Needing reassurance on purchase

[Grusum]

In my defense, in my neck of the woods, a handshake is your word and one's honor is defined by your actions. If I was to sell something and offered the opportunity for someone to inspect it thoroughly, that would mean I had NOTHING to hide. I guess I'm not used to a world where that means "I'm covering my butt here so that I can't be held responsible". If I sold something to someone and they were in tears over it I would do everything in my power to rectify it. If I was certain the price was fair I would be confident that I could take the item back and sell it the next day to someone else, honor intact, sleeping well at night. I must also stress that I had independant assurance on the purchase. I coincidentally phoned a person for his opinion about the car two days before sealing the deal, not only did he say the car looked great in the ebay ad, but also he was a friend of the sellers, and told me if the seller said it was so then it was so. I also felt reassured by the fact that as the car sat waiting to be picked up, the seller told me that a guy literally woud not leave him alone about the car and was willing to pay me 3K more. Wouldn't this make you believe you had a decent car?

[Rick H]

Ok, I am going to post two pictures that will pretty much tell the story. Again, I reviewed these on the basis that I would be subjective and let both party know of where I stand about this car. When I reviewed these 2 pictures I knew right away that something was very wrong. I have a 1970 Z/28 sitting in my driveway and have owned more of these cars then I can remember. I'm not saying I am an expert but I know a thing or two about these cars.

Anyways, the following pictures of the rear swaybar frame brackets are in no way factory installed. They look nothing like any factory bracket I have ever seen. Matter of fact if you look close to the framerails you will not see any evidence of the correct brackets ever being installed. The welds are bad and you can see the undercoating.

Factory swaybar brackets have an eliptical shape to them and are welded to the sides of the framerail. Any 1970 Z/28 owner should recognize this right away. The ones shown in the following pictures are homemade.

I have nothing to gain from this and want to see that all parties are satisfied.

There are other issues with the car but these pretty much sum it up.

Rick H.

[COPO]

As another '70 Z-28 owner, I can tell you those rear sway bar brackets aren't even close to factory appearance.

[Stuart Adams]

I'm with Belair, is this a real Z. Rough car, IMO.

[chevjon396]

here is a photo of the correct 70 Z28 rear stab upper bracket.

[Charley Lillard]

I think what Rick and Copo are telling you is the car is not a real Z28.

[Stuart Adams]

[70Z]

Holy crap, not even close is right. I have a close up pic of what they should look like but I don't know how to resize it and post it.

[Hotrodpaul]

Here is a pic of an original bracket off of my 70 Z-28.




Also, I noticed that the car in question had no rear bumper guards and I did not see the cup style bracket that hold the gas pedal studs. The studs seemed to be attached directly to the floor. Take a look at an original bracket:



Paul

[Rick H]

Two pictures for comparison.

Rick H.