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                                                This is how she looks now

The original owner purchased it on the 23 Dec 1965 from Hubb Motors in Haney, British Columbia, Canada then sold her in the late '80's to the second owner Bud. He had started fixing her up but a new project ('71 Super-Bee) forced him to sell it to me

I purchased the Signet back in Feb '93 for 350 bucks. I am the third owner and have backtracked the complete history of this car. When I bought it, it ran on 5 cylinders but was still driveable. It came with a 225, the A904 column shift transmission and a normal 7 1/4" rearend ( which was swapped out with a suregrip from a 64 Valiant. The purpose of this car was to have something to tinker on. I never expected to get this car on the road, it was just something to fill up my idle time. The floorboards were holed, the quarters were shot and the front fenders were garbage. But it was a model I didnt see on the road anymore( considering the salt on the roads during the Canadian winters).The body lines were appealing. Bottom line is" I could'nt afford a musclecar and the price was right".

THE BODY
15 years later, doing a little bit at a time, the car has been totally redone. Its been painted to its original black (no clearcoat just straight enamel)with red interior , bumpers and taillights rechromed, and the stainless rebuffed. Desert Valley Auto Parts was a treasure trove of good trim parts. National Moparts for front fenders and all new body and window seals, gaskets, including the windshield lock strip. Autorust Technicians sent me new torsion bar frame mounts as mine had holes in them.

THE ENGINE: 225cu in (originally 145 hp, now aroung 230hp)
I rebuilt the engine last winter using a hot rod magazine article entitled "Slant Sickness"and a Hanes manual. The crank has been balanced and polished, new main bearings, head shaved .100", complete new external hardware kit from MMS & Accessories, Inc.. Clifford Performance provided the torquemonster cam, oversized valves, heavy duty springs with clips and retainers, lifters and pushrods, hyperpack intake and dual 3 into 1 ceramic coat headers and valve cover. Summit Racing provided the Lokar cable throttle and kickdown linkages(instead of the old pushrod bellcrank system), billet gas pedal and edelbrock 500cfm 4 bbl carb , The exhaust is custom made 2 1/2" with crossover under the forward frame and two cherry bombs (when I fire it up, it sounds like a cross between a Jaguar and a small block). This setup draws crowds at carshows (its a great ego booster). I eventually changed that to two flowmasters (easier on the ears and the cops). Larry at Cliffords was great and provided me with valuable information that helped me through my first major rebuild. Mancini Racing and Summit's turnaround time for parts were super fast (usually the following week). The underhood clearance issue was solved with a new drop base 14" aircleaner from summit . I still have to put in a dual mastercylinder for the brakes and make special mounts for the washer bottle as the hyperpack setup takes quite a bit of room.

The interior has been treated to the best from Legendary Auto Interiors (ordered from RPM in Saskatoon), new seatskins(front and back)with new front seat foams and a new headliner. Northern Moparts supplied interior side panels front and back and package tray (with factory looking speaker slots), they even had the arm rest bases and dash board rechromed. Laysons Restoration provided new carpet holddowns and sill plates also a lot of miscellaneous odds and ends.