Back in the mid-60s when I was knee high to a grasshopper I saw a copy of that car with the 421, just once. IIRC it was called a "2+2"?
Belonged to my (now deceased) sister's girlfriend's pa.
That car was single handedly responsible for firing my imagination in such a way I turned out a piston-head for the rest of my life. That'd be some time. LOL
Whatta ride. ;^)
Hello Brother Landru!
I regret to say my Catalina was only 389 powered, although I indeed lusted to find a 421 Super Duty, but to no avail.
I’ve always loved those 65/66/67 fastback full-size Pontiacs, they were the epitome of ‘sleek’, looked fast even when sitting still.
The slickest one I ever saw was a ‘65 (2+2 maybe?) Bonneville, the owner pulled out a dead 389 (they were notorious for munching themselves because they had only cast steel connecting rods, instead of forged steel), and in it’s place he somehow shoehorned in a 472 Cadillac and the torque was so massive that he had to install a more durable rear axle, I’m thinking it might have been a Dana 60, but not sure. I know one thing: he could have smoked the tires down to the rims if he had been so inclined, even the bone stock Caddy in that lighter Pontiac body would turn 14.0 in the quarter mile all day long without breaking a sweat, it was one powerful street beast.