New member from portugal-1965 wildcat

[sabrerattler7]

I can see you will need a sheet metal part I found online. The panel at the top of the trunk lid and bottom of rear window is available as an Impala part (1965 Sport coupe) see either Impala Bob or Auto metal direct. Doesn't solve the fender problem but goes weld seam to seam.

[Diogo Soares]

The top of the car must be repaired by a good professional.
The floor panels, wich i think they have to be all repalced (when i get the car in home i will evaluate this), i will try to order this from USA.
I've seen the site www.c2cfabrication.com and they have all the floor panels, except trunk. May be a possibility.
I'n open to ideias...

Regards,

Diogo

[Diogo Soares]

In 1965 there is no reason to associate a metric speedometer with Canada. Canada did its metric thing in the late '70s. Until then it was inches, feet, miles, gallons (be it imperial gallons). Like the US, most of the population did not want the metric system, but Trudeau's bunch and a few others had the power to change everything. The US started putting Kms on the speedometers at the same time as Canada did its thing.

It would be nice to see a close up picture of the speedometer.

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Finally the car is in my home!
here the picture of the speedo.
the car is not a export version and was not manufactured in Canadá.
it was sold new in new york and bought to portugal by an american lawyer in 1970.
but the car keys are Canadá made...
later i Will put more pictures

[TODD]

Possibly the km/h scale is just an overlay pasted over the original 0-120 mph scale? The outer white hash marks align with the marks every 5 mph on an English-units speedometer.

It it would be interesting to see how it records distance traveled-- in km or mi. An original USA speedometer would still record mileage driven in miles even with a different speed scale. That would mean the odometer is showing 43595 miles traveled.