Re: 1969 Nickey Camaro
I got ahold of the original owner today. He was a Funny car racer in the 60's and 70's. He told me that he bought the car new and registered it in California. From there he went to Kansas City to pick the car up from the Dick Harrel Performance Center, Not Nickey. He said that Harrel had decammed the engine and put higher gears in the car so he could comfortably drive the car back to California. He went on to say that the car did not have the standard 427 but the cast iron version of the ZL-1(L-88). The car came with a fiberglass cowl hood that flew off on many occasions(gone now). When he got the car home he preceded to tear the engine out and port the heads and replace the cam with a ZL-1 version. He also lowered the rear gears from 3.90 to 4.56. Later he found that tire clearance was a problem and he had the rear fenders flared and the car painted by a guy named Linwood. He had a lot of other things to say too but I won't get too far into it. He also has many pictures of the car that he is going to send me. He also said he gave all the papers to the second owner who I bought the car from. I guess I need to try to get those next. Thanks everybody for all the help and I will let you know how it comes out.
Jason
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