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General Discussion / Re: Rallye green '68 Z

« on: February 12, 2017, 03:35:41 PM »

That was about 4 hours from me.  In a way I wish I had known about it sooner.  But it would have been a multi year project. Saveable but with a LOT of work.

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General Discussion / Re: Rallye green '68 Z

« on: February 11, 2017, 04:16:11 PM »

It is rough, but MAYBE could be brought back.  Bidding is mainly for the parts....

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Originality / Re: Service Engines (CE coded)

« on: February 09, 2017, 01:55:53 PM »

Assembled second shift on the 12th, inspected the next day by the F inspector? 

Speculation only...

Would need more examples. I will try to look at a couple that I have over the weekend.

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Originality / Re: Service Engines (CE coded)

« on: February 08, 2017, 04:12:51 PM »

Thoughts, pretty sure the 01 9 V is January 1969 - Flint. This is based on other examples.

01 13 F could be the actual day of assembly, Jan 13 and an inspectors or assemblers mark/letter designation.

No idea on 12 2.

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Garage Talk / Re: 29th Annual Stones River Swap Meet Feb 5th 2017

« on: February 07, 2017, 11:39:48 PM »

We have sold pop and water at swap meets before. Some don't allow it to those without a good vending permit. Our "workaround" was to have a sign selling lug nuts for $1 (or whatever the price you charge) - then state "free water or pop with purchase of each lugnut".

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Originality / Re: Service Engines (CE coded)

« on: February 06, 2017, 03:34:05 PM »

You can either resize the pics or send them to me if you want me to post them.

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General Discussion / Re: 67 396 on cr

« on: February 05, 2017, 05:14:11 PM »

I asked for the partial VIN. No response so far.

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Mild Modifications / Re: Any minor modifications that can have slight benefits to power?

« on: February 03, 2017, 11:54:23 PM »

Cam change is still your best bet if you don't want to change the look of things. An older non GM aluminum intake can be painted orange to have a stock-ish look.

I guess I assumed timing would have already been optimized with what you have. Carb may or may not help much - depending on what you do.

Headers and better exhaust, yes that would help too. Just depends if that is ok for the look you want.

Or you can go the route of putting the original engine on a stand - and building something else.

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Mild Modifications / Re: Any minor modifications that can have slight benefits to power?

« on: February 03, 2017, 09:17:43 PM »

Cam, intake and carb change come to mind.

What year?

What transmission and rear axle ratio does it have?

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1969 - Orphans / Re: Early 69 muncie on eBay 19n520879

« on: February 03, 2017, 09:14:44 PM »

Right. Maybe my post wasn't clear.

Doesn't have it. Shouldn't have it. Just means can't use the assembly stamp to prove it was originally an M22.

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1969 - Orphans / Re: Early 69 muncie on eBay 19n520879

« on: February 03, 2017, 06:39:59 PM »

It's probably getting close to what it's worth, but maybe still a bit high.

Why? Well it's not a proven true original M22. At least one plug MAY be the right type, but pic isn't great. It's too early to have the C ratio code in the assembly date, so that doesn't help. Gear set is new.

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General Discussion / Re: 1969 M22 breakdown of Quantities

« on: February 03, 2017, 06:35:16 PM »

Great questions William! I wish we had ALL of the answers.

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General Discussion / Re: 1969 M22 breakdown of Quantities

« on: February 03, 2017, 01:37:41 AM »

Because 99.99% of people would never need them.

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General Discussion / Re: 1969 Feature car

« on: February 02, 2017, 05:59:34 PM »

Thanks Kelley.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Caveat Emptor...another repro window sticker

« on: February 01, 2017, 02:42:40 AM »

It's tough to say.

Probably pretty rare for a LOS car to be delivered to the east coast. Can't say it NEVER happened but maybe a case of a service person ordering it on the west coast and then ending being transferred to the east coast before delivery?

On options, tough to prove what is original without docs. A lot of things have been added to cars over time. Might have been pulled from another car that was wrecked early? Lots of restorations were done in the 80s and without extremely close examination, can sometimes be hard to tell from original - because original parts could have been used. And lacquer paint was still readily available.