The 1969 Chevrolet Camaro… a car so broadly worshiped that you can build a completely new one from scratch. Among 1969 Camaros, the X66, an SS (Super Sport) with the 396 cubic inch big block, represents an incredible find. Only a handful of ’69 Camaros such as the ZL1, the L89 variant of the 396, or a COPO like a Yenko Camaro would be more interesting and unlikely to find in a Georgia forest. This particular 1969 X66 Camaro, now in Hudson, Florida and missing most of its mechanicals, seeks a new owner here on eBay after being liberated from its woodsy grave.
The seller gathered some new sheet metal and includes a host of pictures showing a fairly well-preserved Camaro carcass, albeit thoroughly stripped. New parts include “fenders with extensions, header panel, lower valance, and core support.”
The original floor-shifted manual transmission (long missing) makes this X66 even more rare and valuable. What appears to be a white coupe with red interior would have been quite handsome, and could be stunning again. The seller has begun the process to secure a legal Florida title for this classic.
Finding a date-code correct L78 engine, the 375-hp Turbo Jet 396, one of 4,575, may prove daunting but not impossible. Bare blocks can bring $10,000. Thanks to holisticpage.com for some details. Of course buyers must carefully authenticate the X66 claim. Where do you think bidding will end on this potent version of Chevy’s pony car?
are you kidding me, its over 7200 already…comes with big block heatercore?? Only thing I can think of is they are paying for the VIN and paperwork. I see the owner has begun the turd polishing process by hanging fenders on it. Good luck to the new owner!!!
No. A Dynacorn body shell and subframe are about to get a vin plate and cowl tag is all. Money has ruined the muscle car hobby. Vengeance in 10-15 years will be ugly.
here! here!
The “vengeance in 10-15 years will be ugly” statement is spot on. A bunch of beer-bellied 50+ year old men who are trying to recapture their 70s/80s high school years have made even a lowly Maverick or Pacer a “desirable collectible” but younger people only see unattractive, gas guzzling, crude performing old cars, and much like Bitcoin things have peaked, and the days of selling rust bucket junk for high dollars are definitely numbered.
This nightmare should have been left in the GA forest.
Money has ruined the car hobby overall, not just the muscle car segment. Years ago, cars were restored for the love/passion of the car, and/or the sentiment attached.
Now, everyone is overly concerned with ‘how much can I flip this for?’
I love the way he doesn’t put the full VIN in the ad. Best to be discrete for his high end buyers so they can make their clone undetected.
Why no “disc brakes” on the brake pedal? A part of the SS package was disc brakes and it should be indicated on the brake pedal
It probably rusted off!
Some folks HAVE WAYYYY TOO MUCH MONEY!!!!!!!
I’m staying in Hudson now but i can see it right here. ;-)
Sorry, don’t see enough potential in this one for the price.
I would choose option B, build one from scratch. At what point in the process of replacement/re-creation (not restoration), is an original no longer original?
Nice does it have the bear that sh.ts In the woods too?
So one finds a pos canibilzed carcus in the woods and says maybe EBay will help sell my pristine title less soon to be junkers title car for 35 grand or more.😂
It’s easy to throw on a front clip and make something presentable but this thing is a huge money pit! Don’t be fooled!
Thanks again Barrett-Jackson for creating so many pathetically stupid people. 😂😂😂
Your right about the BJ . These guys have cars and trucks sitting in fields and want 10,000 for it. These prices are freaking outrageous. What I do now is ask them what they would pay for it
Just take a look at the folks bidding. ‘Nuff said.
That is exactly right about B-J. The buyer/wanna-be will shell out an exorbitant amount to buy this thing. Then bring it to my shop for a “full” restoration quote and say “oh, that’s too much”. I can buy a new body for 17k. Soooo tired of people wanting to play the game but are content sitting on the bench.
You know prior to getting a junker title on this pristine car that the police 👮 will run a search on title to see if this pos was stolen in the past.
