Vehicle dilemma

[Dave Rifkin]

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Dave,
I guess it's kind of like going back to your 40th high school reunion and seeing that the hot cheerleader you had a crush on is now a contestant on The Biggest Loser.

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LOL, Steve it wasn't quite that bad; what had happened was the owner had considered racing the car and had started down that path. He installed drag shocks, an extremely stiff clutch, extremely short throw shifter, removed the multi-leaf spings to install mono-leaf springs with Cal-Tracs. From the outside, except for the rims/tires and stance, the car looked just as I remembered. However, once I got behind the wheel the car was a completely different animal. While it was a thrill to see my old friend again, I could not justify selling my all original, numbers matching '69 Corvette just so I could buy a completely un-original Camaro that would have needed some TLC to bring it back to a condition that would make it enjoyable for me.

I did take some pictures and have a lame video of it running that I'd like to share with everyone here but, I can't figure out how to post a video.

[beater68427]

Dave, I understand where your coming from, My very clean original Z28 pictured above. The new owner dicided the new fad was protouring, so he sent it to a buddy of his who stripped the car down took the original black delux interior out for some repo white stuff the original trans and engine were sold original shifter gone, complete brake assembly gone. Now sporting a 406 richmond trans and willwood brakes and master cyl. and a new coat of blue paint with very incorrect stripes, what looks like a 10 inch sand car steering wheel, Killer tunes....... and some 18 inch wheels from Big-O by the cheap look of them.. nice aluminum air cleaner and valve covers so on so on..... I actually got sick when I saw the car a few months after selling it, The person I sold it to sold it again now in Phoenix area, I saw it a Good Guys and the pain started all over again..

[Dave Rifkin]

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Dave, I understand where your coming from, My very clean original Z28 pictured above. The new owner dicided the new fad was protouring, so he sent it to a buddy of his who stripped the car down took the original black delux interior out for some repo white stuff the original trans and engine were sold original shifter gone, complete brake assembly gone. Now sporting a 406 richmond trans and willwood brakes and master cyl. and a new coat of blue paint with very incorrect stripes, what looks like a 10 inch sand car steering wheel, Killer tunes....... and some 18 inch wheels from Big-O by the cheap look of them.. nice aluminum air cleaner and valve covers so on so on..... I actually got sick when I saw the car a few months after selling it, The person I sold it to sold it again now in Phoenix area, I saw it a Good Guys and the pain started all over again..

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Makes you wonder what some people are thinking.

[beater68427]

I had known that car so many years and bought it from a friend it just gets me sick everytime I think of it. But I would never want it back.

[Dave Rifkin]

A few pictures of my old '68 SS/RS 396 that I went to look at earlier this week.

The car is an original SS/RS 396/325 car that was originally Matador red with a white vinyl roof, pearl parchment deluxe interior and full hubcaps.
The car now has an M22, 468 and is not a Chrysler color called 'Flash Red".

I took some videos of it idling (my first attempts at video) but I'm not sure how to post them.

[Salvatore]

WOW Dave, the car stil looks pretty nice in the pictures anyway. Yea a little de-chroming and some under hood re-painting looks necessary. People love to overchrome and paint firwalls and inner fenders the wrong color around here. They seem to win the car shows though.