Mecum auction Oct. 2005

[Charley Lillard]

Crossram RS Z was a fresh resto and the sheet claimed a GM crossram. I did not look under the hood. It sold for 130K plus 5% fee total 136,500. Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.

[DarrenX33]

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Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.


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Go figure.

[musclecarjohn]

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Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.


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Go figure.

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I've seen guys re-popping the GM part # and the snowflake on the X-rams and I gotta tell ya:

They're getting real good at it.

[DarrenX33]

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I've seen guys re-popping the GM part # and the snowflake on the X-rams and I gotta tell ya:

They're getting real good at it.

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So good that when someone gets one put on they get amnesia.

[SamLBInj]

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Crossram RS Z was a fresh resto and the sheet claimed a GM crossram. I did not look under the hood. It sold for 130K plus 5% fee total 136,500. Another crossram Z claiming GM crossram had a repo crossram with the GM part #.

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Hey, the date they are using on the repops, were real ones also made on the same date, if so how could you tell a real one?

[CamaroKing]

Same guy bought RS Z28 Crossram for $130K and 69 Post L78 Silver Chevelle for $137,500 both were for his 8yr old kid. Fresh resto on Z super nice quality car stood tall.

[WILMASBOYL78]

Heard through the "grapevine" that a red 69 SS 350 Nova went for around $41k. Now I know it's not as many zeros as the other mega dollar units. But,it is pretty interesting for a small block Nova. Were there any BB Novas other than the Yenko discussed? Sounds like this was quite an event. I'll have to go to one sometime.....

wilma

[mockingbird812]

"Same guy bought RS Z28 Crossram for $130K and <font color="blue">69 Post L78 Silver Chevelle for $137,500</font> both were for his 8yr old kid. Fresh resto on Z super nice quality car stood tall. "

Does anyone have the skinny on this 69 300 Deluxe? Any pictures?

Thanks

[mockingbird812]

Found pix at the mecum website. Nice looking car . Where did they get the "1 of only 6 built" statistic from? Post 300 L78 numbers are projected at about 140 total and Hardtop 300 L78s are projected at about 180 (per Dan Carr's research). Anybody know where this car was campaigned and set the record? Was this by chance a factory L89 optioned L78? That might account for the "1 of 6". Anybody notice the build date and factory of this car?

Thanks!

[Mr70]

I had heard about this car growing up.
I haven't seen the 69 300 series L-78 since the Chevelle Showdown in 1993,after Brian Caudell restored it.
I believe it's a Kansas build Leeds plant.
The 1 of 6 claim is a for Aluminum headed L-89's and is a guesstimate as well that has been grossly misquoted over onto these cars now.GM doesn't even know how many were made originally.
This isn't an Aluminum head L-89,it was delivered as an L-78 cast iron head to Cliff Parry of Astoria,Il.
He drag raced it for one year after he bought it back then.Race track officials had a hard time believeing it was a Legitimate factory built 2 dr sedan 300 series Super Sport L-78 Chevelle,(1969 was the only year this was possible,and very few existed),so Cliff campaigned it as the "GM Reject".
He raced it around Iowa &amp; central Illinois and at Beardstown achieved a Super Stock Class National Record.It was forced to run in that class,due to it's questionable claim.It only raced seriously for one year and was soon retired to street racing soon after.
Years later it went out to Boyd C. shop in Calif.,then was up for sale at SC Indy months later.
When Greg D. bought it in 1989,it had only 6188 miles on it.