Me and My Brother's 69 Camaros back in the day

[njsteve]

Oh, and I noticed a typo: Those initial photos in the snow were taken the moment my brother got the Camaro home in 1977 (not 1979) - notice that lack of license plates. Just in case you guys were fact checking my material.

[njsteve]

Just spoke with Guy Ripa! He still has the same phone number as when I talked to him a couple decades ago. And another bizarre coincidence is that he used to own a certain Butterscotch 1971 Hemi Roadrunner with an orange interior. They made only one of them in that color scheme and it turns out that Guy sold it to a friend of mine in Florida back in the late 1980's named Fred. Fred was from Connecticut but moved to Florida in 1991 and lived just down the street from me.

Here are a couple photos of how my brother's old car looks today. WOW.

(And of course I offered to take it off his hands as soon as he gets tired of it...I've been waiting 30 years so far and he isn't tired yet.) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[Xplantdad]

That's cool!

[Bill Pritchard]

Ah yes, the 79 Car Craft Street Machine Nats....I was there with my 73 Z28....some pretty wild times [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

[ss427copo]

Real cool photos. I could look at photos like these for hours.

[njsteve]

You gotta love those old Cal Custom quick release, valve cover bolts with the detachable wing nut tops. You couldn't go more than a mile without losing one which would inevitably fly out under the car and hit the car behind you. I think this was the only photo we ever had with his car having a full set of the wing nut tops on it.

[scuncio]

Now those are some vintage pics!! Reminds me of the cool older dudes who lived down the street when I was a little kid. Always wrenching on some Camaro or Chevelle.

[Mk IV Muscle]

I know Guy Ripa, haven't seen him in years but his yellow Camaro was at the CT Dragway Reunion show the past couple of years, (I was there, guess I just missed him). There are some videos on Youtube of the event and his car is next to a killer street-legal 10.5 Nova also from Guys' area. Years ago when Guy decided to get serious with the car and replace the 396 with a crate LS7 that had a camshaft upgrade; I worked at the shop that did the changeover and helped with it.

Since then the Camaro has been through numerous changes but as far as I know, was never cut-up.

[njsteve]

Cool! Do you have a contact email or number for him? You can PM me. And do you have a link to that youtube video? I tred searching youtube but all I got was Kelly Ripa videos. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] Boy she is annoying.

[mmcporter]

Whatever happened to the Pacer? I remember a senior (when I was a sophomore) who had a super-rusty one in high school....I think it ultimately broke in half due to corrosion...even back then it was a pretty distinctive looking car...