Ed Luddy

I've ranted to many of my friends about the real lack of color available for the last decade. Seems that it matters little to most people. But my friends in the used car business pay a good premium for brighter shades of orange, red, burgundy, green and yellow. They stand out and sell better I'm told, and bring more money that the sea of black, white and gray tones on most lots. The only new car purchase I've made in the last 25 years was a GoManGo metallic orange Dodge Charger Daytona in Oct. 2005. Now I seem to have nothing but blah gray and black. I sold it 6 years ago. This is a Dodge brochure picture until I can go thru my files, but exact color scheme.

A/C is a must for me in S-W Ontario Canada in the summer. With 90 degree F days with 90+ humidity driving a big block 4 speed manual shift with stick to 'em vinyl seats it would hardly ever be driven without A/C. The car above would look better in the original code 11 Cameo White to me also.

BaT auction for this states sold at $17,000 USD for us Canucks that equates to approx $21,400. Almost 4x what I got.

Very nice T/A. Bought in April last year, being flipped for $$, so they likely want $70's or at least 60's. The market is full of hype, so maybe it will happen? I'm betting a no sale.

Or have left handed threads on the lugs

A good possibility is that it was built in Windsor Ontario Canada as a CKD (complete knock down) kit. British Commonwealth built cars didn't have the high tariffs between countries as USA built cars did.

So today I open my email and see this T & C for sale on BaT at almost triple the price of mine. Definitely in nicer shape, but a lot of money! No Reserve: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country Wagon for sale on BaT Auctions - ending February 21 (Lot #66,382) | Bring a Trailer

This style of wheel..

The only minor snag was the rear tires were almost flat when I went to get it out of the storage garage. The factory fake wire hubcaps were interfering with the valve stems so I had to wrestle with them. I left them in the rear compartment. Heavy, ugly wheel discs that are prone to rattling, but as Iacocca stated the customers loved 'em! Not I, but I wasn't a buyer when they were new. Much prefer the alloy wheels a'la the 1982 Imperial or Dodge Mirada

Decided to list my 1980 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country up for sale. A serious buyer from Montreal Quebec made me a decent offer if the car was in roadworthy condition. My reply was yes it was roadworthy and could make the 7-8 hour drive IF the weather was co-operative. So last week one day before a major winter freezing rain/snow storm I headed out to meet halfway, in eastern Ontario. I live in Southwestern Ontario and agreed to make a 4 hour run. This car has been in storage for over 20 years, but I did have a lot of work done to it over the last 2 years. It had made a few 30 minute trips locally, not without hiccups that had been fixed. It performed flawlessly despite all the naysayers who thought I was crazy for doing the trek. The buyer had to delay until Friday in the midst of the storm so he opted for a trailering for his half of the trip without snow tires. I used the major highways, 401 and 407 roads, some of the busiest roads in North America. Not my favourite choice, but a lot of the secondary roads had lots of slush and snow. Keeping it around 105 kilometers per hour it ran smoothly and sure got a lot of looks, waves, and honks. My brother lives in eastern Ontario and agreed to finish up the deal for me as I wanted to get back before it got too nasty out. I was able to catch the train( 2 trains actually) to get me me home as the sleet and snow was pounding down. Would I do it over again?? Yes!!

Come on up there's still a few decent Canadian Pontiac's, Meteor's and Plodge's ( Dodge with Plymouth sheetmetal built in Windsor Ontario) The Canada only Meteor's were built at the Oakville Ford plant. With the Canuck buck at .78 cents USA dollar there's deals to be had.

These were built in Oshawa Ontario. The same as the Chevrolet Bel Air. The Chevy got the 235 OHV engine in 54. The Canadian Pontiac got the flathead 239 engine. I know they both had torque tube driveshafts. No idea which was the better performer but the Pontiac had more trim.

Great looking Plymouth Woodie!

Good looking "Rebody" Interesting story and history. $110,000 CDN funds. Expensive and not mine https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/city-of-toronto/1937-rolls-royce-25-30-sedanca/1603223137

It's a cool car in triple orange, but a bit too loud for my tastes and overpriced for the market.

In this shade of paint "Wimbledon White" it shows the Lincoln influence on L-M hardtop sedans of the 60's. Boxy slab sided, but I mean that in a good way. Minimalist approach when compared to the same models of 7 years earlier.

Makes it look like a cheap beater IMO

That's a great looking car the way it sits. As it is well beyond my price range all I can do is drool!

Yes he's 73. He wanted a 6 cylinder for sure. The 3 speed B-W manual with working overdrive probably helped. It could have used the bigger 230 or even better. a 250 transplant! The 194 didn't have much power.

When I was selling my Hamilton Ontario Canada built 1966 Studebaker Commander I was getting little response and silly low ball offers. So after a few re postings of my ad got a call from a chap in Kingston Ontario area who runs a resto-rod shop. At first I wasn't too keen on dealing with a rod shop guy until he told me the whole story. He was inquiring about my car for a very specific reason. I kinda brushed him off at first because I knew my car wasn't sold in Canada when new. It was shipped to a dealer in Chicago. I had documents and pictures to prove that. I thought maybe he wanted to buy it on the cheap and do some mod's to it ala LS Chevy, etc. Turns out his client was a young lad of 17 back in 1966 who worked the assembly line at Studebaker Canada. He asked me if my car was an original 194 c.i. Chevrolet powered car which it was. We always called them "McKinnon's" as that's the St. Catherines Ontario plant that produced the engines sold to Studebaker. His client's family were Studebaker employee's for at least 2 generations and he worked with his uncle until the day the plant closed. Most of the line workers knew of the impending demise of the plant and moved on to other jobs, but he stuck with it til the end. He worked on the 6 cylinder line building the last of the cars and wanted to know the serial number of my car. When I sent the picture of the VIN plate and some other info he said for sure he worked on the line that built it and by that time it was a scrounging operation to find all the parts on a day to day basis! So he did buy it for a lot less than I had spent on it but that was too cool of a story to not sell it to him. I sure would like to see it back on the road some day. It was a running, driving car and I did get it go on the trailer under it's own power the day it left.

It's been to a few local showings around here in London Ontario. Home of Labatt's beer. Now part of some international conglomerate. The restoration was completed when it was still a Canadian owned company. It's a great looking unit!

I've read many mis-spellings of Edelbrock parts, carb, intakes, etc. The worst was yesterday in a local ad " Edsel brick" carb. Took me a few re reads to figure out what the person was trying to say!

1963-64 Chryslers don't have as large a following as the earlier models of Exner flair and styling. This is part of the "plucked chicken" downsized era cars, but I really like them. Grew up with a buddy who had a 64 300 and neighbours who had a 64 Windsor. Did a lot of cruising around in both of them. This is a bargain price on a great full size "muscle car". Pour some brake fluid in the cylinders, wait a few days then give it the breaker bar treatment. If only I could find one in Canada in that shape!

I have no clue to the market value on these cars. It's a good looking coupe though!