68 bb

[Dale C.]

Would you recommend this car to a friend? http://www.mcecars.com/viewInventory.cfm?invID=401 The thing that got my attention was the broach marks. Do they look OK? They look rather deep and continuious, is that OK????? Car looks nice and correct with build sheet. Any thing else comes to mind looking at this car? Hope pictures come though on site listing above.
Dale

[Patrick H.]

Re: 68 bb

Would you recommend this car to a friend? http://www.mcecars.com/viewInventory.cfm?invID=401

No.

The thing that got my attention was the broach marks. Do they look OK?

Yes.

They look rather deep and continuous, is that OK????? Car looks nice and correct with build sheet. Any thing else comes to mind looking at this car? Hope pictures come though on site listing above.
Dale

It's several thousand dollars overpriced.
Nice red paint but lacking in details. Way too much black spray paint hiding things.
There are better cars for the money.

That's my short answer.

[Mike M.]

Re: 68 bb

i dislike the broach marks.mike

[Joe L.]

Re: 68 bb

Would you recommend this car to a friend? http://www.mcecars.com/viewInventory.cfm?invID=401 The thing that got my attention was the broach marks. Do they look OK? They look rather deep and continuious, is that OK????? Car looks nice and correct with build sheet. Any thing else comes to mind looking at this car? Hope pictures come though on site listing above.
Dale

Dale------

It's got 1969 grilles and one slightly droopy headlight. This might indicate some previous front end damage and repair.

The AIR system has been removed

The master cylinder looks to be a replacement, non-GM piece.

The tank sticker looks a little suspicious to me. I just don't see a reason for the "rust stains" as they appear.

The engine stamp pad broach marks look too "prominent" to me. To me, they look rough enough that the head gaskets might not seal properly (the stamp pad is just an extension of the block deck surface).

[Ronald L.]

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Joe, fiberglass rusts you know that right? More like artificial acid aging.

On the VIN, I'd like to see the one-piece punch holder that punched some of the letters in at a 20 degree angle and others were a direct hit.

The 'rusting' real or accelerated on the pad is also a little odd, some areas it looks like the broach lines go over that area, mostly noted where the VIN is and that stamp has metal deformation that is not clear in the Tonawanda stamp, could it have been a partial swipe to put a new VIN on the pad, but leave the Engine date?

[Patrick H.]

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I noticed that each of the broach marks is parallel, which is quite unusual for a replacement stamping if that's what it is. In addition, I do see displaced metal from both stamps though it is more prominent at the VIN than at the engine stamping.
What would be interesting is to measure the total length of the stampings - the VIN stamping looks, if anything, like the characters are a bit too far apart.

In the end I found many more things obviously wrong than the broach marks, and that's why I'd turn down the car.

[Dale C.]

Re: 68 bb

Thanks to all, great insight.
Dale

[Paul J.]

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It's several thousand dollars overpriced.
Nice red paint but lacking in details. Way too much black spray paint hiding things.
There are better cars for the money.

That's my short answer.

Exactly. In addition, the overall condition is average, especially the interior.

Paul

[Dick W.]

Re: 68 bb

Run Forrest, run Everyone has missed the fact that it was originally a yellow car trim code 984, even shows on the tank sticker

[Patrick H.]

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Run Forrest, run Everyone has missed the fact that it was originally a yellow car trim code 984, even shows on the tank sticker

I saw the yellow overspray on the wells behind the seats.
No one wants a yellow car anyway, right?

[Dick W.]

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I saw the yellow overspray on the wells behind the seats.
No one wants a yellow car anyway, right?

Sorta like a Kermit car? The yellow used in 1968 was a pleasing color to me. Not too bright or gaudy unlike a couple of the later school buses disguised as a Corvette

[Patrick H.]

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ot too bright or gaudy unlike a couple of the later school buses disguised as a Corvette

Hey, my car resembles that remark.

[Ronald L.]

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On the topic of broach marks, yes too straight for the rookie stamp shop where the hand motion gets a little loop in the lines usually seen better with the head removed. However, I bet there are some experts out there that have that all figured out, hey they might even be here reading this thread.

[Patrick H.]

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I don't doubt that at all.
However, would you pay the big dollar to have the motor restamped this well and then screw up the rest of the "restoration" in so many ways?
It doesn't make sense to me.

A "Fonawanda" stamp or an 80 grit sandpaper pad would fit this car perfectly.

[Ronald L.]

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The sources I know of only get $300 to do it like this one. pocket change with respect to the total cost of the motor and other like paint. That paint job had to be more than 3k, at least 1k in paint alone, it cost 300 to paint a hood between primer, reducers, catalysts, and 1k color and there wasn't a drop of paint left over.