1969 Z28 eBay block pic

[Tracker1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: x77-69z28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm not too fond of the vin stamp on the block either! Seems like the numbers are too spread out. Not at all like the m-22 stamp. I remember this car and the lawsuit. Dragged on for years. I don't know if mr Guinn would be a good person to talk to about the originality of the car. And it needs a color change which would be a lot of time, effort and money IMHO </div></div>

I like it BECAUSE it is already black with black houndstooth - I am a sucker for that color combo. The other thing is I could be driving this thing next summer for a total investment of about 30-35K if the parts inventory he has given me on the phone is right. When's the last time you saw a shiny, sorted driver Z with dyno-ed 302 pushing 400 horsepower for that kind of money? I am looking at it as a pound-able, lean-up-against-it-driver, not an investment. But that block damage is a deal-breaker i think.

I don't see it as a rust-free project, more like a couple weekends worth of jig-saw puzzling to get it back together [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

You guys rock, thanks. keep opinions coming...i got about an hour

[Salvatore]

why does the block bother you so much? Fix it.

[Tracker1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why does the block bother you so much? Fix it. </div></div>

Not that easy Sammy. That means the car goes one way and the block goes another way - I am in Canada, remember, not really a glut of good cast-iron welders up here. And the logistical nightmare of shipping car then shipping motor, then shipping motor back up to car after it is done. And can that kind of weld be done right without being done from both sides? i.e, pull the dyno-ed, assembled motor all apart again....Oy! And have already been turned down by two shippers today who say they won't touch a car with no front wheels with its subframe sitting on a dolly. Just too much hassle all around. Pass.

It seems there are no good sorted-out driver '69 Z28s out there in the 35-40K range. None. (Unless you like green...inside and out) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

[John Brown]

I'd ask a few farmers who does cast iron welding. You might be surprised how common it is.

[Salvatore]

I am sure there are some great welders in Canada. They are more industrious than us. I don't see why the motor would have to come apart to do that particular job and about the dyno stuff.........what does that really mean?