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Old 11-24-2021, 12:44 AM
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Mitch, I would guess the car owner and the other guy know each other but maybe can't agree on price?

Very possible, I was party to that situation with my LS5 about 16 years ago. I tracked down the current owner of the body I had owned from 1973-1979 and was offered to buy it as a roller to reunite the engine with it. It had been "restored" horribly and he wanted 10k just for the roller. I turned it down and to this day wonder if I made the right choice, but it would have taken a complete strip to the inner structure to put that body back together correctly. No idea where it went when he sold it, or is now.
I have another '70 SS waiting for a frame off that the engine will, eventually, go in. For now, it resides as a 492 in day 2 appearance in my '66 SS.
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Great GREAT story and history , thx for posting ..wow….
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Old 11-24-2021, 12:28 AM
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a little late to the thread but I was floored when I say it roll out of the trailer Thursday. I posted those pics seen in the early post. MCACN was off the charts this year
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Old 11-24-2021, 02:32 AM
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Such a cool thread. Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on this. For guys like me that have had a rough day with work today, reading these cool threads at night is a great way to end a day. Thank you and to the others. Y’all never know how entertaining stuff like this is to some of us.
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Old 11-24-2021, 03:23 AM
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Couldn't have said it any better.

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Such a cool thread. Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on this. For guys like me that have had a rough day with work today, reading these cool threads at night is a great way to end a day. Thank you and to the others. Y’all never know how entertaining stuff like this is to some of us.
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here is the Z-16 prototype

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0509-79...evelle-ss-z16/
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I asked Jeff Helms about the IY code listed in Alan Colvin's book and why it listed the engine as a 396/375 HP motor.
From Jeff: "When Alan wrote the book he did not have the COPO sheets from Tonawanda yet that explained the engine was a 396/425 and how to build it, so it remains correct as a 396/425 motor. Someone out there has the specifics on the COPO build, I'm sure we'd all love to see
Also, perhaps someone has information on the engine past number listed; 3888819 or the other COPO motor listed above this one, COPO 9557: 3882847?
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Old 11-23-2021, 08:49 PM
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They refer to the engine as an L-78...but that is not correct, shouldn't it be L-37.

This is an interesting thread...never knew about this car until now.

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