'70 Camaro #s SS396/350hp/4-sp
 

Looks mostly there - cool find in an interesting color combo. No docs but the original block is supposed to be intact with the VIN stamped adjacent to the oil filter....

Link to 1970 Camaro SS396 auction

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124870N500590

Was in OH earlier this year.

Very early, possibly the first, BB second gen built. Probable first day build. #590.

This car?

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=153282

If it is, they definitely used the shadows to make the car look better in the second pictures.

That’s the one.

It always surprised me that GM used those dinky little 4-blade fixed fans on their big block cars. Mine was overheating at idle, and I swapped a 7-blade clutch fan. Problem solved.

It was not the first BB, nor was that the first day of production.
First one would have been in the pilot builds.
Production was a ramp up. During the first two weeks of September 67, NOR build about 3000 cars. That's about 300 cars/day, not the 900 they got to soonafter.

Thought it would be 300 per shift and they started with at least two shifts, so 6 to 900 per work day.

We know it was 912/day in regular production. http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml
But launch isn't regular production, especially with a new platform. The numbers don't lie - 300/day in the beginning of 67.

I dug into the numbers a bit deeper and you are a lot closer than I am. Looks like 4167 total cars built at Norwood in January of 70 with January 2 the first full day of production. At that rate it may have been a third or even fourth day build car. Maybe even later. All just a guess really.

Relisted in the link below, same price....

Link to 1970 Camaro SS396 auction

Listing ended, but has been resisted.
Buddy

Relisted in the link below, lower price....

Link to 1970 Camaro SS396 auction