67 B-M Camaro

[Charles]

The seats which were out of a MG weighed 10 pounds.

[Supercar_Kid]

Roger, that's certainly odd. I've heard of special order Hugger Orange cars for '68...but never in '67. Are you saying the car is HO now, or it was delievered new that way? I've never heard of any reference whatsoever to HO prior to the '68 model year, does anyone know of any other pre-68 cars in HO?

[Mr70]

Would Omaha Orange count?

[supercomp 8.90]

IVE ALSO HEARD THAT SOME OF THE EARLY CARS WERE SS-350 CARS,ALSO THE EMBLEM WITH THE FLAGS LOOKS A LITTLE UN-EVEN.I HAVE AN OLD CARS MAG PACKED AWAY SOMEWHERE THAT SAID THEY DID USE SMALL BLOCK CARS IN THE EARLY GOING.

[MotownMadman]

Disc brakes can be a plus or minus in serious drag racing. Many have special ordered a disc brake car with drum brakes as the disc had a constant friction factor from the pads having tension on the rotor, while the drum could run completely without friction. May not sound like much but when you are after hundreds of a second everything counts.
Motown

[iluv69s]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MotownMadman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Disc brakes can be a plus or minus in serious drag racing. Many have special ordered a disc brake car with drum brakes as the disc had a constant friction factor from the pads having tension on the rotor, while the drum could run completely without friction. May not sound like much but when you are after hundreds of a second everything counts.
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2 of my 67 Z/28s and my L-78 Indy all had the disc brakes replaced with drums at some point in thier drag racing careers. The original owner of my 67 Z dragcar told me he gained .04 seconds by switching to drums.

[espehal]

I have a 1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 with paint code 0-0. Its a spesial order paint with Ohama Orange. This car is in Norway.

[COPO]

For the most part, the BM cars did in fact start out as factory hi-horse cars. Typiclly the L-78 short block was pulled and then re-sold through the Baldwin Chevrolet parts department. This kept the overall build cost of the cars low and made the swap to a 427 relatively easy. I recall reading some articles stating this and my own actual experience on 67, 68, and 69 BM cars that I have owned were they all started as original SS L-78 cars.

[olredalert]

-----I agree, and to add to this, the L78 shortblock or complete engine (whichever) had a lot more value and desirability than, say, 396/325. Those L78s probably moved thru the parts department pretty quickly.......Bill S

[Martyn L. Schorr]

You are correct. Except for the first '67 B-M Camaro blue demo which had a small-block, cars were ordered with 396/375 engines. The takeout engines were just about always pre-sold by Baldwin Chevrolet! Super easy motors to sell.
Marty