LS-6 Info
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LS-6 Info
Currently on Bring A Trailer, In the comments section on a real nice white original LS-6 Convertible, a guy had written comments about his own personal 1971 Blue Convertible, Vin 194671S101222, claiming it is a LS-6, with some different engine stamping that was "verified by a Ex Bloomington Gold inspector" there is no such person, his Blue 71 is listed on/in the C-3 registry, no LS-6 cars were built before very late February early March 1971, his car was built in September of 1970. Vin 101222 is in the C-3 registry & shows a photo of his engine pad, major problems with the pad, the "W" in CPW is stamped with a half "W" which is wrong, and the Vin stamp starts out with a "7" and is short one digit, should start with a "C" and have 10 digits, his starts with a 7 and has 9 digits. So a very poorly made up car that was sold in the Mecum Auction at Rick Treworgy Muscle car building in 2021. Not nice that the guy mentions someone from Bloomington Gold verified the pad, nobody with any C-3 Corvette knowledge, either NCRS, or Bloomington, would ever think that the engine pad is close to being OK. Thanks Jim Wallace
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Jim,
when it sold at Mecum in 2021 I had seen in photos' the small w, and other items that I thought were very strange on the Vette as a LS-6
I think someone paid $110,000 or $120,000 for it at that time.
Dean Nelson
when it sold at Mecum in 2021 I had seen in photos' the small w, and other items that I thought were very strange on the Vette as a LS-6
I think someone paid $110,000 or $120,000 for it at that time.
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so, what is this? a CPH LS5 car with bodywork done to the pad to restamp it as CPW? and get somebody to give him an eighth of a million for a 40 or 50k car? restamp cuz you want the right numbers and restamping for profit are 2 very different things. like paying 15k for a 2 carat hunk of cubic zirconia. of course the buyer is supposed to do some homework...
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Lot B17 Rick Treworgy's Muscle Car City 2021 Jan 22-23
1971 Chevrolet Corvette LS6 Convertible
454/425 HP, 4-Speed, 1 of Only 188 Produced in 1971 No Reserve
Last edited by 71 Green 454; May 11, 2022 at 11:52 AM.
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Thanks for the reminder. The thread here was back in January, 2021, when the car was in the auction process. It is a bogus car, no doubt. The first LS6 was in the 10900 range. 1222 is MUCH too early to be an LS6.
Last edited by 62corvette; May 11, 2022 at 07:42 PM.
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Learn something new all the time. I wasn't aware that '71 LS6s were built within such a narrow date window.
On another note, the car currently on BAT, which looks legit with lots of paperwork, the thing that's interesting to me is that it was sold originally in Canada, but they do not have any copies (or tried to obtain?) of the GM of Canada docs to verify the car and support it as a LS6.
Link to current white BAT LS6 car; https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...t-corvette-84/
On another note, the car currently on BAT, which looks legit with lots of paperwork, the thing that's interesting to me is that it was sold originally in Canada, but they do not have any copies (or tried to obtain?) of the GM of Canada docs to verify the car and support it as a LS6.
Link to current white BAT LS6 car; https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...t-corvette-84/
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Learn something new all the time. I wasn't aware that '71 LS6s were built within such a narrow date window.
On another note, the car currently on BAT, which looks legit with lots of paperwork, the thing that's interesting to me is that it was sold originally in Canada, but they do not have any copies (or tried to obtain?) of the GM of Canada docs to verify the car and support it as a LS6.
Link to current white BAT LS6 car; https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...t-corvette-84/
On another note, the car currently on BAT, which looks legit with lots of paperwork, the thing that's interesting to me is that it was sold originally in Canada, but they do not have any copies (or tried to obtain?) of the GM of Canada docs to verify the car and support it as a LS6.
Link to current white BAT LS6 car; https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...t-corvette-84/
Yes GM Canada does have the documentation. I have a Canadian car 71 454 and for the past 18 years of restoration and selling parts that I thought the car did not come with only to find out it had all the options on the sheet. Back to square one again in buying the parts again, That sheet if I bought 15 years ago was 29.00 then went up to 50.00 and would have saved me a lot of grief and now paying 139.00 or 149.00 for the service. At least I have the sheet.....lol
If that LS6 on BAT is a Canadian export and he doesn't have the GM documentation then to me why not?? Only helps the sale of the car pedigree
If anyone is interested George Zapora is the gentleman handling the Canadian documentation
https://www.vintagevehicleservices.com/option-info
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Learn something new all the time. I wasn't aware that '71 LS6s were built within such a narrow date window.
On another note, the car currently on BAT, which looks legit with lots of paperwork, the thing that's interesting to me is that it was sold originally in Canada, but they do not have any copies (or tried to obtain?) of the GM of Canada docs to verify the car and support it as a LS6.
Link to current white BAT LS6 car; https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...t-corvette-84/
On another note, the car currently on BAT, which looks legit with lots of paperwork, the thing that's interesting to me is that it was sold originally in Canada, but they do not have any copies (or tried to obtain?) of the GM of Canada docs to verify the car and support it as a LS6.
Link to current white BAT LS6 car; https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...t-corvette-84/
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On the pricing of GM of Canada doc services. It use to be free back when GM actually provided the service. I bought my car in Vancouver, Canada back in 1990, and I later requested the GM docs in April 1992. Good thing it was free, cause upon receiving the docs from GM Canada, they stated they did not import the car. No data. So it was a US sold car that was later imported into Canada. After all these years I finally wanted to solve where this car was originally sold, so did the NCRS shipping report data. Was sold not too far from me at Walker Chevrolet in Tacoma, WA
