Check ir out, it has 613 miles and it is yellow!http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=1837632412

 

*** Damn.

I need to build a garage with an empty bay, and start saving my money so that when one of these pops up in the future, I can write the check and get the car.

I emailed the seller in hopes that he can send additional pictures and send my email & web address to the new buyer. That car would make an excellent candidate for the low mile registry that I'm building

 

Jim85IROC,

Let me know when I can sign up for the low mile registry.

Nice looking yellow 1985 IROC-Z.

I just wish they would show some underneath shots of this car.

They should have snapped a photo of the window sticker.

Chet


((--Looks like it has went up a couple of thousand dollars since I looked at it this mornings--))

 

And it's got the L/S conteur interior to boot! Now this months wallpaper. Very nice car indeed!

 

Wow the miles just keep getting lower on the 'lowest mile iroc" title. Nice.

 

WoW, up to $10,300. Last time I looked this afternoon it was at $7700.

Chet

 

amazing, its like going back in time.

 

No response from the seller so far.

 

$13,600.00 is the present bid. Thats nice to see.

Chet

 

It only has an 85 MPH speedo? Good to see that GM had faith in it's performance.

 

that wasnt GM's choice

that was national law back in the day

85 MPH speedos

 

Auction closed at $14,603. This should give you something of an idea what your car could be worth Chet. Print this page out as it can also be used for insurance information. This just helps me show the value of my car with all of it's options!

 

scottmoyer,

Thats a great price.

I would still like to see underneath that car though to compare with mine.

Maybe, the owner will show up on thirdgen with his prize.

Chet

 

That's only $1,103 more than I sold my 2,490 mile '85 IROC for. When you count the extra set of IROC wheels and tires that were sold separately, it's only $303 more (yeah, I know I can't count them as part of the price of the car). I know I'm biased, but I think it's worth more than $14,603. If I were in the bidding, I'd seriously be willing to go another two grand if necessary. Then again, something's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and in this case that is $14,603.

I know the inflation of the seventies makes this impossible, not to mention the musclecar market in the eighties, but this is analogous to a '69 Z/28 selling for about $3,200 in 1986.

 

Well, I emailed the buyer. Hopefully he'll be a little more interrested in contacting me than the seller was.

 

And the price hike of the 69 Z/28 hadn't taken hold yet, so that could've been a reasonable price in 86. I really don't see where our cars will ever catch the inflation bug that the 60 cars have. Could you imagine your car selling for 10x it's original cost? That would be $210,190 for my car. I don't see it happening even when they are 30+ years old.

 

I meant a ultra low mileage '69 Z/28, one that would have compared to this yellow IROC. I was only sixteen in '86, but I had been a car nut for a long time even then, and I seem to recall by then the trend had shifted from the wild custom stuff of the early eighties, to restoring musclecars to stock form. I know they were not selling for what they are now, but they were going for a good bit more than their original MSRP. I'm talking about restored or low mileage ones.

I'm just speaking from memory, so I could be a couple years off. I wish I had my Car Craft magazines that are in my parent's basement back in Chicago. I actually subscribed to Car Craft from the time I was twelve until I left for school at nineteen.

 

I hope the buyer contacts Jim85IROC.

I would love too see that car if he has a digital camera up close.

I would love to see the differences between 613 miles verses 2719 miles.

One good indication would be the tires.

The front tires on mine, the side nubs have worn off just from turning, but they still have the groove going down the center tread.

Now the rear tires on mine still have the groove down the middle since they have never been spun and the nubs are still there on the outer edge of the tread.

If those nubs are gone on the front or rear tires, this car was not in a NO SPIN ZONE.

Chet

 

I saw a 69 camaro SS with a 454 in it with no miles on it at all, according to the guy, he bought it, rolled it onto a flatbed, took it home, stored it, still had the CHALK on the tire from the showroom, sold for $135,000...

 

It's worth more than that since there are no documented 69 454 Camaros out there! If he has a car that never existed and also with 0 miles, does he really have a car? The most cubes available in 69 on the Camaro was the 427 COPO.

