DANA Camaro found in Mexico?

[Fast67VelleN2O]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183098&page=19

Check out the thread half way down.....

[427king]

Do mexican cars need papers to get them over the border?? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Read his whole thread.... he finds some interesting things....

[JChlupsa]

neat car and with Papers would be only the 2nd 67 DANA i know of. DANA Hood is missing but not all the DANA cars got the fiberglas hood. The post says it was there but now missing. That SS hood would be correct for the car if the DANA hood was never installed. Key to this car is PAPERWORK PAPERWORK PAPERWORK!!!!

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Interesting alumn headed car too.

[VintageMusclecar]

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Interesting alumn headed car too.

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If you're referring to the pic below, those look like aftermarket heads to me.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=314807&d=1180304698

Eric

[COPO]

Very cool find.

[Z-11 396]

I would like to see the "DANA Emblems" he said were found, put a picture of those on...Kasey

[ChevyThunder]

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Do mexican cars need papers to get them over the border?? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Now that is funny http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif But they actually do. I have raced in Mexico and I had to have paperwork on my car. I also own a car that was flown back and forth to Central America and Florida to race from 1980 to 1986 . The problem is that a lot of the cars in south and central america have shared VIN's. You needed to have paperwork to go from country to country and it is not uncommon to have two cars sharing the same VIN... even if you have the one with the factory VIN plate on it doesn't mean it was not taken off and put on a another car for travel. I have a friend that has two race cars that share the same VIN . They were bought out of Costa Rica.Those cars raced in Central America but were also flown to the USA to race in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and other IMSA races.We can tell which car is the factory car and which is the built car but we do not know which one competed at what race as both cars exterior look identical.
In the case with this Camaro that drag raced in Mexico I am sure the VIN is the the correct one as this is a different deal.
One of the Penske Trans Am Javlins that ran at the historics was found in a candle factory wharehouse in Mexico before being brought back to the USA .How it got there , who knows?

[markjohnson]

The silence on this thread about this car is deafening. I can only imagine this fellow's PM box over the last few hours and the frantic rush to get passports in order to secure this car. I would bet the farm this car has a new owner by the end of the week after this fellows 25 years of ownership and a few 'innocent' photos being posted. Almost a shame. I think these long time owners that cherish these cars for so long are the heroes of these stories, NOT the rich guy that 'discovers' them and writes a check.

[Fast67VelleN2O]

where is my finder's fee??? LOL!!

[427TJ]

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I think these long time owners that cherish these cars for so long are the heroes of these stories, NOT the rich guy that 'discovers' them and writes a check.

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I think it's fair to say that in this high-dollar car hobby of ours there probably isn't an owner of such a car who will take anything less than the maximum amount he can get--they've probably seen Barrett-Jackson on Speed Channel and most of them know what they have. Maybe there are rich guys clamoring for the cool points that buying this car would provide but it takes a rich guy to buy these cars nowadays. The days of discovering an original 1967 Dana Camaro in this condition, or any Supercar, and getting it for less than what, 100K?, are long gone. When we glorified these cars we immediately priced them out of the reach of the average 9-to-5 middle-class car nut.

[sYc]

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... I think these long time owners that cherish these cars for so long are the heroes of these stories, NOT the rich guy that 'discovers' them and writes a check.

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IMO, a win-win situation for both parties. The owner, who often times cannot afford, or at least justify, the expense of restoring the car, gets a nice chunk of change at a time when they could use it, such as with retirement entering the picture. The "rich guy" has the means to pay a fair price for the car, and have it restored for future generations to enjoy, saving another piece of history, before mother nature totally destorys it. One only has to look at the thread on here "rotting musclecars" to see where mother nature won. How many times has an owner been bashed for letting a car rot away, not willing to sell it? If not for the "rich guys", many rare and collectable cars would not be out there for us cars nuts to enjoy.

I have had the pleasure of meeting several long time owners of muslcecars, who after many years of saying no, finally decided to sell, and none were having regrets. Always neat to listen in to the conversation between the past and current owners. A passing of the torch so to speak.

[Roof]

Very well said!

[AutoInsane]

Wow, that is an awsome thread.... a very long thread but a great read!