[Leonard]

68I30 Steve, The car spent most of its life in the rust belt of Ohio. I have gone back as far as 1982. I bought it in 1984. It sat about a year and a half before i purchaced it.This would bring it to 1982. I bought it for a parts car.There was no motor, transmission, hood, radiator or drive shaft with the car when i bought it.400 turbo crossmember was in the trunk. I wanted it for the front disc brakes to put on my other 69 camaro project. ( Z28 replica) Did not need the 12 bolt that was still in it at the time. Already had one installed. The guy who bought the car bought it for the rear end. This was about the time the whole trunk pan and fuel tank dropped out (loaded with junk did not help) i knew it was weak.This would have been in 1985. I found the car again in 1991 at a small little salvage yard about 18 miles from my home town. It was picked clean. I talked to the owner about the car. He said he had it for about 3 or 4 years. We became friends over the years and i decided to buy it a couple of weeks ago. Why? It kept buggin me about what it could be. He agreed to sell it to me. Total price, $70.00 . That tells me that the car has not see the road since 1982.I do not think that someone would want to make a COPO clone before 1982. And buy the looks of some of the parts (big block heater box, throttle arm, Greasy big block frame mounts)They seemed to have been on the car quite a while. The condition of the car was sad.