Hls30-00502

[John Coffey]

A short video of it coming out of the horse trailer it was stored in for a few years.

https://vimeo.com/101361546

[240260280z]

Cool video.

Thanks

[nix240z]

What a nice find....

[Carl Beck]

Wow - looks like it's in pretty good condition. Is it an 11/69 build date? So now it's owned by John Beck? Should have a 2000 series serial number L24. Post some pictures when it gets cleaned up..

Carl B.

[Z dreams]

A dream Z, gone to a good home. Can't wait to see it's build progress.

[Z fan]

Like a TV episode , that is a GEM

[Zed Head]

Is there a John Coffey Z-locating Service? Or is it friends and family only? How does a person even know where #502 is sitting in a horse trailer, in a barn? And then how do you go pry it out of the owner's hands? Lots of mystery here.

My computer does not like vimeo at all. Lots of starts and stops. 7 with Chrome.

[Carl Beck]

Subject Line say's #502, but the voice on the video says #504? Which is it?

Carl B.

[xs10shl]

Great find! Congratulations!

[psdenno]

Horse trailer...of course......why didn't I ever think to look for a vintage Z in a horse trailer? Seems like a logical place to store a car.......especially if you keep your horses in the garage.

[John Coffey]

I've known about the car since the owner, Janelle, took it to her first autocross back in the mid-1990s. I was her instructor and when I realized what the car was I suggested she find another car to race. She put this car aside and just drove it on weekends. I wanted to buy the car for years and things just never worked out, mostly because I tend to modify whatever I buy to suit my tastes and this car needed to be restored. About 10 years ago a Datsun guy trying to buy the car told her she couldn't drive the car because of unleaded gasoline (he was a **** head trying to low ball her on the price). She called me and I told her not to worry about it. But she did and stored the car in her horse trailer.

Years later I'm now working at Benton Performance and we have a very good customer and car collector, the guy you see in the video. He was telling me his Z story and I thought about Janelle's car. I called her and she said she would sell it to John if I said it was OK. I did, and John has the car with us to do a complete restoration in the next year.

BTW, Janelle is the lady driving the forklift in the video.

I'm pretty sure the serial number is 502 but I could be mistaken - I checked it when we pulled the car out of the trailer but I forgot. Build date is 11/69. Engine serial number is in the 2000s.

[John Coffey]

And how do you pry these cars out of the owner's hands? Be nice, honest, and pay a fair price. Janelle said she's had a lot of guys try to buy the car and all treated her like she was a stupid woman. She's smarter then most and knows a lot about cars. She was a fast shoe in a Camaro for years.