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Barnfind,he thought the car was cortez silver and i told him it was green because that was what you said so it could be the same car!

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Barnfind,he thought the car was cortez silver and i told him it was green because that was what you said so it could be the same car!

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Well, it does have a tarp and it is in the right area...could be the same car. I think it DOES still have the engine in it by the way it is sitting. Maybe someone needs to go over there and try to get a look at it (the owners of the property have never been very friendly). It may be time to find out who owns the property to see how old the owners are. Might be worth waiting for if only for the drivetrain. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Sounds like you may need to wear a vest next time.
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/1623/st...on/shotgun.jpg

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Story of a 1969 RS/SS Camaro about 4 miles from my house. This car is somewhat of a local legend in my area. Although we have never seen it on the street it has sat in the same garage forever. The story is that a guy bought new in '69 when he came home from Vietnam. He died about 2 years after he got home and the car has not moved out of his brother's garage since. The best part of this rumor is that people say that the car was originally a convertible, however, after the guy bought the car he wanted a hardtop and converted it!!! I know the car exists, but do not know how true that part of the story is. The car is Cortez Silver w/ black vinyl top w/ black hockey stick stripe.

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Sounds like you may need to wear a vest next time.
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/1623/st...on/shotgun.jpg

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Do you mean like this?

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here is one of the farm cars we were talking about, it's a fresh post...decent looking old heap... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif

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budnate,
I dont see any picture

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sorry spaced dropping in the link..'59 Fuelie wish I had some spare dough looks like a fun car as is...

http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/65682407.html

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VEEEERY COOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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wish I had some spare dough

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Yeah, like $35,000 worth of spare dough. Gone are the days when you could have picked up a Day 2 driver '59 Vette like this one for under ten grand--or under five grand.

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cool piece...if his claims are real not every day you can score a Real #s Fuelie car with orig paint at entry level$$$...not sure what a done one is worth but bet its got to be up there ...

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I'd say a nice done car has got to be worth 80+

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I don't get the issue with vettes. Is it me or is there a buttload of them out there. It seems that everybody thinks that theirs is VERY RARE and therfore worth so much more. As Brock Yates was saying, "I think theres more out there than there was ever made". Even at BJ auction 1/3 of the cars up for auction were vettes. Any muscle car auction you see is loaded with them. If there everywhere why are they going up into $200k marks??????????

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Well I think I told the story of this car once before,but it is worth retelling.One of my friends who I have race with for a long time purchased a 68 camaro a few years back from his engine builder.The car sat in this engine builder's shop for over 20 years after it was abandoned in there in 1972,and the shop owner had the car on a trailer under a canopy behind his shop.The only paperwork on the car were dealer papers from a dealership in what he said was New York,but later was repored to be in PA.{Maybe York PA?}.it is a 1968 camaro SS 327 which I belive was originally a 4 speed car but the shop owner put a glide in it.The car was origianlly white but had been repainted orange and then purple.I was at the body sop when the car was stripped and the owner thought it was a rare car because it was hugger orange,but was bummed when it turned out to be white,but there was race car lettering on the original white paint.It was never titled and had 425 original miles on the clock,but the odometer had ben disconnected for a while.It had a 12 bolt with 5.13 gears and GM bolt in axles,the spring perches were re enforced with plate steel and it had J bolt lakewood bars on it.The car is now legally titled as street car in New York,and had about 700 something miles on it the last time I saw it.The certificate of origin and dealer papers were turned over to the DMV,but looking back on it there is a suspicion of what this car might be.The shop owner claimed it had a bad purple paint job on it and cragar rims when it was left at his shop by a few street racers that were looking to have an engine built.The current owner refuses to allow anyone to take interest in what history the car might have since there is also history that the car changed hands back in the early 70's under illegal circumstances,and might have been stolen back then.The current owner has a clean title and doesnt want to get involved with anybody who might want to give him a hard time.There are however reports in the New Jersey Area that this car might have been Grumpy's 68 camaro.



