I need help to authenticate a LS6 Convertible

[PPPJJJFFF]

This is the first site I'm going to when it comes time to buy a Chevy. Some of you guys really know your stuff!

Scary what's going on out there with some of these crooks. You can't rely on documentation alone anymore. I would want owner history "before" pulling the trigger on any high $$ car! And believe me. I would be calling them!

I have a pit in my stomache for the buyer of this car!!!!

Patrick

[Stefano]

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I would want owner history "before" pulling the trigger on any high $$ car! Patrick

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Ding, Ding,Ding (Bell Sound) Owner history has always been an important component to a collector car purchase.

[firstgenaddict]

Bet the guy bought his docs from the Sleezeball on Ebay who sells "aged docs". No reason to make aged docs other than to defraud people. IMHO
I wish ebay would cut this crap out... they are putting VINS on paperwork to legitimize vehicles, it's gotta be a crime.

[SS427]

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Owner history has always been an important component to a collector car purchase.

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That and checking web sites like this and Team Chevelle as well as the registry, and/or having someone authenticate the car prior to purchase. The bright side is if in fact the car was a real SS and with a 454, he won't have to wait long to get what he paid for the car.
Rick

[Canucklehead]

Being that the hobby is what it is these days, when someone finds a lost car for a good price (or what they think is such) they jump on it thinking they better buy it now before someone else gets it or the guy brains up without doing their due dilligence. These days chances are that you have a fake as 99% of the ones left have been found. I was watching an old episode of rides last night, it was the one where Jay Leno finds the barn find Duzzy. He mentioned about being at pebble beach, saying that with late 60"s mopars going for $200-$300 thousand these days anybody could fake one where as these cars at pebble are scrutinized by the experts in their field, so you know when you come here you'll find out quick if it's authentic.

[SS427]

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.........when someone finds a lost car for a good price.........These days chances are that you have a fake as 99% of the ones left have been found.

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Interestingly enough at least 4 unknown LS-6 converts have surfaced in the last 2 years and I believe all have been proven or are on their way to be proven real. I completely wrote off one of them as something other than an LS-6 and now the owner has obtained affidavits going back to the early 70's from previous owners so one never knows. Another was still parked in the original owners garage on a main road!

I used to think there would be no more new cars found but because the prices are escalating so quickly, I think people are looking in every barn and open garage door where they used to not pay too much attention. I know I do and more cars are being found because of this. Just look at all the drag cars that have surfaced lately. I just looked at a collection of around 20 cars and a barn full of parts a couple of weeks ago on a farm that no one seemed to know about and it was only 4 miles from the airport.
Rick

[musclecarjohn]

True...I think you are right,people are looking alot harder than ever...in the hopes of striking it big time.

[firstgenaddict]

That and the baby boomers are begining to move from their homes that they have lived in for along time and either selling off stuff or giving it to relatives who could care less.
I think that in the next 10 - 20 years we will see alot of low mileage original cars that are going to come from garages, barns, and basements of people who are retiring and moving from their long time homes.

[mmcporter]

Dave,

nice looking car with questionable-at-best pedigree. It looks like your friends might have paid relatively high $$ for an SS convertible; it's almost certainly not an LS6.

[rich p]

He didnt get burned to bad at that price. It could have been worse. He's got a cool ride that would have cost around that to build a good clone.Hope its a 4 speed and I HOPE he wasnt buying it to FLIP !!!