Yellow Canadian L89

[Stefano]

Shelbyland........recently in a land not to far away a believed long lost Shelby Mustang is unentombed, when the original owner dies.

A Shelby history search is performed by the Registrar and the car same car exists in another state with a different owner. Had the car for many years, show accolades and all. The Shelby Club member had stolen the identity of the car as no history had ever been reported. Fake Tags and VINs stamped on aprons.

The original car, still owned by the original family / estate, along with original tags even had an original build sheet still in the car.

[Crush]

Wow!!

[bergy]

That's awful!

Realistically, the fake car only had one of three:
- documentation (Marti Report) - yes, could even have Lois E's factory docs
- ownership history from new (or a long time) with contacts - probably not
- expert inspection certification (generally can spot wrong characters & welds) - probably not

There are cars in the Cobra registry that have 2 cars riding around with the same vin on them & they are so noted in the public registry.

[Charley Lillard]

Originally Posted by TimG

Issues like this happen in Shelbyland often. Car is totaled, VIN tag used to create another car, totaled car is repaired with same VIN. Ouch.....

This one is different. There was no wrecked car to take tags from. They got the cars info off another GM of Canada sheet before they started blacking out parts of the list. There is nothing from the orig L89 that vin belonged to on this car.

[EZ Nova]

Charley or others, question for you guys who are "in-the'know":

Could the site have a area, not just a thread, that people can post cars, either good or bad, for future reference.

Much like the "dealer" section that then breaks down by some dealers? Maybe like it by manufacturers and then post cars that are known legit, and like the Chevelle and Camaro list here, are posted as a known "problem" or rebody or outright scam. The site that could be the keep of know fakes, good one and also when bodys and engine are reunited....

Just a thought. Even post VIN's as well

[x77-69z28]

Great idea!
Buddy

[1crossram]

Wondering what ever happened to this car?

[70LT1Z28]

The 69 L89 is still here just sold again 3 months ago for $90k

[ZAPPER68]

Interesting thread...I've had a quick speed read through it and will make a casual comment. My neighbour back in small town Saskatchewan owned a yellow '69 L89 Camaro, which I have made mention of here previously. I don't know if this is the same car but there are too many similarities to ignore. Rod's car had a yellow houndstooth interior, a 4 speed and 4:10 gears that I can attest to.

Rod L bought the Camaro after he sold his '65 4 speed Buick Wildcat...Here's the Camaro story as told to me by Rod a few years ago and from my impressionable memory back then.

In Late '69 or early '70 Rod sold his Wildcat and bought the Camaro off a used car lot in Alberta. Initially, the car was a high school graduation present (from Grandma) for some lucky kid in Southern Saskatchewan. The car scared him and he 'got rid of it'...

Rod, our neighbour, was the second owner and lived/worked in Calgary Alberta at the time. One of his buddies at the time owned a '69 428 4 speed CJ Mach I that I eventually bought from him. The two of them used to street race and thrashed the hell out of their cars.

Time goes on...Rod sells his Camaro, Dennis sells his Mach I (to me) and the L89 engine out of Rod's Camaro eventually ends up in a jet boat here in BC. Whomever ended up with the Camaro discovers it's 'kind of rare' and looks for the engine, finds it and re-unites it with the car.

Years ago Rod sent me a picture of him and his old Camaro at the 'World of Wheels' show in Calgary. I still have that picture somewhere in this computer. Rod is still alive and strangely has moved back into his parents house next door to where mine used to live. Rod told me the car was making its rounds on the show car circuit and ended up with a collector in the USA.

The last time I saw and spoke to Rod was at my Aunt's Celebration of Life in September of 2016. Although Rod's health is failing, he's still with us and will be able to shed more light on his old Camaro if need be. :-)

[JamesinHBCA]

Originally Posted by ZAPPER68

Interesting thread...I've had a quick speed read through it and will make a casual comment. My neighbour back in small town Saskatchewan owned a yellow '69 L89 Camaro, which I have made mention of here previously. I don't know if this is the same car but there are too many similarities to ignore. Rod's car had a yellow houndstooth interior, a 4 speed and 4:10 gears that I can attest to.

The car in this thread has a black standard interior, so probably not the same car.

Would like to hear more about Rods car, in another thread with pictures if possible. May still be around. Unlikely that a car like that would be put back on the road and driven into the ground after being on the show circuit.