Missing Muscle Cars

[resto4u]

blair, chevelle found. He was talking about the 67 camaro.

[iluv69s]

how about Malcolm Durham's ZL-1? apparently the block is out there..I suspect the car is still out there(along with other ZL-1's) but so chopped up, it would be hard to ever prove.

[William]

The Merollis ZL1s were re-distributed Gibb cars: #11, #24, #32, #37 & #50. I ran the VINs several times back in the ‘80s and none of them were registered to insurance companies. Indications are all of them were recovered and sold at insurance auction. #11 has been in Ohio with the same owner since the ‘70s; #24 was on file as have been junked in MA in 1973. The others could have been junked, used up on the street or may survive as cut up drag cars with no tags. Be aware that the VINs are registered in Canada.

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Merollis ZL1s were re-distributed Gibb cars: #11, #24, #32, #37 &amp; #50. I ran the VINs several times back in the ‘80s and none of them were registered to insurance companies. Indications are all of them were recovered and sold at insurance auction. #11 has been in Ohio with the same owner since the ‘70s; #24 was on file as have been junked in MA in 1973. The others could have been junked, used up on the street or may survive as cut up drag cars with no tags. Be aware that the VINs are registered in Canada. </div></div>

Don't worry they are now Canadian registered aluminum engined SkiDoos.

Ryan

[1967Z28]

How about the three MIA very early production 1967 Z-28 Camaros that went to Nickey Chevrolet? Where'd they go?

[69hurstSC]

Is the 8th 69 Trans Am convertible accounted for?

[iluv69s]

Some of them early 67 Z's are probably still out there still...maybe disguised as SS's...


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 1967Z28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How about the three MIA very early production 1967 Z-28 Camaros that went to Nickey Chevrolet? Where'd they go?

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[iluv69s]

When you say none were registered to insurance companies... were they all registered to others?? Or no registration was found?

Did the insurance companies all register the cars after they were recovered???
Is there any othere evidence that all 6 cars were recovered? just curious...

I dont remember the story.. they were all stolen together?? from the dealer?? You would think it might have been news if they were all recovered?? just saying...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Merollis ZL1s were re-distributed Gibb cars: #11, #24, #32, #37 &amp; #50. I ran the VINs several times back in the ‘80s and none of them were registered to insurance companies. Indications are all of them were recovered and sold at insurance auction. </div></div>

[William]

Whatever happened to the Merollis ZL1s occurred in the fall of 1969. By the time of the inquiry the story was already 12 years old so who knows. The story, such as it was, was all five were taken, stripped of their engines/transmissions and other parts and left/dumped someplace. Since they couldn’t be easily moved it is likely they were abandoned wherever they were stripped.

Complicating the issue as new cars they weren’t titled; still on MSO. They were in the possession of the dealer but may have been legally owned by GMAC. Nothing new for them; they probably had thousands of damaged/theft recovered vehicles to process every year. The remains were likely taken to a salvage auction and sold; the new owner gets the MSO. From there who knows? At least two of them were reconstructed and legally registered. The other three may have gone to salvage yards, never to be titled or registered. They would be eventually parted out and destroyed. Maybe one was made into a race car also never titled. Stolen cars that are not recovered are titled to the insurance company that paid the claim and now legally owns them. #43 was stolen in 1972 and is still titled to an insurance company. Three of the Merollis ZL1s had no registration last I checked. That is not to say they were never registered; they just were not at that time. Expired registrations drop off after a few years. There is a difference between title and registration; I do not know if the searches I did looked for both but #43 always came up.

[68l30]

FWIW..I believe #11 was also a theft recovery. Not from Merollis, but it was stolen and recovered. Strange how all these Merollis ZL's got ripped...Easy pickin back then.


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