Another one which I have been working on for some time is a car that has been sitting on a local car dealer's storage lot for almost 15 years now.It is a 1975 camaro that the last time I looked at had all the makings of a Motion conversion bigblock car.It was purchased at a police auction on Long Island back around 1989 along with the flat trailer it was loaded on and some crazy jacked up 4x4 that was towing it.It was confiscated in a drug raid and sold without a title at a police auction.The truck was retitled with a state issue VIN,and sold,but the Camaro was in a partial state of assembley so the state wont issue a title for it,and they also had probelms with the numberless engine that was in it.The state issues a different VIN so that the last owner cant attempt to reclaim the car with the cold title.This may be a good thing though,since the state left the original VIN on this car.The car has a CE code iron head 427 in it along with a dual plane intake and 3 barrel carb.One head and the intake/carb are in the trunk,and only damage looks like a bad head gasket and a lot of rust in the engine.The body is mint with heavily oxidized orange paint and a Motion glass L88 hood.Only over the last 2 years have some round surface rust spots popped up on the car.The windows are never fogged which makes me think the inside is tight and the floors are good.It has a 10 bolt with a gold cover and traction bars that dont totally go up to the spring eye,and it has 3 keystone mags on it.I would love to look into this car further but the current owner seems to not want to do anything with it.I have contacted him a few times over the years and back in the early 90's he said he would sell it for 10 grand,but I didnt think it was worth it,now he wont sell it at all because he doesnt want to get involved with selling a car with no paperwork.I havent been in the yard to get a closer look since about 1992,but I drive by it every day about 5 times a day during my travels in work,and have stopped to peek at it through the fence 3 times in this year alone.I dont know if it is the real deal,and I know that it isnt a Baldwin car anyway,and big bumper camaros arent hot now anyway,but it is the solidest 2nd gen I have seen,and I know that I could puff that 427 up and have it on the street and cruising with 1 good winter's worth of work.I will try and get some pics of it to post tommorrow.

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Small town Oklahoma. Guy has about fifteen 69 Camaros parked in a 40 by 40 (or so) garage in his back yard. Poured the slab himself and he and a buddy put up a steel prefab building.

All cars are rough and partially disassembled. Has an Orange COPO 427 with the original motor. His father bought it new and raced it a few years. Also has a 10 10 Z/28. Has a boat load of parts, muscle car holleys, distributors, blocks, heads, cranks, manifolds, etc. but won't sell anything.

I am starting to feel like I already posted this, so if I did, I am soorry. That's what happens when you get old.

Lynn

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it's kinda hard to see what it is,but Motion car or not,this is a very solid big bumper camaro with a 427 in it and some vintage speed parts{it is hard to see the vintage chrome hood tach in the picture.It is wasting away to nothing because the owner can be bothered to get the paperwork in order,and is to busy selling all the cop cars he buys from police auctions to be bothered getting this car into the hands of somebody who would do something with it.I am going to try attaching a pic.

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and another pic

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Rich, a 68 SS 327??? Don't believe there ever was such an animal.

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Went and looked at a 69 Charger RT today,white with black vinyl top and all black interior with buckets,real 440 car with auto trans, factory air,condenser is in the trunk but everything else is intact,and all it needs is a fuel pump and is pretty clean except for a couple spots of rust that can be repaired pretty easy.Going back tomorrow with the owner to crank it up and haul it home if we can agree on a reasonable price.Never owned a charger but they are pretty cool looking cars.Got all the numbers to check and make sure everything is as it is supposed to be,Engine is matching #s but trans was replaced.Even still has the factory magnum wheels on it,and all original paint and interior. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Bobby Dodson

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how about a: 64 Race Hemi Plymouth Hayden Profitt car! quite possibly the first non 2% 426 hemi assembled!

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I grew up in Chicago...Morton grove to be exact. In the 80's I used to go by a small Construction Co. and when the owners kid had the garage door open at night, I remember seeing as many as 12 Shelbys in there...I even remember the 67 red convert GT 500 prototype that was at the Volo a while back. In 1976 I saw that car late at night and I remember the guy telling me he could probably get $12k for it...I thought he was nuts!

