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« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2014, 03:19:16 AM »
Wow! I like it! Would like to have seen the trim tag though. To all the Camaro gurus out there, could you get any color you wanted to with the special order paint? I though a lot of these cars came in just primer. The Carolina blue Z/28 is the only real oddball special order paint car I know about.
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« Reply #16 on: December 25, 2014, 05:10:06 AM »
It would be interesting to know why Evening Orchid... It looked fine on the larger Impala....  ???

I'm fairly certain they also painted Malibu's that color in '65 as I recall seeing a few of them...  :)
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« Reply #17 on: December 25, 2014, 05:45:03 PM »
It would be interesting to know why Evening Orchid... It looked fine on the larger Impala....  ???

I'm fairly certain they also painted Malibu's that color in '65 as I recall seeing a few of them...  :)

You are correct,sir! On Malibu SS but not on El Camino. I'm not saying it is a bad color on Camaros. I just think it looked best on larger bodied models....
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« Reply #18 on: December 25, 2014, 05:52:19 PM »
Wow! I like it! Would like to have seen the trim tag though. To all the Camaro gurus out there, could you get any color you wanted to with the special order paint? I though a lot of these cars came in just primer. The Carolina blue Z/28 is the only real oddball special order paint car I know about.
http://www.camaros.org/numbers.shtml#ExteriorColors:S:SpecialPaint
None shipped in primer.
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« Reply #19 on: December 25, 2014, 07:33:33 PM »
Wow! I like it! Would like to have seen the trim tag though. To all the Camaro gurus out there, could you get any color you wanted to with the special order paint? I though a lot of these cars came in just primer. The Carolina blue Z/28 is the only real oddball special order paint car I know about.
http://www.camaros.org/numbers.shtml#ExteriorColors:S:SpecialPaint
None shipped in primer.
I believe that primer is not water proof so they could rust. corvettes were shipped in primer because the bodies are fiberglass
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« Reply #20 on: December 25, 2014, 08:49:31 PM »
It would be interesting to know why Evening Orchid... It looked fine on the larger Impala....  ???

I'm fairly certain they also painted Malibu's that color in '65 as I recall seeing a few of them...  :)

You are correct,sir! On Malibu SS but not on El Camino. I'm not saying it is a bad color on Camaros. I just think it looked best on larger bodied models....
BTW, did Santa leave you enough cash to buy the Z you wanted? ;D
.. unfortunately.. Santa forgot the 'cash envelope' this year.. :)
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« Reply #21 on: December 26, 2014, 09:47:15 PM »
Thanks Kurt. I wasn't sure on the primer thing. Looked in the CRG site but I was looking under the paint section. This is a great site and resource here. I'm on here almost daily reading up on stuff. Thanks to all the CRG members and forum contributors for all there knowledge and expertise!
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« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2015, 04:01:25 AM »
Well..  someone had the cash, and I think they probably got a good deal on a great and rare car...  :)
It surprises me that the owner didn't have his reserve higher, and/or wait til Spring if he didn't get his money...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271715706658?forcerRptr=true&item=271715706658&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME:B:WNA:US:1653
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« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2015, 04:10:54 AM »
I sure would have thought that car would have went for more than that. Of course one never really knows how those deals on Ebay really turn out and if the sale is real or not.

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« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2015, 03:44:50 PM »
It would be interesting to know why Evening Orchid... It looked fine on the larger Impala....  ???

I'm fairly certain they also painted Malibu's that color in '65 as I recall seeing a few of them...  :)
  And on Corvairs. Killer color, but not for everyone.
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« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2015, 04:05:09 PM »




[/quote]same reason brad wants to sell kids in college.
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And spring semester is due. My #1 priority is my son coming out of school debt free. With a four year degree costing around 100K ,at the low end, we're on the same page. Not to say he might not be in the position to buy it back in a few years. Maybe for less.     
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« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2015, 04:18:13 PM »
Is it just me or was the selling price pretty low on this car. I followed the post of the restoration and all the work put into the car. It makes me wonder if the car would of been a different (desirable) color would it have gone for more. Just a thought.
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« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2015, 04:33:16 PM »
I also thought it was low, for such a car - and knowing the cost of restoration.   As far as I could tell (based on online photos and without seeing the actual car), the restoration quality was very good.

The color was possibly a 'con' for some buyers (although I considered it a PRO due to the story behind the special color - and I personally sat and listened to Clem tell several of us the story about this '69 Z28 several years ago at Corvettes at Carlisle - as he, JohnZ, and I were sharing '69 Z28 stories).   Another potential reason for a lower selling price is the *season* (wintertime at Christmas), and the fact that I believe the car has never been shown at a large Camaro show, and probably few people outside CRG and TC know about the story.
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« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2015, 04:42:44 PM »
That brings up another point. How many people would buy a car because it was a rare color verses a desirable color they liked. Personally if I'm going to spend that kind of money on a car and have to look at it all the time I want a color I like. JMO
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« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2015, 06:54:02 PM »
I thought maybe a big money guy would buy this Z to put in his "collection" so he could say " I have a rare, one of one car."  I agree with Gary, it sure seems to be a very nice, quality restoration. Again, for that price I wouldn't be surprised if it was a no sale. A couple of years ago I was seriously looking at a Cortez Silver X33 project on Ebay. I even went to Kansas City to look at the car. A couple of days later I called the guy to see if he would take an offer off Ebay and he said he was wanting a little more than my offer. He told me there was a local guy that was top bid at the time that was wanting the car badly. A couple of days later I watched it "sell" for about 7K more than my offer. I thought, well he did the right thing in letting the auction run out. About a year later the same seller that I had talked with had the car on Ebay again, this time however it was fully restored. He had either not sold the car and he or a buddy was the top bid or maybe the deal simply did not go through, I had asked him to call me if his Ebay deal fell through and I never heard back from him.
Maybe Clem can confirm the sale.