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I have often remarked on the fact that though I have owned many cars, I have never owned a Corvette or a convertible. Some of you have probably heard me joke that someday I might have to combine the two.

Well, about a decade or so ago I left a note in a mailbox at a house where a Corvette convertible had long been siting in the driveway under a tarp.

Never heard a word about it.

Eventually, the car disappeared and I wondered what became of it.

So, a few days ago I get a phone call...

It's the owner of the Vette wondering if I might still be interested!

We are negotiating.

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I like that color. I like how many of the late '60s-early '70s Corvette colors directly or indirectly name-checked racetracks..Elkhart being a reference to Elkhart Lake/Road America, and Monza Red, Monaco Orange, Goodwood Green, LeMans Blue, Can-Am white...

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Funny man you are. :P

Speaking of funny, I clicked the image in your signature. Google Chrome keeps it from having the desired effect. :lol:

But yeah, I find pleasure in the notion that there's only one existing Corvette that has the year I was born as its model year. :smilewide:

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i used to tease my cousin that if i won the lottery i'd buy everyone in the family am corvette of the year they were born... she was born in 83 hehehe

haha That is hilarious!

And cletus, I completely agree about the '72s being among the last good looking classic Corvettes.

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Camino that's sure is a great story on the note & phone call. And the 'vette is just like my neighbors son's car for 1972 he ordered with blk top 350 LT1 4spd. He had just went to work out of collage for Frigidaire with his Dad & used the class A discount(very little off a 'vette) listened to that exhaust note for the 3-4 yrs he lived in the basement (my br was next to the driveway)

In Collage he had the uncivil brother to his Dads GTO his with a manual of course.

Thanks for the memory

Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine

The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line

How lovely it was!...

(In my best Bob Hope)

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i used to tease my cousin that if i won the lottery i'd buy everyone in the family am corvette of the year they were born... she was born in 83 hehehe

There were approx. 44 to 48 of those made, but never came to be seen by public. Some say they were crushed, some say they were secretly sold/given to GM insiders, all we know is that there was a mini-mini-mini production run of 1983s. If found one of those, she would be extremely lucky person.

Cool!

This car seems to have the power to generate stories.

I wish it was an LT-1 4spd.!

It would already be mine and have a very different future.

That is where you making it as a project car comes into picture. :)

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I still can't believe the guy saved ny note all of that time!

I can.

In 2001, my grandparents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. At that celebration was one of my grandmother's HS friends ... who happened to drive her 1979 Monte Carlo to the events that day.

Apparently, my interest in her car caught her attention enough that she asked my grandmother for my address. Two years later, about a year after my grandmother's death and a few months after I purchased my '87 MC LS/CL as my 5th MC, I got a letter in the mail from my grandmother's HS friend asking if I wanted to buy her car. She had to sell it. As it turned out, her son decided he wanted the car after all, so I never had the chance to buy it. But, I was shocked that she remembered that I wanted the car.

Good luck on the continuing negotiations, Camino...! :)

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Camino...I am just so effin jealous....

Wow....

Keep us posted, dude...good things DO come to those who wait...ten years.

Maybe in another ten years you'll get a ute?

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Not looking good.

The title is AWOL, and there may be other problems that would hold up a transfer.

Crap.

May not happen after all.

Assuming he/she had it properly titled before, you can't do a rubbing of the VIN or send out a police officer to certify the VIN/title status to get the DMV to issue a replacement?

'Other problems' sounds like it could be a lien issue.

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He thinks he may have removed the VIN plate when he was working on the car - 30 years ago.

Otherwise, yeah, he could file for lost title.

He's double checking.

I'm waiting.

Did he put it back? Or it had no VIN plate when you looked at it? Ugh... I'd trend lightly.

Where the hell these people get the idea that that's a good idea, I don't know.

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I know a guy who has a 72 Roadster shell with a title. He offered me the car in exchange for a case of beer about ten years ago...I decided that a case of beer was worth more than that particular Corvette.

But it does have a vin and a clear, non salvage title. The rest of the car....not so much....which is a shame, because it is a real steel cities grey ragtop, originally a 4 speed car IIRC....but a small block car....

There is a junk yard in Michigan that junks nothing but corvettes and they ahve sent a lot of C-3'sto meet their maker. You could buy this car uber-cheap....add another vin plate...or...

