Crossboss...agreed, now is a great time to buy...many guys in desperate need of money. I'm posting pics of a couple of my more interesting cars from the past that I think you will enjoy. I bought the '70 Boss 302 in the spring of '76 in Des Moines, IA for $1,600 when I was 18 years-old. I was a meter reader for Iowa Power and Light (we all had to start somewhere, right?) and the car was sitting with flat tires and covered with bird crap and leaves...hidden in a backyard with a high fence at one of the houses on my meter route. The owner was a guy in his mid-20s who had bought the car from Charles Gabus Ford and auto crossed it until it spun a rod bearing. He was a student at Iowa State and the car was in his parent's back yard. I was in the right place at the right time and picked it up (he needed the money to finish his last year of school). It had 39k original miles, factory tach and gauges, black standard interior, and was in great shape. I sold it in the fall of '77 with 48k miles to a dentist in DM for $3,200 right before I joined the Navy to get the hell out of "Death Moans".
The 2nd interesting car is the '69 Trans Am I bought for $500 in Mar. of '80 in Tijuana, Mex. I found it sitting in the parking lot of TJ's bus depot in the "Zona Nostra" (North Zone...an area full of bars back then...now full of drug murders and not a great place for young American sailors to go). It had a blue standard interior, Formula steering wheel, factory tach and gauges, a Ram Air 3 and 4-speed (original drivetrain), and A/C. I ran the VIN through Calif DMV and they said it hadn't been stolen and could be brought back to the US. I drove it as far as the border crossing where it promptly overheated from sitting in a slow-moving line of cars waiting to enter. I had it towed to 32nd St Naval Station where my ship was stationed, then towed it to an old cold storage facility in downtown San Diego to sit for 9 months while my ship deployed to the Pacific and Persian Gulf (a "Westpac" deployment). When I returned, the car was missing its trunk spoiler, air cleaner, hood baffle ('69 TA-only items), and Formula wheel. I was sick when I found out the storage place wouldn't pay for the stolen items (it was an inside job, literally), and that none of those parts were still available through GM. Had I had a crystal ball I would've known that 40 years in the future those parts would be available as reproductions. I sold the car for $3,000 to a Pontiac collector from Newport Beach. Note the 1979 Baja California plate on the TA.
Sorry for the poor quality of the Boss photos...camera at that time was a crappy Kodak Instamatic. The TA photos were taken with my fancy new Nikon FM. Note also the difference in hair length pre-military
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PS...Bentley, I just noticed that you had two '69 Camaros back in 1979...that was quite an accomplishment for a young punk (no offense intended) back then!