Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

They don't claim it is real though.

Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

ive never really noticed a sway bar hanging that low..although thinking back, i dont remember ever seeing one on a 67

Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">They don't claim it is real though. </div></div>

Who do you mean by &quot;They&quot; Charley? Mecum? No, their listing description does not say specifically that it is real, but as others have said here, all of the alleged 'facts' concerning this car have been presented - for years, and on multiple venues - to lead people to believe that it is real. As I said in a previous post in this thread several years ago, &quot;if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull$hit&quot; seems to have been the strategy for peddling the credibility of this car.

Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

Mecum prints what the owner submits. What &quot;they-owner&quot; submitted does not claim it is factory built. We know it's a fake and based on how &quot;they&quot; worded their ad, they do too.

Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

I'm not so sure what the judges said at MCACN should be construed as them being &quot;fooled&quot;. (?)
If I'm reading Bill Braun's notes correctly (from an excerpt posted here), he notes that the pad stamp looks to be &quot;correct for this car&quot;------he doesn't say (from what I've read) &quot;this engine was installed at the factory in this car&quot;. We're now down to &quot;picking fly sh!t out of the rice bowl&quot; on this car, but to say that the &quot;judges were fooled&quot; isn't a correct statement (from what has been presented here). I get that the car is a &quot;build&quot;, but claiming to have duped some judges is really twisting things.

Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

I was under the impression that the judges thought the car was the real deal. The guy who normally judges the fullsize stuff and is truly knowledgeable on those cars couldn't make the show. Had he been there, the judging results would have been much different.

Re: 1967 Impala SS427 L-72?
 

Gosh, is that one fuzzy description. Whoever wrote that prob is a spin doctor in DC.

LOL got that right. I've talked to a couple of people who weren't familiar with the car and after reading the auction description, they thought it was real.

If they know it's a clone, then they should have the description clearly state that. It's their auction, they can or should edit descriptions to make them more clear and less vague if they know the car is a clone.

I bet some of the people bidding on that car at the auction will think it's now a clone.

Interesting that they refer to Chevrolet By the Numbers. I don't have my Colvin book in front of me, but didn't the book say something more like; There were 11 L72 engines built, but no record of any ever being installed.? It seems they might be twisting that a little bit.

For any of you that are interested I think this car will be crossing the block at the Mecum auction in Indy on Friday May 19

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0517-28...vrolet-ss-427/