Original owner muscle cars. - Page 3

shor · #21 03-01-2003, 11:24 PM

This is Bill. I met him at the reunion and he is one of the nicest people out there. He bought his yenko brand new in 69 and still owns it today. He bought two actually, but that is another story.
He brought his slicks with him to the reunion!!

shor · #22 03-01-2003, 11:26 PM

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**Mr70** · #23 03-01-2003, 11:36 PM

He looks like Charley. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
I heard this man is a very nice Guy and his story is incredible.What a great Car he owns,from Gates I believe.
I wish I could've met him that day.I heard Mick did. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

JoeC · #24 03-02-2003, 12:43 AM

here is a picture or Ray M who is original owner of a 68 COPO 375hp TH400 Nova with 427 conversion by Dick Harrell. Ray is holding the tee shirt that Dick H gave him. pic is from SCR2.

SS454Elky · #25 03-02-2003, 12:56 AM

I got the wonderful opportunity to talk with Bill at the '98 Super Chevy Show in Tucson. I was admiring his car when this most unassuming man walked up and asked if I had any questions. We spent the next hour talking about his car and the truly incredible story surrounding it and the other one he owned. (Its a GREAT story) In this era with the $3000 distributors and original air in the tires he was a breath of fresh air. Just an average down to earth guy with an incredible car and the desire to share its story with lowly gearhead like me. It was a wonderful hour for me.

82z96ss · #26 03-02-2003, 04:22 AM

Since we are talking about storyies and people, I was at a Super Chevy Show in Montgomery. A gentleman with an orange COPO with ZL1 engine was telling me about a feud of an owner over some engine and body of a 69 COPO car. Supposedly the story went that an orignal owner of a COPO car had his car stolen not to long after he had bought it. The car was stripped and sold in pieces. Later on, like years or something like that, he got the body and chassis back. He also found where the orginal engine was, somewhere in Canada I think he said. And supposedly there is a feud between the two parties know as one or the other will not part with their parts. For any price.

Any one know of this story. The person telling me of it was nice and talked to me for awhile. I was shocked cuz I have found down her that these guys (car collectors)aren't easy to talk with.

budnate · #27 03-02-2003, 04:30 AM

Confused [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img], We had a 62 Vette returned to the orig owner around here awhile back, the car was stolen back around 1970, well it was very nice when the State Patrol cought it comeing back into the State, the short of it is he was given the car back, why does this guy not have all the pieces of his COPO car back, STOLEN is just that, he bought and paid for the car once.

82z96ss · #28 03-02-2003, 04:48 AM

The car was sold in pieces to many buyers. If they don't know who all the buyers are then the parts can't get back to him. The story was about a 69 Camaro COPO. And I guess since the owner of one part of the car is living out of the country, it would be hard to get it back. Especially if it was bought also from someone else.

Budnate
was the car still in good shape. That is a great outcome.

budnate · #29 03-02-2003, 03:00 PM

Yes the car was very nice, at least it appeared to be to stock on TV, the guy had a pic of it from before it was stolen it was a driver that looked a little ratty, should have seen how big his grin was when it was given back to him. This was like 8 yrs ago and they were bringing BIG money for that car around here, Nice to see things work out once in awhile.

Still a little confused on the COPO story, you say the car was stolen, was it not together and running at the time?, even if it was apart, Stolen is just that, I may be way off base but It was exsplained to me a long time ago it doesnt matter who has the part today either the owner or the INS C0. gets the car or parts back, it belongs to them not the person holding the part today, no matter what the current owner thinks, The police are usually more than happy to back track all owners on said car or parts, trail has to lead back to the bad guy at some point. All it takes is a phone call to the local police and some paperwork on the stolen car to sort it out from there.

82z96ss · #30 03-02-2003, 05:13 PM

THe car was relatively new maybe a couple of months or years old at most. Remember back then COPO were just another Camaro. Then someone stole the car. Next they striped the car; example sold rear end to one individual, motor to another, seats to even another. Sometimes you can get more for the parts than for the whole car itself. This is how it was explained to me. I am guessing that no one else has heard of this story or is keeping quiet about it.

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