1966 marina blue L79 23.000 orig miles on ebay

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...

[kwhizz]

The Ebay car has some "Issues"..........

Ken

[Mike Petrillo]

Just a few things noticed,wood grain wheel was not an option in 1966 on the nova it wasn't til 1967 they were offered and under 400 cars had them,also the 750x14 tire was not offered and no vin# on the pad.I believe the car has many L79 options but i would take a close look at the docs and this guy needs to remove the false pictures representing the car as a vintage race car with low miles and using the pictures to promote that as a fact.I will try to contact him and see how he came up with the pictures.

[olredalert]

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