[Jeff Lee]

And the last car I would buy would be the one with "all new panels".

Spend the extra money and buy one that still has the original panels. There are a lot of really pretty cars with shiny paint that loose their allure once it gets to your garage for a few weeks and you start to really study it. Gaps, here, gaps there, mismatched seams and body lines and of course rust that seems to inevitably pop up; again and again.

Sure I'm spoiled living in Arizona. But the good ones are still out there. Since this oval port 427 (which is not a COPO engine since they were all rectangular port) is not original, consider a 307 Camaro that still has an excellent original body and put a 427 in it if that's what you want.

And with '69 Camaro's it's pretty easy to spend $25K on up on a decent driver that has a good appearance.