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I like the L88 hood too. They have a lot of attitude. I found this one on Ebay a few years ago in Chi Town. A friend from Steves Nova site In Sugar Grove,IL picked it up from the seller for me and delivered it on his way to see family. It's currently being painted Black with some lace work. I couldn't bear to tell that nice lady what I was going to do to that vintage lace table cloth ....... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...L78/thood3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...921061450a.jpg


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If I had a low-rise dual quad setup or a single 4bbl, I'd run an L88 hood for sure, but I think it'd be a shame to cut one up to clear a tunnel ram.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheNovaMan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If I had a low-rise dual quad setup or a single 4bbl, I'd run an L88 hood for sure, but I think it'd be a shame to cut one up to clear a tunnel ram. </div></div>

Many guys ran that setup-L-88 hoods with a hole cut in for the TR to poke through.Pretty common.

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I think they look best on (non-vettes) 2nd Gen Camaros. The curves just seem to match up very well from the car to the hood.

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I like the L88 hood Tommy,it looks cool. Paul

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I just wish the guy would hurry up Paul.... he borrowed my hood to make a mold to make more hoods....


Tommy [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img]

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We are working on it. Pictures as soon as we can,ok Tommy. Paul

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No hurry on those pictures Paul, I was referring to the guy who has my hood right now. It's been at his place for over a year now.. It's what i've heard referred to as &quot;body shop prison&quot;.


Tommy [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img]

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You are correct. You can ask for a parole date and see if something happens. Paul

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Pete.....if you look around at swap meets or on craigslist you might find a hood like the one hanging in my garage.

I bought mine a couple years ago at Jefferson Swap Meet.

Kurt </div></div>

Kurt
Chevelle with L88 scoop. Looks bad with tow bar brackets etc.

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...lel88scoop.jpg

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Pete.....if you look around at swap meets or on craigslist you might find a hood like the one hanging in my garage.

I bought mine a couple years ago at Jefferson Swap Meet.

Kurt </div></div>

Kurt
Chevelle with L88 scoop. Looks bad with tow bar brackets etc.

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...lel88scoop.jpg </div></div>

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There was one of those for sale a few months ago out east for $75 on Team Chevelle. I wanted it in the worst way.....just to have it, but I had no way of getting it.

Kurt

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Sweet Day Two '69 Vette:

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/2615046082.html

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local chicago area car, original owner, day2'd as soon as he got it. I am seeing more day2 cars that had really low profile tires in the front, but wide (not skinny, like a lot of folks do now). I just loved this thing.

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...-23-41_765.jpg

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Camaro looks great but front tires are way too low profile in this case. Need to get rid of the 14 x8's in front and go 14 x7's and say a f-70-14.
Other than that I love the stance of the car.

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That Green '69 Camaro just screams &quot;COOL&quot;! It even has the quintessential Gabriel Hi-Jacker decal on the side rear quarter windows! I gotta agree about those ugly, little wide front wheels. A set of tall, skinny front wheels would greatly improve that car.

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I think the wider F 70 14s would have been correct on the green camaro. My 70 challenger had that size too in front. I don't thing the wider front tire was out of line around chicago, for street racing.

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Its whatever the person likes! I like 6's in the front and 7's in the back.

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If you ever drove on the street with skinny front tires and rims 3&quot; or 4&quot; rims,trying to make a short stop or any stop,the skinnys lock up so fast you can't control the car. It is like the front tires are on ice.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Plowman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If you ever drove on the street with skinny front tires and rims 3&quot; or 4&quot; rims,trying to make a short stop or any stop,the skinnys lock up so fast you can't control the car. It is like the front tires are on ice. </div></div>

Also, go around a sharp turn too fast and those little 5.60's x 15's roll right off the 4&quot; rims. I saw that at a show one time.

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I got one car with narrow front cragars. Its been like that all its life. Now that car lived in downstate IL in a small town, and from what I know about the original owner, he just drag raced it mainly at the strip. Now the 70 mr norms challenger, and the black camaro (that got H60 15s in the back on day 2 or 3), those cars had to take corners, both owners told me they outrun the law many times (one car has switches to shut off the tail lights during braking). It just depends on where the cars grew up. I like the way the skinnies look the best, but I am noticing in some older pictures of day 2 cars, the F70 14s were there out in front more than you think. I like both looks.

