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Old 09-21-2010, 11:35 PM   #4
Geerhead55
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Wink Re: Can you settle an argument?

I bought my Z in Sept. '72 from the original owner. It was a flat hood, Endura bumpered, spoilered car,long spoiler , rear bumper guards too. The color of the car was Burnished Brown with the white stripe kit,, a somewhat rare combo, I've only seen a few that color. It was a non RS car with the silver grille instead of black. The first thing I did was buy some Cragar SS wheels and a set of Goodyear Polyglass GTs for it,,it looked great.
We didn't care about originality or restorations back then,,,first thing I sold was the intake to put a new Torker on it and everything snowballed from there. I eventually sold the shortblock to a buddy with a hydroplane in the 5 litre class as he needed a 302, ouch!
I talk about the car in past tense as it was stolen in January of '75,,,cops found it 8 months later, not much left of it. If I knew then what I know now I would've bought it back from the Ins.company and rebuilt it. 35 years later and I still miss it,,I've never replaced it either,,,,,it sure was alot of fun and I deffinately learned how to replace clutches in a hurry.
Danny Durham
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