Thread: 67 Camaro SS may have missed a deal

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Your right Don, my wife said why couldn’t you just be happy with the 68 Convertible? So I guess that means I get $6,700 or $6,900 towards working on it. I can now see a crate motor, new interior, new top.

Thanks Don, I'm going to pass this onto the wife.

But first I have to have a bit of crying time!!

Richard

When I watch Ebay and stuff like that I'm seeing old car prices(especially projects) that are pretty juicy lately compared to what they were doing a couple years back. Kinda like houses. Buyers don't have the bucks right now,like me..There sure are some tempting deals out there though..

Richard it's happened to all of us. Mine was a 59 porsche roadster type d convertible. 6500.00 I didn't have the cash, and had never applied for a loan for a car, so I told the guy if someone gets the cash first to you. sell it. An hour before my loan went through, he sold it for cash to a guy. I was bummed, esp now it must be worth 35k today. But it wasn't meant to be, and I would have been a poor owner, compared to what it deserved!(I was 21 at the time). I would never had the cash or garage to keep it protected from the elements, or spruce it up right. So it's the one that got away.
Those SS's are really nice, so I do know how you feel! But a 68 convertible is also nice( My brothers both had 68 Firebirds in highschool. One had a convertible with a 400 under the hood, the other had a hardtop with a 350.
Both sold for next to nothing back then.
Just think of the truck you want to start, the convertible...crate engines with obscene hp!

Its funny what makes people tick!....I found a 34 Ford 3 window in a storage wharehouse back in the late 70's. It was an old dragster, but in great shape! The manager of the storage place said his buddy owned the car but would not sell it.....he had been trying to get it for YEARS!....He gives me the guys address, which is just up the street, I knock on the door....He says, "ya know, I could use the cash".......When I go back to get the 34 the Manager is sooooo pissed, he wouldnt talk to me..... ...I only paid $1300 for it and even back then it was a great price for a steel 3 window...

Heres a shot 2 months later, after chopping the top.....


Here she is finished in the Miami World of Wheels......(My first paint job too!)

Nice looking 34 T42. Nice cut too. Just the right profile!