1970 LS6 TRIPLE BLACK RAGTOP

[MultiMopars]

Just curious about the whereabouts of this car.

Back in 1976 I bought a 1958 fuel injected Corvette from Richard Buxbaum. (name familiar to anyone here?)
He had a classic car lot near Joliet, Illinois that was backed by a local Chevy dealer an delt in super low mileage and high h.p. mid year Corvettes and others. He had a real Ford GT40 on the showroom floor when I bought my car. A few years later he showed up at Bloomington with a real red Corvette Grand Sport convertible that they sold at the auction that weekend. I heard that he later got involved in European antique furniture.

Anyway, when I bought the car among others in his inventory he had a triple black LS6 ragtop on the lot. I have no idea if it was real or not, but being only 6 years old at that time I doubt that it was a made up car.

Anyone know?

[SBR]

I don't know of the whereabouts of the LS6 but I have heard of Richard Buxbaum. He and Jerome Shinkay owned many low mile mid year Corvettes and musclecars before they became mainstream collectables. In fact I believe that Jerome bought the grand sport from Richard.

[olredalert]

-----I worked for Richard and Jack Douglass from app. 1976 thru 1984 with a year off in the middle one time around 82/3. Not buying that GT40 for $30,000 as offered to me was one of the biggest monetary mistakes I ever made. That car was one of the 40s that ran at LeMans the first year and dropped out with a broken trans. I was running the shop when we restored Grand Sport #1 which we later sold to a great guy named Jerome Shinkay, one of the all time coolest car collectors. The car I absolutely dont remember either seeing or hearing about is this Black LS6 vert you mention. I had a black on black LS5 vert with AC that I restored at Classic in Joliet. I actually painted that LS5 a 72 pewter silver and it has been pictured at one time or another here on the board, but you may have seen it before the color change. Maybe thats the one??? As well, I think maybe you have your dates a bit scrambled as we wernt down in Joliet until the 80s. If you visited us in Joliet, did your 58 have a power top??? I remember an extremely nice loaded Signet red fuelie that we restored in that shop.......Bill S


-----Beat me to the punch, Steve. Have a good Christmas!!!

[SBR]

Bill, Merry Christmas to you as well!

[RPOLS3]

Just talked to my dad - he spent a bunch of time at Richard's shop back then (with Bill of course!). He remembers a black car with white stripes (maybe Bill's car??)- but no idea of current status.

I remember right around 1990 when we bought my brothers 68 Camaro from Volo they had one - (without stripes?) - but do not remember if it was a real or not.

Jake

[olredalert]

------They did have that blue one, Jake, but that was after I left, and I was never sure if that one was real or not. I have read a couple of comments on that car on this sight not that long ago........Bill S

[RPOLS3]

Wasn't the blue one the real low mile car that sat outside the Westmont AMG shop for some time next to a Yenko Duece ? This would have been around 1989-1990?

Jake

[MultiMopars]

I didn't say they were located IN Joliet but rather near there and I believe the backing dealer was in Joliet. If I remember correctly the name of the town was Hindsdale (?)

Jerome Shinkay was the atual owner of the car I bought. It was a Silver Blue w/Inca Silver insert, Silver Blue interior & top. It was a 290 h.p. 4 speed with P.W. & P.T. and had around 40K miles on it. I sold it to a guy in New Zealand around 1984 and wish I still had it.

I did not look closely at the Chevelle reagtop. There were 3 other guys that went with me when I bought my car and they pointed it out to me on the lot and had been looking at it an told me it was an LS6. Maybe they were mistaken and it was an LS5, but they were pretty savvy car guys so I doubt it. I only saw the car from across the lot, but I don't recall any stripes on the car.

[RPOLS3]

Hopefully this is not too much of a thread hi-jack/history lesson but here goes: (Bill S. can verify)

Richard had a shop (Classic Motors) in Joliet that was the old Bill Jacobs Chevy building.

Richard's shop in Hinsdale was the former Jack Douglass Chevy building. I believe Hinsdale was prior to Joliet.

After Joliet, his shop was on Ogden Avenue in Westmont (just a few miles west of the Hinsdale location)

I have not personally seen or spoken to Richard in many years but from what I hear he is still active in the collector car market. The Classic Motors name is still in use by Bob Zimmerman "Stretch" in Naperville.

Jake

[Bill Pritchard]

I can help with a few things here (my comments in red)...

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Hopefully this is not too much of a thread hi-jack/history lesson but here goes: (Bill S. can verify)

Richard had a shop (Classic Motors) in Joliet that was the old Bill Jacobs Chevy building. <font color="red">Correct. </font>

Richard's shop in Hinsdale was the former Jack Douglass Chevy building. I believe Hinsdale was prior to Joliet. <font color="red">Also correct. </font>

After Joliet, his shop was on Ogden Avenue in Westmont (just a few miles west of the Hinsdale location) <font color="red"> I remember seeing a HO Yenko Deuce sitting outside a shop in this general vicinity, but was not aware that Richard Buxbaum had anything to do with the shop. </font>

I have not personally seen or spoken to Richard in many years but from what I hear he is still active in the collector car market. The Classic Motors name is still in use by Bob Zimmerman "Stretch" in Naperville.

Jake

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