Oh well!

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another 80's story. My buddy worked at a machine shop in Evanston, Il back in the 80's...he always used to tell me the story of a guy coming in once a month with really rare Ford stuff for sale.


The story goes that this young guy had a couple of semi's loaded with Ford racing stuff...everything ranging from a couple of complete Shelbys...to all sorts of wild induction stuff, steering wheels etc., etc.

I wonder if anyone got to clean up all of the left overs after this guy thought he creamed all of the good stuff out?

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Niles West ?

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There is a legit. 1968 ram air gto in Harrison, NY. It is at this guys house sitting outside rotting. It has been there for a long time. I know it is legit because my dad sold it to the guy back in the 80's. Too bad because there are very few legit 68' ram air gto's out there.

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O.K.,it is a smallblock car,an SS for sure,ut the original engine was long gone.It was just an interesting piece of hostory though.

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Not sure if this is the right place for this, but when I seen it I just knew I needed to post it here. What a find this would be http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/...902/index.html

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Somebody might go ballistic on him if he starts Hippie painting the Vettes like he did his own Bettle!

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Thats a shame, Hopefully he will just sell they before he paints them.

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Here are a few my Grandpa has been telling me about for quite awhile. I finally made it up to look at them the other day. One, of course is a 57. It is in fantastic shape as far as the body goes with no cancer. The other is a 63 coupe. It is also extremely solid. I tracked down the owner only to here. "They are on Ebay." As I got ready to go to the computer, he continued; "there are plenty like them on EBay. Those are mine and I'll never sell them." At least they are in a dry area and won't rust away in his lifetime. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif


Jason

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Here's a "garage find" I picked up "with a little help from my friends". 1962 Vette convert that's been sitting in a garage since 1975. 350 in it now but the gentleman I purchased it from said it was an old fuelie. Not big deal to me but it does have 6000 plus redline tach and some other details that indicate he may be correct.

Having fun,
Alex

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Here's the ole 62 just out of the garage.

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Nice car Alex, what are you going to do with this one? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Hi Kim,

Actually have this running and driving now. I tried to post pic but it's a digital and over the byte? limit to upload. The previous pics were off an instamatic that I scanned in and apparently have a lower byte?rate.

This currently is my summer "coffee" car. I always go get the 25 cent coffee(Ft. Dodge special), at the local Conoco and have to give the locals something to talk about.

Talk to yah later,Alex

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Thought I'd post two more undiscovered/discovered cars. I just scanned this first one today so first time anyone has seen this for a long time.

Picture is Dick Landy's 65 Factory AFX car being pulled from a garage in Dayton,OHIO area in 1974. It then resided here in Ft. Dodge until 1989 when an Indiana collector purchased it from my father. I know it's not a Chebbie but I'd thought someone would get a kick out of it(at least Kim). https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif

The second car is the Vitar car which had been sitting since 1993 in PA. I'll put it in the photo album section since it's one of those with too many bytes(ouch). Photo is when it was being loaded into the trailer. I ran this car briefly before I went to my vette(better aero,wt etc).

Regards,
Alex

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65 numbers matching Black/Black Impala SS with 396. Thant's about all I know. I talked to the owner, who will not talk any more about it, and WILL NOT sell it. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif That's a real shame because he keeps it under a cover in his driveway. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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superstock427...that is quite a story and find...a few years ago i was looking for altered wheelbase cars...a fellow in Carry Illinois gave me a call and said he was selling a 65 Dodge Dart Altered wheel base....dummy me never went up to look at it..however i do own a 63 SuperStock Max Wedge Dodge that raced under the name "TAMELESS Too"... and our Duster Drag car is disguised in grey paint..was red with white candy cane stripes across the roof or better known as "MAX WEDGE Duster"..I know these aren't chevy's but still they were lost treasures...