Post Your Car!

[McBride]

well i had finished it a while back but you know i finally got it fully restored =D, lol i was slacking a certain spot that needed painted and i finally got it lol

[zero]

well i had finished it a while back but you know i finally got it fully restored =D, lol i was slacking a certain spot that needed painted and i finally got it lol

 

Goddamn, thats a nice car. Awesome paint job too. What year and what size engine? You also need to get rid of that license plate on the front.

[Troy]

Well, its been over a year since I originally started this project. I'd figure I'd post some pictures on here. After driving my dads restored Camaro around last year, I decided that I really wanted my own Camaro. Finding one was proving to be difficult. A fully restored camaro can go for quite a bit of money. Towards the end of summer last year, I saw this 1967 Camaro RS/SS with a 396 engine parked outside of a guys house out in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't for sale, but it never moved, so I offered to buy it from him, cash. He agreed. This is what the car looked like when I drove it home that day. Overall, it was in very bad shape. One thing the photo doesn't show is that the passenger side door and fender was smashed in, like someone hit it.

 

For the record, I am funding the project, and my dad is doing almost all of the work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and thus, begins the restore. The passenger side door, vender, and front valance needed to be replaced entirely :

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were also major issues with the 396 engine that it came with. We found that the eighth cylinder wasn't firing. I ended up having to take the heads to a machinist to get all 8 of them repaired. I also replaced the valve seats, push rods, lifters, and bought a new cam shaft. For those of you with a sharp eye, you can see that the 8th notch in the cam shaft is completely worn down. I did a lookup on the serial number from the engine. It apparently came from a 1969 Chevelle :

 

 

 

Removal of the front allowed easy access to the engine :

 

 

A quick time lapse of the front being worked on :

 

 

 

 

I don't have photos, but at this point, we did a ton of work mechanically and electronically. The entire suspension has been reworked and replaced, both front and back. The interior was gutted, etc. We were too busy working on the car for me to take photos.

 

Towards the beginning of summer :

 

 

Anyway, fast forward to a few months ago and the car was ready to be painted :

 

 

 

After the car was painted, but still gutted :

 

 

 

Slowly putting the pieces back onto the car :

 

 

My car parked next to my dads:

 

 

The car, today :

 

 

...and what it sounds like :

 

[YOUTUBE]SMubReDkUJ0[/YOUTUBE]

 

Whats sad is that the car isn't even done yet. I need to spend another $6k to get the car to a point where I like it : new front A-arms, new wiring harness, replace the door lights engines, a new master cylinder, a new radio, an alarm system, etc.

 

At least I can drive it right now, though.

 

Oh, I'd love to post a burn out video, but I already got in trouble for doing that... who would have thought that one could get a ticket by doing burn outs on private property. wtf...

 

woow, awesome zero

[Ronen]

woow, awesome zero

 

lol did you seriously quote the whole thing to say that lol...anyways its fucking awesome =)

[Troy]

lol did you seriously quote the whole thing to say that lol...anyways its fucking awesome =)

 

no i seriously didnt quote the whole thing to say that

[McBride]

Goddamn, thats a nice car. Awesome paint job too. What year and what size engine? You also need to get rid of that license plate on the front.

 

yeah i know about the license plate, its a 1972 , 350 5.7, i love the car =D too bad its winter time, it wont see the sun for another 6 months now =(

[thehid]

This is my ride. Hope that y'all like.

 

 

 

[König]

^ That's nice bro.

 

Some suggestions:

 

Smoke out the tailights (possibly headlights depending on how strict police are around your area)

LS1 SWAP!

[ReGIONALS]

Well, its been over a year since I originally started this project. I'd figure I'd post some pictures on here. After driving my dads restored Camaro around last year, I decided that I really wanted my own Camaro. Finding one was proving to be difficult. A fully restored camaro can go for quite a bit of money. Towards the end of summer last year, I saw this 1967 Camaro RS/SS with a 396 engine parked outside of a guys house out in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't for sale, but it never moved, so I offered to buy it from him, cash. He agreed. This is what the car looked like when I drove it home that day. Overall, it was in very bad shape. One thing the photo doesn't show is that the passenger side door and fender was smashed in, like someone hit it.

 

For the record, I am funding the project, and my dad is doing almost all of the work.

 

 

 

Whats sad is that the car isn't even done yet. I need to spend another $6k to get the car to a point where I like it : new front A-arms, new wiring harness, replace the door lights engines, a new master cylinder, a new radio, an alarm system, etc.

 

At least I can drive it right now, though.

 

Oh, I'd love to post a burn out video, but I already got in trouble for doing that... who would have thought that one could get a ticket by doing burn outs on private property. wtf...

 

Can i rub my wiener on it when its done?

 

also thehid the color of your truck makes me want to kill babies

[zero]

Can i rub my wiener on it when its done?

 

also thehid the color of your truck makes me want to kill babies

 

You don't like the color of my truck? I originally wanted a deep red, but when it came to features, I was somewhat limited on my choices. The truck HAD to have the following :

 

1) Manual transmission

2) Diesel

3) Model year before 2008. The newer diesel trucks have more strict emissions control which cause more issues and reduce fuel mileage.

 

It's surprising how hard it is to find a truck with a manual transmission, though.