I am so impressed with the new front end and hope the finder of this POS continues to go ahead replaced the rest of the body, interior, rear end, interior, engine, trans, title and steering, brakes, locks and then gets the other small items 🤦♂️💰💰💰💰💰💰
So I’ve finally given up on the fantasy of going back in time to make investments that’ll pay off in today’s timeline. Question is, which cheap and easy to get titles and VIN plates should I be stashing away at this point?
late 80s early 90s fox bodies and IROCs/TAs, maybe square body chevies?
2nd gen Camaro & Firebirds, Mustang II’s, Fox body Mustangs, mid 80 G body cars, square body Chevy & GMC trucks, 88-98 GM trucks, Pontiac G8, Olds Aurora, mid 90’s Impala SS, 70’s & 80’s Dodge trucks, Vipers. I imagine there are plenty I can’t think about at the moment.
LAB3: This is proof positive that time travel, for the purposes of changing the future outcome, is impossible! If time travel became possible, guys like us could go back and make arrangements to put away “the right cars” [having already changed their own financial situations upwards], and make arrangements to endow the care of their vehicles until today.
I have often fantasized about going back in time to before 5 May, 1973 [when my car collection was destroyed in a lightning-induced fire], so I could save cars like the 1938 Alfa-Romeo 6C2600 Glaser coupe, a real Mille Miglia race car.
Sometimes you have to know when to say no.
Somebody is smoking there shorts you guys are rite so many people have ruined the prices of muscle cars so bad that the average guy can’t even touch these cars there’s nothing left of the car but a VIN tag and a carcass all there dong is making after market companies rich
The new hot rods are so awesome. I am from the day when…..and I have some old ones (that I did: 10 years each) and I’m getting tired of chasing classic cars! How about a Demon or a ZL-1 or maybe the new Vette or just about any new supercar!
why would some one park a classic like that outdoors and let it get that bad ,in the first place ?? Its to bad that it wasn’t sold 20 years ago to some one who would have looked after a classic Camaro like that .
Most likely was stolen and stripped of what they need and left
AJ more than likely the engine was pulled because of failure or for duty in another vehicle that was in better shape. The last sticker on the window was 76 and back then these were not worth the money to fix, even in the 80’s a car this rough was a roll of the dice if you would see a return on your money. Notice that this car did not have a rear spoiler and appears to not have had a consel. I would bet it did not even have a cowl hood so I think that it was overlooked as a low option car. Now we are better educated, yet Camaro’s all look like they have every option at a car show.
In the 70’s & 80’s, these cars were a dime a dozen. 20-25 years ago, it was used as a parts car & then never got hauled off for scrap.
My best friend from childhood had a 69 RS SS. It was stolen and found 3 months later in the woods. Nothing left but the carcus, firewall, roof and quarters! It happens, what a shame!
I am guessing $60,000
I have the same thought. What the buyer is getting is a vin and a title.
If the owners bodies in the trunk maybe he has the lien card. I agree some rich guy will re panel this in pay top dallor to rewire and fix the floor and most likely end up an auto.
Thank god it still has the speedo cable, that would have been a deal breaker.
I hate the fact at what it costs to put these old cars together. It also sounds to me there’s a bunch of people that sorry they can no longer afford the hobby any longer so their blaming someone else because they do. I have a question for all of you. If you restore a car today are you going to sell it for what you think it should be or are you going to sell it for what you can get out of it. Be honest when you answer. I know I don’t like the fact I can’t afford it either but I’m not blaming people who can.
Who do you blame? Nostalgia? Greed? Stupidity?
The lack of real time machines? I would not restore a
car just to sell, only to enjoy.
i have a slightly different take that doesnt include blaming folks for not having the money to pay for the cars today. The lament is that “real car folks” however you define that are not happy with the fact that cars are seen as investment vehicles and thus attract a whole other group of people.
For instance the very people who used to sneer at ‘hippies’ driving VW busses now pay absolutely asinine prices for 21/23 window busses.
