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Hey Jeff, Its been a while since we talked. That must be a really cool car you are looking at if you are giving up the L78 for it....I'm really curious...I know its probably too early to let the hat out of the bag, but I wanna know !!! I live very nearby and I cant imagine what car you are looking at...do tell!!! Good luck on the sale...and better luck on the new purchase!!!
BTW, how's the JL-8 coming?? I'd like to check it out sometime as mine is getting worked on at the moment too!! Max |
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![]() Good luck on the sale also w/ whatever you're pursuing!. Real nice to see the GM Canada docs for a '70 L78 car too...probably the only time anyone here would ever wish for an automatic trans...lol?!. You guys do know that the W84-extra fuel option was really so us Canadian lot-jockeys could test drive the cars when they got unloaded from the trucks here...right?!. ![]() ~ Pete Sure love to hear more on your JL8/Crossram car Jeff!.
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![]() ![]() Maybe I'm reading more into this than I should but it seems that every time this "Spoiler" subject comes up things get wierd. The L78 is a great car i'd give my left nut to have one. 1 or 10,000 it makes no difference to me. The COPO 9796 is somewhat of a mystery but from the bit's and pieces of information which can be attributed to credible scorces the number looks like its between ? on the low side and 533 on the high side. This is not written in a book somewhere but at the time of the Monterey Trans Am race GM had claimed that 8200 Z's were produced already with the small spoilers, since there was a total production run of 8733 on the 70 Z and assuming that all the rest of the Z produced were COPO's (Highly Unlikely) that would make the total COPO production 533 at best. We know that it was not until the Dallas race where Chevy pulled a fast one on the SCCA by bolting the newly designed spoilers on to cars at local dealers and parking them in the track parking lot. The Dallas race was rained out and the cars never ran. Regardless, Both cars are great and should be looked at that way. Maybe Im missing something ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually the stuff was written in a piece by BY CAMERON A. WARREN and JAMES T. CROW for Road and Track Magazine PS GREAT CAR JEFF GOOD LUCK ON THE SALE sorry for the highjack
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The 500 number was the minumum to consider it a production car, and GM did not want to even produce that many for this particular application.
And yes, there is a way to tell if the spoilers were the non mass produced 9796 spoilers. Of course, that still does not prove that that spoiler came on that car. Yes, holes are holes. BUT, there are at least three of us out there with build sheets now. L78 or 9796AA, and that recent Harrell car, seems like the second gens are hitting the market. Real point is that they are still undervalued and a bargin, IMO! ![]() ![]()
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It looks like the other car probably isn't going to happen so I might just have them pull this ad because I don't plan on selling if I don't buy the other car.
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69 Z28 JL8, #'s match - being restored |
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Jeff,
What is the extra fuel option? Is it a larger tank? ![]()
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Chuck Sharin [email protected] Auburn,WA (30 miles South of Seattle) 70 Camaro R/S Z-28, L-78, R/S SS 69 Camaro COPO "recreation" |
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You gonna say something Chuck?
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And yes, there is a way to tell if the spoilers were the non mass produced 9796 spoilers. [/ QUOTE ] I didn't know this.. Good info. ![]() PM me with the answer as I have taken this way off track. Sorry.
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1969 Z28 1972 Corvette |