If you know about this RS/SS 396 car, pls advise!

[Mr. T]

Dave, sent you a pm.

[Hotrodpaul]

The cowl tag looks too crisp compared to my original.



Paul

[Steve Shauger]

Looks OK to me.

[Steve Shauger]

Sorry I was referring to Pauls original pictured above.

[Jeff H]

Yeah, that blue SS396 has a fake tag. Or a repro tag if you want to call it that. Car might not even be a real SS. If it doesn't have any documentation or matching #'s engine then who knows what it really was.

[Rat_Pack]

There is no doubt about it being a bogus repro tag. That business also had another 69 SS Camaro L78 that was Hugger Orange and its tag was bogus also. A friend of mine has looked at 3 cars there for people and so far none of them were legit as to their original heritage. I would be very cautious when purchasing a car from this business. So far you are................RatPack...................

[Lynn]

Fake Tag. Not even a good one at that.

Three fake cars from a place selling "dream cars"?

More like a nightmare.

I realize it is not a crime to swap a tag on your own vehicle. However, I believe it is at least fraud, and in some states a crime, to knowingly misrepresent a vehicle with a swapped tag.

I have heard that some of the guys swapping trim tags on Ferrari's got stung pretty good with civil suits. Hopefully some muscle car dealers will be next.

Don't know what you paid, but I would seriously consider taking the car back and demanding a full refund. However, it does look like a nice car, and maybe you are happy with it as is.

Lynn

[Pantera]

Here is a pic of my '69 tag that I feel is a original since I have owned the car so many years that they didn't fake them that long ago.

by the way my vin on mine is N609995 so it was built a little after yours.

Pantera

[davepl]

If anyone wants to drop me a note directly about this, my address is

[email protected]

Thanks!
- Dave

[davepl]

By the way, the ad says the car has a TH400. I'm not familliar with the differences in kickdown cables, but I'm guess this looks to have a TH350 from what you've said above.

The dealer has agreed that they owe me "something". When I asked them what the differnce was if they had to re-list the car accurately, he suggested maybe "one or two thousand". I (cough) said I thought it would be more than that, and that I'd get back to them after the weekend.

I paid $38,500 for the car. So the real question is what's a clone restored to this level worth if its not an X22, maybe not an original RS/SS, and has a TH350 instead of a TH400... ie, if you judge the car strictly on its merits of restoration and assume it was a 307 car when built.