Good morning all,
As my user name indicates I'm a Mopar guy, I haven't been around in a awhile but some may remember me. Anyway I have a 69 RS that I think we determined was not a RS/SS sometime back. I have been offered a 67 RS for what seems like decent money but just not as up on prices to make an informed decision. I guess to be clear I'm not really that interested in the car so this is more for my education, if anyone is interested in the car I have some pictures I would share. My knowledge of the car starts when I was eating lunch in a diner in Boyertown, PA with one of my service managers and a lady overheard the conversations and spoke up "I have this car for sale". Now that can always be interesting so I of course explored further. I guess she bought it at Carlisle earlier in the year and decided old car ownership isn't for her. Here is what I know about the car:
67 rs
327/275 horse
muncie
12 bolt (pretty sure from the picture but no dead on clear picture)
Originally marina blue with blue gut (now BUrgundy with black deluxe - hence the question about color change)
Has the data tag but attached with the wrong rivots (clearly a flag to check body numbers)
Reported 26k on the clock (her uninformed stance is the title doesn't say exempt so it must be correct
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"Restored", looks very presentable in the pictures but has most know personal inspection will tell the truth about the build
It's wearing turque thrust in a comfortable size
Ask is $27k
So my question is how does color change hurt an early Camaro, in the Mopar world it can be death to the top money. With that said, it really doesn't matter on low level cars such as slant 6 or 318 cars (no offense to anyone), clones or street cars, they sale on more curb appeal than numbers. The higher level or elite car prices can actually suffer to the level of the cost of a teardown and repaint which now a days can render a car valueless in some eyes. In some cases curb appeal has less significance than correctness, not saying whether it's right or not just stating a fact as I understand it. If nothing more if will narrow the pool of potential buyers so it reduces demand, in the end though it only takes one person hot for it for it to sale and get good money. I personally am not a complete slave to the thought but return cars to there original color when doing them and although I wouldn't not buy a color change car, I would use it as leverage and would pay significantly under value or I would walk. So how does it effect early Camaros and maybe specifically this car? I've been told by a friend that buys and sales muscle cars (predominently Chevys) that this is a $20-30k car depending on the lever of restoration and of course verifying that it is not a re-body (another death in the Mopar world, not sure how much Chevy people care), but I never really got an answer on the color change question.
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I was talking to one of my techs about his Z/28 that he has had since 77 and I got some pictures of the data and VIn and helped him decode it. On a Mopar the VIN is on the fender tag on 69 and up cars and only the Order Number (similar to GM) is on the tag for 68 and back. The numbers on the body are the Order number as well 68 and back, VIN on 69 and up. The build sheet is the ony way to tie a tag and body to a VIN on the 68s and back. How do you tie the tag to a VIN on a 69 Camaro? Does it vary on other years?