DZ302 Chevy
Sep 15th, 08, 10:33 PM
In April '71 my '65 Corvair broke the trans input shaft for the third time. I needed a reliable car. I just inherited $1,200 and decided to put 50% down on a new car. The only new car I could afford was a Pinto. I went down to the Ford Dealer on Harbor Blvd in Huntingiton Beach and agreed to buy a new Pinto for about $2,400.
While they were finding my new Pinto on the back lot for me to test drive, I walked across the street to the Chrysler Dealer where my friend just started working as a used car salesman. They had just taken in trade a "high milage" 25,948 mile, plane Jane '69 Z28. We decided to test drive it. I never went back across the street, and bought my Cortez Silver Z28 for $2,389 plus tax.
I still have the car, and thanks to this forum this weekend I was able to find the vin stamped on the oil filter boss on the block. I had tried to find this several times, but did not know what it looked like or knew it could be very faint. After removing the paint I found the very faint vin stamp on the block, and it exactly matches the vin stamp on the M21 trans, and the vin number on the trim tag....
Thanks.....
Jack
PS: In '81 and '82 I entered a Super Chevy meet and the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals. ( Picture of my engine compartment was published in April '82 Hot Rod in the article titled "Muscle Ducts - Fresh Air From the Factory" page 85.) I was told by the judges that it was not correct without polished valve covers, painted hood hinges, and that the carefully matched Laquer Paint job by Solsbee, that exactly matched the origional paint (we left in the trunk and door jams untouched), did not match a correctly painted '69 Z28 two spaces away that came from the factory painted white. (Larry Mendoza's white Z had been in several magazines and had been re-painted the correct "Dupont" Cortez Silver #and was much lighter than mine). I gave up going to shows as mine was just too dull and origional under the hood to compete.
While they were finding my new Pinto on the back lot for me to test drive, I walked across the street to the Chrysler Dealer where my friend just started working as a used car salesman. They had just taken in trade a "high milage" 25,948 mile, plane Jane '69 Z28. We decided to test drive it. I never went back across the street, and bought my Cortez Silver Z28 for $2,389 plus tax.
I still have the car, and thanks to this forum this weekend I was able to find the vin stamped on the oil filter boss on the block. I had tried to find this several times, but did not know what it looked like or knew it could be very faint. After removing the paint I found the very faint vin stamp on the block, and it exactly matches the vin stamp on the M21 trans, and the vin number on the trim tag....
Thanks.....
Jack
PS: In '81 and '82 I entered a Super Chevy meet and the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals. ( Picture of my engine compartment was published in April '82 Hot Rod in the article titled "Muscle Ducts - Fresh Air From the Factory" page 85.) I was told by the judges that it was not correct without polished valve covers, painted hood hinges, and that the carefully matched Laquer Paint job by Solsbee, that exactly matched the origional paint (we left in the trunk and door jams untouched), did not match a correctly painted '69 Z28 two spaces away that came from the factory painted white. (Larry Mendoza's white Z had been in several magazines and had been re-painted the correct "Dupont" Cortez Silver #and was much lighter than mine). I gave up going to shows as mine was just too dull and origional under the hood to compete.