How's it going? My name is Jason, from North Iowa. I bought a 1967 Newport last summer and hoping to fix it up a little. Hopefully I came to right place for advise.
Rear wheel drive and carburetors are a whole new thing to me now...but I've wanted an old car like this ever since I was 15 years old. I'm 33 now and I figure, what the heck. I've been messing with Hondas for a while so I know how to use a wrench but I think I'm gonna need some help with this Newport.
I went down to Topeka, KS to pick it up...what a long drive there and back. Ran out of gas on the way down in my GF's car and on the way back the power steering went out in the Newport.
It's a base model with 383 and 2 barrel carb. Single exhaust. AC (not working). AM radio (not working). 33,000 on the odometer and the previous owner was pretty sure that's true, I doubt him though. Speedo is incorrect, says 70 when im going 50 and the fuel gauge has only ever reached the halfway mark.
The body is kind of rough but doesn't bother me. It does have hail damage though too, and I would like that fixed somehow, I've heard that it's very difficult on these old cars. The only other thing to the outer appearance I want to change is a set of Pacer Supremes with a fat white wall.
But for now I really just want it to be reliable but also a little more power would be fun. For some reason the teenager in me wants to do sweet burnouts. As I said earlier, I drive Hondas, so I've never gone through that burnout phase.
Aside from all that, I enjoy my Accord very much as well as playing guitar and writing songs, writing jokes, playing video games. Fixing and repairing just about anything. Household projects and tinkering with electronics...
My day job consists of mobile electronic installations, mostly police cars. And I'd hate to say it, but the new Ford Sedan Interceptor beats the Charger IMO.
Rear wheel drive and carburetors are a whole new thing to me now...but I've wanted an old car like this ever since I was 15 years old. I'm 33 now and I figure, what the heck. I've been messing with Hondas for a while so I know how to use a wrench but I think I'm gonna need some help with this Newport.
I went down to Topeka, KS to pick it up...what a long drive there and back. Ran out of gas on the way down in my GF's car and on the way back the power steering went out in the Newport.
It's a base model with 383 and 2 barrel carb. Single exhaust. AC (not working). AM radio (not working). 33,000 on the odometer and the previous owner was pretty sure that's true, I doubt him though. Speedo is incorrect, says 70 when im going 50 and the fuel gauge has only ever reached the halfway mark.
The body is kind of rough but doesn't bother me. It does have hail damage though too, and I would like that fixed somehow, I've heard that it's very difficult on these old cars. The only other thing to the outer appearance I want to change is a set of Pacer Supremes with a fat white wall.
But for now I really just want it to be reliable but also a little more power would be fun. For some reason the teenager in me wants to do sweet burnouts. As I said earlier, I drive Hondas, so I've never gone through that burnout phase.
Aside from all that, I enjoy my Accord very much as well as playing guitar and writing songs, writing jokes, playing video games. Fixing and repairing just about anything. Household projects and tinkering with electronics...
My day job consists of mobile electronic installations, mostly police cars. And I'd hate to say it, but the new Ford Sedan Interceptor beats the Charger IMO.
