[Bill Pritchard]

……and the story continues….

Earlier this week I received a call from a guy in Nebraska who asks if I am still looking for a 69 Chevelle SS396. I said yes, I am. He said he has one, Dusk blue, white side stripe, L78, M21, Parchment bench seat interior, and it had the build sheet. He said he would forward pictures to me. They came soon afterward, but they were in some format I’m not familiar with, and each picture was literally about the size of a postage stamp. Couldn’t see much, but some of them looked strangely familiar. Then in one of the tiny pics I could see that the car had Ohio license plates on it. I called him up and asked if he bought this in the Cleveland area a few months ago. He said that he did, and I told him no thanks, I passed on that car back when it was for sale in Ohio. He sounded befuddled, asked why I was not interested, and I gave him some reasons as best I could remember them off the top of my head. I mentioned that the guys I had look at the car at the time were only shown an IBM punch card (the kind sometimes found from the interior trim shop) as any form of documentation. Nebraska guy says no, he has the whole build sheet as proof of the car’s legitimacy. I said I would be interested in seeing that.

Well, it took a few days, a number of tries in various formats before he was able to successfully scan it today and send to me as an email attachment. Took one glance at it and it’s an obvious fake….print font is definitely wrong. Called him back and told him the bad news….the conversation ended quickly. He called back about a half hour later and wanted me to help him to understand exactly what was wrong with the build sheet. We spent a lot of time on the phone together, and I hooked him up to Dale McIntosh’s website, where there are several examples of Baltimore 69 build sheets, so that he could see for himself. We talked a couple more times today and he says he is getting his attorney involved because he feels he was duped. There will probably be more to follow…..