Zapper,
You must be talking about a different car? The original owner of this Yellow/Yellow RS was a little guy who bought it new and owned an old Esso station across from McMahon Stadium here in Calgary. The current owner has met him a couple times now and was given pictures of the car parked in front of the old station (1970) where he'd often park it along the pumps to draw attention to his business. He later sold it to a couple in Okotoks who drove it for a few years (mid 70's). They took it into a shop for some service work around 1976 and in conversation offered to sell it to a good friend of mine (Mike Thorpe) who was a mechanic there at the time, but he wasn't sure about buying it because the owner wanted a lot for it and the car had a heavy lien on it.
It then reportedly sat for years in an Okotoks garage when another friend (Graham Cannon) found the car sitting there but couldn't afford to buy it either. They all knew it was a special car, but the price was going up as the 2nd owner knew exactly what he had in a heavily optioned Double Copo. It was later sold to Steve Eisenberg who bought it 10 years later. It had been sitting for a while and was needing some work. I saw it 1990 when Steve started to tear into it at his shop where he and his partner Steve Liskoski started the restoration of it. It was then in pieces and was offered to me for 55K, but at 25 years of age I could nil afford the asking price at the time. It was then sold to the current owner who has now owned it twice since selling it to Stubbings and then having bought it back from Len couple years ago.
What is ironic about this car is how tight the circle of potential owners was, where we all wanted the car back then but only one guy ended up getting it. My good friend Mike Thorpe (who almost bought it in 1976) saw the car come into Western Corvette for a planned restoration in the early 90's. Mike is one of the best restoration experts around and spent a couple years dialing the car in to where it sits today. Once completed the car was shown while it was fresh, and was later sold to Jim Stubbing who had it in his showroom for a few years before going to California. If you read this magazine insert
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/mscp-...evy-camaro-rs/ you notice credit on the restoration was given to Heartbeat owner Jim Stubbings when truth be known, Mike Thorpe restored it here in Calgary (not Detroit).
It now been bought back by the previous owner here in Calgary and is
not for sale. I see the car pretty often and have been all over it. It is an absolute gem and one of two Copo's now in this private collection. It now has XT wheels back on the car.
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