Real car chases on real streets .Not that CG bullshit they try to pawn off as action today. The original Gone In 60 Seconds is a masterpiece done on a low budget buy a handfull of car guys.
thanks for taking the time to link , but 68-72 quarters mate up to a different roofline , rear glass , interior panels etc... the nose from a 68-72 nova will bolt right on which is what happens to a lot of restorable venturas - they get turned into nova's
I am historically a chevy guy but am trying to resist the urgeto make a nova clone because A. the ventura nose in in good shape , B the tall tail panel on 73/74 novas & venturas looks better to me with the stacked thin tail lights of the ventura C. as mentioned you dont see many of them around and I like its overall exterior appearance including color.
last weekend I picked up a set of wheels for one of my Z's and the guy I got them from had said of all the cars he had them on they looked best on his 70 nova so I threw them on the ventura temporarily , drop the nose a bit and shrink the bumpers and I would really be diggin it:
-- Edited by murphinator on Tuesday 28th of February 2012 06:54:10 PM
Imports are like tampons every pussy has one!
