Reason for my post was there was this car on the camaro net site...68 RS SS, red on red with black stripe, 22K miles, spun rod bearing in motor and sitting since 1971 - included paperwork, order sheet, protecto plate from yenko chev when sold as new with name tag on the back tail panel. All original since new...with the 396/375hp MQ engine.
Now - i move fast on this ad and talk to the guy..someone looks at it first and offers 12K - he wants 15K. I agree to 15K on the phone and will have a guy come down to look at it and give the OK or not. Inspection set for sat am scheduled (my guy driving 4 hrs) - if OK we take it away. The seller (out of Fayetteville NC) never faxes paperwork, hard to get ahold of and other rumors now floating around of someone picking up the car on Sunday for 18.5K He never tells me this story..then he calls sat am and said he sold the car last nite to the guy who looked at it with the 12K offer (guy named Eddie from Charlotte) who is buying it for a guy in Oklahoma named Bill who has a resto shop. He tells me he sold the car for 20K last nite. Seperately I get a call from another party in Richmond who said if the car is what is described -he told the seller he would go up to 40K on the car. So this is already feeling fishy and bad.
The condition as he described was to be very good original and unmolested with ALL Orig parts on it . needing only paint of the driver door and fender and engine rebuilt as well whatever else you need to do to get it road ready.
I guess im writing this to release frustration of dealing with someone that has no integrity or commitment in the process. Im sure many of you have been thru something simular at one time or another. So, i assume, coming soon this car will surface for sale again....i would have loved to see this as it sat to see how real this could be...or probably not...but someone did go for 20K so it has some great potential as i was also anticipating.
OK . . i feel better now...well almost...
Maybe some members here know the winning players and can send some pics in as a great barn find...