Location – Oak Grove Oregon 97267
Contact email – 6cylinderboxer@gmail.com
This is a 1963 Chevrolet Greenbrier that we have been driving since 1998.
This van started off life in Tualitin Oregon as a deliver van for a aquatic pets supply store named “AQUAPETS”. So my childhood growing up in the 70s and 80s the AQUAPETS lettering was still visible on the driver and passenger doors. But unfortunately for the Aquapets business there was an accident where a car hit the van behind the drivers door and sometime, probably late 60s it went to a wrecking yard. My dad found it in the wrecking yard, and bought it as a “parts vehicle”, as he could best recall that was about 1969. By the early 70s the “parts vehicle” was “repaired” and I (having been born in the early 70s) grew up with this as a family mover van.
Around 1998 I needed a family mover van of my own, and my dad had still been holding on to “AQUAPETS” and let us take it on for what we needed. It has three rows of seats that now seat 8, and the front is sporting a factory folder seat (they are kinda rare btw)
The back has two rows that seat 6 and can be removed. The center seat, an updated seat with ancored seatbelts, was added to the van when we got it to be safer for our kids, as greenbrier seats are not made with seatbelts. The back seat is also designed to be quickly removeable, as a normal greenbrier seat, but with the seatbelts installed it is a bigger job. I tend to leave the back seat in at all costs if I can.
I built an engine for it, and installed it about the time of the odometer flip. So the engine has roughly 2000 miles on it. I tracked down the original crankcase for the van, which my father still had, so it has what it is supposed to have.
Engine type is a 1963, manual, 80 hp stock engine. I replaced the transmission in 2015.
