68 Z28 FS in car corral at Charlotte

[lakeholme]

Paul, are you on vacation or something? Ocho Rios?
Gary, you came to Autofair and did not come by to see me at the AACA tent?  I barely got out of the Fan Fair area all week...    Only rode a cart around the corral once...
There were a lot of Camaros in the Car Corral and in the AACA show. I asked the guys at the DMV desk on Friday if many cars were selling. They said, "No".  But as you alluded, more cars sell on Saturday as the prices come down.
There was a white 68 with black vinyl top and stripes with a killer pain job in the Orange field.
Sorry, no pictures.

[68camaroz28]

Much rarer than a 69.

Bordering on a for sale ad, which would not be allowed.  But I realize you are not the seller Gary.

So it is a - - paint, but was the color listed?

I thought it was a sale ad! What else would you call it? If it is OK I have a friend who has a 69 Z for sale and I will add pictures just in case someone is interested.

[BULLITT65]

I like the idea of posting links to ads, to help potential buyers on this site. As long as we can discuss the pros and cons of each car. If someone sees a car outside the internet first hand and can be our eyes out there, so much the better. I figure Gary or (our members) wasn't trying to mislead us by taking pics from certain angles to hide damage, the way some eBay dealers do.

I think a open conversation about such cars and investigation, may help. Say this car appears again for sale in the future and has some different options or different story from what is presented currently. I think gaining the knowledge when we can about these cars, would ad to the data base and protect our community.

[69Z28-RS]

Paul, are you on vacation or something? Ocho Rios?
Gary, you came to Autofair and did not come by to see me at the AACA tent?  I barely got out of the Fan Fair area all week...    Only rode a cart around the corral once...
There were a lot of Camaros in the Car Corral and in the AACA show. I asked the guys at the DMV desk on Friday if many cars were selling. They said, "No".  But as you alluded, more cars sell on Saturday as the prices come down.
There was a white 68 with black vinyl top and stripes with a killer pain job in the Orange field.
Sorry, no pictures.

Sorry Phillip,  I did want to come by and see you and say Hi, but I was SO LOST the whole 2.5 days we spent there..  the changes they've made since my last time there made it like I was there for the first time all over again... wandering..
I didn't see 1/4 of the vendor spots.. and maybe 1/3 of the corrall cars.. and NONE of the show cars.. 

[bcmiller]

Gary, I will make a longer post with links in the morning.

Headers were an option in 68 and would be in the trunk when sold new. 14 inch wheel as a spare doesn't seem correct.

[69Z28-RS]

Much rarer than a 69.

Bordering on a for sale ad, which would not be allowed.  But I realize you are not the seller Gary.

So it is a - - paint, but was the color listed?

I thought it was a sale ad! What else would you call it? If it is OK I have a friend who has a 69 Z for sale and I will add pictures just in case someone is interested.

Chick,  Yes, if you have a friend who has a '69 Z28 for sale... I (for one, and I suspect other '69 Z28 fans) would LOVE to see the pix and hear your description of the car (from your perspective, not that of the seller)...   Re the '68, I thought it  appeared to be a good car that a '68 Z28 fan would love to see and hear about, and I was hoping the '68 Z28 experts on here would clarify a few of the questions that I had re this car.   although I liked it, I had some questions about it myself, although no one has yet responded re those questions...

[69Z28-RS]

Gary, I will make a longer post with links in the morning.

Headers were an option in 68 and would be in the trunk when sold new. 14 inch wheel as a spare doesn't seem correct.

Thanks Bryon,  I didn't think the 14" spare tire remark he made was correct, and although I questioned him on it, I was not 'absolutely certain' enough to suggest that he was wrong; like most people, I'm sure he was mostly quoting what he was told when he purchased the car;  and I couldn't recall exactly when the 'header in the trunk' option was removed from the list.   Could you tell from the photo if the headers on that car were the factory ones.. or not?   What did you fellas think of the stamp pad and stamp?  (my tendency is to disbelieve when I can't see the factory broach marks)

[bcmiller]

RPO Z28-3 in 67 and 68 is for exhaust headers. RPO Z28-4 is for exhaust headers and cowl plenum. I am not sure if they were available that late in the year though. I know a VERY late car that did have headers in the trunk originally.

I will take a closer look at the engine stamp later.

Gary, your 68 Z28 was blue. Lemans Blue.

[BULLITT65]

Good info, but how do you document a RPO Z28-3 or RPO Z28-4, as far as the headers and cowl induction when no paperwork is present?

[bcmiller]

Proving without docs would be very difficult in my opinion.

[69Z28-RS]

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Gary, your 68 Z28 was blue. Lemans Blue.

      Yes.. I Do remember that much -with white stripes even.. I also remember it had a minimum of options..        and I wish I'd owned a better camera back then.. and had some decent photos..

[KurtS]

I personally don't want to go down the path of posting cars that are for sale. That's not what the site is about, IMO.

[Charley]

His price Saturday was $85K ....     

That seems like really steep money for a car in need of paint and alot of other stuff.

[69Z28-RS]

Kurt,

This particular car *happened* to be for sale when I saw it, but my reason for posting the photos was to get comments and opinions from the experts here on some aspects of the car.  My purpose was NOT to help the owner sell the car; I didn't list the sale details in my post. 

Does a car 'being for sale', prohibit our using it for improving our knowledge base here?   

[X33RS]

Yeah I thought so Charley, and for a 68 no less 

I saw a 69 Z at a show over the weekend, a real one for a change and for sale. Norwood X33 March build.  Rally green, black standard interior.  Nice car but it needed a lot.  Smog missing, wrong pulleys, exhaust needed work, aftermarket wheels, and some other details needed attention, and they were asking $80k for that one, it wasn't an RS either.  EEEK!!!  To me that's approaching concours money and this car was FAR from that.  It needed another $20-$30k worth of corrections.

I think some people are just fishing around to see what the market bears.