Very Cool car. I always wanted to own a purpose built factory race car of any kind (ford chevy, dodge etc..) they are just so cool and the history in them is awesome. But my pockets are not deep enough. ah well. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars...727|39:1|65:12|240:1318&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245
Let's hope the new owner can make a deal for the original aluminum front clip available for the car. You never know, the original engine and trans could show up somewhere too. Very cool, you don't see something like this every day. Mike Iggycat2004 NJ
Can anyone confirm it to be a real 421 Super Duty car?i think Keith knows a guy that owns a wagon.maybe he'll see the thread a give his .02 on the car.
The Pete McCarthy book Pontiac Musclecar Performance 1955-1979 shows all of the vin numbers, and this one is on the list. I just got my book out and checked. :beers2: The seller hit the jackpot on this one, as long as someone doesn't rip it off before he gets it sold.
All of the super duty serial numbers are known and published...pete mccarthys book has them listed, and there is a link to them...its real..really real,and very cool...wow, u know the guy that is selling it never had a clue...until somone educated him,how freaking cool.....last year a Dick Harrel COPO nova sold the same way, somone listed it, he thought it was a custom car, it had a plaque that said custom built by Dick Harrell, the guy that bought it was one of the COPO dorks and snatched it up...the guy selling it had no clue....cool stuff keeps coming up on ebay all the time....
Yes - it seems to be the real deal. The ultimate fantasy barn find for us Pontiac guys. K http://forums.performanceyears.com/forums/showthread.php?t=578923 http://forums.performanceyears.com/forums/showthread.php?t=579097
So,even you hard-core pontiac guys were somewhat baffeled by this one for awhile.It just sucks that the guy selling it was clueless as to what he had and now he's going to clean up large.
Keith, believe me, it is the ultimate fantasy find for CAR guys, not just the Poncho crowd! I would have to have CPR if I found something like that, and maybe a defib or two... What an cool machine!
Nope. It's the quintessential "long time owner passes storage guy tries to sell some junky little white car" story that we all dream about... I started getting emails on the car on Saturday night or Sunday morning. What faked me out initially was the steel front end (the Super Duty coupes had aluminum hoods and fenders - it is well documented that the aluminum was removed from this car many years ago and turned up in Florida). I keep all my Pontiac literature at the office so when I came in Monday morning and checked the VIN I about had a heart attack! I'm also somewhat pleased that it turned up here in Michigan... K
Back around 1982 I was driving around in the boonies looking for GTO parts in North Alabama and spotted the back of a weird looking car in some high weeds. I could not tell what kind of car it was... So anyhow when I came back by later that day I stopped and pulled into the yard and got out. It was a black Pontiac. Out comes a very old gentleman from the house. We started talking and he thought I was a fellow that his son had told him would be coming by to look at the car and that it might be sold... Then he started telling me about how his son used to drag race the car... He said "that a Fireball Roberts special" and started telling me they only made so many of them... It was a 62SD Catalina with less than 11,000 miles. It had only been driven on the drag strip for the most part. The paint was faded and the block was gone but the MT crossram intake, the pistons/rods, crank, heads, trans, shifter and lots of other original stuff was there. It had the Aluminum fenders hood, bumpers, inner fenders, 8bolt wheels and a 4:88 rear gear, radio delete, etc. etc. So anyhow I bought the car that afternoon for the asking price of $600.00 and got my first cousin to come and get it with a rollback that same day. My wife was pissed because I had the 67GTO and my 70GS455 and now I had bought this clunker. Bert
I don't get why he doesn't deserve to get what the car is worth when it is worth more than he initially realized. For example, if you came across a tin of 20 old tobacco cards with some baseball players on them after an elderly relative had died and you took over their possessions. Because you're not into baseball and couldn't care less about players who have been dead for close to 100 years, you decide to put the whole lot on ebay. You spread them out on a table and take a photograph of the entire lot of them. You figure they're worth something, but aren't sure what. They're all in good shape from sitting in a tin in a house for the last 100 years, and you check a couple of price guides to see that the average tobacco card is around $50 in good condition, so you figure they must be worth about $50 each. So you put a Buy it Now at $1000. It turns out that someone spots a T206 card in the group and immediately hits the button. After the transaction is completed, someone tells you that the T206 is now at auction and goes for $4,000,000 as it has been authenticated as the best quality T206 in existence. But you got $2000 - is that all you deserved? Or had the scenario played out that you got the actual value because the T206 had been spotted after the BiN was gone, would it suck that you got that money just thinking you had some old baseball cards? I just don't think it sucks that someone has something rare and puts it up for auction, not knowing exactly what they have, but getting what it's ultimately worth.