Anybody like 60’s Camaro’s

[Cranky]

The only Chevys I've ever owned were all 56's....3 in all with 2 of them being two-door sedans.

 

[67belsat]

Back in 78 I owned a SS 396 375 hp 4spd 69 Camaro black red fender stripe took my wife out on one of our first dates kept her got rid of Camaro.

 

[bandit67]

Dad bought me a 67 210/327, power glide for my first car in 1972, I still have it. It has survived many blown engines, trannys, 12 bolts. Wish I had the money I spent on carbs, cams and so much stuff I tore up doing hot rod trick of the week. It has been a fun ride......Hope to have a 396/4 speed, 3.55 posi combo completed end of this year. Should be how I pass it on to my son. When he turned 16 he wanted to drive it as he had seen it set for most of his life. We got it road worthy and I turned him loose on the street as his first car. He loved it but about 6 months of no air and 12 miles to the gallon , he said , I want another car..ha ha....softie. Hard to go back to sweating in a car here in the south......

 

[RPMagoo]

Grumpy Jenkins, Camaro, and a couple more. --

 

[RPMagoo]

Dave Strickler. -- Another one that Bill (Grumpy) Jenkins was involved in. ---

 

[Bb70charger500]

I was dang close to buying one guy I worked with had it at his dad's place it was his high school car . 4speed 327 he said it had to go $1100 was all there! Before he could get $1100 out I said sold he showed me pictures looked nice enough . But I think he saw what they were selling for and he kinda avoided me after I never did get to go see it!

 

[JackR]

Still have mine along with the 69 roadrunner. Has a 6.0 LS low 12 second 1/4 mile too.

 

[kiwigtx]

...........and jamie was poking YY1

That should be in the Blue Room.


NO.....I don't like Camaro's ....or how you say....Cameero's

 

[eldubb440]

tell ya what...... Camaros are built fairly tough; Mustangs, on the other hand, are some pretty flimsy mo-fos

 

[Slap Stick]

Never liked Camaros much. Did like the 70 split bumpers and its cousin the TA.
Back in about 74 I knew a guy with a 69 model that had been breathed on and set up for 1/8 mile. He kept after a friend to race his 70 440 Charger R/T.
They finally raced. It was no contest. The Charger blew the Z into the weeds.

 

[RPMagoo]

-- _ _ _ _ _ _ Did like the 70 split bumpers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ --

-- Jenkins had one of those, also. --

 

[DeltaV]

I saw more than a few Camaros "back in the day", but only a few that I thought were aesthetically pleasing. I've never had a longing to own one. My cousin had a '69 400 Firebird convertible. I liked that car ok, but didn't long for one of those either. I worked on a friend's (RIP) '72 455 HO TransAm a few times for him. I really liked that car, but was surprised by how flexible it was when jacking it up. It was certainly more (torsionally) flexible than my '71 Satellite.

For me, the top two most aesthetically-pleasing Mopars from the 1960's are the '68 Charger R/T and the '69 Charger 500.

 

[Cranky]

A friend showed up at church somewhere around the late seventies to show me his new (used) 68 camaro. He bought it from a local Chevy dealer. It was supposed to be a 275 horse 327. I looked it over. It had a four speed with a Muncie shifter, a twelve bolt rear with a factory traction bar, open element air cleaner, a holley, an aluminum intake and valve covers. Oh, and a solid lifter tick. And a 6500 red line on the tach. My friend had no clue what he bought, and the dealer didn't know what it sold! All of the above equipment screams Z28. Just like the 67 Z28s, the early 68s did NOT have badges. His new car was undoubtedly an unmarked Z28.
I have lost touch with my friend, but I doubt he still has it.

Did you tell him what he had?

 

[Chargered]

They are great cars, but they all over everywhere, enjoy he old photos.

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They are a fairly decent looking car, a bit to small for me. Always thought the trunk was too short. To me the design always seemed kind of girly, always thought of it as more of a girl car. Maybe because my sister had one. Like the Trans Ams much better.....a bit more character. The Challenger and Cuda are a much more muscular design.

 

[33 IMP]

Did you tell him what he had?

Sure did. I don't know what became of the car though. Wish he had sold it to me!
There are so many not-real camaros out there with phony Z28 badges, it would be fun to have a real one, with NO badges!

 

[R413]

Always liked grumpys toy car from the 60’s as shown above.

 

[R413]

Convertibles are good for springtime!

 

[jamie]

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That's a firebird.

 

[furyus]

Well, after owning 2 68's, one hard top, one convertible, Thought they were junk. The seats were so bad, I had to put different seats in it to drive it. Jacked up the vert on the subframe, and the windshield split . Driving in winter was close to suicide. Then there was that exercise in fantastic engineering known as the front sub frame. They always rusted out at the sub frame bushings. The Fords,and Mopars were structurally superior. Cured me from owning chevys.

 

[furyus]