Vintage pics of muscle cars-post yours up here!!

[GaryC]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: black69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Gary, it should have had a silver grill, was it replaced? All black cars got silver grills.
red hockey stripe I assume.
nice pic! </div></div>

Yes, red hockey stripes. You can see it on the open drivers door. I was wondering about that when I bought the car. The fenders stripe was painted and the doors had decal type. Didn't know that was done then.

It was my understanding the SS cars got black grills. Is that not correct? The Z28's and the plain Jane and specialty cars got silver and the black RS cars got silver. I saw it for sale in front of one of the barracks close to the flight line when I was first stationed at the base. The car had Virginia plates and the original owner was being shipped overseas. I bought it as it looks in my pic. I pulled the SS emblem because I liked the grill plain and it had hood pins and I tucked the lanyards into the grill. IIRC, it was still an original paint car, I don't believe it was ever wrecked. Look to the left in the pic and you'll see my 67 GTO I sold to buy the Camaro. More pics.

[GaryC]

I sold the SS and a week later it was totaled. Here is my first 10 10 69 Z28 in 76. It had a wrecked front end and I picked up a complete front end from a wrecked in the rear Camaro at a local salvage yard. Had it painted and the shop ordered a new hood, ZL2, and grill, black. These pics of the car are right out of the paint shop, still needed to add the rear bumper guards and wheel well trim. I had the Camaro script shaved off the fenders and had a Gothic letter Z painted there, you can see it in the pics. I got orders to go overseas myself in 79, Mildenhall, AB and sold it and a week later I got a call from the guy that bought it off me saying he sold it to some young kid in Baltimore and he totaled it.

[GaryC]

Bought this in 82 when I got back to the states. Yeah, my kids. I own the 69 Caprice in the pics too. Never got the chance to do anything with the 67, divorce got in the way. This was a white Camaro with Gold interior 327, power glide.

[GaryC]

Bruce...I noticed the comment on water marking photos, can you recommend something? There is quite a bit on this when I Googled. Is it better to go to a site and go thru the motions or have your own stand alone program?

[Ironarms]

From the '80's

[TMagda]

[GaryC]

Here's my 66 Chevy II around 86.

[VintageMusclecar]

My first SS396POS circa 1982/1983:



396 version 1 (L34 based with a Crane CC290NC solid cam, Vega converter in a Turbo 400, 4.56 12 bolt):



396 version 2: 11-1's, square port closed chamber heads and the same Crane cam.

Never got this one to the digs, but it was considerably stronger than version 1:



At the digs in 1983 with 396 V1:

13.20's @ 107 with ZERO hook on Kelly Springfield N50's.

(Not too shabby for a dumbass snot nose kid.)



Spun a rod bearing on the next pass which resulted in 396 version 2.

Giving a friend something to waste the last few pics on a roll of film on:



I would give everything I have to be able to go back to those days.

[69LM1]

This was circa 1983, high school car.



This is when I found it post katrina in a junkyard, in 2006. Bought it and restoring it back.



Another One:

This was not mine in 69, but I am the current caretaker of the &quot;Tin Soldier&quot; COPO. I did meet Ron, the original owner as well as get these vintage photo's from him

Ron was a pretty well known privateer from back in the day, and the Tin Soldier COPO a multiple class winner. Only has 4,000 miles from new... All 1/4 at a time.

















Rich

[69LM1]

Ron and his wife Circa 1970



And Ron and his wife, the same one ( [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] ) last year at the Camaro Nationals


Still has the 427 chalk marks on the inner fender extension


Me, Ron and his son Jason (r to l)


Bunch of the timeslips


Rich