If you are looking for a nice 1980 L-82, I just saw a very nice example on ebay. It is the last year for the L-82 and this is the 23rd last car built that year. One of the last L-82's built and built on the last day of production too!
It has just under 17,000 miles and looks to have the original tires as well.
I was interested in it mainly because it has a chrome air cleaner lid like mine does when it should have a black painted one according to standard production. My theory is they were running out of 1980 black lids near the end of production and started using the 1981 chrome lids. I can not yet prove it but I have seen several very late 1980 L-82's with chrome lids including my own that was built about 2 weeks earlier. This one might not be original GM chrome but who knows? It certainly looks good from here.
-Mark.
It has just under 17,000 miles and looks to have the original tires as well.
I was interested in it mainly because it has a chrome air cleaner lid like mine does when it should have a black painted one according to standard production. My theory is they were running out of 1980 black lids near the end of production and started using the 1981 chrome lids. I can not yet prove it but I have seen several very late 1980 L-82's with chrome lids including my own that was built about 2 weeks earlier. This one might not be original GM chrome but who knows? It certainly looks good from here.
-Mark.
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