Yellow Canadian L89

[nuch_ss396]

Steve,

That's an interesting perspective.

Steve

[427king]

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As in the 5 ZL1's registered last year by one owner

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[HiHorse]

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Its too easy to build a car with only documentation, especially in Canada. As in the 5 ZL1's registered last year by one owner, its way too easy to register a car with no history in some provinces in Canada.


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GM Canada Documentation tells you what options came with the VIN but buyers should always verify the actual car eg the VIN derivatives on the firewall etc. In the province of Ontario from what I heard lately it is difficult to register an old VIN without proper title and the actual car.

[TimG]

If this is true, it could be an interesting scenario if the insurance company went out of business or sold. There is a very real possibility that no insurance company makes claim to the vehicles.

[Hylton]

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Car is for sale on another website as well. Nice to see rare cars with docs . http://www.camaros.net/classifieds/s...130&cat=44 Ad says walnut wheel ,im guessing it should be a rosewood by dec 68 unless Canada did things differently .

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That's weird. The ad has been pulled after 3 days since this thread has come out. You figure that the owner would use this opportunity to come out and discuss the car and it's abiguities instead of making it disappear for a while.

Nobody who has anything to do with this L89 wants to come forward and discuss the car. Why is that? Such a beautiful car! People would usually be proud to come forward and say I own it or I restored it. Instead, complete silence........

[Hylton]

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I'm confused, I thought there was only one documented canadian ZL1. Whats the story on the other 4, are they canadian?

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The 5 they are talking about are these:

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show.../page/1#197782

[Hylton]

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.... Speculation over the years is that the theft was staged and that they were crushed for an insurance settlement on the cars since no one was buying them....

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I must correct you Steve. Motown Madman has all 5 sitting in a barn somewhere!

[Hotrodpaul]

Beautiful job on the L-89 car even if the trim tag is fake. Did anyone notice that the putty used on both the L-89 and Green COPO look the same? Did the same person restore both cars? I believe the putty or filler was installed right after the rivets and then the black firewall paint was applied. The putty on these cars looks like an afterthought.

Paul

[njsteve]

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If this is true, it could be an interesting scenario if the insurance company went out of business or sold. There is a very real possibility that no insurance company makes claim to the vehicles.

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No such animal. If an insurance company closes it's doors, all the claims, policies, assets and liabilities get sold to/assigned to a sucessor company. That is part of insurance law/regulations. That is why the treasure hunters have such a headache. Remember the Atocha?

http://www.newworldtreasures.com/atochastory.htm

http://www.melfisher.com/

I think it was 20 years for all the claims to be settled between the insurance companies, countries and the IRS being involved.

[njsteve]

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Beautiful job on the L-89 car even if the trim tag is fake. Did anyone notice that the putty used on both the L-89 and Green COPO look the same? Did the same person restore both cars? I believe the putty or filler was installed right after the rivets and then the black firewall paint was applied. The putty on these cars looks like an afterthought.

Paul

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You could always try to perform a fingerprint comparison of the thumb prints in the two car's putty-filled rivets!

By the way, I wouldn't put too much nefarious evidentiary value in rivet putty: when you strip a firewall with chemical stripper you have to dig the original putty out of those rivets because it will act like a sponge and hold the stripper residue forever. When I cleaned and stripped the upper cowl on my T/A, I ran into the same problem. So I now have the dreaded thumbprint-puttied rivets on my car, too!

Before stripping:



After stripping. Looks like a completely different tag once all the paint layers are gone:



After paint, before thumb-applied putty:



And for security reasons I wont be showing my thumb-printed puttied rivets for fear of someone attempting to match my thumb puttied rivets to other less scrupulous rivet thumb putty application technicians' wares.