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--------The original owner ordered the car from Slaton Chevrolet on Federal Highway (Rt.1) in Ft.Lauderdale. Slaton was a very high performance oriented dealership all thru the musclecar era. I bought a loaded 70 Elky SS 396/350/AC (White/black) from them new! Orig. owner owned a high perf shop in Oakland Park. Did a bunch of go-fast boat type work for a long time. Hes still around and a Corvette buddy of mine that has a shop right next to his recently told me he was doing some Harley work now. His idea was to have a rolling showcase of performance with his Elky, but he got sidetracked and only did a few things, fortunatly. He ended up storing it and driving his regular half ton all the time. By the time 75 rolled around it had accumulated 16,000 miles but it looked like 1600. The original paint was simply unbelievable. He had never had so much as a feather in the bed.
--------In 1975 when I heard about the car I wanted it so bad I went to a loan shark for the money. I then worked my butt off for a couple of months and paid him off. I used the car less than a 1000 miles in the next year and sold the car for a whopping $5500. At the time I thought I was doing pretty good as I only paid $4000 for it. Maybe three years ago before the present owner got the truck I heard Joes son was finally going to sell and I offered $35000 for it, but he wasnt interested. Wanted $50 large, and I thought it was to much. Oh well, wasnt meant to be!..........Bill S