1969 L-89 Convertible 4 Speed For Sale

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

I ran across the same thing on my car in Texas,only went back to 1974 and that was the guy I bought it from.I even offered to pay them if they would do some research into the storage boxes.The guy flat told me no that that was not a nice place to go where they have the records stored.I even offered to do the search and still pay! No dice couldn't even come close! So some of us will probably never know!But as long as you enjoy your car that is what counts to me.I don't have to worry about making any money on my cars because I will keep them till I am gone.Then my Wife,Daughter and Soninlaw can deal with them.At least my Soninlaw is intelligent and knows a lot about old cars,he also knows what I have tied up in them,hell he probably knows more about them than I do.Good to have someone like him taking care of my Babies!Sometimes I think he does a better job than I do.

Bobby Dodson

[Mr. T]

Ok, the bid is currently at 185K. Will it reach the 200k mark before the auction ends, which is 10 hours away? This could be interesting.

[COPO]

I guess you are assuming those are all legit bids.

[Mr. T]

Assuming, yes.

[ssl78]

I always wonder why when a person is restoring a car of this caliber usually the pictures seem to start after dissasembly.I would think if it was my car with no docs but complete original drivetrain I would want to take pictures of the car prior to dissasembly. Those pictures I would think could be some documentation as of what the car started life as. I understand if the car was purchsed in pieces and no original drivetrain you might want to leave those pictures out. I am no way talking about the car in the thread I know nothing about it. It just seems there is a lot of original drivetrain cars that are restored and no original pictures.

[Mr70]

That's an interesting perspective.....

[af1fe]

John,
I totally agree. With this car since there was no documentation and an altered cowl tag I would have taken as many pictures for my own reference. And who is to say that there wasn't any taken, there might have been. I would have least showed the photos of the partial vin's under the cowl and fan box.
AF1-FE

[Steve Shauger]

John I was thinking the same thing. Your L78 pace car is an unrestored car, and contains a wealth of information and documentation. This information should be can be extracted prior to its restoration. Without documentation, full ownership history and without documenting the cars originality during the disassembly process, you leave yourself open to a lot of questions and not many answers. The provenance of a car is critical.

[69L89RAG]

I have plenty of pictures of the car before I restored. Problem is that the car was redone in 1985.

As far as legit bids go. I take huge offense when they question that. I would assume that they figure I have 25,000 friends viewing the auction to raise the hit count as well. To be honest with you I am disappointed in the bid count of 45 based on 25,000 + viewers of the auction. I guess the other thing that I don't understand is the car is not even at the reserve yet? I could see people be concerned if the car was over the reserve and getting pushed all over the place? I really felt that the car would be in 210,000 range by now.

As someone stated in the forum before. Most cars in this kind of price range will sell off of ebay. I expect that the purchaser would require an exstensive inspection before purchase. I have told numerous people who are serious buyers, and took the time to call and get their questions answered, that they can have the car inspected and talk to the previous owners before they purchase the car. Even if they win the auction I would allow them to back out of the deal after the inspection.

Ebay is a great way to advertise.

See attached Photo of what it was like when I got it.

[mike s]

i like that color alot better even though its probably not original