Insane 1st Gen "restoration" project

[WMCC Doug]

Check out this link : http://www.chirpthird.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6801

Read all the posts, to the end. You won't believe how this ends ............

Raises the question, "What really makes a "car", the body, the VIN, the paper work?" :reidneer2:

[WMCCjames]

Damn!!!!! Crazy stuff right there!

[SoulTerror]

$17k for that?? man must be nice to have money to throw away.

[WMCCjames]

$17k for that?? man must be nice to have money to throw away.

Not throwing money away at all...they will make that money back easy. Still pretty crazy that a VIN tag can bring that kind of money.

[JoeliusZ28]

wow.

[zmanrc]

It's all about the money

[WMCC Dino]

wish I had that guys $$$$

[WMCCjames]

wish I had that guys $$$$

I wish I had your $$$$$

[meissen]

That's disgusting!

[c0ncEpT]

A friends of mines Boss picked up a 68' Yenko in just a little better shape than that. Foir $50 bucks out of a farmers feild. Lucky bastard

[phoenix_rising]

I think its great! If you are going to restore any car why not make it a nice one? An fbody would constitute as a nice car in my book anyday, especially a vintage limited edition fbody.

[meissen]

The real question is what stops that guy from removing the VIN tag and placing it on an average Camaro?

[81DaytonaPaceCar]

The real question is what stops that guy from removing the VIN tag and placing it on an average Camaro?

Which is exactly what he'll do.

I have somewhat mixed feelings on this...but as you are really not creating another '67 BB pace car, but just reintroducing the real vin back into the field, is this really a bad thing? Would you rather just see the death of such a rare car because there was nothing left of it other than the vin and cowl tags?

I'm all for restoring where possible, but that thing was beyond hope.

Props to the guy that found the heap and recognized it for what it was.

[JoeliusZ28]

if thats what it originally looked like... wow (again)

[81DaytonaPaceCar]

if thats what it originally looked like... wow (again)

Yep, that's it. Unknown number of them built...best guesses are between 103 to 200 total (possibly more...nobody really knows) that were configured with 327 engines (alledgedly only for the 10 small blocks sent to Canada), 350s, and 396s (11 of these went to Canada...none of the Canadian cars have been found).

It should be noted that after the initial two releases of these cars from the plant, dealers started cloning them by ordering RS/SS white convertibles and putting the blue stripes and stickers on them (further clouding the exact number made).

All in all, there were likely between 40 and 80 actual big blocks built.

The known remaining number you can count on two hands.

A very rare F-body.