The seller admits this 1969 Chevy Camaro is probably the best used as a parts car. If it were a Super Sport or a Z28, some enterprising soul would probably work to bring it back to life. But it has an inline-six engine, which makes it sort of rare, but not necessarily desirable. Located on a flatbed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, this project/donor is available here on eBay where the bidding stands at a reasonable $910.
Chevrolet rolled out the Camaro in 1967 to do battle with the red-hot Ford Mustang. It would quickly rise to second place in sales and held that position until the mid-1970s when it finally beat out #1. Camaro production would reach 243,000 units in 1969 with 34,500 being the Sport Coupe with a six-banger under the hood or 14% of total assemblies, That’s what we’re told lies here and it’s paired with an automatic transmission (the safe bet is the 2-speed Powerglide).
Besides having powertrain limitations to keep collectors at bay, this car simply looks bad, and the seller tells us that “everything is rotted, from the leaf springs to the floors”. At a minimum, you’d have to replace the floors and frame rails, rocker panels, patch the firewall, and who knows what else. The seller says that he/she’s priced out the value of what’s left that’s any good at $6,000 and it would be interesting to see how he/she came up with that number.
On the other hand, if you pour gasoline in the carburetor, the little engine will fire up and you can get the transmission to go into gear. Some odds and ends will come with the car which may be included in the dollar value of the pieces. That includes a spare rear end, center console, decent hood, new quarter panels, and wheelhouses. The VIN is intact and legible, but no title is available. This is a bill of sale/only transaction. What’s your take? Does this Chevy have any sort of future?
Might be OK if someone wanted to cut the floors out and drop the body over a full tube chassis and make either a race car or a rat rod out of it.
Between buying it and shipping. It’s WAY cheaper to just buy new parts. Literally EVERY part for a Camero can be bought new and pretty cheap. So why even think of using rusty bones?
Another case of.. throw in the mullet Joe Dirt. Fight is over
One mans junk is one mans junk.
Endura bumper or painted????
Cue Hall & Oates
She’s gooone
Although this example is hopelessly gone, an inline 6 with manual or any of the two automatics would be an interesting find. Although no powerhouse the 230 was reliable and smooth. Neighbour of mine in the early 80’s had his 66 Beaumont with the 230 and powerglide and was a smooth operator even at highway speeds.
I’ve seen much much worse cars brought back. $4 a gallon gas no matter who’s POTUS coming. Straight 6 is the new “LS Swap Big Block Supercharged Turbo Fellers!” Actually an updated straight 6 with fuel injection and CDI ignition is superior to V8 in so many ways. Even at $1 a gallon. Smooth and reliable. Quick enough to get speeding tickets, but not so full of roids it lures you into it.
His user name is perfect “bunchajunk”
This is known as a “VIN donor”…
Not with a 6-cylinder engine and no title.
Yep a bunch of useless parts I see!!!
You can buy every part of a Camero new. Why even consider using junk? Between buying and shipping it’s cheaper to buy new.
Russ,
I do not think that the seller is saying that there are 6K worth of parts still on this car. I think that they are saying that the cost of the floors, frame rails, firewall would cost about 6K to replace.
That’s how I took also.
At this stage in the game, it’s good $ after bad.
$1800 is what a Camaro + Inline 6 fan probably sees as the ceiling in this condition. You can cut-in new metal where good metal is found, but there’s not so many skilled enough to take the time. But some new sheetmetal body pieces strategically added can give that good metal if there’s not a good starting point. It could have $20k in just that. Or less. Or more. The inline 6 with automatic is worth something if it’s intact. My biggest resistance is: What’s the background on the car? You feel leary dumping $$$ if documents aren’t clear and confident. If you’re representing it as just parts, and rusty at that? $1,000 tops due to moving expenses. But I would go see it in person. Even running and driving cars off the internet are sketchy to me. I’d make exceptions, but this is one I’d need to see before I added it to my existing piles of things returning to the elements.
well at least the seller is not trying to get $10,000. for such a a popular muscle car even without the muscle so I guess a thanks to the seller for not being greedy, and sometimes the original parts are worth saving and reusing because they fit better, I’m not sure if there’s enough of the original parts left but that’s not up to me
All my years of restoring car it hard for me to see why someone would let a car end up in this condition junk
time to restore it
Yes,2-3k is kinda steep,but if someone can a title 🤔, for this car,hmmmm, it might be worth 🤔 it,but it’s a part’s car if you can’t get a title for it,and yes most of the better part’s are way gone,the listing ended, hmmmm, maybe they sold it.