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This beautiful example of body-style #4267 belongs to Bev Wetherbee, who bought this car from her uncle when it was two years old. It's a 1971 convertible that her uncle bought new in Denver.
The car really is an SX but the fender emblems are sitting in a box in the basement for now. It's been re-fendered and re-painted the original Lime Green, but that's about all that's been done to it. It was painted about ten years ago and put it in dry storage about four years after that. Bev is going to get it out this fall of 1999 and try to pull off a complete mechanical restoration during the coming winter and spring.
It has about 127,000 original miles on it, and other than a stripped timing gear and timing chain that was replaced @ 115,000 miles, the engine has never been opened up. It has the Pearl seats, boot, and door panels with Black carpet, dash, and full console w/floor shift. The 455 still ran strong when it was put away, but it was starting to get a rear main leak (three or four drops of oil off the back of the engine when it was shut off), and the under hood wiring was starting to develop gremlins (result of high under hood temps for twenty years?) so it was safer to put it away for awhile.
About 99% of the people that ask "What kind of old car that is under the cover?" have never heard of an SX, so you tell them "It's a Cutlass with a giant engine" and they ask "Oh you mean like a 442?" and you say "Ya...something like that.
