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That's the good thing about buying a package of Yenkos, you don't need to put exact values on any of them. That's great to see the collection stayed together(at least for the time being). The L89 trim tag is not an original GM tag. It has nothing to do with characters overlapping. So what was this Orange RS/Z28 crossram car that sold for that high of a price?

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Sam..I'll give you 45k for that JL8 if its real https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Seems like every car show I go to the 69 Z's all have xrams, getting so common Id rather see the cars without them. How many xrams did they sell, anyone know? seems like there were one per car nowadays.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif

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Sam..I'll give you 45k for that JL8 if its real https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Thats triple what I paid for it https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif let me think https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif
na https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/tongue.gif

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Sam..I'll give you 45k for that JL8 if its real https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Cost you a 3 lap dances and a Yenko at the least... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

PS Not by you either, I get to pick the girls https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/tongue.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Crossram RS Z was a fresh resto and the sheet claimed a GM crossram. I did not look under the hood. It sold for 130K plus 5% fee total 136,500. Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.

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Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.


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Go figure. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

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Can't wait til Mecum posts the results.

SSJunkie68-69

[/ QUOTE ]when is that expected to occur?? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Crossram RS Z was a fresh resto and the sheet claimed a GM crossram. I did not look under the hood. It sold for 130K plus 5% fee total 136,500. Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.

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Hey, the date they are using on the repops, were real ones also made on the same date, if so how could you tell a real one?

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Sam..I'll give you 45k for that JL8 if its real https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Put a crossram on it and I could probably get a million at BJ https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.


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Go figure. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

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I've seen guys re-popping the GM part # and the snowflake on the X-rams and I gotta tell ya:

They're getting real good at it. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

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I've seen guys re-popping the GM part # and the snowflake on the X-rams and I gotta tell ya:

They're getting real good at it.

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So good that when someone gets one put on they get amnesia. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Same guy bought RS Z28 Crossram for $130K and 69 Post L78 Silver Chevelle for $137,500 both were for his 8yr old kid. Fresh resto on Z super nice quality car stood tall.

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Heard through the "grapevine" that a red 69 SS 350 Nova went for around $41k. Now I know it's not as many zeros as the other mega dollar units. But,it is pretty interesting for a small block Nova. Were there any BB Novas other than the Yenko discussed? Sounds like this was quite an event. I'll have to go to one sometime.....

wilma https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

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Can't wait til Mecum posts the results.

SSJunkie68-69

[/ QUOTE ]when is that expected to occur?? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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If you go to the Mecum Website and sign up you can review the results of all their auctions. Generally it takes them 5-7 days to post the results of the most recent auction.

It's a freebie to sign up.

SSJunkie68-69

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I don't know him but I also watched him spend 400K plus on a 71 Hemi Cuda at the RM auction in Monterey.

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Not a bad buy, considering the one that went for 860K this past weekend. And a green one to say the least. Patrick

Re: Mecum auction Oct. 2005
 

Here's the Mecum email that just arrived.....

"Our 10th Annual Fall Premier Auction in St. Charles was an incredible success. Preliminary numbers indicate sales were $20,742,015. Highlights of the weekend include the five-car Yenko collection selling for $1,785,000; the 1969 ZL1 Camaro for $840,000; and a 1971 Hemi Cuda for $840,000. If you weren’t there, you missed the biggest and best muscle car auction ever! And if you were, thanks for helping make it the success it was. Complete results will be on our web site in the next day or two.

We now turn our sights on the KC Dream Classic December 2-4 in Kansas City, MO. This three-day sale has become one of our top auctions of the year. It is the best place to makes changes in your inventory, whether it’s one car or a dozen. 2005 continues to be both a buyer’s and seller’s market, with solid prices and a great selection of cars. ENTER TODAY!

And pencil in our Winter Classic January 27-28 in Kissimmee, FL. Enjoy the warm weather and hot deals in beautiful central Florida. Just minutes away from Disney World, bring the whole family and make a vacation out of this terrific auction weekend. REGISTER EARLY!
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SSJunkie68-69

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Its been almost 10 years since I did the Z-11 Impala and that Rally Green Y Nova for Dick B. The Impala I seen a year or 2 ago when it changed hands and it still looked super. Havent seen the Nova since I left down south. Amazing what these cars keep bringing.

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Dick Bridges...and you too Micky. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Who did the bodywork on the Z 11 ???

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Both were painted by Kevin Westmoreland in GA. He is a great painter.

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The aluminum was as straight as steel....pretty scary to have a car like that sitting out in the open with people walking all around it..I heard a good guy got it and also has the Sanders car that the motor in the red one was out of !!!

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Correct, the motor in that one was from the Sanders car. Hard to believe, but that paint on the Z-11 is nothing more than Centari enamel.

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So there will soon be an original engined Z11...cool.

