The Supercar Registry - You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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WAIT FOR IT . . .

GETTING CLOSE . . .

HERE IT COMES . . .

TADA!

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Though they look the same the 1967 and 1968 optional 10 Spoke Aluminum Wheels are not interchangeable. The 1968 wheels were cast differently than on the '67 versions and will have a ball joint interference if installed on a '67.

Did you know . . .

The reason why the 2nd gen Camaro was so late going into production was due to the rear fenders. Things had been right on schedule for the all-new Camaro body stampings at Fisher Body, when during what is called “final die tryouts” right before production stamping begins, the quarter-panels kept wrinkling and splitting. The body dies required too much draw for the sheetmetal to cooperate. Fisher decided to reconfigure the draw dies, which are the two halves needed to pound out a fender or panel from flat sheet stock. This required a short delay. Unfortunately, the resulting quarter-panels stamped from the new dies were worse than the previous attempt. What to do? Chevrolet delayed the intro for the Camaro—again—while Fisher created entirely new dies.

I assume the same went for the Firebird too

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In case you have never seen them, here is a set of dies: Male and Female. Some refer to them as "tools or tooling."

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The machines used to stamp out car hoods, fenders, etc are HUGE:

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The reason why Hemi sales for Plymouth dropped from 1966's 1510 to 1967's 125 was because in 1966 you could order a Hemi in any Plymouth while in 1967 it was restricted to the GTX which was $700 to $800 more expensive than a Belvedere I or II.

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Ford gave the option to delete the hood pins on the 69 Mach 1. I have never seen one built that way.

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I got all the photos I wanted to shift over to this thread so we are back to normal updates.