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Very cool story Rick and nice first car. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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I wish I still had my 67 RS Z28, Red with red deluxe...

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Rick,

VERY cool story on your first car! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif I am really glad you went after the guy who did it!

A very similar thing happened to my 2nd car. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif It was hit by a drunk driver at 3 am while parked in front of my parents house. I still remember the sound...I thought he had hit every car on our street! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif I only had the car a year and had just got it painted. I had bought rally wheels for it, sanded them down and painted them with extra paint from my car. Unfortunately, my car was totalled before I ever got to put them on (I was going to get new white letter tires that week). Since I never got to see my car with the new wheels and tires, I would want this one back more than the others (even though I would love to have any of them back! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif)

The guy who did this "hit & run" got away with it. I knew who it was, it was the boyfriend of a neighbor down the street. He claimed "his friend" took his car that night https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif , but I found his extra set of keys that he had in one of those magnetic boxes in the street. I guess they had fallen off when he hit my car.

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Cool story and reminded me of another of my lost loves although far from my first. . Pretty sure it was Dec. '81....I was working at the boneyard and answered the phone from a guy asking what we were paying for cars. . I told him the standard answer of $40 for complete w/ battery, rad etc and asked what he had. . A 70 Chev. 2 dr. was the reply and since I knew a guy w/ a '69 Impala 2 Dr. Hdtp who needed doors I told him I'd give more if the doors were good. . A day or so later a guy walked into the shop about 5 minutes to closing and said he had the '70 Chev outside. . I walked out the door and there it was....a '70 Chevelle 2 Dr. Hdtp. w/ 307 and Turbo-350, red w/ perfect white bench interior and only 57,000 thou on it! . His wife was waiting in a new Malibu and honked at him as if to hurry up so I paid him the $45 he asked me for and off he went. . The only thing bad was the rear bumper chrome and I remember pulling a beautiful one off a green 4 door, adding front shocks and a headlight and hit the road. . Great car, great times for a year or so 'til a lady in a '73 Impala came around a corner and creamed my complete driver's side writing off the car. . The insurance gave me $1800 I think and the car back. . I put on a used orange fender and door, welded on a quarter w/ a rusty wheel lip and cut the good lip section off the mangled fender and welded it to the rusty quarter. . Some guy bought it off me before I put even any bondo to it and I never saw it again. . Be great to do it all again and nothing to do w/ the Chevelle but here's what I'm thinking now after reflecting....I wonder why did Chevy only offer a full size 2 Dr. Hdtp. and no Post Sedan for '70 when it was the same bodys as '69??? ~ Pete

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1969 Corvette 427/430 2nd design late car. Cortez silver black guts. Real powerhouse!

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Two,
One is still in the family. First car was a 69 Camaro X-11, 307, console 3 speed. Bought in 1982 for $650.00, 500.00 earned by me, and a 150.00 loan from an uncle (Dad refused as the car was "to fast" for a 15 year old). It was green/black. Had it repainted the next summer firethorn red, and added keystone classic rims. After that, a close friend wanted one so bad we spent the entire summer looking and found a X-44, brown/green 307 Camaro. We spent the next two summers on that car. The following year, he was killed when he stepped in front of a speeding car, after seeing his girl with another guy. I bought the car from his family, and eventually gave it to my youngest brother. He drove it through his high school years, and after selling mine while I was in college, I convinced him every time he wanted to sell his, not to. I am now 39 and he is 32, and he still has that car (currently Hugger/Black, w. Cowl Hood, and a 427). He is now VERY glad he never sold that car!

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65 Riviera..non GS "A-8" package car, dual quad 425 engine...every available option except A/C !!! I know this car is still out there somewhere. The Buick tag on the dash said "Custom Built for Don McDermott"...it had 3 Airguide gages mounted high on the console...still have the POP..

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I want my 67Z back,white black top and black standard interrior,console with gauges and fold down rear seat,m21 4:10 rear (factory) engine was a CE replacement 302.I know where it is and the person who has it but he wont let it go. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

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1968 RS Camaro L78 Fathom blue. I found it after close to a 20 year abscence about 10 years ago 10 miles from here. I offered to pay him at least twice what it was worth at the time (orig motor gone and replaced with a 327). I contact him every now and then, he still has it, doesn't run and locked away in storage. Here are some day 2 photos.

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I can't get the photos to load. Can anyone help?

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This was my first 1970 L78 chevelle that I bought used in the mid seventies,it was black w/white strips and black vinyl top.I blew the engine and distroyed the block shortly after I bought it and I replaced it with a 1965 396-425hp engine that was built and had an L88 cam in it.The car had no power steering and had an M21 4spd and 410 posi with ladder bars and was very quick.I sold it around 1978/1979 and later spotted it parked on a street around the damen/roscoe area in chicago in 1981 and haven't seen it since and always wondered what happened to it and missed it alot,it was a fun car to drive and always gave me a reason to get up and go to work back then.Maybe some of you Chicago area guys know where its at,the vin number is 136370K119119.

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interior

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rear

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72 rally nova factory console with gauges and factory tach vinly top mohave gold what i would give to find the twin to that it might not have been a yenko but it was worth more than one to me

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Dave I dig the shag floor mats! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif

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The pictures I am trying to post are scans that have been converted into a .pdf file using Adobe Acrobat. They load fine on my computer but I can't post them here. Since my computer skills are about as good as my mechanical skills I will need some help in accomplishing this. They are decent photos of a 68 L78 Camaro from probably 1968-69 possibly as late as 70

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another try

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if at first you don't succeed..........

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https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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MR. T and mr70 thanks for the help. For anyone who is interested found a site neevia.com which converts files. And I want my car back......

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I don't blame ya..
Nice looking Car!

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I second that Rick... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif
Looks Motion-esque with that stance

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Either my 59 Impala 283 or the 66 4spd GTO. Now that I'm thinking about, there are a couple of more I'd take back. What I really want are the 60's back. Oh well!

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68 RS/SS 350 four speed convertible, fathom blue /white top / black custom interior, console, gauges, A/C, P/top, P/windows, P/S, PDB, D80, rallyes. Sold it to buy a better house when I moved to Seattle in 1987. My wife still kicks my butt for selling it https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

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1968 GTO sold it to a freind in 77. He still has it in storage somewhere.

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There are a couple I wish were kept. How about a 64 4spd Goat, 70 Mark Donohue Javelin and my first car a 75 400 4spd T/A

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Welcome Nathan...we appreciate your service to our country https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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thanks, messing around on this site will hepl me pass the time out here.

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Mess around all you want...we'll make it entertaining for you! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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thank you

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59 El- Camino