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#21
05-09-2005, 06:34 AM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
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Do the cars you want, have to be Rare? or just Nasty Nice  [/ QUOTE ] Mike the cars I collect are based on a few principles: 1. Fiqure out how your gonna get out of it, before you get in it! While many times our plan doesn't include selling something we have wanted and waited for, things change and that time eventually comes. The thrill of searching for or building that special car is better than finally obtaining it (doesn't apply to cars with emotional involvement i.e. DarrenX33). 2.ALWAYS buy the BEST quality restored vehicle you can! Even if you do some or all of the work yourself, your time is worth something. Any body who has bought a car and paid for restoration knows its like building a house. You start with a budget but before its finished your 20% or more over. You can't get the project from point A to point B for the difference. 3. NEVER EVER buy or build a Street Rod! These are built with a desire to be different, not to appeal to the masses. And they don't! Every auction I've been to has loads of these cars that guys have spent 90k on, and are now lucky to get 50k. 4.Always buy cars that have a history of collectibility, i.e 1970 chevelles. There were over 50,000 of the 396ss cars built and there value is steadily increasing. Tri five cars are another example. 5. Cars that have a long production run make the next generation aware of them and this creates a tie to early production. Mustangs, Camaro's, Firebird's and Corvettes are all good examples. The short production run of the early GTO and a body style with no link to the past is the reason for the new GTO's poor showing. 6. Always buy limited production high horepower cars that sold well when they were new! If they were popular then, chances are good they be popular later. Now go out and order your 06 Corvette ZO6 and 06 Shelby Mustang GT500. Didn't mean to pontificate. Just wanted to answer your question completely and give some insight as to why I would want these particular cars.
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#22
05-09-2005, 06:43 AM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
Ralph,
Sure I'm interested. Send me an email or pm with info on car Thanks, Howard
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#23
05-09-2005, 11:01 PM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
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Howard, I sent you an email about a LS-6 car listed locally. James [/ QUOTE ] I went and looked at the car the first day it was in the trader. If it was what it was advertised as I would have bought it... it is far from the ad. The car has a 66 Corvette 427 390 and some one got crazy on the stamp pad with a die grinder and the ole mans number stamps. That is the least of what was wrong... when I asked the guy for the build sheet he brought out a photocopy when asked about the original..he didn't know if he could find it or not.
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~JAG~ NCRS#65120 68 GTO HO 4 spd Alpine Blue /Parchment 2 owner car #21783 71 Corvette LT1 45k miles Orig paint - Brandshatch Green - National Top Flight - last known 71 LT1 built. 71 Corvette LT1 42k miles Original paint - Black - black leather - only black LT1 known to exist. NUMEROUS Lemans blue Camaros, Monza Red and Daytona Yellow Corvettes & a Chevelle or two... Survivors, restored cars, & other photos https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos
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#25
05-10-2005, 05:50 AM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
The guy says the car has been sold. Here is how the car was listed.
James 1970 CHEVROLET CHEVELLE SS 454 LS 6 4 SPEED, 410 POSI TRACTION. 22,000 ORIGINAL MILES. BLACK, WHITE STRIPES, BLACK INTERIOR. HAVE BILLING SHEETS. CLASS A TITLE. $35,000 FIRM.
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1968 Beaumont SD396
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#26
05-11-2005, 06:37 PM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
Car had mostly original paint but a tool box that was in the trunk had slammed in to the 1/4's and dented them out on both sides, it had a Hurst shifter installed and the console had been cut with a hacksaw. He said he bought the car at Padget Chevrolet in downtown Greenville but the build sheet showed City Chevrolet in Charlotte as the dealer.(he had an elaborate explanation) I asked him where he found the original build sheet... he couldn't answer the question...he just found it. The car had ladder bars and side pipes.(Day 2 really cool) It was probably worth in the $20,000 range... He insisted that the motor was original, even though it had a cast iron intake, a quadrajet, 66 casting dates, and the messed up stamp pad, if you could have found the original engine it might have been worth more but he wouldn't admit to anything, the cowl induction air cleaner was also gone, and it had rust through on the drivers 1/4.
It was probably 22k original miles but they may have been 1/4 mile at a time!
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~JAG~ NCRS#65120 68 GTO HO 4 spd Alpine Blue /Parchment 2 owner car #21783 71 Corvette LT1 45k miles Orig paint - Brandshatch Green - National Top Flight - last known 71 LT1 built. 71 Corvette LT1 42k miles Original paint - Black - black leather - only black LT1 known to exist. NUMEROUS Lemans blue Camaros, Monza Red and Daytona Yellow Corvettes & a Chevelle or two... Survivors, restored cars, & other photos https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos
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#28
05-12-2005, 06:13 AM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
Mark'
Thanks for the compliment! Currently no cars are for sale.
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#29
06-07-2005, 03:15 AM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
!969-70 Boss 429 KK1212 factiry race. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayIS...222591&rd=1
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Les Dixon 68 camaro SS 396 RS convertible L34/M40/G80/U69
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#30
06-07-2005, 04:01 AM
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Re: Cars needed for Collection
How about a perfect Z11 Pace Car? See it here: https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show.../page/1#110296
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