My soon to be wife's new project driver. 1969 Z/28

[MosportGreen66]

nice patina... get the grill argent! Will totally alter the look of the car.

Dan

[PxTx]

Pics at Atco was what I was hoping for, but they can be hard to get, esp at night. Thanks!

[quik9r]

wheel hop... car is sitting to high in rear. Great looking car. mph should be good for 12.90s

[Vortecpro]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We took the Camaro to Atco Raceway last night. Great air, good prep. Left the car as it is, with the 20 year old hard as a rock tires and everything just to get a good baseline. I ended up hurting the transmission on my 3rd pass, but this was the best pass of the night. I think it'll go 12's with a good set of tires and if I get the wheel hop situation taken care of and get that 60 foot down to the 1.8XX range. A few people came up and were wondering why I was &quot;beating on&quot; an original Z/28. I had a good laugh at that one. </div></div>

Excellent! These guys out there that have these cars that do not race them have no idea what they are missing out on, at least have one in your collection you can take to the track and race. I had one older customer (67 years old) that would come by my shop and talk about racing before he went to nam, then had a family and never raced again, same with all his friends, but that didn't stop him and his friends from filling up barns with muscle cars, well one day I said John why don't you stop talking about racing and just start racing, why don't you do what all your old friends talk about? He says well......you really think I should, your dam right you should, Today....John is almost 68 years old, he looks forward to the start of racing season, he changed his life, this summer he wheeled his 10 sec wheels up small block Camaro at many high altitude races and had the time of his life........I couldn't be more proud! You old timers out there should consider this post....change your life

[x77-69z28]

Not a bad time Matt. Get some sticky tires, it will be in the 12's. Just gotta be careful of breakage!
Buddy

[resto4u]

That is cool, your never too old to have fun. And i bet he has some great stories and could teach the younger ones a few tricks.

[ds1]

Great. Get that thing out and use it. I love driving my dinosaurs. Putting them up on pedestal is just not fun unless your to old to drive them. My dad helps me when I need a hand and I made him drive my race car. It was nice to share the hard work we put into keeping them running. Get that 12 second slip, cant wait to see a 302 run a good number. You what it takes and where the weak links are. Dan

[novadude]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ds1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Great. Get that thing out and use it. I love driving my dinosaurs. Putting them up on pedestal is just not fun unless your to old to drive them. </div></div>

Ditto. I took mine out today for a grocery store run. Last weekend it was at the racetrack (as seen in post below).

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...g-racing#UNREAD

That's the great thing about having something a little rough around the edges without show car paint - I don't feel bad about actually enjoying it! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Vortecpro]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: novadude</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ds1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Great. Get that thing out and use it. I love driving my dinosaurs. Putting them up on pedestal is just not fun unless your to old to drive them. </div></div>

Ditto. I took mine out today for a grocery store run. Last weekend it was at the racetrack (as seen in post below).

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...g-racing#UNREAD

That's the great thing about having something a little rough around the edges without show car paint - I don't feel bad about actually enjoying it! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>
Very cool!

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Just an update with this. We Day 2'd the car after I finally found some original patina parts such as the NMW tow tabs, the MAS big slapper bars, and the original round spoke Cragars and some Hi-Jackers.