1969 dick harrell camaro

[John]

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...... I have a set of those wheels !
...... Cool !

[Steve Shauger]

My understanding is that it is a very nice tribute. It has been looked at and discussed over the years and no validated documentation proves this was a Dick Harrell prepped car. Due your diligence ...

[1stGenFan]

I inspected this car in 2003 and found nothing indicating it was a Dick Harrell prepared car. It is an X66 coded 396 SS Camaro. It was restored with no verifiable evidence of a Dick Harrell connection. No riveted tags, no filled holes of rivet tags either. At the time of restoration, no owner history existed.
The current rivetted tags and hood emblems were added when the stinger hood, side stripes and Kelsey Hayes wheels were installed around 2006.

When researching another vehicle in 2011, I obtained a near complete owner history of this car. The 1st owner has not been found however, the car may have been ordered at Thomas Chevrolet, of Moberly, Missouri. The 2nd owner purchased the car in 1971 from a Chrysler dealership, in Moberly or Salisbury, MO as a SS 396/375hp SS Camaro. He raced the car, after he installed L88 heads on the engine. The second owner painted the hood and trunk stripes on the car, that have since been replicated. The 5th owner replaced the original engine in 1975 after a rod went through the oil pan. A 327 engine was installed, and the car was painted black, with gold stripes replicating the stripes painted on by the 2nd owner.

Rick Lenane was involved with this car, and purchased it from Rocky Moffitt, whom I have spoken to. Rick Lenane was the 8th owner of the car. Rocky indicated to me that he sold Rick a nice SS Camaro, and if it was anything special, he would have known, as that is his business. Rick alluded to having worked on Dick Harrell cars, however, Rick Lenane was born in 1955, and would have been 15 years old, in 1971, when Dick Harrell was killed. I knew Rick Lenane, he died in 2013. In 2004 when Connie, Nancy and Helen Gibb first met Rick, they did not know who he was. He was a 14-year-old teenager in 1970 who hung out at Lee Hamilton's speed shop, in Quincy, Illinois. He was not a "member" of the Fred Gibb or Dick Harrell racing teams back in the day.

This car is not what it is being represented as, and due diligence is in order. It appears to be a well restored clone and may be more valuable if returned to its original as ordered status.