Pretty nice '68 on Ebay - Lateral-g Forums

**tones2SS** · #1 08-14-2009, 06:16 PM

Saw this bad boy on Ebay tonight. Looks/sounds like a nice car.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1968-...=p4506.c0.m245

70rs · #2 08-14-2009, 06:28 PM

Big block, four speed first gen. I sure wish I had som extra cash laying around...

**tones2SS** · #3 08-14-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by 70rs

Big block, four speed first gen. I sure wish I had som extra cash laying around...

Tell me about it bud! lol

LowchevyII · #4 08-16-2009, 09:27 PM

man i love the color and the matching pin stripe around the rims. not a fan of the way it sits when the air ride is up though, but when it is down, oh man look out. that thing is really nice though. really, really nice

Mr.VENGEANCE · #5 08-16-2009, 10:42 PM

man if he had made the wheels 18s and 20s.. it would be a done deal to me.

Musclerodz · #6 08-16-2009, 11:08 PM

Ton of bodywork on that car.

speedshftr · #7 08-23-2009, 06:51 AM

that thing looks killer when its sitting low/my car has almost all the same body mods.im hoping i can get that look/a little octobery but i still like it

**GregWeld** · #8 08-23-2009, 07:51 AM

Who would leave a 4 speed in a car that claims to have had a buck and a quarter spent on it... Makes you kind of wonder "what else" wasn't done...

I agree with the 22's and jacked up comment too... looks ridiculous...

**GregWeld** · #9 08-23-2009, 08:19 AM

I'm not tearing the car apart - but my guess is - he wants "real money" for this car.... and when I look at a big money car or a car where the guy is thinking it's worth big money - my eyes go for the details... so here's what I see:

The brake lines off the master cylinder are just "crazy" - being PC here - which makes me "question" what it looks like where you can't see...
No PCV on a carb'd BBC with spray?
Forgot to slick the firewall - while spending 15K on paint
Wiring and plumbing running helter skelter and zip tied
Appears to be stock suspension other than being bagged (I started this statement and then couldn't go back to read the details of the build)
Interior is just stock - nice - but nothing anyone is going to look at more than 5 seconds
Wheel size is all out of whack (a personal opinion)
Radiator doesn't have the look - matching the rest of the car$
Ditto this for the accessory belt drive system

I'm NOT trying to rip the seller "a new one" - I'm just "discussing" the car in the way I see it. If you build a car on a "budget" then okay - I'm not as fussy about the things that co$t money that don't get done - but when you're spending 125K (as claimed in the Ad) then my eyeballs start to really look...

Think about Camaro X - Charley is asking 105K Buy it now... with many killer parts and great paint - and all it needs is an interior (sorry Charley!) if you wanted a show car rather than a track beat down (IMO).

So at 60K or more - just my guess here - there's a lot of room for tiddying things up a bit, but all doable - and you couldn't buy a body and build the car for that... unless you already had lots of the major parts laying around. But this car needs just a little more 'effort' and a few more grand thrown at it. Radiator or cover it up - serpentine belt system - slick the firewall - brake(s) line re-do - some proper sized Rushforth's! (LOL) and it'd be a pretty killer car.

Okay -- putting on my flak jacket now....

**clill** · #10 08-23-2009, 08:31 AM

In defense of CamaroX it was never built to be a show car. None of the Stielow cars are. The problem I have with the fancy interiors is in 10-15 years we will probably comment on them like we do the customs done in the 80's. Most of them look pretty silly. A stock Camaro interior is fine by me with the addition of good guages and seats that will hold you in when going around corners.