1969 Cross-Ram Z/28

[scuncio]

A former colleague of mine is looking at this car. This would be his first serious collector car so I offered to help him dig up any history you guys might have with the car. Any feedback would be great...thanks!!

(I told him if he gets the car, I will align the DS headlight cover for him....)

http://tinyurl.com/j9fpqxf

[William]

For all the effort [and expense] that went into the otherwise beautiful restoration they put the wrong stripe color on it. Should have black stripes as noted on the certification. At this point very expensive to correct.

Some other details:

Trim height incorrect
Should not have a trunk mat
Should not have chrome tailpipes
Incorrect Posi tag; should have the red tag mounted on the fill plug
Spare wheel back side should be black
BV is a 4.10 axle, not 3.73 as stated
Rocker covers should not be polished
firewall graffiti
extra labels in the engine bay
Should not be insulators under fuel tank straps
No Camaro, not even a ZL1, had the Corvette L88/ZL1 octane warning label. On a Corvette it was placed on the console, not pasted on the glass.
‘Can-Am 302’ sticker on the air cleaner is home-made and makes no sense. The 302 engine existed for the Trans-Am series. Had nothing to do with the Can-Am series.

Great car if you like plaques, trophies, badges.

[marxjunk]

neat car..too fluffed for me personally...

id rather spend my money on a survivor type car...or a car that was restored to be restored not loaded with eye candy to get trophys...plaques etc..i dont understand that mentality myself

id look around for a bit...that car proba wont meet reserve...it may be around for awhile and you can always come back to it..

[scott s]

For all the pics of jerrys reports and #s i would want to see the eng pad stamp without paint and the orig invoice as stated that he had for that kinda $$. Like the others stated very nice piece if u want eye candy thou..

[m22mike]

Could have been a very nice and correct car, the happy marks are really creative [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img], a bunch of hardware issues that are not that hard to correct.
And William, how did you miss my favorite the chi-neez brake booster.. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]
And really to bad about the stripes [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img], ouch !

[Charley Lillard]

I wouldn't worry about the stripes. I would want to see a pic of the bare engine pad though. Was restored by a member here so maybe he can comment ?

[William]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: m22mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And William, how did you miss my favorite the chi-neez brake booster..</div></div>

I must be asleep at the wheel...

[luzl78]

how did the car score a perfect thousand judging points? beautiful car. my wife and i were just sitting at a light and she commented &quot;look at all the black, white and silver cars&quot;. very bland car colors these days unless you buy a very high end car.

[njsteve]

The modern white and red plastic warning label tag on the battery terminal. Why do people leave those on? It is a shipping warning required by modern regulations. For some reason people think it has to be there since they saw it on another showcar somewhere. (Sorry, I get verklempt whenever I see one - almost as bad as when I see a Ford &quot;CAUTION FAN&quot; decal on the radiator shroud of a Camaro) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

It's a beautiful looking car if you want a polished showcar. I like patina'd old stuff now. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Charley Lillard]

The repo boosters are really easy to tell by the very defined edges of the triangular shaped recesses.