314 mile z28
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmt2dd4Noo

I've never seen this car, maybe others haven't too.

VIN is 124379N699316. Nothing came up when I did a search.

Maybe I'm just a little too suspicious, but why would a 314 mile car have a late 70's oil filler cap? i know its an easy change-out, but it sure looks odd there.

Lot of exterior chrome added for an X77. Engine compartment looks restored, lot of things changed and replated. Interior looks very original. Mileage claim.. Well I'd love to certify and document all areas of the car and verify what is original and restored...

Radiator tag on the shroud? 314 miles could have been 1/4 mile at a time. Just saying... Pretty charp chort though!

Not just the cap. I think the valve covers have been swapped for later polished covers.

Just a few other thing in addition to what has been mentioned.

Lost the big ear radiator cap.

I am not buying the finish on the hood hinges and hood latch assy.

Also no buying the air cleaner gasket as original.

Speedometer needle is stuck at 10 mph. :blush:

In the video he showed a Mecum auction book from 1991 that featured this car. At the time the odometer had 126 miles.

Cool if it can be verified.

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Very cool car.

The Brake Master Clyinder doesn't look original. Kool car would certainly like to see this one go through Vintage Certification @ MCACN

Master cylinder has no bleeders? Obviously a repo.
Intake bolts are washer type?
Upper alt Brkt has extra hole?
Carb spring backwards

I’m sure the Speedo has 314 miles, maybe the car does too, but it probably has had the engine & compartment fluffed up/maintained as well. The brake hose stand off valve cover is painted orange too.

Still a beautiful car.

Master Cylinder doesn't seem to have the Delco Moraine stamping either. Tires were changed as they are Goodyear Polyglass...should be Goodyear Wide Tread or Firestone Sport Car 200. Also find it interesting that it has most of the X33 trim as Steve said but it doesn't have the chrome trim on the side gills which was part of the X33 package.

There was a orange Z28 in a magazine that claimed to be a real low mile car back in the 90 not sure if it's this car i have to see if i can find that article

You might be thinking of the 400 mile one Buxbaum had around mid-90's. I regret not making the trade at the time, for a car he wanted.

----I was shop manager at Classic Motors, but had left by this time and moved back to Cape Cod. Heard about the car but never saw it......Bill S

I think this is the same car that was on the showroom floor of AMG in Westmont. I saw the car just after I finished restoring mine in the very early 90's. When I looked at it, it had about 200 and some miles on it. I could not believe it. Was very cool. This was at the same time they had the Yenko Deuce.

Would that be the rough, unrestored orange Yenko Deuce, Darren?

Yes Bill. 👍🏻

----My last job in Illinois was at AMG/Classic Motors. We were mostly doing grey market legalization. Door guard beams, US bumpers and other stuff. Fun stuff but a bit repetitive.....Bill S

LOL - in 1985 (a few years after you and Jan moved?) that was my first job. I washed cars and helped in the shipping Dept. with Rob.

I remember Richard had really high quality posters made of this Z-28 and I believe a real low mile blue LS6 convertible Chevelle?

Yes

How many miles were on that Chevelle?

850

Yup, totally unknown car. Just happened to sit in Floyd Garrett's museum for a number of years...
Underhood looks fluffed.

When one thinks of a low mileage old car, one pictures a pristine, preserved beauty. But in reality, many of these low mile cars have a dubious past, IE “Miss Belvedere”.

If the subject Z is the one that Classic Motors had I believe it was completely restored - just like the blue 850 mile LS6 convertible he had at the same time.

I too remember the Yenko Deuce body sitting on the west side of the building back in the day.

Not am AM Radio antenna?

Buxbaum, at the time, told me just the doors were painted. I figured the doors were lettered up at one time. The LS6 had a white top and interior, if I remember right?

Correct!

Where are the side post battery cables?
MANY of us know they are NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to find an original set with delco eyes.
Wrong MC - rad cap - later style upper alt bracket -
If not mistaken the intake bolts are wrong, the carb return spring is in the wrong place and is also wrong.
This car is not nearly original as Skips 21k mile hugger orange late 69Z.

hood is likely a production hood as I caught a glimpse of the date stamp on the video, drivers side right near the edge by hinge area. But is it to this car, it depends on that stamp.

IF the hood is not a date match to the car, then the car has definitely been painted more than once. Maybe it was a drag car which could explain the odometer.

I'm sure this is the car Buxbaum owned. I made the mistake of thinking it had 400, rather than 200 miles. The car had a flat hood, and the doors off color.
I'm sure the car was repainted. At the time, if the original paint wasn't perfect to win a $20 trophy, and bragging rights, it was repainted.

The Nova Buxbaum wanted trade for, is now owned by Mark - BlackL78M22Nova, from this site. The Nova had 11,000 miles, and only used 1 year before the owner passed on.