VIN tag problem

[William]

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-chevrolet-camaro-z-28-132/

124379N612301

VIN tag only, sold on eBay September, 2001.

[Lynn]

Engine pad looks like a bad restamp.

Can't tell if trim tag has been off. Has like 5 coats of paint on it.

[6667ss138]

Wow, great work as always from William and the CRG experts/data base. But if you go on bat and expose it you get called a "forum jacka$$' and then it gets deleted as "not constructive." I guess if enough people get burned and learn the hard way maybe things will change someday but I wouldn't bet on it!

[chevelleheart]

Wow is right , jeeze great work is right

[Billohio]

I was just going to post this. I think there was another Camaro this happened too. Did BAT pull it or did the seller stop the auction?

[Lynn]

I contacted the seller privately, so as to avoid the jackass drama queens.

He said it is appreciated. I advised him to check the hidden partial vin under the cowl panel. It may be puttied in. Most of the time the guys selling a car like this have no clue about the shady past.

[Too Many Projects]

A poster said to google the vin before bidding and another posted about the tag sale on ebay. Maybe this one will get proper attention...maybe.

[Billohio]

I noticed the dash has been replaced, maybe the cowl has also.

[Lynn]

Partial stamp on the cowl.

[Too Many Projects]

The more I look at it, the less I like it.

[Bill Pritchard]

Maybe when the VIN tag was sold 21+ years ago the seller also had the cowl section?

[jeffschevelle]

Several comments have been posted noting that, when viewing from the rear, the roof and the floor pan / rear clip don't align. And it's not even close. Easy to conclude that maybe at some point this body (whatever VIN it may have been born with) was stripped down to a birdcage and nothing more, then the entire backend tacked on piece by piece.

Some people are talented enough to do that and end up with everything fitting and being square. But most aren't. Whoever did this car should have stuck to the change-one-piece-at-a-time approach.

I know a guy that sent a decent 67 Chevelle body to an "approved AMD installer" who said it needed everything (which it really didn't, but ... ). They stripped it down to the cage and put all repro metal on it. When done, one side at the back was almost 4" off from the other side. Yet somehow they got a decklid to fit on it ??? So he aborted and sold that project, and moved on to a rust free car instead!

[jeffschevelle]

Seller added a pic of the backside of the cowl VIN stamp. Sure looks like two sets of numbers are stamped over top each other from that view ...

[Lynn]

That car is all twisted for sure.

[Billohio]

I see extra numbers there too. Not good

[Too Many Projects]

It appears that way from the top too, with what may be some filler/seam sealer added around it. Compared to an original, clean panel and stamp it is a mess.

[Lynn]

bidding is up to 56,500

[Danzo]

Sold for 70K

[Big Block Bill]

That's CRAZY!
Bill

[dykstra]

Sold for 70K

WOW!!:dunno: