Last week - this bid over $10,000 on ebay. High bidder has not returned emails and so its back on ebay with reduced reserve so this car goes to a new home.
This car needs some loving! I have had it for many years and do not have any plan to restore it so its needs a new home. It deserves to be restored because its a genuine original SS427 with a running original numbers matching engine and pedigree documentation.
Although the frame is solid, the body is VERY rusty.
History and Data:
Purchased May 25 1968 at Hunter Weidner Chevrolet Inc in Anderson Indiana. Purchase price $4898.02. Spent early days in Anderson, the Colorado, Tennessee, then Texas and now is located in the sunny warm Cowichan Valley in BC Canada.
VIN: 164678F186051
Cowl Tag: Build Date: = 03B (3rd week March), TRIM Code: 858 (Parchment Bench), Body Code: FL2191400, Paint K1
Factory Installed Options: SS427, 8 track, PS, PB, tach and gauges with correct 5500 rpm redline, tilt steering, bumper guards, fender lamps, front seat outer passengers shoulder belts (ultra rare to have that in a convert)
Special Note: This is a legitimate and original bench seat car with SS427. This means the car was ordered new with the SS427 option (RPO Z24), but the Super Sport option, (RPO Z03) was NOT ordered. The SS427 option alone did not include buckets.
Numbers matching original 385hp 427 engine with TH400.
Rare and desirable factory colour: Tripoli Turquoise with parchment (white) interior.
Near new convertible top, goes up and down.
Start, runs, moves and stops. Tach and oil pressure work, all windows go up and down
Great documentation: protecto-plate plus I have contact with original owner and salesman in Indiana.
Has correct and original SS427 hood, louvers, dash emblem, steering wheel emblem.
Frame appears solid.
Car needs complete restoration! Very rusty. Drivers front spring is busted. Someone tried to put AC in this car and installed the underhood portion (original heater system is in trunk).
Note that air cleaner and steel patch panels that were shown with last posting are NOT included with the car.
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