1969 427 camaro copo?????

[69 Post Sedan]

I think $5k is a crazy number for the POP. I do think it's worth something but if they are/were friends I would hope it would be a lot less than $5k. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

Good luck Ronnie...I hope it works out in your favor.

Kurt [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

I could never understand why people do that. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img]

I sold a 440 six barrel 1971 cuda ragtop (1 of 12 automatics) back in 1988. Eight years later I found the original set of carbs for the car. You can only imagine what that set was worth! I simply just gave them to the guy I sold the car to, who still had the car, because they belonged with the car.

Fast forward another 10 years or so and I found the original owners manual packet in a long forgotten drawer of paperwork. I called the same guy up and told him what I had found for him. After years of getting ripped off by other people he had bought cars from, he was somewhat jaded and asked me how much I wanted for it. I replied: &quot;lunch...and a tour of the collection so I could see the car again.&quot; We we both quite happy with the deal.

Similar story with my old 1971 440 six barrel, four speed Cuda ragtop (1 of 5). When I sold it in 1986, the buyer drove it home to Indiana from my house. He decided to leave the original numbers-matching four speed tranny behind with me because he didn't really want to carry it home, and it needed rebuilding anyway. A couple years later I called him up and reminded him of what I had. I told him to come on back and pick it up, no charge of course. I just wanted it reunited with the car.

What goes around comes around. In 1991, the entire dealer file folder on my 70 hemi charger R/T-SE showed up in my mailbox one day from a then-employee of the original selling dealership in NJ who had found it in the dumpster during a cleanup day. What do you think that was worth? It had every piece of paperwork you could imagine in it, down to the dealer prep work order documenting the set of headers installed by that same employee's father back in 1970 at the same dealership.

I'm a firm believer in the The Golden Rule.

[mockingbird812]

Good on you Steve. The way it<span style="font-weight: bold">*</span> should be.










































<span style="font-weight: bold">*</span>Steve omitted the fact that <span style="font-style: italic">&quot;lunch&quot;</span> was in Paris and only the Concorde would convey him there!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Ha! It was in New York! Just up the Joysey toynpike from me.

[mockingbird812]

sez u!

[AutoInsane]

Well the POP plate definitely has a value to you as the owner of the car. $5,000 sure is a high number. Perhaps the realistic price should be on the order of $500 ??

While I can understand your frustration I would try and keep up the communication with the guy who has the POP.

Good luck!!

[parkbrau]

That is bunk. Holding PoP hostage for 5K.

[iluv69s]

I am not sure of the circumstances, but I do not see the difference in selling the original protecto plate or selling the original motor to someone´s car. It is great that some people have given the original paperwork to a car to the owner free, including myself, but I have also paid dearly(gladly)for original documents for my prior cars.

Although 5k seems rather high for the protecto-plate, it definitely is worth a considerable amount as the only piece of actual documentation for your car.I do not know how much more your car is worth with the protecto-pate, but it definitely would make your car much rarer and desirable as a COPO with docs.

I would be saving my pennies and trying to arrive at the guys door with a cash offer. just my opinion...

Good Luck!!

[olredalert]

----Yes,,,The price is steep. The part to remember here, though, is (according to Ronnie) the POP was promised to him for nothing. A promise is a promise. Whoever you are out there, live up to your promise, and Ill bet if you do Ronnie would gladly help you out with your other problems if he can......Bill S

[njsteve]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iluv69s</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am not sure of the circumstances, but I do not see the difference in selling the original protecto plate or selling the original motor to someone´s car.
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The difference is that an engine has an intrinsic value to not only the car it belonged to, but to other cars as well. A POP is of value only to the car it belonged to originally.

If the present holder of the POP can't get Ronnie to buy it, there isn't really a market for it. No one out there is going to pay anywhere near that asking price for it.