Re: Another LS6 Coming Back to Life!!
 

I share your sentiments Jim and completely understand what you're saying but if you could see this floor in person, you'd know where I'm coming from. I'd be afraid to sit in it, the bucket seat may go right to the pavement. It's just not safe and from my research, the car hasn't been on the road since '77. It flat out needs a resto, there are no other options here. It either sits as is forever, or it gets restored. There's no quick cleanup for a cruise night, trust me.

Re: Another LS6 Coming Back to Life!!
 

Not to be argumentative, but there is a middle ground here - one could do a (as Jay Leno would put it) "sympathetic refurbishment" as opposed to an all-out resto...You could repair the floors, rebuild the brakes, get everything working and still retain the patina....

Re: Another LS6 Coming Back to Life!!
 

^ there you go, a middle ground solution

Re: Another LS6 Coming Back to Life!!
 

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Seriously though...you are at the local cruise night...a super nice, frame off LS-6 pulls in to the left....Lic plate sez 'REAL-1'


Then right behind it, PULLING TO THE RIGHT,comes this car exactly as it sits but running and sounding perfect...Plate sez...'REAL-TOO'

Both cars have the original window stickers plastered in the 1/4 Glass....

You only have time to look at one...wife is going nuts....which way you turning?

Diamond

or

Diamond in the rough....


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that says it all

A.) another ho-hum, yeah sure it is real ?

or

B.) the real deal with the provenance of real world patina

B. is the answer, the patina encrusted one. I want to see what it was supposed to be like, not someone's idea of what it was

no slam intended, but as noted several times above, they are "real" only once

a LOT more people are realizing that and the $$$$$ is reflected as well

my opinion (which others happen to share I see), ymmv

Barn finds rule!