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[MYSTERYCHEVELLE]

A good original question/post, look forward to other responses, unless it has been answered as well as it can?

Mike

[Charley Lillard]

I think I would leave em alone and not paint them. But then I don't have to look at them everyday either.

[DSYenko]

Pantera
The decision is yours ,you have a 50/50 chance of having done the right thing when (someday)comes depending on what choice you make today.If you chose to do nothing at this point in time you cant be wrong because it will still be original,and as you know there only original once.
As far as (someday),when will someday be here?? How will we know?? These cars are 30 plus years old right now!!Also when (someday) gets here I dont think the determining factors will be any different than today as far as which way is more valuable In my opinion (right now could be the someday we all refer to)
I know many will disagree,many just might not want to admit it, but I think these could be the best days for these cars as far as price and collectability!I hope not and could be wrong but time will tell.
I better just stop here as somehow im feeling like I just walked into the lyon's den.
Please don't kick me off the site for the above statements, just bash my desk a while longer for not having the correct repro grille ,that will be punishment enough! Pantera, I'd leave the cars as they are even if their not "perfect". Duane

[Pantera]

I wish I could leave them the way they are but at the very least they deserve to be repainted and I can do a quality job on them. I stripped the paint off the '69 down to bare glass years ago and then quit working on it so that I could devote more time to racing SCCA cars. I have always thought I would live forever when I was young and now all of a sudden I am looking hard at 60!!! I want to be sure that these cars survive me and go into hands that will perserve them.

I love them and they are so much fun to cruise the drive in's in on a Sat night. Of course they are now too valuable to risk doing that with. Naw.... I will have to go once or twice with one or the other. That dam LS-7 has got to be a handfull at low speeds and it has to be even harder to go slow in with the alum heads and the hotter cam. I had a hard time with cooling the LS-6 that is in it now. The last time I drove it was at Hallett OK racetrack in a SCCA autocross where we got to run the entire track. On Hoosiers it ran a 1:29.8 which would be good enough to be on the second row of the grid of a GT-1 race back in the '80's.

I will be repairing just what needs to be fixed and give them both a hell of a paint job and then show them to the world. I really hate it that the '69 is Hugger orange instead of red like it looks like on the cover of the Cars magazine.

In all actually I would really like to go back black w/gold stripe the way I first got it. Damm that was one beatiful car back then. I think I will try to find a clone to make it look like it did back then so that I could go cruise with it. Perhaps a SB callaway drivetrain instead of the big block for street use? might even be faster than the BB 427.