1966 marina blue L79 23.000 orig miles on ebay

[Mike Petrillo]

It seems the only pictures of his car ever being raced are pictures of my car at the track.My pictures can be viewed at carsonline.com 1965-1967 chevys listed as 17,400 mile survivor.Look at the pictures i believe on pg 7 of my photo bucket.

[Jim Ferron]

Mike , what you are saying is

THE GUY STOLE YOUR PICTURES!

And certainly the pics on the board are of a car racing at Lebanon Vally Speed way West Lebanon NY [as I stated befoer when YOU posted them...]

I raced there when the track looked like that, I'm sure Wilma would tell you the same think as it's his home track as well.

Amazing the lies that are told out there...I guess with this knowledge ...it has to show everything this guy says in a negative light....

[Hotrodpaul]

I have some issues with this car being called a Benchmark example. The carb, trans, and possibly the block as I do not see a VIN stamp. My original L-79 Chevy II had the VIN hand stamped on the pad, just like the white L-79 Chevy II for sale on this board. That car, in my opinion is a nice Benchmark example.

Paul

There was a car that is VERY VERY similar to this in the late eighties early ninties for sale at the Atlantic city Auction. This car was originally owned by Grumpy Jenkins. Same color Milage is very close. Could this be same car??

[Mike Petrillo]

ebay ad states previous owner prior to the current had the car for approx 37 years that would make the car off the market unless it was for sale and did not hit reserve,also if you have owner history back to 1970 i would think if the car was once owned by grumpy everyone would know about it.

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ebay ad states previous owner prior to the current had the car for approx 37 years that would make the car off the market unless it was for sale and did not hit reserve,also if you have owner history back to 1970 i would think if the car was once owned by grumpy everyone would know about it.

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I agree with both your points. Is it common knowledge grumpy had one of these cars? I'm not to up on the novas. The car did not sell it was in the cars for sale not in the auction. My brother could of bought the car for around 15k at the time. Just two very similar cars i guess

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ebay ad states previous owner prior to the current had the car for approx 37 years that would make the car off the market unless it was for sale and did not hit reserve,also if you have owner history back to 1970 i would think if the car was once owned by grumpy everyone would know about it.

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Mike,
It is a different car, spoke with my older brother who remembers it quite well. It was a post car 4 spd. no console rubber mat car.

Please allow me to wade in. I'm a bit confused on the Jenkins part of the equation. I've been around drag racing for a very long time (some would say too long probably <g&gt. Both of Jenkins L79 Novas were hardtops, not post cars. The first one, a red and white car was destroyed in a towing accident. The second was all white. Larry Davis' neat book, "Super Stock -- Drag Racing The Family Sedan" has some neat pics of both cars. And by the way, I suspect the red and white car was actually a white car that was two-toned.

Thanks for letting me into this conversation.

Wayne Scraba

[PeteLeathersac]

There's a few pics of Grumps '66 cars in this thread from Steve's Nova site..

http://www.stevesnovasite.com/forums...ad.php?t=87624

Cool you're here Wayne...hope to see you pop by more often!.


~ Pete

[iluv69s]

apparently the Nova that JD502 mentioned from Atlantic City was a driver of Grumpy's more recently..it had title history in his name (although this was a while ago)...I believe it was never a race car..as it was all original...obviously not the same car...