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You should have seen the look on Joels face the night at SCR-6 that I told him the '70 454 GT vette that went to Texas was still in one piece. It is a good thing that we were inside the hotel. Otherwise he would have swallowed a fly.

he told me that the 18 yr old owner had called him up years ago and told him he had wrecked it when it only had about 6k mi on it. All this time Joel had thought it didnt' exist anymore and was totaled. (It has been damaged on the L front but was repaired when I got it).

I bought that car way back in early 1974 in Dallas. It was at SCR7 in unrestored condition after a few wanted to see it before I took it apart.

Of course you should have see the look on my face when Joel told me that since it had a alum head LS-7 put in it and that it was the most expensive GT he had build out of the 10 cars. I thought it was a LS-6 originally with alum heads. I had gone to the repair shop that put the new cast iron LS-6 crate motor in for the car dealer and tried to buy the old motor that came out but they wanted just too much for it and it was blown up at that time. I didn't know the difference back then. $700 on top of buying the car for a grand over what a 70 vette was going for at that time had tapped me out. Wish now that I had not passed on the motor.



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