Another amazing ebay offering

[Robert M.]

The ad says extremely rare 1965 L78 convertible. Not only is the color very rare but it seems to conveniently have every option including the very rare ballast resistor but no transistorized ignition. It is currently at 122K and hasn't met reserve! What a deal.

[Roy B.]

Re: Another amazing ebay offering

I wont it (the ballast resistor) and only 122K he can keep the vett.

[Duke W.]

Re: Another amazing ebay offering

Maybe it's also one of those "super rare early production" L-78s with a VIN sequence number well under 10XXX.

Saw one of those go for big bucks at B-J about five years ago.

What's most amazing is that a lot of buyers don't seem to even care if a car is, uh... fake, but I think that may come back to haunt them. As time passes the market is likely to get more savvy in differentiating originals from fakes.

Duke

[Tracy C.]

item number or link? *NM*

[Robert M.]

Re: item number or link?

Tracy, Item number is 300022327501

[Michael H.]

Engine Numbers.....

Pretty strange looking engine stamp pad. Must be some new kind of broach?

Why is this car so high in the nose if it has HD suspension?

[Gary Schisler]

How would you like to bet

that the response is probably from someone the seller knows to try and kick start this?

[Tracy C.]

Agree the pad looks odd. Vin Stamp appears

to have the wrong character height (almost as tall as the date stamp) Some of this may be camera angle, but seemes odd anyway.

tc

[Paul L.]

Re: Another amazing ebay offering

You are all being critical of this car without an itemized list of what its flaws are. It looks like a very nice restoration to me. But there are insinuations that it is a fake of some kind. I can't handle the price, and would not consider purchasing it, but I am curious as to what your problems are. Need a little NCRS education here. I would be very interested in your comments.

[Chuck G.]

Re: Another amazing ebay offering

Here's the link. Chuck

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D300022327501%26fvi%3D1&item=300022327501

[Verle R.]

Re: Another amazing ebay offering

I would not this engine to have an M21, not an M20 behind it.

Verle

[Verle R.]

Re: Another amazing ebay offering

Mis worded the above.

I would expect this engine to have an M21, not an M20.

Verle

[Bill Stephenson]

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Verle,,,Its my understanding that all 65s had M20s if they had 4-speeds, but M20s came in both close and wide ratios. It just depended on which engine and rear combo you ordered which M20 you got. The M21 close ratio term began use in 1966........Bill S

[Jack W.]

ebay 65 L78

I am not qualified to opine on stamp pad fonts and broach marks (seriously, I only feel comfortable calling out the really poor DIY efforts) but so far I see an oddly-tight body build date on the trim tag (looks like J3 = May 3) and "birthday" (electronic calculators put it at May 3).

T-i-g-h-t for an AOS car.

[Michael H.]

Re: ebay 65 L78

I didn't even notice that it was an AOS body. If that's the case, there are more problems than just the time of build.