Amen brothers!! Even if it costs more, DO IT!!! lol:thumbsup: :cheers:

I have usaed them, just finished one. it was a good way to go in this situation. Mikes is always a great option, super quality work. As i frined i have to take food out our mouth and tell you to go find a super nice nothing car, with killer paint. A running driving 307, 327, 350 2B, or non numbers matching car in excellent shape. Pay up for the best car you can find, and convert it to pro touring.

$25K to $30K will buy a award winner in a nothing car, and you will have that in a body and painted shell. And still have to buy every single nut and bolt for the car. this way you have a complete car, avoind paint jail, and mod as you go!

Hey, I was drunk.....I wish I was that clever. :rofl: :rofl:

Todd and Frank are right. BUY AMERICAN!!! and Pay more for a good car and you'll be better off in the end. I found Todd's car for him after he had purchased a poorly repaired one. When I first saw that little green 307 car up in MI, I was amazed at how solid it was. I told Todd that if he didn't buy it I would. Well, the rest is history. I took that poorly repaired Camaro off his hands and Todd now has probably one of the most original bodied '69 PT cars out there and Frank did an awesome job resurrecting that baby. These new parts are fair to poor at best, but sometimes the only alternative. If you can afford it, pay up for a good clean car and go from there.

I should go back to my Toolmaking roots and develop some tooling to make these parts not only right, but right here in the good old USA!!

That's a GREAT idea right there!! :yes:

WARNING -- this is a :beavis: :soapbox:

LOL -- can't say you weren't warned!!


I recently sold a SOLID 53K original mile 69 Convertible -- bought out of southern California - it was a power top - 307 - 3 speed column car... as plain jane as you could ever find. Sold it for $18,500.... not one spot of rust on it anywhere. Some of the paint was original... black plate car. No holes in the carpet even! Seats looked brand new - but were original as was the top.

I actually bought TWO drop tops - got them both here - drove them both - sold the one I didn't want (it just didn't drive as nice - even though it LOOKED better)... Then finally decided to build a "hot rod" (37 Ford Minotti) so sold this nice one too... but my comment is - there are very nice "bodies" out there if you're willing to look and take your time to save time on the other end. And if you're going to hot rod it anyway - don't waste your time trying to buy a SS or Z/28... just buy a great BODY cause all those other parts are going in the goodwill box anyway.

RE: Dynacorn body

The reason we don't have any manufacturing jobs in this country - is because all the people that used to have those jobs - shopped at WAL MART / Target etc - and they "bought" themselves right out of a job... the more crap from China they bought - the faster their jobs disappeared. If I pick up a part and it says made in poopooville - I DO NOT BUY it. I buy Snap on tools - but I will not buy BLUE POINT tools (Snap On version of chinese crap) and I don't care how much money I'm "saving". I also don't mind telling the dealer either! You have to put your wallet where your mouth is. That's the way the "free market" works.

I was an importer.. England and Italy (dinnerware), and we used to have a huge set of books -- called TSUSA - Tariff Schedule of the USA... it was an "equalizing tax" on everything we brought in - collected and payable to the USA. It made a "cheaper" product produced overseas EQUAL in cost to the same product produced here. That way the playing field was even. There was a market for china and glass produced in europe... and people would choose on design and quality etc - but they weren't choosing on PRICE. Once they did away with the TSUSA (remember that GIANT SUCKING SOUND?) then the flood gates opened for cheap offshore crap - and our manufacturing went away. So the USA lost the tax - they lost the jobs - and we now have huge deficits. It used to be - if you were a world manufacturer and wanted a milling machine - you bought a Bridgeport... so we used to SELL to these other countries. Now we don't sell squat and we only consume. Good luck with that. Remember history when Spain was the world leader - then it was England - then "us"... well, I'm thinking we're on that USED TO BE LIST now. Our gas money goes to Sandiarabia... and our household purchases go to China... and we borrow our money from them to fund all this, and pay them interest too! How stupid have we become... don't answer that! LOL

Thanks for posting all of that Greg. You are right, we have purchased ourselves right out of our production jobs. And now we bitch about not having those jobs or products. I see it all over. The local wally world mart is full 24/7. ( I have to drive past it every day)
It's getting harder to find goods manufacured in the USA and that just plain sucks.:cheers:

Here is EXACTLY what I just posted -- and this came in the news TODAY -- note the TARIFF is to PROTECT AMERICAN JOBS/INDUSTRY!! This used to be on EVERYTHING IMPORTED! The minute it went away - then the imports flooded the market and killed the 'industry' we had here.


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oba...res-2009-09-11

[QUOTE=GregWeld;234461]I recently sold a SOLID 53K original mile 69 Convertible -- bought out of southern California - it was a power top - 307 - 3 speed column car... as plain jane as you could ever find. Sold it for $18,500.... not one spot of rust on it anywhere. Some of the paint was original... black plate car. No holes in the carpet even! Seats looked brand new - but were original as was the top.

I actually bought TWO drop tops - got them both here - drove them both - sold the one I didn't want (it just didn't drive as nice - even though it LOOKED better)... Then finally decided to build a "hot rod" (37 Ford Minotti) so sold this nice one too... but my comment is - there are very nice "bodies" out there if you're willing to look and take your time to save time on the other end. And if you're going to hot rod it anyway - don't waste your time trying to buy a SS or Z/28... just buy a great BODY cause all those other parts are going in the goodwill box anyway.[QUOTE=GregWeld;234461]

VERY WELL SAID GREG!! That is exactly my thinking. I don't care if it has a V6 or is a SS or Z28 or has a column shift!! That bad boy is going under the knife to become a pro-tour beast, so what does it matter what the car started out life as?!? If the body is good without rust, you saved yourself some cash and headaches. I like your thinking. (That could be scary!!) lol:lol:

I guess you could buy a replica but every time someone comes up to you and asks "WOW! is that a real 69 camaro?" you'll pause and hopefully say no but if you say yes you'll know deep down in side that its not, and to me thats unsettling.Then theres the factor of resale you can sink a bunch of cash into it but i would doubt you could get nearly as much as if it were the REAL thing from 1969.In my personal opinion I wish they would stop making these and every kit car for that matter I think it takes away from the owners of the originals.Don't mean to offend anyone but to me it's posing.If you have the money to sink into a shell you have the money to take some time out and look for a real car.