PurpleBeeper
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Ummmm..... that car might be stolen
Do early '69s have '68 VIN plates?
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Maybe the inner fender was replaced at one time, didn't bother changing the tag? That tag has been on that inner fender for awhile.
VIN number and other stampings should tell the story.
VIN number and other stampings should tell the story.
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That's what I intend to find out. If the dash VIN has been swapped to match, I'm calling the police.
A good deal the dealers in this area of town are shifty slimeballs with their late-model crap to begin with, so I have no qualms about letting Johnny Law run them through the wringer if the car isn't kosher.
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You might be able to get a pencil tracing of the SO number on the trunk rail. I believe it was stamped from the topside so the bottom will be raised. The stamps are not very well defined but it's worth a shot.
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Shiny and complete on the outside, and a pile of turd underneath raises a flag or two with me.
I'd take a pencil, paper, and a solid friend to keep a watch over your back while you take a good look at that car.
Sounds less than legit from what you have told us so far. Good luck.
I'd take a pencil, paper, and a solid friend to keep a watch over your back while you take a good look at that car.
Sounds less than legit from what you have told us so far. Good luck.
Good advice kiwigtx! Wouldn't call cops while there, dishonest people play stupid.Would write all the numbers down go to cops and have them run the number, I assume they would?
Hello Kurt, good luck on Saturday. Do you have a smart phone with a good camera? Take a pic from the underside of the trunk lip VIN stamping. Then pull up your pic and use the zoom feature to blow up the picture to make it easier to read.
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...another good idea.
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Going to the dealer tomorrow. He bought it at auction. Doesn't know crap about it, but seems dead nuts honest about his relative ignorance about it. "That looks like an B/RB engine under the hood. 383 or 440? Nah, I think it's something like a 318." Valve covers sure suggest otherwise.
Whatever the case, it'll still get the utter scrutiny, and we'll see what BS awaits the person who actually follows though in person. Trunk floor looks rather bubbly under black paint in the pictures, and he says there's some quarter rot. Doesn't sound great, and the headliner looks like a black velvet headliner that's faded into tan - M-body Fifth Avenue crap. I'm figuring this is what's left of an 1980's restoration.
Now, if someone had taken that side trim off and made this look like a proper black Road Runner, I might actually think the $8,900 is not bad. But this is just looking like an all-around waste of time and money to sell off my near-perfect Valiant (a 4-door with a dead-nuts original 22k miles, and it looks every part of it) for the privilige of the cool that a pillarless 2-door has.
Not to mention that it's also a 4-wheel drum car. As if I'm not already sick of the amount of effort I'm throwing at my Satellite to put 11.75's on it.
And despite my love for picking up movie-related cars, Duel, Adam-12, the Killer Elite, and The Stone Killer all have variants of my existing cars in them...
-Kurt
Whatever the case, it'll still get the utter scrutiny, and we'll see what BS awaits the person who actually follows though in person. Trunk floor looks rather bubbly under black paint in the pictures, and he says there's some quarter rot. Doesn't sound great, and the headliner looks like a black velvet headliner that's faded into tan - M-body Fifth Avenue crap. I'm figuring this is what's left of an 1980's restoration.
Now, if someone had taken that side trim off and made this look like a proper black Road Runner, I might actually think the $8,900 is not bad. But this is just looking like an all-around waste of time and money to sell off my near-perfect Valiant (a 4-door with a dead-nuts original 22k miles, and it looks every part of it) for the privilige of the cool that a pillarless 2-door has.
Not to mention that it's also a 4-wheel drum car. As if I'm not already sick of the amount of effort I'm throwing at my Satellite to put 11.75's on it.
And despite my love for picking up movie-related cars, Duel, Adam-12, the Killer Elite, and The Stone Killer all have variants of my existing cars in them...
-Kurt
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cudak888
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Went to see it today. VIN turned out to be a genuine RH23, no hanky-panky going on.
However, it's a 1980's resto gone horribly bad. Lower quarters' rust bubbling wasn't bad at all and it had no cracking at the usual spot on the drivers' quarter.
Now the bad stuff: At the trunk lip, the driver's quarter had a quarter-sized hole. The opposite side had 1/4" of Bondo forming the feature line running down from the roof to the taillight end cap. The rear studs on each seat had 5" diameter washers holding them down around the floorpan rot. And the worst part: The passenger's rocker has a hole in it towards the back - large enough to stick the end of your foot into it.
And yes, it's the stock, two-barrel 318 with a Edelbrock 1406 on top of it...complete with a 4-to-2-barrel adapter.
You couldn't yell "hack job" fast enough...
-Kurt
However, it's a 1980's resto gone horribly bad. Lower quarters' rust bubbling wasn't bad at all and it had no cracking at the usual spot on the drivers' quarter.
Now the bad stuff: At the trunk lip, the driver's quarter had a quarter-sized hole. The opposite side had 1/4" of Bondo forming the feature line running down from the roof to the taillight end cap. The rear studs on each seat had 5" diameter washers holding them down around the floorpan rot. And the worst part: The passenger's rocker has a hole in it towards the back - large enough to stick the end of your foot into it.
And yes, it's the stock, two-barrel 318 with a Edelbrock 1406 on top of it...complete with a 4-to-2-barrel adapter.
You couldn't yell "hack job" fast enough...
-Kurt
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