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Finally contacted/visiting original owner
After purchasing my wife a nice 70 Chevelle SS396 locally last summer. I finally tracked down the Original owner off of the POP. Turns out he still lives in the same town, only a few miles from the Dealership (El-Mor Chevrolet) in Morgantown Pa where he ordered the car new as a junior in high school, Spent about 2 hrs on the Phone with him the other evening. So Tomorrow I will be paying him a visit with the Car. He's already shared lots of stories & pictures of the Car. But tomorrow he's gonna get to drive it again ! says he sold it in 1980 to buy a new Toyata Celica GT haha. Not sure who's more excited him or I ?
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Very cool! Hope all goes well. The original owner of my convertible lived only 2 blocks away from me when we lived back in IL and she was excited to see the car, shared some old pictures of her with the car, but did not want to drive it :dunno: She did let me take her for a ride in it though.
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That's is pretty cool. I think that would be so neat to reunite a car with its original owner. Unfortunately, the original owner's of both of our cars are long gone. Both were one owner cars so that would really have been cool to get together with them.
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Your going to have a great time bringing the car back to the OO. In my case it wasn't the OO but was the surviving son of the 2nd owner who raced it BITD. It is the highlight moment of my ownership of the car.
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Very cool news Jeff. Excited for both of you and can't wait to see the pics.
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A few pics of Jeff & Renee's 70 Chevelle. Timeless to say the least.
Pics from Original Owner - Circa 1970 https://i.ibb.co/GMvD50V/image1.jpg Original Owner/s - 1970 Morgantown PA https://i.ibb.co/HxCVQQy/image0.jpg Current Owner/s - 2020 Manheim PA https://i.ibb.co/CHSY3kG/image4.jpg |
Cool story but dang, that’s a great looking machine.
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looks really nice Jeff. Great story and enjo u the car.
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What an awesome stance....that car belongs in the "does stance matter..." thread! Beautiful!
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How cool! There's nothing like watching a fella get behind the wheel of his car he bought new. You could take a video for him to keep.
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Man that’s a tough looking car. Looking forward to seeing the original owner next to it! I remember seeing the original owner of my Super Bee standing next to it after a 40 year break. When he was running his hand along the fender, I could only imagine what thoughts were going through his mind!!!
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Man, that's a beautiful Chevelle, congrats
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Cragars look perfect on there :biggthumpup:
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Here are some pics to be added for Jeff. The first picture shows the Impala that was traded in when the original owner bought the Chevelle. That's followed by some old pictures of the car from back in the day, and a couple Jeff took with the original owner earlier today. I like that the O/O was wearing an appropriate shirt!
Very cool Jeff. :burnout: https://i.ibb.co/pX1V8py/IMG-7180.jpg https://i.ibb.co/n6RXtD3/IMG-7182.jpg https://i.ibb.co/mDRVrVs/IMG-7183.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ynNrSJp/IMG-7185.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Yh6j3Td/IMG-7189.jpg https://i.ibb.co/qjZVr7F/IMG-7196.jpg |
Such a great day reuniting the Chevelle today with Charles , After a few hours of his stories and my questions , he took me on a cruise around town (Morgantown) we drove past the Old El-Mor dealership ,Now Turnpike Chevrolet, showed my the exact window he sat inside when he ordered the car in March 1970, Then a couple blocks later we backed into his Ex mother & father in laws driveway (where a couple of the old pics were taken) and out comes a very elderly couple in their early 90's ? who seemed very very happy to share memories of Charlie and his car. Then we stopped at another guys house that used to carpool with Charlie in the Chevelle when they worked together. Epic day for him and I !!!
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Beauty!
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Very cool!
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My buddy and his dad had matching forest green ss396 cheveles about 1985. He found the vin and his dads showed up online at one of the big car dealers like streetside or RK. He still has the build sheet on his and we figured out it was actually a clone! He has no idea where it went
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One of the cooler stories he told me about the car was how he planned on ordering the car in Red w/black stripes like the car on all the brochures, but on the way to the dealership he passed an older guy that lived up the block in his Forrest Green ,white stripe 69 Z28. So at the last minute changed his mind to code 48
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He also mentioned El-Mor had already sold a Forest green 1970 L78 ,4spd Chevelle to a local guy , But they never had SS cars on the lot , they had to be ordered. He also said the salesman tried to talk him out of “ The Big Motor” thats why he got the L34 , His car payments were $90 a month
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True,I know the owner today.
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Wow ! very Cool ! Dumb question but being both cars sold from the same dealership what factored into what plant the cars came from ? My car is a Atlanta built car and see the L78 car was a Baltimore car.
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Great story Jeff. Congrads on the History of the car! BBBenny
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Awesome story, Jeff. Thanks for sharing.
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It's always great to see a car that looks clean enough to lick. Nice car.
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Looks like someone scored a couple gifts today?
https://i.ibb.co/3zQmv7x/IMG-7202-1.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ynwdXK5/IMG-7201-1.jpg |
Awesome Jeff!
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Great story and photos! Love it! Thanks for sharing with us Jeff! We LOVE this stuff!!!:biggthumpup::biggthumpup::biggthumpup:
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Get a Hat too..
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That's cool you went to visit the original owner!
I went to visit the family of the 2nd owner of my A12 on Saturday. Sadly it was for his memorial as he passed early this year. Here's what I posted elsewhere: Went to a special event yesterday unbeknownst to the family I was going to attend. Here’s what I posted over on FB: You know I’ve put very few miles on the old silver slug in 30 plus years I’ve owned it. In fact less than a thousand miles on it since was last inspected in August of 1986 😔! But the miles yesterday to the 2nd caretakers home and time spent with his family was priceless. They didn’t know that Rick’s old Road Runner was making the trek back to its 2nd home to honor him. I just wish I had done it last year when he was still with us. As I was nearing his house and could see people heading into the garage where I first laid eyes on it in April of 1987 I could literally see jaws dropping and hands going to their mouths. Pulling in I could see tears being wiped away. The words “Rick had a car just like this” were met with my own words “this was Rick’s car!” You know I said there’d be pics and stories to post from yesterday’s gathering to celebrate Rick’s life but honestly, I took no pictures. Yesterday was about family getting to see, feel and touch what was once a very special part of Rick’s life. They said it was the one car he would constantly talk about. A special part of the time spent with them was asking his ex-wife Linda if she wanted to wheel it again. I think if she had slid the seat forward it would have been more than just getting a second shift tire chirp! Linda said “oh the flood of memories!” His sister Amy said the same. Misty got the “Rick treatment” with 6bbl’s open and tires bawling! Thank you Rick (and Linda) for saving a significant car in A12 Mopar world out of an Oil City area salvage yard in 1972. RIP Rick Kline |
Such great stories. It really is fantastic to read these. Congrats!
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