GM Reject on Musclecar Enthusiast

[ORIGLS6]

The "GM Reject" owned by Cliff Perry of Astoria, IL. was a terror on the Central Illinois and Iowa strips for a while. I saw the car run a number of times at our strip and at Beardstown, IL.
The photo of the car in this particular article makes mention of the car being campaigned in Maryland, if I recall correctly. However......the picture was taken at Beardstown!
This car and a '64 Thunderbolt left Illinois together in the mid '80s headed to California and Boyd Coddington's shop. The Chevelle turned up for sale at SC Indy just a few months later. Kinda lost track of it after that until a few months ago. Very Cool Car!

[Mr70]

It is a very nice Chevelle.
Hey SS47,It's Frank! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Greg Dieterly from Russiaville Il. Bought this Chevelle next,then Had Brian Caudell restore the car.At the same time my good friend was having Brian restore his Astro Blue LS6 Chevellle in the early 90's.The LS6 had all of it's original parts intact,but when he got the car back from Brian,he found repro parts here and there.He found out later that his original LS6 parts were added over to Gregs "GM Reject" during restoration.
Needless to say,he wasn't happy,and went unanswered from Brian.To this day he still looks at the "GM Reject",and sees his Tail pipes,Center caps,smog equipment.
We saw it at Atlanta NCOA Convention in July 1995,of which I still have those pix.It looked different then.
Greg sold it to Paul Lillick not to long ago,and Paul sold it to the east coast,where some extra options were added to it,and increased it's asking price while on Ebay.
It's a nice car to look at,...Ay Sam??? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

By the way,I just heard Chuck Hanson just bought a 1969 L78 Post sedan Chevelle from a close friend of mine here in Ill.
It is a Lemans Blue Chevelle,and was at VOLO in the Mid 1990's.It came out of Arkansas originally,and is again for sale. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Keith Tedford]

Sort of like the beutiful woman. Not quite so beautiful once you see her reputation and flaws. Ours may not be top show car quality but it is 100% honest. It was enough to win us people's choice at a local show amongst much nicer cars. Tainted cars are just that, especially in the big dollar arena, and it isn't even the car's fault. I like my reject just the way it is, 1969 gauges and all.

[ORIGLS6]

Keith/Rick,
I agree. With all the money and time thrown at this car, I would personally rather see it in it's original form. Just seems to taint the car's history by trying to 'convert' it to someone's view of what it could have been. Just my opinion, and we all know what that's worth. Still, I have to admit it's good to see that it's still around.

As I think back, it was probably the late '80s to early '90s that the two cars went to Coddington's. They were both at Rich Gebhardt's first shop in Jacksonville, IL waiting for a trailer when I saw them.

Dennis