Discussion Forum - Northstar Chevelle Club

I'm with Derek, but I'd bump it to $18-20K since it is numbers matching and has the build sheet.  The documentation can add a lot these days since the real ones are harder to find now.

Snag it if you can!

I would say 15-20 is about right as well. If its in good physical condition, bump that up to low 20s just because of it being a 4 speed and a buildsheet. Sounds like a hell of a deal. Your friend would be foolish not to buy it. We all know these cars arent getting any cheaper.

Here is a 69SS, bench seat, 4 speed car I came across the other night. In a far less popular color in 69. The price is about ball park for a project like this. Priced at 8K. I paid half that for my 69 and it isnt as complete as this and needs twice the work. So IMO, this is about ball park for a good 69 project. Just for comparison purposes. For an extra 2 grand to get a real matching butternut car with a 4 speed and build sheet, I would be all over that.

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/2820018270.html

I have a relative that is looking to buy a driver like that. If your buddy does not buy it would you mind passing the info along about it?

Thanks

67ss wrote:

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I have a relative that is looking to buy a driver like that. If your buddy does not buy it would you mind passing the info along about it?

Thanks

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 Will do. It looks like we're looking at it next Saturday. The owners are out of town starting today through late next week.

That would be a special car to restore. I like Daytona Yellow and there's NO doubt that's a real SS... If I had the coin, I would find a place to put it.

jim larson wrote:

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The term numbers matching is used kind of freely. If original motor, trans, rear axel with POP and other documentation, and if its a l35, L34, or L78? You mention you know it is a real SS???  Build sheets available with what ever you want and aged to look real.  Take an expert to know the correct front depending upon plant.  Don't think build sheet identifys the original engine like the POP, only whether is is a L34,L35, L78.

Say a guy with a 65 impala at a show last year with a 427, that he claimed was a numbers matching 396???. I guess he didn't know enough to look at the casting number that was located on the bellhousing flange, when he bought it. Difference between a L35 and L78 probably as much as $10,000. Is that a repo POP, they are available. Re-stamped pad, corvette guys have been doing it for years. If everthing checks out a good deal.

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It's Daytona Yellow and if the cowl tag verifies that, it's a real SS. That color was only available on an SS that year. It will take more digging to get all the numbers to verify, but a real '69 SS that is a driver is worth the stated price all day long.

 

 

The car is a one owner and my friend is related to the owners in a semi distant way through his wife. the owners are in their late 60s maybe early 70s. they havent driven it much in the last 10 years or more. It is original and complete. All the paperwork is there. he was a vp at a larger local construction company. I am going just to give an opinion on it.

It still amazes me that these kind of cars are still sitting in someone's garage.  I guess I need to expand how many I think are still out there...

Mitch, cowl tags with correct rivets and what ever paint code you want are readily available. From what Tim says, it sounds like it could be the real deal. And like Tim, hope it doesn't go to a dealer. Here is one for a 66 flint plant. Looks like they only have a 69 baltimore plant tag.



http://www.trimtags.com/imagegallery/displayimage.php?album=3&pid=7#top_display_media

 

Looks like you can have them made to order If you have a sample for the plant you want it to come from.  ($235)

 

http://www.trimtags.com/ordering.html

 

 

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Hi Tim is a bench seat 4 speed 69 SS ? I spent the first 6 years of my life in a 69 SS 396 lighter green color and my parents painted black SS stipes on it use to take it to the drag strip all the time I remember watching it roar down the track. That was the car thattook me home from the hospital after I was born and the only car we had til I was 6. I was very privilaged. That is where my love for Chevelles stem from. Back then there were no car seats or seat belt laws. I rember getting to steer it once when it ran out of gas. I use to fly around in the back seat as it teared down the road. Dad use to work on it all the time and I sat under the hood with him pretending to fix something. They sold it when I was 6 and the guy they sold it to destroyed it in 2 weeks wrapping around a telephone pole.
My dad to this day says he should of kept it. The only reason he sold it is it would only run well on Sunoco 260 and it was getting so expensive to drive and they need something different : (
He loved that car and so did I since I consider it the bench mark vs other Chevelles. The kid WOW factor is still there. Like I said I was very provilaged. So to me you could not put a price on a 69 396 SS Chevelle. They are awsome.

Sounds cool. Pass the clubs info to him and see if he may be intrested in like minded people. Buckets and no console is actually common. Console and bucket seats were both seperate extra cost options. Seems the most common year for that is 69.