A.J. Foyt's 1967 pace car on e-bay

[92646]

Not a problem. That Z10 got sold to a guy in Texas. Did you know another guy in the Redding area that owned a roofing company (I think). I bought a 1967 R/S Z/28 from him that ended up in Hawaii. He had a 1969 L89 camaro, 1969 COPO camaro and another 1967 Z/28. He had a hugger orange 1969 L78 camaro that had deluxe interior. It was partially taken apart but it had very low miles and he only wanted $5,500. I hesitated because I was afraid my wife would be upset if I brought home another project and I missed out on a nice car.

[MotownMadman]

Ok, you guys have done the impossible, you have confused me beyond my normal state of confusion. If Charley has the actual pace car because AJ wanted one with air, would not the air car have been built after the race? If AJ knew prior to the race that he wanted a car other then the one planned for the actual race, would not the one he wanted been built prior and used at the race so the winning driver did get the actual pace car? And why would a car that was going to be used at Indy be built all the way on the west coast instead of next door to Indy at Norwood? Hmmm......
Motown

[70 copo]

Motown,

No confusion here....

"This auction is a complete can of worms. The car is very misrepresented. This is an LA built car".

"The real Foyt award car was made after the race at Norwood and was 0-1 coded in a batch of cars that were marked for Canadian sale"

The Foyt award car was made in June. It is possible that Foyt also owned another replica later, but the car in the auction is not the award car.

The Track cars were modified for track use and the award cars were stock factory examples.

Phil

[rpoz11]

I agree with you Motown! And, my sharing the fact that the later cars would have recieved the "C-1" paint code by the time this car was ordered, assembled, etc....
As for 70 COPO, I personally have no knowledge of where the latter car was ordered thru whatsoever, but I would find it interesting to read those documents that help support where that car was processed thru. As I am not the authority on the aj car, were you pretty sure it was to be with that group assembled for delivery to Canada at that time back then? I am curious to know and would be of good historical knowledge to share here..

[70 copo]

The story first appears in the 1990 Crispino-Hooper book :"Chevrolet Indy Pace Car Book" Where the sources interviewed all tell the same story that AJ turned down the original award car because "it got hot in Texas" and told Chevrolet to build him another car with AC, and as the story goes the sources for the book stated that the car that was specially built for AJ was built in the same run as the Canadian cars.

Also same story in support the Foyt award car being built in the Canadian run was again repeated from different sources in the 1992 USCC Pace car registry report:

Participants were:

Ken Moorhead Matt Murphy, Bob Harris, Jim Hariston, and Mark Campbell.

But who knows they could all be wrong - and the guy on E-bay could be right!!!

Geez for a while people were under the impression that Yenkos were only sold at Cannonsburg.

Oh but there is more.. the good folks over at www.67pacecartrust.com are chopping this car up pretty good right now. Surf over and have a look in the general discussion area.


Did you get a chance to check on the Z-11 info??

Thanks

Phil

[rpoz11]

I dont want to have this thread go away from the originator's intent of he 67 Pace Car discussion so I will not add more to his on the 69's other than I felt that late May to late June, but, I think CRG is the place to answer this! BTW That 67IPC site is cool!

[70 copo]

Thanks for your opinion.... My understanding is that the last Norwood car is an 05-A.

Thanks

Phil

[Mark_C]

No 69 Pace cars made after 05B.

[70 copo]

Mark,

Thanks for the info!

Phil

[Tim Greer]

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Not a problem. That Z10 got sold to a guy in Texas. Did you know another guy in the Redding area that owned a roofing company (I think). I bought a 1967 R/S Z/28 from him that ended up in Hawaii. He had a 1969 L89 camaro, 1969 COPO camaro and another 1967 Z/28. He had a hugger orange 1969 L78 camaro that had deluxe interior. It was partially taken apart but it had very low miles and he only wanted $5,500. I hesitated because I was afraid my wife would be upset if I brought home another project and I missed out on a nice car.

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Redding, as in Redding, California? If so, with my luck, I was probably living next door or something and missed all the excitement. I went to a CAM club meeting (Classic American Muscle cars meeting) and there's some people here with some pretty nice cars, actually. In fact, one guy (Clyde) has like 40 nice muscle cars, and one is actually a '67 Indy Pace car 396. Here I thought I was cool with two. Heh.