Found this on the Corvette Forum : Well I know this is not a vette story but I thought I would share this with everyone. I have read some stories about special car finds. Well this story starts back in January 2006. A friend took me over to a house to show me a 69 Super bee which he had know about for a long time. The car was in great shape just needed a bath from all the dust on the car sitting in the garage all these years. There is not a dent in the car or a tare in the interior very clean car. The only thing caught my eye was there was no hub caps (if I had only known). I like all cars but not that familiar with most except Chevys. Anyways the women that owned the car got it from her brother who had passed away a few years ago. He was the original owner bought new in 69. Not knowing a lot about Dodges I was curios about this car so I copied the VIN and the data tag and went home to do a little research on this car. Found out it was a special Super bee only a few made in 69. This car turned out to be a 69 440-6 pack M-code A-12 car painted Hemi orange with 14,000 plus original miles. I called the women and asked if the car was for sale and could come over and look the car over again. I discovered this car was all original form the black stock H coded (No hub caps only chrome lug nuts) wheels to the fiberglass lift off hood. I have been trying to buy this car every scene. Well after 11 months she agreed to sale me the Super bee. I went last night and paid her for the car and picked up the title and the keys. I am getting the car on Saturday and cant wait. I feel like a kid with a new toy. Thanks for listening to me even though its not a vette. I only post on here and not very often but I do read a lot of the threads and they have really helped me with my car again THANKS
OMG!!! :shock: As my Grandpa used to say, 'Even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while!' That is too cool that someone found a car like that. Now comes the real question, "Is he going to use it???" uzzled:
I'm thinking that car is owned by a regular Pure Stock racer and was found in Livonia, MI. Right? :Brow: :Brow: He was talking about it at the shindig last year. Hard to believe there are two of these with the exact same story.
In Bangor Maine, during the mid 80's there was a 69 and a half, similar story,440 6bbrl, lift off hood, plain rims, hemi orange, only this one was an automatic. The guy here went nutz [ bad drugs in the early 70's ] and his parents ended up with it, they put it out in there driveway for a few years, then they stored it, we all forgot about it until the old folks where going in a home in 2000 and started CALLING EVERYONE who had ever left their number trying to buy it. A buddy of mine snagged it, was in the back of a barn 2 towns away and the barn was falling down around it , had something stupid like 7000 miles on it, motor was seized , car was cherry except for faded paint. Guy started to restore it, then sold it, bought it back 4 years later, sold it again, paints been done on it now [ and not well from what I am told ] all the Mopar guys still talk about it, and I hear the car will be featured in a Mopar mag soon....to think I was just a few phone numbers away from getting it too ou:
Cool Finds Mopar Collectors Guide (MCG) publishers monthly and seems to have more than an average number of stories of barn finds and rare cars. Ltely haowever I am noticing thay are printing a lot of retractions and corrections a few months after running a story. Seems thay are a little too quick in taking down whatever the car owner wants to spin as a story. I know most are true but not all. Now I know where there is a 63 split Window Vette,only 5000 miles, you just have to change the air freshner every hour................
Didn't Mythbusters do an episode on this? Except they put it in hyper stench by sealing the car completely with the pig carcasses inside. :laugh: :laugh:
There was a 63 split window here in Bangor in a yard on a main drag back in the 80's , and that was the story going around about that one too. Years later I found who got the car, nothing or no one died in it [ except mice ] but it still has yet to be restored, sitting under friggin tarps with broken glass, rotting away....some people are idiots.... ou:
Paul Petcoe found the one in Livonia and bought it with exactly the same story as this. You sure about the South Carolina one? What an amazing coincidence. I do know where a 68 Ramrod is sitting (minus the drive train now) that was bought new by a friend at Olds that died of a brain tumor not long after he bought it. His wife DID commit suicide in it in their garage. Started the motor and just sat there. Found her the next day. Motor and trans was yanked for another car.
ramrod I do know where a 68 Ramrod is sitting (minus the drive train now) that was bought new by a friend at Olds that died of a brain tumor not long after he bought it. His wife DID commit suicide in it in their garage. Started the motor and just sat there. Found her the next day Dave, You're just full of happy thoughts today, glad you're not mad about something.
Pretty Close Gary. Here is a pic. Hey Gary. You trying to kill me. I don't like to here that story anymore. Just kidding it was a great day. I have had the story told to me and it has gotten a little twisted over the years. The mileage was 2525 when I bought it with an inspection sticker stating 2200 miles. The car was red. Gary was correct I owned it twice. The car was incredible and I should have just let it sit. I bought it back with the original paint removed and the car restored and It just wasn't the same car anymore. I tried to post a pic but could not get it small enough.
Paul's is a different car The car Paul bought had/has Motor Wheel Spyder mag's on it. Original owner had the redline's taken off the factory steel wheel's, and had them mounted on above said mags the day he bought it, or he had the dealer do it, something to that extent.
Six pack Bee found in MI Paul Pecou did find an original owner R4 Red Six Pack Super Bee in Michigan. The story differs quite a bit in that the origianl owner still had the car. There is a complete write up on it in Dec. Mopar Collectors Guide. The one found now is infact a new find!! KIDSIXPACK
Don't Buicks give you a rash ???? Hey Reid ! Whats a die hard Mopar guy doing on a Buick board ? I was paraphrasing it as best as I could remember [ I didn't know YOU painted it, I thought you had said someone else did it and you didn't like it ]..I am still bummed that you removed the "Free's Bee" letters from the bottom of the front fender :laugh: ...It still was an amazing find though, and cool that someone I knew got it, after all we were ALL after that car during its "daylight" storage on Mt Hope Avenue. The 63 split I spoke of was the one that sat in Herbie's yard over on Stillwater Ave near Acadia Hospital. He still has a 60? vette stashed directly behind the house with a fence in front of it, can see it from the hospital parking lot in the winter [ he won't sell I asked ] the stories these guys were telling just sounded SOO much like your car I thought it was yours..I FINALLY bought a Mopar to go with all my Buicks [ just one though ] . Email me that pic of the Bee and i can shrink it and post it on here for ya. carguy455@yahoo.com Gary
The guy that does our bodywork just drug home a '63 split window that had been sitting in a field. He's got it stripped down but I noticed the fiberglass is kind of "punky"; kind of spongey feeling. I'm not sure he's going to be able to save it. ...some people ARE idiots... ou:
