Did Bill Thomas build Camaros outside NICKEY??

[beater68427]

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Did you say it was an "east coast"/Orange County built car? Any idea when it went west? Just as an aside, the whole "yellow engine" thing is way overblown IMO. Yes, both Nickey & Bill Thomas might have painted an engine or engines yellow, but, so did many others back in the day. One yellow engine on the cover shot of one of the first Nickey/Bill Thomas cars has created a false idea that all of them were yellow.

You are correct in the idea that, most of the conversions were done on V-8 cars at least, and, L78 cars once available. That doesn't mean that someone didn't take a six cylinder car to Bill Thomas for work to be done at some point. If you can prove that, it would be a very cool car.

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As far as engine color, I take that with a grain of salt, the engine has been painted a multitude of times and once was yellow over orange, I did not think color ment anything I figured they were all orange, I'm sure the car is just someones old hot rod, it has had a serious time of racing but never a cage, the vin shows it was a Norwood car, and production number seems late, but has black CA plates hence 68-69 last reg shows 78 on them. nothing after that nothing in system. The glass over steel stinger hood made me wonder where it is from? and some of the items on the car, The guy I had purchsed it from seemed to have "Chemical Problem" and made we a little leary on no title.

[Stefano]

Nickey advertised that they would paint your 427/Conversion any color that you wanted. Yellow was one of the options and a color that no other MFG was using at that time.

The only other Builder that we have found to use Yellow on a regular basis was Ed Pink.

[sixtiesmuscle]

My point is that too many people place way too much weight on an engine being, or not being, yellow to try to determine if there was a Nickey/Bill Thomas connection to a specific car. I'm sure this comes from the well known cover shot of Bill Thomas techs installing a yellow painted engine into a red Camaro.

[beater68427]

I have not been on in ages or messed with this car in ages also, I went ahead and painted it last weekend and decided I better get it back together sometime before I am 80.. don't mind the brass fittings on engine I had the water pump disconnected and ran it on the hose before I put the front clip on, engine had been sitting 6 years I figured I better make sure it was fine. One of these years Ill pop in and it might actually be finished...

[beater68427]

I sprayed it in PPG single stage enamel I wanted to stay with single stage just to be more old school with the build I sprayed trunk and jambs cowl area with the car so no lines to buff out, seeing it in color might keep me motivated... I hope..

[m22mike]

Not a thing wrong with single atage, looks great.. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[earntaz]

I've shot a lot of DuPont Centari w/gloss improver and have had excellent results.

[beater68427]

I actually had a hard time getting single stage here I had to order it in, but I was mind set that's what I wanted.

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Time to change your screen name. Does not look like a beater anymore! Looks good!

[firstgenaddict]

If it's not metallic I shoot single stage, I don't like the way the clear looks over a solid color.