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Cant be many of them. Where did the car go? Last I knew the Sanders car was in AZ.

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Not sure...whoever it is has a few Z 11's...I think he and Fezell are tied !!!

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"Same guy bought RS Z28 Crossram for $130K and <font color="blue">69 Post L78 Silver Chevelle for $137,500</font> both were for his 8yr old kid. Fresh resto on Z super nice quality car stood tall. "

Does anyone have the skinny on this 69 300 Deluxe? Any pictures?

Thanks

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Found pix at the mecum website. Nice looking car https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif . Where did they get the "1 of only 6 built" statistic from? Post 300 L78 numbers are projected at about 140 total and Hardtop 300 L78s are projected at about 180 (per Dan Carr's research). Anybody know where this car was campaigned and set the record? Was this by chance a factory L89 optioned L78? That might account for the "1 of 6". Anybody notice the build date and factory of this car?

Thanks!

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is he the same guy that owns westmoreland trucking in kennesaw,ga.?

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I had heard about this car growing up.
I haven't seen the 69 300 series L-78 since the Chevelle Showdown in 1993,after Brian Caudell restored it.
I believe it's a Kansas build Leeds plant.
The 1 of 6 claim is a for Aluminum headed L-89's and is a guesstimate as well that has been grossly misquoted over onto these cars now.GM doesn't even know how many were made originally.
This isn't an Aluminum head L-89,it was delivered as an L-78 cast iron head to Cliff Parry of Astoria,Il.
He drag raced it for one year after he bought it back then.Race track officials had a hard time believeing it was a Legitimate factory built 2 dr sedan 300 series Super Sport L-78 Chevelle,(1969 was the only year this was possible,and very few existed),so Cliff campaigned it as the "GM Reject".
He raced it around Iowa &amp; central Illinois and at Beardstown achieved a Super Stock Class National Record.It was forced to run in that class,due to it's questionable claim.It only raced seriously for one year and was soon retired to street racing soon after.
Years later it went out to Boyd C. shop in Calif.,then was up for sale at SC Indy months later.
When Greg D. bought it in 1989,it had only 6188 miles on it.

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Roger Sortino (WA) owns the Sanders car. I know he was planning to bid on that one to get the engine and make a swap. Rusty had bought the red car minus engine long ago, and by luck found the Sanders engine in a boat. Once those cars became uncompetitive ('64 when the factory backed Mopars and Fords creamed everything else), a lot of Z-11s got small blocks, had the aluminum removed and went back on the streets. Some engines were reused in boats, Chevelles, ect. Some remained with the original cars, but ran Modified Production, like the Strickler car before Bill bought it back.
Very, very few of those cars retain their original engines. And I suppose some that do got decked at some point and the numbers are gone anyway.

Verne

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Hey Vern, Is that where they got the phrase "Boat Anchors" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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That was for 302's

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Actually, I prefer the term, "Garbage Truck Motors".............much more flavorful...... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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NOT so in the Wholly Bully car! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif

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I had heard about this car growing up.
I haven't seen the 69 300 series L-78 since the Chevelle Showdown in 1993,after Brian Caudell restored it.
I believe it's a Kansas build Leeds plant.
The 1 of 6 claim is a for Aluminum headed L-89's and is a guesstimate as well that has been grossly misquoted over onto these cars now.GM doesn't even know how many were made originally.
This isn't an Aluminum head L-89,it was delivered as an L-78 cast iron head to Cliff Parry of Astoria,Il.
He drag raced it for one year after he bought it back then.Race track officials had a hard time believeing it was a Legitimate factory built 2 dr sedan 300 series Super Sport L-78 Chevelle,(1969 was the only year this was possible,and very few existed),so Cliff campaigned it as the "GM Reject".
He raced it around Iowa &amp; central Illinois and at Beardstown achieved a Super Stock Class National Record.It was forced to run in that class,due to it's questionable claim.It only raced seriously for one year and was soon retired to street racing soon after.
Years later it went out to Boyd C. shop in Calif.,then was up for sale at SC Indy months later.
When Greg D. bought it in 1989,it had only 6188 miles on it.

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Rick,

Great history, thanks. And I thot you were a '70 expert! I tell you, those 300s just got no respect https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/mad.gif . But, they were thumpers indeed https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif !!!!!!

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The Schultz and Shriver Z-11 I sold last year has a Z-11 engine from another car in it. I don't think the car has be
en found.

Phil

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The results of this auction have been posted on the Mecum site. There are 14 pages.

The 69 L89, lot S26, went for just under $71K. With the observations made here and judging by the price it went for, it was not a true real L89. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

The prices many of these cars got still amazes me. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

SSJunkie68-69 https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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That was a NICE car Phil...

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The bidding stopped on the gold Copo at 120,K and it did not meet reserve so it went home https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif