Hone-O-Drive questions

[farmhand2710]

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Thanks!

[COPO]

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Motion didn't offer the Hone unit until early '70

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The November 1969 issue of Hi-Performance CARS details the installation of the Hone overdrive into a '69 Motion Camaro. Given the magazine lead times, it was probably done sometime in the Summer of 69. My '69 BM Camaro got one, but mine is a very late '69 car (10E build).

[JoeG]

Well I'll tell ya ---I know the unit wasn't offered as of 7/69 because I would have gotten it instead of crusing the sreets with 456's and I was told there would be an Overdrive unit available later in the year--And to be honest, after the summer of '69 the unit went on the back burner Until I saw it offered by Motion in a mag early '70 ( Jan/Feb )---so given the time lag of putting the mag together-Motion could have been official offering units to the public by advertisement late '69 (Nov/Dec) ----So COPO your Camaro could have come with it late '69--Paperwork might be a little more reliable than my memory,but I'll stick with this version for now

[JoeG]

Here's a couple of old catalogs--They were both from Motion---- First is the one I picked up before I had my unit put in--You can see the phrase --Hone-o-Drive-used in the earlier catalog--In the '72 you see the phrase Hone overdrive--No big deal just some info--Tomatoes/Tamotoes

[JoeG]

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[55chevy]

My guess is they started doing it around 10/69. The big article on the Hone install was in the 11/69 issue of CARS. It reads as it's new and available and the install shown and pics featured were the '69 COPO/Motion SS427 Camaro.

[COPO]

With the magazine lead times, I bet the article was done even earlier perhaps in Aug. or Sept. of '69.