Export Cars

[cheezer]

I did a search for this topic and came up blank. I hope it has not been covered before.

I have an opportunity to buy a 69 Camaro that was an export car to South America. It has the speedometer in Kilometers an hour. How does this affect the possible rarety or value, all other things being equal ?

It is a RS 350, with A/C, power windows, power front discs, p/s but a Powerglide. The car is very original with very few patches at the very bottom of the rear quarters, the whole trunk and a bit of rust in front of the driver at the base of the windshield (like all other original F-Bodies). It still has the exhaust manifiolds and some carb that looks strange. Only the distributor has been changed.

If the paperwork is legit (and it WILL be checked !), I will be buying the car no matter what since the price is right.

I was just wondering about the whole "export" thing and how it would impact the value or is it just a novelty kind of thing ?

Yes, I know, pics will be forthcoming.

cheezer

69 Camaro convertible

[Harri-76]

Originally Posted by cheezer

I did a search for this topic and came up blank. I hope it has not been covered before.

I have an opportunity to buy a 69 Camaro that was an export car to South America. It has the speedometer in Kilometers an hour. How does this affect the possible rarety or value, all other things being equal ?

It is a RS 350, with A/C, power windows, power front discs, p/s but a Powerglide. The car is very original with very few patches at the very bottom of the rear quarters, the whole trunk and a bit of rust in front of the driver at the base of the windshield (like all other original F-Bodies). It still has the exhaust manifiolds and some carb that looks strange. Only the distributor has been changed.

If the paperwork is legit (and it WILL be checked !), I will be buying the car no matter what since the price is right.

I was just wondering about the whole "export" thing and how it would impact the value or is it just a novelty kind of thing ?

Yes, I know, pics will be forthcoming.

cheezer

69 Camaro convertible

Why it would have some effect on price??? I´m from Finland and can´t stad the point!!! and you can always change the speedo, but even thou we do have km/h here in finland I wanna use miles/h!!! I just got a set of autometers carponfiber meters... and those are just perfect! Those do look great on corvette!