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Beautiful Car!!!!
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Very nice car, love the color/tire/wheel combo. Think I might go with the BY on my '67 RS instead of the TT (Capri Cream), it would look identical to yours - RS, SS, VT, etc...
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">HA! I guess I need to learn how to p-shop in some old bricks! That, plus a cute college girl with a short skirt, go-go boots and a Marlo Thomas flip hairdo! </div></div>
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] Paging Rita! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Very nice car, love the color/tire/wheel combo. Think I might go with the BY on my '67 RS instead of the TT (Capri Cream), it would look identical to yours - RS, SS, VT, etc... </div></div>
BY grew on me after a while owning the car. The black VT, striping (bee and pin) and rear panel help create a nice looking combo. Once I got the F70 Cokers, FC wheels and N96 covers the beauty of the car's color combo really popped out at me. |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Goofing around with new photo software and made this photo look like an old LIFE Magazine ad by altering the coloring and lighting.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ro2003Edit.jpg </div></div> One of my all time "Favorites".............. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img] |
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Perfect crystal-clear chilly fall day yesterday (Sunday) so I got'er out for a 50-plus mile, mostly freeway run. Still had 3/4-tank of Trick pump 101 from the last time I drove it so off I went! Flat spots on the Cokers went away and once she was steady at operating temp I settled in to an enjoyable 65-mph run. It was nice to get out before noon with the orange and yellow leaves bright in the sunshine! Boomed down to Tacoma, off and under the freeway and back on in the opposite direction toward Seattle with a nice long 2nd gear into-the-secondaries pull up the merge lane, 5500 rpm and a nice (faint) carbon trail out back. (Suck it tree huggers.) Back up toward Seattle at 65-70 in the right lane most of the way--let the rat-racers have the left lanes. Off and under and back on southbound toward home. A swing around Brown's Point (nice 2-lane 35-40 mph posted drive) and back to the house. One hour and twenty minutes of pure joy. It will sit in the garage for too long and then when I get it out for a good run I remember how much fun it is to drive.
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Pictures or it didn't happen........
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Swear to God Ken, I intentionally left my digi-camera home. I just wanted to go drive and not feel the need to suddenly pull-over to take a picture. Then, while on one of my favorite winding 2-lane drives I see a swath of huge, beautiful trees, all orange with their leaves turning and the sun on them and I thought it would make a great over-the-hood-at-speed picture. If the sun's out next weekend I'll go snap those trees!
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Sounds like you had fun Bill.
get a GoPro....then you don't have to worry! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img] |
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Cool [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img] Glad you got to go for a spin Bill! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img] |
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Sold my '55 and used some of the proceeds to have a 'refresh' done on the Camaro. New underpinnings front and rear, lower, Global West multi-leafs in back (1.25" lower), new 1' lower coils in front (slightly higher rate to match the leafs), Gardner "deep tone" exhaust (sounds great for a stock 396/325), Pertronix Igniter/recurve (by a pro on a Sun machine) and a full tune, front drum brakes fussed over so it now stops dead-straight, new trans seals and mount (cracked), new u-joints (bearings were dust), even got the horn working! I still had the horn button from my high school '67 Camaro (1979) so I popped that on there. It drives like a new car. Idles smoothly, low mild rumble, shifts smooth, nice and firm--not too firm--ride, excellent throttle response (for a 100K-plus mile L35). I wanted it lower and level and I think we achieved that. Now I can drive the heck out of it at a moment's notice and honk the horn all I want! Want to feel what a nice, tight, stock '67 L35 Camaro feels like? Stop by and I'll toss you the keys! My happy machine is doing its job! Happy to write the check for that. Engine/trans/diff upgrade is the winter project. (Putting the stock MZ engine and original Th-400 under the bench. It will still look stock when done but go through F70 Cokers at a higher rate...)
PS: Yes, I kept ALL of the stuff that came off the car. Coils still had the tags on them, leafs didn't. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ps7420ab65.jpg |
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Now you just need to put an LS engine in it...........
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Leave the car the way it is and drive it.
Looks classy to me all stock. |
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ive got the mouse motor version of that car! with disc brakes and rallys. i need a big block!!! butternut yellow is awesome with the black roof.
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Looks perfect! Love the mag caps but would look great with the old Torq Thrusts too!
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I have a restored set of peak-spoke 14x6 TTs in the garage, as a matter of fact! Debating F70 pinner whites or redlines for the mags.
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Since my car has what I call an "Impala driveline" (396/325, Th400, open 12-bolt) I decided to put a set of wire wheelcovers on it. One of the original ads referred to the RS as the "country club Camaro" and the wires help in that regard! Dare to be different.
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I like it and it look's cool.
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From the Front or from the Rear that ride looks great.
How do you like the G Exhaust? Resonators? Jim |
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Nice look Bill!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 169indy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">From the Front or from the Rear that ride looks great.
How do you like the G Exhaust? Resonators? Jim </div></div> Love the Gardner system. Just the transverse "deep tone" muffler and it sounds like the Bullitt Charger. Best part is the accurately located oval tailpipes. "Sanitary." |
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Beautiful car and you just helped me make up my mind on what to do with my 67 when I restore it, it came original with the wire wheels and butternut yellow, pretty much the same as yours other than its a convertible and came with a 4 speed train. Definitely going to restore back to original. any inside pics?
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There is one on page one of this thread...
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Love it the hub caps make it.!!!!!
I had a 67 caprice 4 door 396 325 In high school...... |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: daverd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Love it the hub caps make it.!!!!!
I had a 67 caprice 4 door 396 325 In high school...... </div></div> Yep, I chose to sell the Rally/Disc Brake wheels that came on the car and get it back to an original-appearing setup. The N96 "mag" wheelcovers and redlines remind me of my Hot Wheels cars of old and are a refreshing change from all the Rally-wheeled cars. I even restored a set of accessory wire wheelcovers for an even more unusual (yet still correct) look. |
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More fun with the old dog. In 1980 I bought a NOS-in-boxes set of 1967 PO1 base wheelcovers for my high school '67. Ran them with the stock wheels and a set of Dunlop GT Qualifiers. I was down in California two weeks ago for the Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Monterey and stopped by a buddy's house in Sacramento on the way home. He said he had something to show me out in the garage and he produced my old PO1 wheelcovers! When I went into the USAF in the '80s I had him store some stuff for me until I could come get it and the PO1s got forgotten over the decades. So I brought them home and washed them off--still cherry--and snapped them on last weekend. Boy do they look right! All the ads in '67 (but for the disc cars) had the PO1s shown, so I am loving the look of my Camaro now.
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Nice [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] Bill!
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Absolutely love your 67.. Great that you were able to run back across your PO1 covers. For me its hard to beat the N96's though.. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
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That's a good look for that car! Now watch the price of those stocker wheel covers go through the roof!
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Mark, I'm staying with the PO1 covers I bought NOS in 12th grade!
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Looks like you have a good supply of different style hub caps. The "mag" style look alot like that was on our 67 Chevelle SS ... TAZ
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You can also click on the "please update..." image and it'll take you to photophuckit as long as the image is public. At least I could on my phone. Now on a pc at work and its hit and miss.
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