1967 Camaro Pace Car

[FESTIVAL78]

Just found a guy with a 327 Canadian Pacer bidding on Ebay...TALK ABOUT COINCIDENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!,Will get his info for the crowd...I was under the impression the Festival decals were installed at the track..Cannot clear coat over stickers that were not even on the car..The truths of the past are dropping like flies on this thread..I love it..Keep it coming..Tom

[Mark_C]

I believe all the festival cars (0-1 code)in 67 left the factory with the decals already on the car. I've seen the preparation instructions for the 67's somewhere that indicated the decals were cleared over to keep the shine up on the cars. Maybe in Donna Crispino's pace car book?

Charley L. has one or the original pace cars he should know for sure.

[FESTIVAL78]

Matt..Original owner of my festival car has story of rear axle replacement after dealer torched off iron bar stock that was welded to the axle tubes..Dealer claimed the car was used in the parade and sat embarrassingly low with a trailer on the back in the parade. They welded the iron in as bumpstops and subsequently damaged the rear axle taking them off. I'd love to see a picture of the bottom of that broadcast copy with "pace car option" on it..please. Mine has white paint on trim tag 04A car. In the 80's we had a ton of mercury cougars around here that had emblems that said Bostonian Edition on them..maybe along the same lines with the dealers getting together for a mass puchase with special stuff?..The springs in my pacer are original and seemingly normal.

[JoeC]

The docs I am looking at are in The Hooper 67-68 Camaro ref book. It has about 15 pages of docs from Chevy and Campbell-Ewald (GM ad agency)on 67 Pace cars. The dates go back to March 1967. Does anyone have vin numbers and build dates of early 67 Pace car's with L78? They look like very early L78's and I am looking for early L78 vin numbers and trim tag dates.

[txrsss]

I have a photo of a cowl tag from 67 Canadian pace car, but it's too big. Can anyone reduce the size of the image so that I can post it here?

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Sorry, FestivalL78 couldn't make it smaller!

M

[Mark_C]

I can do it. Send it to me.

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Mark,

Thanks!!! It's on the way....dial up sucks!!!

[Mark_C]

At 802K I guess it would. Have cable connection, on 24/7 mail is checked every 5 minute, so my mailbox never fills and takes about 20 seconds to retreive 1 Meg.

Anyway heres the image attaced reduced to about 50K bytes.

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HEERREEEE'S the photo!!!!

Mike