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Taking it on the Rt 66 Cruise this weekend. Anyone here going?
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#32
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Rt 66 cruise
Where is Rt 66 Cruise? I live in Chino Valley and also own a 69 Camaro SS but still apart. Has been off the road in Ca since 82
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They meet in Seligman tomorrow. Have a cruise through town in the evening, live band etc..spend the night. Then leave in the morning about 10am and head East towards Kingman with stops along the way. Show in Kingman, spend the night. Sunday through Oatman and out to Topock.
You can do any segment you like and turn around when you feel like it. It's not a timed event. http://www.gokingman.com/event-66FunRun Scroll down and you can click on each day for the events and times. Edit: We usually hit the Chino McDonalds cruise on Fridays (tomorrow actually) but will probably miss that tomorrow due to the Rt 66 deal. |
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To date I've had no luck finding any history on the car. I'll give a few more details. I do know someone enjoyed the heck out of it before it was permanently parked in the 80's because it had just over 100k miles on it and both driver side door hinges were replaced with new GM hinges that still had the GM stickers on them when I found the car. Hinges were never painted and just put on as bought. So someone was getting in and out of it a lot, not to mention the driver seat bolster has seen better days, and the driver side door panel is worn on the top from someone resting their arm up there all the time. Someone drove this car a lot. Probably short trips getting in and out a lot. I don't believe it spent much time in a garage before it's long hibernation either, since as you can see from the pics even the primer applied was burnt off, leading me to also believe that was done years before the 1980's when the car was permanently parked inside, and it spent a lot of time in the sunshine. All the weather strip on the car was also original and crystalized, hard as a rock, as well as the dash pad cracked, original carpet faded, original tail lights faded, all indications to me the car spent a lot of time in the sun somewhere here in the desert Southwest. The undercarriage is just as clean with original Frost Green paint overspray on the floors and around the rear wheel well areas, grey primer left around the gas tank area after blackout on the floors were applied etc....just as the factory did it. All the front suspension is original and loaded with factory paint markings. With the miles on it, I tend to believe all of, or at least the vast majority of the mileage was accumulated in a nice dry climate out here. Even though the car was built in Norwood I find it hard to believe it spent much, if any time at all back East. There are some other oddity things I was told by the previous owner and I came to realize later as I tore into the car to likely be true. Things that might joggle someone's memory of the car. Maybe I'll talk about that stuff later if this gets any more interest. |
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Is the VIN high enough to get an NCRS report on the car to find out where it was delivered new?
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Unfortunately no. It's in the "lost vin" category at NCRS so no records on it.
I even tried the Canada route hoping that there was a very small chance it was sold there. Unfortunately no dice up there either. I found a torn piece of paper under the carpet that is Canadian related from what I could find, so that's what led me to check for Canadian records. It's a mystery. I think the car has been out of public eye around here for so long it's just another forgotten car that likely wasn't a very popular color anymore by the time the late 70's and 80's rolled around, so it wasn't paid much attention to and just slid under the radar. I tend to think someone spray bombed it grey because of that, lol. One of the reasons I reapplied grey primer on the car was two fold. One is that my wife wanted to daily drive it and I didn't want to worry about scratching the car everywhere it went, and two, I kind of wanted to keep the identity it had before it was parked in hopes that someone might recognize it. It's also a big reason I left the interior as it was. So far we've logged over 30k miles with it and most of the major car events around here. Hasn't rung a bell. Last edited by x33rs; 05-07-2020 at 04:34 PM. |
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Oops, I didn't see the VIN info in your previous post. Wish we lived somewhere I could drive old cars all year round,, that would be a dream come true. Spent the week in Prescott last winter looking for possible retirement destinations and its beautiful up there. Best of luck finding the owner history of your Z28.
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We love Prescott. We're actually in Prescott Valley, a bit lower elevation than Prescott but not far down the road. We had a very mild winter this year. Actually all 4 seasons are mild in this area of Arizona. Not super hot and not all that cold. So we drive these cars year round with not much inclement weather to speak of. Coming from Ohio originally the weather here is paradise. Did you decide on a retirement spot yet? |
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Not yet, we're trying to hit different spots every winter in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to see what we like best. Prescott was our first pick but the week we were there(right after Christmas) it was pretty cold, we even saw snow on our last day on the way to Payson. Planning to go to Taylor, TX next winter to check out that area.
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