Western New York Supercars

[chadk]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

love that car. did the original owner buy it to drag race only or a driver/racecar?

Thanks!
It was driven on the street for a year before he got serious and started racing modified production at Lancaster Dragway. The vintage photo with the black wheels is from 1970 and the photo with torque thrusts on the front is 1971.

[Diabl07]

Wow! You guys all rock! I’ve heard about that black Boss 429 but I’ve never seen photos, how incredible. All this information is really awesome everyone, keep it coming! I love the stories of my area back in the day.

[Diabl07]

I have tons of new information from this thread, thank you all so much. I have a pretty full idea of the Supercars from WNY, Ill share some stories here. If anyone wants to know if we had anything, I have a pretty compressive list I am more than willing to share! Im only sharing stuff I have vins for, ill add some other stuff I dont at the end!
Enjoy!
But here are some I have,

As far as COPOs, Yenkos, and Bergers and other Camaros go, Buffalo had a couple pass through
67 Yenko 124377N241474 and 69 Yenko 124379N579518 were with Bob Harris being restored as well as the WGI pace car (124679N686263) and a lot of his other Yenkos and COPOs (which I dont have vins for) he's owned and restored like YS-8051, which was owned by
Bill Wertheim in Clarence, and I also believe he has the gold L-79 Acadian (671637003920) and the 2 SD-396 ragtops (which I dont have vins for). also he may own 124679N709626, but im not sure

124377N163228 was the SCCA prototype car raced in Rochester

124377N242082 and 124377N242122 were both 1967 Yenko Super Camaros delivered new in Jamestown just an hour south of Buffalo

124379N666301 is a COPO car delivered new in Rochester

114279W357883 is the Cordia fast Track Nova, absolutely one of the greatest ex-WNY cars ever

136379B401872 Chevelle COPO delivered new to Bokman Chevy that I think is owned by someone on this forum

136670B175145- ragtop LS6 which was one owner in Buffalo until it sold at Mecum just a few months ago

as far as Boss 429s go,
1970s
0F02Z124193- in a great collection in west seneca up until recent
0F02Z104682- owned in rochester and up for sale in Hilton NY a few years ago
0F02Z127597- grabber green, owned by Bob. B in Rochester in his collection with his many Hemi cars
then the 69s are:
9F02Z171596- not sure how long its been around but I see it at cars and coffee every so often
9F02Z150469- early candy apple red car, first owner was in Buffalo

OK now the pontiacs, this is a good one
I mentioned Bob Bartosiewicz in Rochester, Bob has a huge collection which includes/has included
3 1970 Ram Air IV Coupes
(242370P216698, 242379B176476, and 242370P140831)
2 Ram Air IV Verts, a 69 and a 70 (242679B173023 and 242670B129433)
and a 71 H.O. Judge convertible (242671P121426)

There were 2 Ragtop 69 Trans Ams,
223679N107816 which was delivered new here and stayed a while and I think restored by Bob Harris
and 223679N106884 which I know was here but not sure the story on

there were 2 70 GTO Ram Air III cars here new, 242670P158060 delivered to Piehler Pontiac in Rochester and 242670P230708 delivered to Brown Motor Sales in Buffalo

2V87X2N515007 is a 72 455 HO delivered to Al Ives Pontiac in Tonawanda

and a 71 455 HO 228871N110001 which is curious because it seems to me like thats a very early vin. if not #001

Thats what I have, not including the tons and tons of Hemi cars previously in Western New York, Which Ill share if anyones interested. I have more info on most of these cars so ask away if need be

I LOVE sharing stuff like this with people, Ill make another post about cars I know but im missing vins on
Thanks everyone!!

Jacob

[Diabl07]

If anyone knows info on Bob Harris 1969 COPO? Or the 68 Yenko RS they were working on. Also anyone know of a ZL-1 that was in Western New York in the 70s?

[scuncio]

Great thread, NY was a hotbed of performance cars.

[PeteLeathersac]

Originally Posted by Diabl07

…Also anyone know of a ZL-1 that was in Western New York in the 70s?

I meant to post the below 10/70 Newspaper Ad here previously but landed it in the Huebner ZL1 thread first where William noted #12 was known to have been in NY.
Sorry, I forgot to get back here w/ the Ad until seeing your postings today, was the car you knew of Blue also do you know if it came from the Manhattan area?
Awesome thread also thanks for the great details w/ your postings above!

~ Pete

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[fortim]

Originally Posted by Diabl07

OK now the pontiacs, this is a good one
I mentioned Bob Bartosiewicz in Rochester, Bob has a huge collection which includes/has included
3 1970 Ram Air IV Coupes
(242370P216698, 242379B176476, and 242370P140831)
2 Ram Air IV Verts, a 69 and a 70 (242679B173023 and 242670B129433)
and a 71 H.O. Judge convertible (242671P121426)

There were 2 Ragtop 69 Trans Ams,
223679N107816 which was delivered new here and stayed a while and I think restored by Bob Harris
and 223679N106884 which I know was here but not sure the story on

there were 2 70 GTO Ram Air III cars here new, 242670P158060 delivered to Piehler Pontiac in Rochester and 242670P230708 delivered to Brown Motor Sales in Buffalo

2V87X2N515007 is a 72 455 HO delivered to Al Ives Pontiac in Tonawanda

and a 71 455 HO 228871N110001 which is curious because it seems to me like thats a very early vin. if not #001

Thats what I have, not including the tons and tons of Hemi cars previously in Western New York, Which Ill share if anyones interested. I have more info on most of these cars so ask away if need be

I LOVE sharing stuff like this with people, Ill make another post about cars I know but im missing vins on
Thanks everyone!!

Jacob

My former '69 GTO RAIII 4sp convertible was sold in WNY, and I bought it from the original owner in the 1970s. I still have the VIN if you're interested. I took the car to Lancaster Dragway a couple of times. It was a great street car.

[auwrestling]

Originally Posted by smallblockhero

This is the Marilla Boss 429 that's was parked in 1974 actually. There was a street racing incident and the owner hid the car for 35 years. It has 13k miles on it. this was the day they pulled it out of a shed that the car barely fit in. It went to Musclecar Alley in Arcade , all they needed to do was was clean it. The original motor was refreshed and reassembled and dyno'ed up to 5k. It went to one of the big auction houses.

I havent seen that Cuda in twenty years.. last time I saw it, it was driving down the 400 getting off at the Union exit.

You only have part of the story right it wasn’t in Marilla . It was in Elma and it was not in the shed. There is a good story about it y it disappeared for so many years.

[auwrestling]

Originally Posted by smallblockhero

a few more pics of the Boss 9 when it got to musclecar alley. Its kinda crazy because this car was a mile from my friends house and he drove past it for 20 years never knowing the owner or that the car was in his shed. The owner contacted him by word of mouth that he was a restoration guy.

Back in 1972 this black boss 429 was sold from Delaware sports car on Delaware Avenue between Hertel and Tacoma. From there, the new owner took it to Elma and I looked at it in 1978 off Bowen Road. Right after that, the car Disappeared and then soon was recovered And sold to a good friend of mine , it was then put away for 30 years then we brought it back out and decided to sell it.

[auwrestling]

Send me a private message with your phone number and I’ll give you a call .I owned both of the Trans Am convertibles, and good friend of ours had one of the 427 AC cobra it was a red one. He also owned the 67 GT 500 Shelby with the 427 side oiler, also it was another friend of mine that owned s the black 69 boss 429 and sold it several years ago could give you a lot of information and stories about all the super duty Trans Ams and raiv cars in the area .A lot of these rare Pontiacs are still right here