Hemmings e news: Ex-racer Chevelle rakes in $1.2

[jfkheat]

I heard something very interesting about this car today. I stopped at one of the Chevelle parts dealers today and got to talking with an employee about this auction. He told me that the car in tha auction MAY not be the car it is supposed to be and MAY be a restamped engine. He said they were offered the car earlier last year for about 10% of what it sold for but declined. He didn't go into any details and I didn't ask a lot of questions. I don't know how much of this is true. I'm just repeating what I was told today.
James

[P.J.]

Are you suggesting that there is a fix on bidding for these cars???
suprss70

[musclecarjohn]

Nothing that happens at auctions surprises me...

The R&S auction in Monterey feels about as crooked as a 3 dollar bill...same cars every year,shill bidding,etc.
I'm beginning to think R&S owns most of these cars and just buys them back at their own auctions (which is legal)if they don't bring what they want.

[shor]

Wow !, what a bold and inflamatory post to make on a public forum without anything to back it up except some idle chatter down by the local parts counter. I am surprised.

[jfkheat]

This was not the local parts counter. It was one of the largest Chevelle restoration parts suppliers in the country.
James

[Charley Lillard]

I was never under the impression the car had it's orig. engine. Who cares ? It is it's history. I also heard the gossip it was a LS5 car but there was a very real LS6 build sheet with the car. One person spreading the word at the auction that the car was a LS5 car retracted the accusation when he saw the build sheet. There was then reasoning that the car won races before the LS6 was even released. Someone should be able to confirm that. Then the logic went to there must have been two cars..LS5 then LS6. I think the car brought the money because of it's race history more than anything else.

[jfkheat]

Charlie, after I made the first post here about this, I received an email stating some of the same things you mentioned. Since there seems to be so many rumors floating around about this car, it seems very possible that some of them may be true.
James

[Belair62]

It's very possible that the rumors are NOT true too ! Where is Musclecarkid ? Surprised he hasn't piped in...

[Mr70]

It's a May 1970 Build,so that rumor is totally debunked.Well into LS-6 territory by then..I've seen the paperwork & it all looks authentic to me to be a REAL LS-6 convertible built at the factory.I've never thought any different growing up, from all the years it was raced as well.
In Drag Racing Action Magazine March 06,they state Ray Allen reports Chevrolet only built 17 of these Chevelle Converts from the factory.If that isn't magazine sales hype and Ray really did indeed state this,I would like to know what he is basing this on,again,if he did in fact say this.
Remember NHRA rules required at least 50 units had to be built,for a Vehicle to qualify to run in Super Stock ...even EA class,and I am confident that at least 30 of these have been shown to be produced so far.