Very Cool '73 #s Z/28 LT Barn Find, $9900

[MJV1953]

It is also listed on Facebook for $9,999.

[scuncio]

I guess I love it so much because it looks so much like the Midwest muscle era cars did in the late 1980s, early 1990s era.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by scuncio

I guess I love it so much because it looks so much like the Midwest muscle era cars did in the late 1980s, early 1990s era.

Pre- urethane bumpers makes it look like it's still in the muscle car era. I hear ya on the rust "patina". We have that in MN and WI too and it's all too common and just as destructive to the vehicles.


Where I work, we have 1 guy that all he does is repair/rebuild frames under trucks and suv's, mostly Toyota's, but there are plenty of Ford and Chev's that come thru too. We've seen if for 6 years now, but with the current shortage of vehicles, the requests to save a rusted vehicle far outnumber the vehicles he can keep up with.

[scuncio]

Yep, exactly. Detroit is odd in the sense that we have so many new cars on the road with nearly everyone working in some facet of the industry (company cars, development cars, etc). When I visit my folks in Milwaukee, I'm always surprised to see how much older stuff is still on the road. IIRC the average registered vehicle age is ~12yr, which is a heck of a lot of salt exposure year after year.

I wish I had taken pics of all the cool cars just sitting around in my neighborhood back in the 1980s.

[Too Many Projects]

When the gas crisis hit hard in the mid seventies, many yards looked like used muscle car lots. Cars all over with For Sale signs in the windows. I used to buy 1st gen Camaros for under 1K that needed a tune up, brakes, etc. I would repair and clean them up and sell for mid teens. Now a complete rust bucket roller sells for that...
By the time I was 30 yrs old, I had owned over 100 cars, the vast majority being Camaro, Chevelle and Impalas. Many got repaired and driven for a while and others were just parts cars for the drivetrain, since the bodies were little more than rust dust at only 10 years old.