Barrett-Jackson

[Rob Hudlow]

Exactly right Danny they were trying like hell to cover their but on that one. A few years ago good friend and car collector bought what was suppose to be an original L89 69 RS/SS 396/375 alumunum head car (only made 311 I believe) just like Sherwood and Michael Allens Soul Survivor car but this one is Code 10 Black (rarest color) with houndstooth int. optioned out the ying yang and he called me before bidding on it to see what I thought it was worth. I said anything under $150k is a deal so they represented the car as numbers matching and original and he paid $98k plus the 10% and had it shipped up to MD. He thought he hit the lotto but him being essentially a Mopar guy he is not that keen on Chevy's and was going by it being represented as numbers matching etc. Hell like I told him if it's not right you would probably have a good lawsuit on them if they represented it as #'s matching etc. He called me up and I went up there to look at it and this thing was obviously a clone which I see all the time in this business... the block was a newer 454 that was re-stamped with new style GM aluminum heads cowl tag was questionable was never an RS car originally and the list went on and on. So we had Z28 Camaroman (Jerry MacNeish) come out to verify what I already knew and he blew it out of the water big time. If you are ever buying a high end Chevrolet muscle car it is well worth the money to have someone of Jerry's caliber to look at it first. Well my buddy contacted BJ and they put it all on the dealer who consigned the car and weaseled right out of the situation and when all the smoke cleared the dealer who I will not name had to take the car back and gave him a REAL 66 Corvette conv 327/350hp car and a late model BMW M3 and $20k in cash and settled out of court. The best part is I did a little research on the car (muscle car bus. is a small world) and found out the dealer bought the car at another auction the previous year and the car was represented as a clone at this auction and went for around $45k and was in the exact same condition. Well the auction was video taped and we got a copy of the tape of them buying the car as a clone so at this point he really had them by the balls so they settled out of court and my buddy actually came out ahead after all said and done. But I can tell you first hand there is alot of BS going on at most of these collector car auctions and for the most part BJ is where you wanna sell...... NOT BUY.