I was wondering 🤔 I've been doing some digging on my 78. And wondering if there's anything out there like what Mustang owners have with the Marty Report. I would love to know where my car might fall. It seems to me it might be fairly rare. It was a Van Nies car. Shipped and sold in Denver CO. And Purchased February 2 1978. I have the original financial papers but no Merroni window sticker. Unfortunately. But why I think it might be a rare bird. Not a 1 of 1. But definitely low volume. It I think would have a High Altitude package, is a 350 with the wide ratio 4 speed. With just the High Altitude package being 1,400 or so made. And 350 manual. And ABSOLUTELY no other options. It is basically heat and vent. No power options or Rally package dash. Just fuel and spedo. Vinyl interior. With Carmine paint and Carmine interior. I would love too actually know. But I know some records are lost in time. And what I have found is on Nasty Z Forum. And of course it has been slightly devalued for comfort. The interior was changed some years ago with NOS Deluxe cloth. And a respray. But both still factory colors. If any one can help that would be awesome. Thanks again.

 

I have been a 2nd gen owner since 1979. I am not aware of any data except the that of what is on Nasty Z. Back at that point in history GM did not track combinations of options. Unless there was a part that changed because of a combination there was no way they could look up combination on a computer. Even if you had asked GM in 1979 they could not give you the info.

Pontiac kept all the Vin numbers and all options that came with each Vin numbers and you can send away for that information, sadly Chevy did not. That is why there are so many clones out there. There is no way to know what a chevy came with. Even with all that data I am not sure if anyone took the time to scan in all that information and come up with a combination list. On some newer chevys there are sights that have the information. I pretty sure I have seen them for 4th gen Camaros.

I would not spend a lot of time on it. Sometimes people confuse rare options with value, and it is simply not the case. You need desired and rare options. When those sights first started guys got all excited because they had 1 of 10 cars produced. just because you had a rarer color and a moonson stereo with a posi rear did not change the value of you V6 much. Evern the rare 3800's in the 1995 were never worth more than the 1996 with a 3800. The one I like to sigh is I found a 1974 Camaro with a small block 400 in it. It was numbers matching and original with 56K miles. I had never even heard about this and if I had not seen it I would have said BS. Turns out it was a COPO car made for the army. It had a TH400 trans and posi rear. It also lacked emission since it was not supposed to be in the US. It was sold as military police car in Japan. To bring it back to the US the owner had to have it re-vin'ed. I wanted that thing so bad but I thought I was not in the position to buy it cause it was up for auction. I assumed big money. Turnes out it sold for less than a 74 Z28 did. If collators are not looking for it that just makes it an oddity that most guys just say neat and move past.

I have seen rare inline 6 cylinder sell for less than one that has had a 6 cylinder replaced with a 305. The 305 is worthless but it allows you to do anything you want to the car with no guilt. Most car guys would not want to gut an original rare car even if it cost them a few bucks more.

The rare all original is a hands off car.

 

Well I'm not looking for anything of extra value. The cars history is the value. Bought new by my wife's uncle. Repainted by his late daughter in her technical school. Just with it having a 350 4 speed from the factory and absolutely nothing else. Just seems odd to me. And with it being a car he found on the lot. Not even something he ordered. But maybe someone else did and never picked up. So really I just wanted more of it's history prior to purchase from the dealership.