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Marlin, did you find the photocopies you had of the new car invoices for the 67 and 69 Impala SS427's?

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I would be interested in all camaro invoices and shippers.

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I have dealer paperwork for six '66-'69 Corvettes; the VINs have been posted in Driveline several times. Not a peep. Also have a pop from a '69 L78 Camaro. The car had current registration when I sent the owner a letter; never received a response.

We make a big deal of paperwork but many less involved owners of '60s muscle just don't care. Paperwork for non-muscle cars has little value. Most '60s cars were scrapped years ago; locating and contacting owners of the cars that still exist is difficult and may well be impossible with today's privacy laws.

I believe the value of old paperwork is greatly overstated.

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Over the past 15 years, I've helped connect probably a little over a dozen cars with their paperwork. Out of over a thousand docs.
Lots of cars just aren't out there anymore. Or they are pro-mod and don't care.
One or two could pay for the whole deal, but you need to connect to those one or two.

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I TOTALLY agree with Kurt and William. Some of you guys know about or remember the Fencl Tufo paperwork. I spent a lot of time contacting current owners and believe it or not a few weren't even interested. Some hunted ME down, so that's just how it goes. There was even a current Yenko Deuce owner in that group that wasn't even interested in his paperwork!

Here is one for the books. I have a friend from my gym who is 76 years old. We got to talking about cars one day and the next time I see him he amazingly brings a zip lock bag filled with pictures and two invoices/bills of sale with RPO codes, etc. of a 57 T-bird and I believe a 59 or 60 Corvette that he bought BRAND new! I was shocked and the pictures were KILLER. I had someone here help me track the cars and amazingly we found the Corvette! I wrote the guy a letter and he called me. The Vette was red convert, white cove, small motor, 283 I believe, I forget at the moment, with an auto. The guy told me that he paid $60,000 for a dual quad 4 speed. I said sir, I am sorry to tell you, but this car was a single carb auto. He literally swallowed a lump in his throat and was NOT happy. I told him that the paperwork and photos were for sale and that the original owner would LOVE to talk to him. Tony the original owner is a 76 year old guy who's in the shape of a 30 year old, the guy is a genetic marvel (his mother is 98 and still around), anyway he has a mind like a young guy and had a million stories about the car. Basically I told the guy that the odds of a Corvette owner being called and told that your 55 year old car's owner is still around with pics and the original invoice/BOS on your car and they contacted YOU is like being struck by lightning twice in the same spot. I think we told him $1,000-$1,500 for the package and he was NOT interested. I think that he was so distraught that the car was not originally what he thought it was that he was thinking that the paperwork would cause him more harm then good. Moral of the story is that you never know when it comes to paper on an old car.

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I had a similar case with a fellow I met that owned two ’63 fuelie Corvettes within two months of each other. He had both original window stickers.
It turned out that the first fuelie was rolled by the shop boy on a joy ride during lunch. The dealer ordered an identical one for him. I have wonderful pictures of the first one after being rolled. The owner of this car was devastated as he thought he had a wonderful survivor ’63 fuelie. I searched out the owner of the second fuelie and he had no interest in the original window sticker on his car.