Sold 1969 z/28

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Up until about 5 months ago this was a one-family owned car (Hank Koldenhoff) in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He bought it at J Holland Motors, Ltd. in Burlington, Ontario according to the GM of Canada documentation. Hank got himself a very low option Z with Style Trim Group, M21 Muncie and the Z23 interior woodgrain trim and not much else. It is a pre-X code car with flat hood and no spoilers, being an early 10D car. Sadly Hank passed last year and the family was left to deal with the car.

The car retains an impressive list of its original parts including distributor, radiator, carb (though June '68 dated which is a stretch, but possible), deep groove pulleys, alternator, starter, positive battery cable, BV 4.10 rear, all 5 (five) AD rally wheels (09-20 dates) and the numbers matching born-with VO1024 DZ engine.

The transmission is a bit of a mystery. The family members have no recollection of the car ever needing trans work. But the VIN is 528195 on it (best I can see) and this car is 529996. So if the transmission was replaced in the 70's or 80's they hit a home-run with the replacement because it is a 1969 M-21 from a Norwood Camaro built within 48 hrs. or so of this car, thus perfectly dated to it, at October 19th, with its original tag in place and it is equally dirty as the motor. GM of Canada has no record of a 1969 Camaro with a VIN ending in 528195 and also 528195 unfortunately falls outside the roll of VINS with info available from NCRS so I cannot rule out that this trans is from a real Camaro. My gut tells me its an assembly line mis-stamp, but then again numbers are numbers. According to CRG this car is one of the early ones that would NOT have had a sub-frame proportioning valve. It is missing its original 309 master cylinder but the 276th day 1968 9204 booster is the original. The grill is black so it's been replaced.

IT IS A RUSTY CAR. Partial quarters that (from the outside looking down the side of the car) look great! Big patches in the floor, and the rockers ends are bad at the meeting with the outer rear wheelhouses. The bottom of the driver's door is toast and the seam is rusty along the bottom of the passenger door. Bubbling at the roofline along the drip rail molding. The rear rails are nice and solid and the trunk floor has only two minor issues - a dime sized hole on one of the contours and some attention needed at passenger side shock mount. Fenders, hood, cowl area, trunk lid all look quite solid.

I drove it on a side street by my shop and though the engine and trans are covered in oil and grime it idles and runs good with no smoke, knocks or ticks (see youtube link). The brakes are dangerously bad and it seems to dislike second gear. Might be clutch, might be shifter, might be both.

I momentarily thought of doing the brakes etc. and bombing around in it, but I need another project like a hole in the head and the thought of touching those crusty brake bleeders is a no-go. It's an early Z in good colors with most of its original stuff so I figured somebody here might be interested.

I can meet someone ON THE CANADIAN SIDE in Sarnia at the Blue Water Bridge (Michigan) or at one of the New York crossings with the car, your choice. There are plenty of links on here and around the internet on how to get a car across the border from Canada to the USA, it isn't hard. It's just some paperwork.

$38,500