Ouch, my poor Z28

[Smokey]

The adjuster was doing his job. His job is to make it as smooth as possible and as cheap as possible. You got alot of great advice from Kim and Steve.

Take the 36k minus the buyback amount, give the car to your son and let him build it and have fun with it. Sure it won't be a Chev Vettfest Unrestored Gold Spinner car or a non hit virgin, but a very nice start for Jr who will love it with the same heart and love it as much as you have. He won't care about NOS Harrision stickers and the high end nickle and dime 998 point details pieces. Things that we forgot is that we became classic car snobs and want original born with everything with GM paint, and not a great restored muscle car unless if its a COPO, BM, Yenko or 1 of 29 cars.

I went through this same thing with a 63 409 car that was un-restored with its born with paint 3 year ago. I still kick myself about it so learn from our mistakes.