 

In the book Musclecar color history, Camaro, by Steve Statham, there is a picture on page 73 of a '69 Camaro with 1970 plates on the front bumper. The caption reads;
When it became evident the upcoming, redesigned 1970 Camaro was not going to be ready for the fall 1969 new-car introduction, Chevrolet released this photo of the 1969 Camaro wearing 1970 plates. Later, Chevrolet decided to keep the 1969 model in production through the end of the year as a 1969 model and give the 1970 model a midyear introduction as a 1970 model once the calendar page had turned.Detroit Public Library National Automotive History Collection

Now, like we have all said before about other impossible options and /or option combinations; if it were true, we'd have heard about it by now. But I still cant help but wonder if maybe some of the last '69 models to be produced could have had a 454 installed instead of the usual 396.

In the same book, Joel Rosen of Motion Performance has been quoted as saying the following; "There were a couple of '69 Camaros that were late Camaros that got out with 454s". Now he was speaking about engine swaps that they did, not factory installed 454s, but maybe it was possible. In the last few weeks of production, the line runs out of 396s, there's a pile of 454s over there waiting for the 1970 model to begin...who knows? It sure makes for a neat "what if" story.

 

Because of the popularity of the 69 Camaro, a 454 would have been found and mentioned by now. Since only 69 ZL1's were produced with the aluminum block 427, and they are carrying a high price tag, a 454 in rarer form would be known as the rarest Camaro. They don't exist. Any 69 with a 454 is a transplant.

By the way, Matt, I found your post regarding the 69 Chevelle SS yesterday and decoded it for you. It is a real SS 396 that appears to be numbers match.

 

Scott makes a good point. A car with the popularity of a super-rare 69 Camaro, or for that matter even an 86 IROC would have become "known" long ago. Nobody has a 15 or especially a 30 year old car that nobody knew about all these years. If it existed, somebody would know about it, and somewhere there would be proof of its existance. The COPOs were rare as hell, and everybody knows about them. Yenkos, Dickeys, Baldwins etc. All rare, and all very well documented. The 4 88 1LE IROCs. no doubt the rareist IROCs produced... already known and documented.

But somehow, all of the 200 "original" 86 L98 IROCs that seem to have cropped up don't have one ounce of proof nor does anybody have any information regarding their actual release to the public. Of the hundreds of supposid original L98 5-speeds that people scream exist, why doesn't anybody have one to show me? Why doesn't proof of them exist?

 

Must have been another Matt, I wish I was the Matt looking into a '69 Chevelle SS 396


Jim and Scott, I hope you guys didn't take my reply to mean that I think a factory 454 '69 Camaro is out there. I merely meant to imply that with the long run of the '69, and the planned changeover to the 454 for 1970, it is possible for the scenario I wrote to have happened without any record being made of it. I agree that until there is documented proof of such a beast, that it just didn't happen...but what if...

 

Hmm well i like it but i think a car is made to be driven.:hail: :hail:

 

Your right, I had 454 on the brain, I went through all 5 gigs of Internet cache i have on my work machine

 

Nah, I'm just ranting about the unusual influx of threads lately about L98 86s, L98 85s (that was definately a new one for me) and L98 5-speeds. Everybody swears their friend's uncle's cousin knew a janitor that cleaned the CEO's toliet that got one blah blah blah...

 

They sure are lucky to have a CEO do there toliet.

I have my dog make sure its clean. If he drinks from it. I know its clean enough for me.

Chet

 

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I emailed the winning bidder right after the auction ended. Still no response.

 

Must say thats a nice car If I had that car I would just keep it in my garage.:lala: :lala:

 

Imagine the loss of money and fun! An 85 IROC went for about 18K and that's 1985 money. 18K in 85 would be about 26K in todays(new car purchasing) money. So this guy bought a really cool car and practically never drove it. Just stored it. Almost 20 years later he lets it go for 14K of 2002 money which is like 6-8K of 85 dollar. Bad business and he(the original owner) missed out on all the fun of having a really cool hotrod of the mid 80's. Too bad for him, I say.

 

Why is it too bad? If he enjoyed it, then it was worth the money.

 

That's right.

I like mine sitting right where it is in the garage.

When I want to remind myself of the eighties I go sit in it.

The money part of it means nothing to me.

It has turned out better than Enron or WorldCom though.

Just the other day I had a friend come over that I haven't seen for a while and he asked me if I still had the IROC-Z.
I took him out and pulled the cover off and he got a kick out of seeing it again just as when he last saw it in 1988-89 time period.


Chet