1970 LS6-EBAY

[GTO_DON]

Rick,that 28 mile LS6 car really did not sell. The guy had his friend bid it up! He still owns the car.

[mrrec]

Well, this is a nice car, but calling it an unrestored survivor doesn't work for me. I had some correspondence with an owner or two ago and he told me he took some of the car apart and detailed it. That is not unrestored.

Some of you saw the fathom blue car at Vettefest a few years ago. Now that's an unrestored car! It was purchased by a car buddy of mine and is very untouched.

$150k for a truly unrestored, pristine, low mile car is at the upper end. The benchmark car doesn't fit there for me.

Dave

[jfkheat]

Dave, I have to agree with you about it being unrestored. Here is a quote from his website: "Then the work began. I asked a very good friend of mine Rick Rozell, to come see the car and give me some advice as to where to start. Rick volunteered to help and we began to go through the whole car. After being parked for 25 years, I did not want to assume all was well with the motor, transmission, rear end, and undercarriage. We removed everything. When we opened up the motor, we noticed there was very little wear, as to be expected of an 18,000-mile car. Everything was solid. Other than major cleaning we found nothing wrong with the motor, transmission, and rear end. We took a section of the car at a time and did the same process throughout the entire car. This process required many tiresome hours, not to mention sore muscles from all the elbow grease applied." Sounds to me like the whole car was taken apart and detailed. To me that is not an unrestored car. Just my opinion.
James

[JoeC]

In some organizations, a repainted engine will get you zero points in the underhood catagory for the unrestored class.

[chads454Ls6]

I use to own this car and it is a very nice piece. i agree with some and disagree,i would not leave an untouched car alone that has been parked for 25 years and assume all is well with the motor. unless you are not going to drive it at all,you take the risk of breaking a spring and dropping a valve and potentially wrecking the original motor,and then it would not matter about survivor status,but the things that should not have been done was the motor being painted or anything else redone. When i had the dick harrell camaro,i wanted to paint that motor but i did not! that was one of the most original cars i had ever seen.

[olredalert]

Don,

-------The X-owner of the 28 mile car is a good friend of mine and told me (over the phone) that the car absolutely sold and that the new owner (west of Boston) had another customer at substantially more than his purchase figure. You may have been told this by a third party, but unless there is a parallel universe out there, it isnt true.................Bill S

[csx289]

I must not be a member of the "Public" any more? Is that some secret group?

The car was offered to me a long time ago on trade. And the previous owner had a full website devoted to this car as well as advertising it for sale.

The current high bidder owns (or owned) the "other" Benchmark Chevelle? Or was it the Diamond Cert Chevelle? And I recall maybe at one time they were both owned by the same person?

Forgive my ignorance , these are just bits and pieces of what I remember. The drugs must not be working.

Colin

[mmcporter]

Yeah, I have to find my jewelers loupe to view those pics!!

[hugger_69]

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In some organizations, a repainted engine will get you zero points in the underhood catagory for the unrestored class.

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It's always nice to see an unrestored engine and they are becoming far less common after 34 years. I was in a friends shop just last week where we crawled all over a completely intact 1970 Z/28 LT1 motor that he has. A true survivor motor with only 6K on it, we pulled the valve covers and it was as clean as a whistle. The motor has been assembled and dry stored ever since it came out of the car back in 1970. Original paint marks, X markings on the heads, and crayon markings are also very evident on the sides of the block.

I personally get a rush out of seeing original stuff that is in that nice of condition. This Chevelle is nice, and it won't be long before we see a car like this hit the 150 marker. Maybe in January.

[COPO427]

For that price, I'd expect a more optioned car. At least gauges and flapper hood.