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Yokel |
Thanks for the post Takes me back to high school days Me '74 older brother '68 Southern California had lots of drag strips back then. A good friend of my brother's rolled a '56 Chevy end over end in a street race and walked away from it. He clipped a concrete center divide in a business area at night. Couple of my friends had a Pontiac GTO and Lemans Me '63 Ford F100 Unitized Body Pickup. 6cyl three on the tree. Thanks again for the post. Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it! - John Steinbeck | |||
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Fonky Honky |
True, but the sale prices of muscle cars has gone nuts lately. I think he paid quite a bit less initially, than what some of these cars are selling for. He'll live alot more comfortably! _________________________________________ Dei. Familia. Patria. Victoria. Don't back up, don't back down. | |||
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Page late and a dollar short |
It's at 325k presently. The standout for me is being a black car. From 68 on I can probably count on one hand how many C-3's I've seen in that color from the factory. In the 70's I worked at a Penske dealership, we had three dedicated Corvette technicians, they never touched anything but Vettes unless it was their own cars. Even rarer than the L88 was the REAL ZL-1 Aluminum block 427 in 1969. While GM Performance Parts a few years ago did market what they called a ZL-1 I consider it more of a tribute, there were differences in it. About 1989-90 time frame I had a friend who had a muscle car lot in Metro Detroit. He called me one evening with a dilemma, that being that he was in a telephone bidding war for an original ZL-1 bare block in the Chicago area if memory is correct. Anyway, he needed to confirm somethings he was told about it. If memory is correct it was one of the original fifty-some Camaro installed engines. I called my sources in GM Performance, real informal and small compared to today, got the information he needed. Those were the days that I could call and ask for Ernie Callard, the head of Performance Parts and actually speak to him. I met him earlier on during my years at Penske as my parts manager and I were the middleman between GM and Penske Racing. He bailed out at about the 5k mark as the bidding kept going up, this was before Ebay days, just all telephone bids, word of mouth. Don't remember where it ended up or for how much but it was pretty impressive for that era, that I remember. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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