Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

I dunno..the docs supporting the mileage look fairly solid to me.
http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/bi.../2CIMG1638.JPG
It only showed 236 miles in September of '76. Doesn't look like Amelia strayed too far off of Wilshire. Neat ol' Chevelle for sure...even if there has been some fluffing. That's the closest I'll ever get to 1972.

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

should have worded it a little different just my personal thing..would like to see a motor left unpainted in low mile cars..the old it is what it is thing, dont get me started on photo shoots of nice cars and the drivers side floor mat is crooked and loaded with debri....lol

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

"This Chevelle has been a one owner, lady owned car for most of it's life."

If most of it's life meant till 1975..That pink is dated 76,and it's signed off in the SECOND owners name with an addy in Hartford CT..

"It was sold new at Hanson Chevrolet in Los Angeles, California to Amelia Zeiser who stored the car in a climate controlled warehouse on Wilshire Blvd since new"

LOL,That "climate controlled warehouse" is actually an apartment building with a humid subterranean parking garage.


Bandini meter pegged in the red https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/blush.gif this guy will never cull interest with that L65,it would be worth 10k more If Amelia had popped for an LS5 https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

My LS6 has the same darker fenders with original paint. The paint is so thin the paint is darker with the black underlying primer than the doors/body over the grey primer. I'd say its original!
Mark

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

I remember that on yours Mark.
Interesting that this Time Capsule has silver accented turn signal,Hi-beam & parking brake indicators around the Speedometer.
On this car,I would like to see it in person better and see if they are indeed Vacuum metalized or Testors paint pen.

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

Who was the knuckel head that installed the hood pins? They were only on ZL2 Cowl Induction flapper hoods. Non flapper cars did not get the pins, at least on the 396 and 454's. If the 350 did then it's news to me.

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

In 1972,the hood pins were standard on ALL Chevelles with the Super Sport or Heavy Chevy package,regardless of engine size or hood design.

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

This same car has been on eBay a time or two before.

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

You have to remember that the front clip was not attatched to the rest of the car when it was painted. Even thought paint from the same batch was supposed to be used the environmental and spray conditions were probably not the same. With heavy metallics (even if the paint came from the same can) differences in humidity, air pressure at the spray gun, gun distance from the panel, and spray pattern could cause the paint to lay out differnet or the metallic to settle different.

Re: Time capsule 410 miles..wow
 

Mark is right on about the paint difference on the front clip. These cars were off a little when new, more evident with certain colors that did not cover well over different color primers like GM used on these cars. (brilliant) If the paint was a color that covered very well (solid colors or metalics with heavier base makeup like fathom green or dusk blue) the difference in primer color did not show up. GM cars had this going on from the inception of acrylic lacquer in '57 right up thru the late 70's. This car is likely original paint, I'd be suspect if fender/door match was dead on as they never were.