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Old 05-02-2016, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by starlightblack View Post
Found it, "1983 - Modern Day Periodicals" "America's Best Musclecars" Martyn L. Schorr and Joe Oldham are in this so it was a Hi-Performance Cars Magazine Variant. First page of the article states, "We put the word out that we wanted to drive a real 1970 GTO for this special publication". A guy named Guido Marsala responded "a specialist in unrestored sixties and seventies supercars" with his '70 Judge and '70 455 4-speed cars. So cars were 12-13 years old at the time...
Thank you for posting that! Yes, it was from a later issue. Makes you wonder how original the cars were when they were already 12-13 years old. I spoke to one guy that was an original owner of a 1970 LS6 Chevelle, and within the first 5 years, it had the engine replaced under warranty, was repainted by the dealer due to a crash, and had the wheels swapped out for some Cragars. Yet he said that very car is labeled as "all original, original paint, original engine" today.

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