Musclecar or Corvette?

[Pantera]

Actually a ZL-1 clone would be pretty tame looking. They only had a little extra paint on the L-88 style hood to set them apart from a stock '69 BB vette with a L-88 hood.

Unless he could find a real alum motor which would make a lousy street motor he would be better off picking up on something more fun like a mid-year grandsport clone.

68-73 year vettes were not the distinctive looking cars that cloners want to emulate. A 69 Yenko Camaro would be a much better choice for a clone in the price range he is working in.

I wish him good luck in his endeavor no mater what way he goes. Tough to chose sometimes.

If I was him I would try to buy a 70-73 Z-28 while they are still in the lower price range and have a streetable "real" collector car that will appreciate in value.
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[Dave Rifkin]

Pantera that is my other choice: the '70 - '73 Camaro Z28. I owned a Forest Green automatic when I was in my early twenties. That thing was a great all around car; loved the sound of the solid lifters. I wish I still had it; would have never imagined that they'd be knocking on the $40,000 range.
Corvette..........Z28 ........decisions, decisions

[Pantera]

Well look at it this way. The longer you ponder the more one will cost you.

Get out and look you just never know what you will find. I was test driving a '98 vette a few weeks ago and decided I really was to old to enjoy a 6 speed anymore so I passed and noticed he also had a nice looking yellow 66 Buick Skylark sportcoupe. To make a long story short I wound up with it and it was a one owner/famly car.

The original owner of Ike's Chili parlor here in Tulsa (a old family run instution) was who bought it new. He let his daughter drive it for a while and they turned it over to her daughter about a year or so ago and she turned in down in favor of one of the new econobox vans the kids seem to love.

SO I am now the proud second owner. If you try you can find all kinds of old cars around and usually in some of the dammest places.

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[Allen]

My vote is a '69 Corvette... or a Nova!

Here's my silver '69...

[TimG]

The third generation Corvettes are great cars and nice ones can be found in your price range. Don't rule out a nice 1973 soft bumper Corvette, either. Also, the 1973 Z28's are the nice bumpers and they have the fairly potent L82 motors.
These are certainly in your price range and you can have an original car that is very similar in looks to the rip roaring 1970 to 1972 LT1 Z28's. How about a nice 1970 to 1973 Trans Am, you can find a fairly nice one for a decent price as long as you don't go into 455 SD territory.