How about a 67 Firebird Convert with a 400 and a 4 speed. Sold that
one for $300 ;-(
Say a 69 Camaro Convert with the 396 (I think) fully restored in a
dealer a few years ago. $39,000
Larry
On Oct 20, 2006, at 05:37 AM, Brad Fornal wrote:
> My first car at 15 was a 68 Chevelle SS396 425 hp convertible with an
> automatic. I wonder what that would bring now....
>
> On 10/19/06, bjshov8 <bjshov8@comcast.net> wrote:
>> While working in my dad's shop in the early 70's, we got in a 1971
>> (or
>> 1972?) El Camino LS6 454 to put a clutch in. The car belonged to
>> one of our
>> customers who owned a used car lot, not his personal car but one
>> that he was
>> going to put on the lot. I mentioned to my dad that I would like
>> to trade
>> for the car but he thought I was crazy. This had to be a pretty
>> rare car.
>>
>> Another rare one- a plumber that was friends of ours in our small
>> town
>> special ordered a 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS with a 425hp 427 and 4-
>> speed. He
>> drove a pickup so his wife drove the Impala. She didn't like the
>> manual
>> transmission or the rough idle so my dad swapped engines for the guy-
>> between the 283 in his pickup and the 427 in the Impala. The
>> pickup kept
>> its 3-speed manual, the Impala got a powerglide, I don't know what
>> happened
>> to the 4-speed. I can't imagine what that Impala could have been
>> worth
>> today.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Just saw a 1970 Chevelle LS6 Convertible, super low mileage, ex
>> record
>> > holding
>> > drag car sell at Barrett-Jackson for $1,150,000.
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