I say Karma is a byatch and shes gonna bite these folks in their backsides. When the market falls out and it will, they all do, these folk will be trying to unload their rolling gold asap. If we’re lucky enough to still be able to drive :)…. we can get a couple!
Easy guys! You are sounding bitter. Most people I know- NOT the ones paying $100,000 plus for their collector cars, but people who see a substantial investment of their money in their vehicles buy for the love of their cars. They drive and enjoy them. I guess what I am saying is the hobby isn’t black and white. There is a large percentage of collectors that are in the middle and seem to be overlooked. The hobby is shared by all kinds of passionate collectors.
Wow guys I hate to admit it but all I see is a giant money pit that will only end when its sold and if your really luck you only lost 50K or so! The older cars from the late 60s and early 70s just about no matter what kind of turd it is are worth money, I know a 71 Nova SS with a small block is NO turd but I saw one BJ sell the other day for 40K, it was a nice car it had rally wheels and a very nice 355 in it, but to me that is damned high priced for a Nova, for half that price I may be interested?
Karl I have seen $40,000 Falcons listed on Hemmings. Outrageous and not V8s or anything special. Don’t know what the market is for a 40,000 Falcon, but shows how outrageous prices have become for even the most common.
Makes $5500 for that Dodge Aries here on Barn Finds look good.
Wow!! I wish that I had money just laying around to waist like that!! But as they say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!
Without the original motor it’s a wate of time moreso than the huge money suck it is..
I think the prices paid for old cars at BJ are more about testosterone than car values. When you get two millionaires interested in a car that can’t stand to lose the prices climb. Once that price point is set only multiple no sales will bring them back to earth. Unfortunately it takes much longer ( if it ever happens ) for the prices to return to “normal”. As for this one, l’d pass!
Rusty I totally agree its gets to nothing more than “mines bigger than yours” waste of time! But without a doubt a windfall for the seller! I restore M series military trucks and on my first one Rusty I had about 17k$ into the truck not including my 600 hrs of time, its an absolutely beautiful truck that’s worth 12k$! Always buy the vehicle completed let the other sucker (me) lose all the money!!
My dream car would be a ’62 Dart 413 cross ram but I won’t pay the price they’re asking.
This thing is scrap.
shill bidding has to be…..
A little ways to go before this industry resembles the WWII aircraft industry where a rudder frame or part of a main spar justifies recreation of all the rest of the plane. In the end though, A) the plane (car) now exists, B) the industry has created work and spread money around, and C) some restoration skill propagation has happened to pass these skills to the next generation.
This is why guys my age (early 40’s/late 30’s) are now into 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s era cars. Not that we don’t like a good muscle car but….what people are shelling out for shells is pure insanity. I agree with some of the other guys who have said that 10-15 years from now, these cars will be totally cratered out value-wise. Just as *most* cars from the 30’s-40’s have now (have you seen what you can buy a Model T for these days?!?!)
Great point! I’ll take my 70s and 80s cars. Who would want a Model T? Lol
@ theGasHole: same here and I’m older than you. I’ve had a 63 Valiant Signet for years now, missed the 70s stuff but have an 86 Olds Calais and may go backward from my 05 to get a 90s something vehicle as a replacement. Park Avenue, Neon, a fish mouthed Taurus…. maybe a 99 Cavalier to replace the one I bought brand new [would probably still have it but it was destroyed in a rear ender].
Pedestrian stuff, yes, but I have had more fun in that Olds when I got it from my brother than I have ever had from a new car, especially for the price. And there are enthusiast sites everywhere for even the most common car out there.
Cheap fun.
Go where the others aren’t. Re-habbing an old car you like doesn’t mean it has to be one that everyone else is chasing
In 1997 I could have bought a ’69 Z28 for $4.500.
Just bought a house n wife was pregnant with no.2 chile
Oh well
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We have all been there half cab, mine was a 77 Porsche 911 Turbo it was a beautiful car low miles and screaming fast, I can still see it black on black with whale tail! I just started a new company bought a house and NO money!