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I've owned many, many cars that had 15 x 3.5 or 4.00 front wheels and have NEVER encountered a problem with stopping or turning. As long as I was driving sensibly and not doing battle on the two-lane blacktop with anybody, they drive just fine. Now, I wouldn't try autocrossing or doing a slalom course but that stuff, along with the whole Pro-Touring thing, just doesn't do anything for me. The only turn I'm interested in is the turn onto the return road after a Dragstrip pass!

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You are talking about 15&quot;by 3&quot;rims on front skinny bias-ply tires too. Paul

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I have also ran 15X4's for many years on the street. Never had a problem as long as like Mark says you are not trying to road race that car. Why would anybody be slamming in and out of turns with the drag race look/set-up on their car?

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Some may be so good at driving they can anticipate every possible poor choice of the drivers around them, some are not. If you ever had to make a split second change, brake or turn with the skinny tires, you can relate.

I learned when I used daily drive mine this way.

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Turning corners was a little more tricky for me. Don't think I had a quick stop encounter that I can remember.

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I'm guessing for you Sammy that the <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">GO</span></span> pedal was significantly more worn on your ride than the brake pedal!
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-----Just think about it for a minute. A pro-street type car has a tremendous amount of rubber on the road in the rear, and very little in the front. This throws what ever proportioning system a car like this has way off. Hard, emergency type braking is definetly thrown way off. Guys that dont change some stuff around and do some testing are in for a big surprize when there is a panic stop involved......Bill S

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Point is, day2 look could be anything out in front, here are my 2 examples of wide and skinny:

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...9/DSCN0929.jpg

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/SCAN0048.jpg

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Nice Hemi car!

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IMO this is the perfect stance for a 67-69 Camaro. Front end up in the air, car raised all around with a slight rake -very aggressive looking. Car just sits right...but the side pipes are way to short and small. Car ran a grump lump scoop. Car belonged to Sandy Macri from Westchester NY circa 1977 or so. Where abouts today unknown

BTW Tires are E78-14, N50/15 and 14 x6 and 15x10 Cragars

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...acricamaro.jpg

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THAT is a very nice stance. Love the paint, tires, wheels! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img]

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Those are some awesome rear tires on that Camaro! I like it! I can easily remember back in the Eighties and of just being in love with the whole &quot;Pro Street&quot; craze and seeing a big, steamroller set of Mickey Thompson 15&quot;-16&quot;-17&quot; wide tires at places like the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals just made my day. Nowadays, I really CAN'T stand that look and I often think about how many neat, rare Musclecars would have been &quot;tubbed out&quot; if me and many others could have afforded to do that expensive type of chassis work back then! I've raced some pretty serious Drag Radial machines and have been involved with some 10.5 cars for a long time now and I just love the look and serious-ness of a mini-tubbed Drag car with 295 or 315 rear Drag Radials or a Mickey Thompson 10.5W. Ain't nuthin' tuffer-lookin' than a '67-'68 Camaro with a set of 10.5W X 31.00 Mickeys out back!

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This camaro has the LOOK-I know of an airbrush artist who can duplicate this scheme..
http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...oor/img095.jpg

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Those are infinate lines. Pretty popular back in the day. I know somebody too who has done many of those. (big smile)

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That Camaro is cool!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: black69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Point is, day2 look could be anything out in front, here are my 2 examples of wide and skinny:

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/SCAN0048.jpg </div></div>

That's it, right there!

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That is at the race track,looking good. Day-2 look is from seeing race cars looking that way and looking cool. Paul

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Schonyenko2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Those are infinate lines. Pretty popular back in the day. I know somebody too who has done many of those. (big smile) </div></div>

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More of the Macri Camaro. Grump lump scoops....one of the coolest scoops of all time.

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...cricamaro2.jpg

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I think that 68 is set up perfectly. Here are 1974 shots of a chicago area car, with high lift like that 68.

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...ck69/RARE2.jpg

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...ck69/RARE3.jpg

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/o...ack69/rARE.jpg