Long Neglected Camaro Soon To Get Better

[Bill Pritchard]

The only place in the floor pans or trunk pan where there was any rust...

[Bill Pritchard]

The car is headed to the restoration shop this week....more pics to come.

[Bill Pritchard]

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The date codes are on the underside of the intake runners. They can only be seen with the intake off.


Jason

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Excellent, thank you, Jason Will check those as the engine is disassembled.

[MARK B]

hey bill,

i was just looking through this post and guess what
my 68 is a 04d built car also with my vin 421XXX

so i did the math and my 68 is 1888 in front of your
friends.

my camaro was a island teal with a black vinyl top
and black standard interior.

small block with a 3 or 4 speed w/o a console

my trans tunnel was hacked also for the hurst super shifter too.

small world huh

thanks for your time
mark b

[Bill Pritchard]

Mark,

Small world indeed I would guess that your car has always been in the Chicago area, too?

We picked up a trans tunnel repair panel at D&R Classic....they make them specially, just because there are so many hacked trans tunnels

[MARK B]

heres the info i know about my camaro:

a guy traded the camaro in at dave cory ford (chicago suburbs)for a new pick up back in 78 or 79.

the guy might have been from IN because the camaro had
IN license plates on the car at the ford dealer.

the camaro had a 327 sbc,munice 4 speed, and a olds
spool rear end.

the camaro went to tennessee for a couple of years then came back to the chicago area in 1982,which at this time
my brother brought the car as a roller with the olds rear
end still on the camaro.

the 327 sbc had a cracked block so the parts where used on
another motor and i guess the block was junked.
(maybe my original motor)

the munice 4 speed found a new home too,and was not the original trans for my camaro because where the speedo
cable goes through the firewall.

i pulled the olds spool rear end out back in the early 90's
and put an open rear end from a 69 camaro in so i could move
the car around easier.

it was painted white and the black vinyl top was removed back in the early 80's.

i brought the camaro from my brother back in 1987, and still
have the camaro today.

im trying to find a person who has pictures of my camaro
that was painted blue with black vinyl top still on before
the car went down to tennessee.

thanks for your time and sorry for the long post
mark b

[SIR-VIVOR]

Bill, I remember seeing this car many years ago when I lived in Morton Grove, IL. I co-founded Stencils and Stripes Unlimited and remember the whole story about the flood. We went to see it to examine the original stripes on it. We often wondered what happened to it. Glad it's still around! One of my cars is a '68 L78 Camaro that my former partner in the business purchased in 1969. Chris

[Bill Pritchard]

Chris,

That's amazing! Did you look at the car when the orig owner still had it, or was it at the salvage yard in Aurora?

BTW, that is a stunning collection of machinery you have pictured along with your 62 Belair

[Bill Pritchard]

Here's a question for you first gen Camaro experts. When removing the radiator, we noticed that on the pass side, the attaching bolts went into weld nuts on the core support...




On the drivers side, there were just round punched holes with rubber grommets in them, and bolts & nuts holding it in....no weld nuts....




None of this appeared to be hand fabricated or mickey-moused together....is that the way they came???

[Bill Pritchard]

Here's a paint mark toward the rear of the trans tunnel, passenger side....