Arizona Muscle cars

[Astock]

I see the car is still being advertised as original miles. How ridiculous!

[AnthonyS]

Originally Posted by Astock

I see the car is still being advertised as original miles. How ridiculous!

Hi, actually not really. It had about 450 on it when I found it in 2006 - was only ever a drag car and never ever street driven from Day 1 until I took it to a few cruises / shows a few years later... I had it at Cruise for a Cure one year, took it to Pomona a couple times and RT66... I might believe it's only been driven 500 or so miles since I sold it. And truly believe that body has less than 1000 miles on it still.



Comment just for what it's worth. Cheers.

[EZ Nova]

Anthony,

I also know of a 1969 SS 396 Chevelle L-78 car that has never been lic for the street or a street car for that matter. Race car since day one. It has been streeted with dealer plates from time to time about 15 yrs ago.

But as with this, the speedo was disconnected right at day 1. So who's to say WHAT the original mileage is? Low for sure, but 99% of the guys I know that raced back in the day didn't hook the speedo's back up IF they were racing.

Reasoning is even at 1/4 tracks, car put about 1-1.5 miles per pass on? track plus shut down and return roads, to the pits then to staging lanes. So a couple "test n tune" passes, then qualifying and onto eliminations could easily be 10+ mile per weekend alone. I know from a Friday night to Sunday eliminations I have put on over 15 miles on a normal good result weekends.

[ssl78]

Speedo must be hooked up if in 2006 it had 400 miles on it and now it has 900 miles. The also has a big gear in it so in reality it has less miles

[Astock]

Originally Posted by ssl78

Speedo must be hooked up if in 2006 it had 400 miles on it and now it has 900 miles. The also has a big gear in it so in reality it has less miles

What does this have to do with the first 37 years of the cars life? The car was purchased by Anthony in 2006, body only.

[AnthonyS]

Hey Gang, I'm not attesting to it's mileage at all, but the body certainly bears witness to not having been on the street much. The trans tunnel was hacked for different shifters and I repaired that, the rear driver's side foot floor pan was also exploded from a lost driveshaft once and i had that patched too. I too, have nothing to go on but what the OO told me in 2006 and that was it was never street driven. The last race motor was in it when I found it and took it home.


Here's a thread I started on Camaros.net a while back...


https://www.camaros.net/forums/66-wh...barn-find.html


And then Barnfinds.com caught wind of it...


https://barnfinds.com/vintage-drag-c...-camaro-ss396/


As everyone says, it is what it is.


Cheers all,
Anthony

[scuncio]

I tried to make a deal on a 69 Frost Green RS/SS L78 that was still on the MSO and never titled, just raced. I believe it had a couple hundred miles showing, but again, the speedo cable was disconnected. However, it being on the MSO lends some credence to the low miles...but I suppose the original dealership could have driven it around on a dealer plate. These low mile cars are out there but IMO the mileage itself doesn't drive a lot of value unless the car is still in original trim.