Ted "Wildcat65" Nagel

Steve= I have a few 65 delco and bendix cores...probably not as many as Greg!

Dang Pete, I bought mine for way too much! I've put resonators back on all Wildcat exhausts. I want factory quiet on them. Plenty of loud cars in my garage too. T

Matt, I love your advertising and the cars you present in your format. Please continue this practice.

Just for fun here is the 8.45 spare from my 67.

The 8.85 was an option for the 65 Wildcat. 8.45 blackwall was standard like the Riv. It says right on the tire Replaces 7.60!

65...I need to read the judges manual myself but I thought the closest size to what would have been stock - or something like that -would be no deduction. So what size WW stripe on the 65?

What would you think of these Royalton bias ply 1" WW for a Riv? What is the correct width for the WW? https://www.lucasclassictires.com/H78-15-Royalton-1-WW-H78151.htm

Worked on brakes Monday. The last spring did not go on right. I should know better than to assemble by memory!

TTT Just felt like resurrecting the oldest thread I could find just to be annoying. I have not changed much in 17 years....

Special wagon Time. Yeah, its got 455 Stage 1 power.

I have a second 68 "in the wings" as a project. Let the pictures do the talking... I've got the engine ready to build, pistons going in next.

I was thinking it may be from a 65/66 GS chrome package, but your theory is also plausible. Nice find either way.

The more I look, the more Wildcat parts I see- tail panel & grill in the rafters, tail light in a box, oil pan, rocker cover and trans cover in the back of the shop, fender trim in the back seat of the Skylark- treasure hunt for sure. Tim- did you find the seats? I'm digging the lightweight rig.

Ok, I'm in with my 68. 67,000 miles last night driving home from garage band practice. Oil changed and engine cleaned up Sunday, so it is looking and running well. Also testing the Motor Wheel Spyders that will eventually be on a 69.

On the way to Charlotte 2012:

Greetings good people! I think I will drive a 68 to Denver to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of that model year. My first car was a 68 Skylark convertible that I fixed up when I was 16. Now there are 3 68's in and around my garage. 1 is the GS400 coupe, featuring Arctic White, Black vinyl top and Black vinyl bench seat interior. Automatic transmission, column shift, 2.93:1 posi. There was a guy named David Roth that seemed to find, fix and resell 68 and 69 GS400 cars, and this was one he did. He had sold it to a guy in Minnesota named Chris, who wanted to have a car to modify. He could not bring himself to do this deed to this car, so he sold it to me. I think it was the standard hubcaps in the glamour picture from David Roth that "got me", it just looked perfect with those hubcaps. Of course the first thing I did wa to try out various wheel and tire configurations :). Torque Thrusts, then DG disc brake wheels, then dog dish hubcaps, then the ubiquitous 15" road wheels that were available...with BFG blackwall out! I've been running that way since 2012 whe I drove the car to Charlotte for the BCA National Show there, where it took Silver. Not bad for a great driver car!

It is a perfect description, I had to laugh when I saw it...so true especially wen it comes to the 3 pedal Wildcats.

No plan to do that, still in my aggressive collector hands. 43:11 !

SMS made the silver headliner for my 65 Skylark. Excellent product IMHO. https://smsautofabrics.com/collections/1965-buick/model-riviera-custom-sport-coupe

67 Wildcat

Hi Teich! I am more that interested in the red Wildcat. Please contact me if you are interested in selling. Thank you, Ted

430 Wildcat Power!

Not to argue any particular point but I was amazed when seeing a 1938 Cadillac V-16 5-passenger next to my 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. I assumed the V-16 would be longer...wrong. Stats - '38 141" wheelbase but 222" length... '66 rolls on a 133" wheelbase..w/...227.5 length. Welcome to the forum Stangslayerws6! Ted

The others are not engine bolts - they look like grill fasteners- those weird threads look like the type that would thread into plastic grill.