There are "hidden Vin's" on cars....this car MAY have one...if so...apply for a lost title...see waht the pee ayy popo wants for a repop vin plate...and you are off to the races.

Or just build an SCCA race car out of the thing....a cage could be fun....as could 140 miles an hour....would be a great "vintage" project....

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I know a guy who has a 72 Roadster shell with a title. He offered me the car in exchange for a case of beer about ten years ago...I decided that a case of beer was worth more than that particular Corvette.

But it does have a vin and a clear, non salvage title. The rest of the car....not so much....which is a shame, because it is a real steel cities grey ragtop, originally a 4 speed car IIRC....but a small block car....

There is a junk yard in Michigan that junks nothing but corvettes and they ahve sent a lot of C-3'sto meet their maker. You could buy this car uber-cheap....add another vin plate...or...

There are "hidden Vin's" on cars....this car MAY have one...if so...apply for a lost title...see waht the pee ayy popo wants for a repop vin plate...and you are off to the races.

Or just build an SCCA race car out of the thing....a cage could be fun....as could 140 miles an hour....would be a great "vintage" project....

Lots of possibilities there, Stang.

I'm pretty sure I know where one of the "hidden" VINs is. And I know this can be done, but if the car has to be re-vinned it will trounce its value.

We'll see what happens.

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Think of it this way though...LOTS of these cars have been raced, wrecked, rebuilt et al.

It could still be a decent middle level car.

Oh, and I have a corvette story for you....one of the local VW TDI guys takes his 5 speed Jetta into the local VW dealership, I think it was in dayton or cincy or something. They have an old corvette on the back lot, four mis-matched mag wheels, covered in dust, but it runs, it's a new gasser jetta trade in, of all things. Convertible top is kinda shot...but the guy's TDI VW is getting up in miles. The guy offeres the vee dub in trade and they accpet in a second. Guy drives the 66 home, it's an ugly shade of puke orange or something....

Finds out from the tank sticker and the paperwork still in the glove box that it's an original blue 66 425 HP Big block 4 speed ragtop. Guy also had a 66 Chevelle SS 396, Gold with a black vynal top...with 21,000 original miles...so once complete and back to big block status, the Chevelle had a garage mate.

But the guy is a hot rodder at heart, and couldn't stand not cutting up something he owned. So he wold both cars to collectors, and now runs a 48 chevrolet Street rod, one of the ones with the "fastback" styling, really a neat street rod....

I love Corvettes. There is also a mid sixties ragtop sitting in a barn about 4 miles from me, everey once ina while the doors are open to that barn, and she is still sitting there. That Blue big block 75 ragtop is still sitting out down in asheville....if you can live with rubber bumpers....and if you can convince that guy to sell...

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Big block ragtop.... temptation city.

But the thing is, I wasn't looking for this car - it came to me. It's such a good story that I hate to let the deal fail.

Plus, it's a real 44k mile original that hasn't moved in 30 years. I doubt I'd find anything like that again.

I haven't given up yet. As you say, it would still have some value with a replacement VIN plate.

But my plans for it might have to change if that's the case.

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I know the '60s vettes had VIN plates on the steel reinforcement beam under the dash...

So this guy had the windshield out and then decided to remove (& lose!) the VIN tag ??

He can definitely get a replacement title... and there is a company that can repro your VIN tag provided you can convince them your case is legit.

Did he have any original paperwork for the car ??

Keep us posted...

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This may actually help your case and your negotiations. You could buy the car witha bill of sale...cheaply...and then part it out if the title thing doesn't work out...which it should.

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I know the '60s vettes had VIN plates on the steel reinforcement beam under the dash...

So this guy had the windshield out and then decided to remove (& lose!) the VIN tag ??

He can definitely get a replacement title... and there is a company that can repro your VIN tag provided you can convince them your case is legit.

Did he have any original paperwork for the car ??

Keep us posted...

There should be a VIN # stamped on the top of the trans housing at the back of the block. I told him to try to find an old registration for the car, and I plan to crawl all over the thing again - I'll find the VIN.

As far as original paperwork goes, I don't think he has it as he bought the car used.

I may hit you up for the name of that company.

This may actually help your case and your negotiations. You could buy the car witha bill of sale...cheaply...and then part it out if the title thing doesn't work out...which it should.

All true.

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If you know someone who owns a body shop or a towing company, they can often get titles for vehicles they have "stored"..and in Ohio they can get a clean, non salvage title.

Another avenue to pursue....

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