Steel crossram hood on Ebay - Page 2

COPO PETE · #1 08-13-2003, 10:30 AM

Welcome Tim! Shoot me a e-mail. Would like to hear more on your Canadian COPO Camaro!
Peter

MotownMadman · #2 08-13-2003, 11:13 AM

The one and only 68 Z-28 convertible has the steel crossram hood, if anyone is interested I can shoot a photo of the underside and post it here.
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Jim Mattison · #3 08-13-2003, 11:49 AM

Matt,

The '68 Z-28 Convertible that we built for Pete Estes, when he was General Manager of Chevy has the fiberglass cross-ram cowl hood, NOT a steel one!

The entire cross-ram program was intended to give the Chevy race teams (mainly Penske) an advantage in the SCCA Trans Am or A/Sedan class. The few steel hoods that are out in the marketplace were made to be used on the racecars, until Chevy got the ok from the SCCA to use a fiberglass one. It also gave the race teams an option to use either steel or fiberglass. Penske used an "acid-dipped" steel hood (and other parts) on his '69 Camaro race cars for most of the '69 season. As we all know, the 'glass hoods will have a tendency to warp from the engine heat.

One of the reasons that we built the '68 Z-28 Convertible for Estes was to help expedite this effort along. If you'll look at the Z-28 Convertible again, I'm sure that you'll discover that it has a fiberglass hood on it!

Jim Mattison

MotownMadman · #4 08-13-2003, 01:10 PM

Jim,
Of course you are correct on this, you really didnt think I was going to disagree with one of the people who were there when the car was ordered, do you? I was just checkin to see if you were awake and paying attention. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I was confused at the fact of the hood standing next to the car, it turns out Al bought the glass crossram hood that is on the car now when he replaced the X Ram set up during resto. What made me think it was steel was the amount of money he paid for the glass one, he told me they only made 100 of the glass X-Ram hoods which is the reason it was also rather costly. I didnt get a chance to see you before we left Meadowbrook, Bill and I wanted to tell you that you guys did a great job with the show! I will be down some time next week, if you are in town I will stop in and say hi.
Take Care,
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