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I have restored 2 corvettes from ground up /burned up corvettes.
If you have the skills to do it yourself , including paint.
you can restore this car easy, if it has solid birdcage and frame.
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[QUOTE=69Vett;1596410538]I have restored 2 corvettes from ground up /burned up corvettes.
If you have the skills to do it yourself , including paint.
you can restore this car easy, if it has solid birdcage and frame.
If you look at the pics it can be seen the birdcage is toast and frame pitiful.
i passed on the sale off the car the vin plate was rusted away its back up for sale,i tried to make a deal with them but no go, eng has coolant in it still. oil pan rusted and oil leaking out. inside vale cover rockers and springs look clean so hard to say whats up with the engine. i was just going to flip it for parts.
Unless you're only writing checks, restoring cars is never "easy". Some are worse than others but they all take at minimum multiple hundreds of hours of work and a lot of skill.
I can't help but question the credibility of anyone who says it is.
Just noticed that the tag registration shows 2012. Wonder if somebody did actually do some work on it back then and then gave up?
some areas you are not allowed to have a car sitting in view of the street without tags. so maybe the last owner could not hide the car so there for was required to tag the car
According to there "decoding" they seem to have gotten off the Order Copy, this is a L89. If that's so, this car may very well be worth saving somehow.
According to there "decoding" they seem to have gotten off the Order Copy, this is a L89. If that's so, this car may very well be worth saving somehow.
The engine code is either LP or LR. The heads on it now are definitely cast iron, so I am guessing the engine code is LR.
If it turns out to be a LP code engine, it is definitely worth restoring, but the restoration would probably end up being a re-body.
The engine code is either LP or LR. The heads on it now are definitely cast iron, so I am guessing the engine code is LR.
If it turns out to be a LP code engine, it is definitely worth restoring, but the restoration would probably end up being a re-body.
The way the paper note is written it says "order copy" on it, which is the tank sticker. If whoever wrote that got the information and copied it from the tank sticker which might have survived, then this could be interesting. Original motor and tank sticker (I am assuming from the "note").
Either way, I copied the info into my database with the vin. I'll look for it in the future.
I agree, rebody, new frame, etc. Everyone will know the history of this car, too many of us have seen it now, it is what it is, but if its an L89 it should be saved somehow.
With the VIN tag gone, as was finally disclosed in the new auction and NOT on the original auction, you cannot even match the title to the car. its a pile of parts, bill of sale only. No way to restore it, no way to match the engine to the car. massive devaluation from the
get-go. Don't ever buy something like this unless you are very experienced at it. if the car is non-title-able then the auction house needs to disclose this.
So sad to see something so beautiful end up like this. wish we could find out who picked up the car this time, I'd like to see if they're gonna part it or attempt some sort of transplant. If the sticker on the tank is still legible and this is where they got the info from, wouldn't that be enough to match the car to the title? Or no due to the possibility of it being taken from a different car at some point, even though it looks like the info matches what's part of the car?
So sad to see something so beautiful end up like this. wish we could find out who picked up the car this time, I'd like to see if they're gonna part it or attempt some sort of transplant. If the sticker on the tank is still legible and this is where they got the info from, wouldn't that be enough to match the car to the title? Or no due to the possibility of it being taken from a different car at some point, even though it looks like the info matches what's part of the car?
Joewill is correct if in fact the vin tag is gone. We know its not on the windshield post, but that doesn't mean its gone. What if the prior owner removed it for some reason and still has it I his possession?. What if it rusted off the post and is sitting under the front seat? Maybe in the storage compartment? stranger things have happened. The point is, there is still some detective work to find out what the deal is. Its just more interesting for us to talk about and see how it turns out if it is a true L89.
If the original vin tag is gone, that is a very big hurdle that might not able to be solved without some other way to prove what the car is.
Tha tank sticker only proves it CAME from a certain vin, not that this car is IN FACT, that vin. Even if we think it is, when the car goes up for sale the potential buyers will not pay full L89 price for a car with a question mark unless the evidence is rock solid. The new owner should start taking pictures and documenting this car immediately including printing out everything online from the auction as well as these very posts right here.
Last edited by ed427vette; Feb 2, 2018 at 02:05 PM.
