LT-1? w/ strange engine code "K0911T5A"
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From: SW Florida.
DO NOT buy a car because it has the original engine. buy the best condition car you can find. if it is not orig engine, very few will know. if 10k euros too high, it is still nowhere near as bad as getting matching numbers car and having to do major frame-birdcage-paint work.
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Joined: Nov 2021
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From: Weesp, The Netherlands
DO NOT buy a car because it has the original engine. buy the best condition car you can find. if it is not orig engine, very few will know. if 10k euros too high, it is still nowhere near as bad as getting matching numbers car and having to do major frame-birdcage-paint work.
Good advice, no doubt. The "...major frame-birdcage-paint work..." scares the poo out of me and I will avoid it like the plague.
Gonna schedule a visit to see the LT-1 (with truck engine) in question in a couple weeks. Hope it's still there. The underside looks good, but far from perfect - only a little surface rust on the outside of frame members, but evidence of worse rust visible through the factory holes (Can that be arrested???). Still, I submitted selected photos that I received to this forum's brain trust (which I remember you saw) and they basically all say go for it. Only one person shared my concern of the main frame rail's seams splitting due to rust.
Thanks...again!
Steve, in the NLs
