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What's the tire sticker on the glove box door say?
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Old 05-28-2019, 11:26 PM
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Cool car Jon! Best of luck with the resto...
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Thanks for the compliments. The car is pretty solid but did get tagged in the LH rear very early on when it was still LeMans blue. I've got that all fixed now.

The remnant of the decal is a reproduction Z28 tire pressure sticker so that's no help. I feel the factory applied white paint on top of the cowl on a LeMans blue car (U-U paint as shown on the cowl tag) is stronger evidence anyway.

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If you have the tank out you might find the build sheet. If it still has the original front springs the tags will read EE....Joe
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There was no build sheet under the tank but it does have the EE front springs.
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I found more history on the car. I know several guys who worked for the old Petersen Publishing Co and still work in the magazine business. Since some of them lived (and still do live) in the San Fernando Valley, I asked them if they recognized the car from my 1984 pictures. One said yes, that looks like my friend Doug Starks' old car from Canoga Park. We checked with Doug and he agreed it was his old car that he bought back in 1977. He saw it advertised in the LA Times (Sept 25, 1977) and it was down in Orange County. The phone numbers appear to be from Westminster but they got the car in Placentia which is next to Fullerton and above Anaheim. They went down to buy the car driving in my friend's '69 Z28 and said the seller looked to be about 19 years old. The price in the ad said $3100 but the recollection was they paid about half that. That advertised price was way above average for the time. The 302 engine was not in the car when they got it and may have been yanked to bring the price down. It had a more generic small block in it, maybe even a 307 but they don't know for sure because Doug resold the car pretty quickly. He does not recall who he sold it to and Frank Brown does not recall who he bought it from but it did stay in the San Fernando Valley by all accounts. The black paint job was pretty fresh in 1977 and the rims on the car at this time were Chevy rally wheels. Interestingly, the blue CA personalized plate read MR Z28. The plate was changed to 388UEG by whoever bought it from Doug.

Hopefully this new information will lead to further ownership history. Maybe somebody down in northern Orange County remembers a car with the license plate MR Z28 on it back in the 1970s?

Does anybody have a cross-reference telephone directory like a Polk Directory from that area that could put a name with those phone numbers?
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Jon, how is it progressing?
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I haven't found out anything new over the last few months but have got some other options that I'm going to pursue.
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Excellent news and fantastic work. I love stories like this. Please keep us posted on any more good news.

The fact that you stumbled onto someone that knew the car and previous owner is like finding a needle in a hay stack, or at least thats what it seems like to me. Wish I could find history on our Z but every avenue I pursued was a dead end.
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Latest update: I found the owner from 1977 who placed the ad in the LA Times. He's the one who painted the car black and put the MR Z28 plates on it. His name is Larry Bienz and he graduated from Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, CA in 1976. It sounded like it was black before he graduated. I have so far not been able to get any photos. He told me the car had the 302 in it at that time. I was given the name of the person he bought it from and unfortunately no luck with pics there either. Anybody here from Garden Grove remember the car?

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