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Camaro Research Group Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Niblet on December 01, 2019, 02:35:58 AM

Title: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: Niblet on December 01, 2019, 02:35:58 AM
In the seat belt section of this forum it is said:
"You can help with our research. Please contact us if:
you have rear shoulder belts in your first generation Camaro or shoulder belts in a convertible.
you have a 67 Camaro with 3 sets of rear seatbelts.
you have a 67 or 68 Camaro with a bench seat and its original seat belts.

I Have one and have attempted to contact several of the contributors of this site
is this research project still ongoing? getting tired of the "cold shoulder"
maybe if I owned a Z28 or super car it would be different, but alas I'm only able to afford a one owner survivor, I take consolation in the fact at least its an SS
funny thing about them Borg Warner HD 3 Speed trannys, only about 600 were installed in camaros that I can tell and yet no one wants to learn about them,
 or never shows any interest when its posted,,,,just food for thought

technically that would make them as rare as a Z28 in '67....
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: KevinW on December 01, 2019, 01:30:22 PM
Kurt S complied that report with help from myself and many other members.  Just post the pics, date codes (with cowl, vin tag info) and lengths here and he should be able to pick the data up when he has free time.  Or a PM to Kurt will work too, but everyone has a life away from these websites :) and it will get in the report eventually.  I think I saw Kurt was at MACN in Chicago recently.

The trans info would also be appreciated if the data is not in the current trans pages. 
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: x44d80 on December 01, 2019, 02:09:58 PM
Kurt is a great guy.  I sent him some information on my car and he did get back to me. I can't imagine the emails he gets.  Data collection takes a long time when your dependent on members to send you their data and you have to verify, compile and publish. Send Kurt your data ad you'll be ahead of the game if they do a research on that subject.  Yes, all Camaros are special.  One of mine came with a 3 speed floor shift.  Unfortunately I disinigrated it in 1979. Brent
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: PURESS on December 01, 2019, 05:09:13 PM
Hey Brent, I also had a 3 speed manual on the floor..327 two barrel...unfortunately I disintegrated about the same time you did  Scott
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: bcmiller on December 01, 2019, 08:26:27 PM
Whoa!

Nobody ignores anyone here. None of the CRG members monitor this site 24/7. We all have lives and can’t see every post. Sometimes emails go unanswered - due to different reasons. Heck we all forget stuff. If I ever forget to answer anyone’s email, please don’t assume I am ignoring you (unless you know for sure I am  ;) ).  Just kidding! Just email again to remind me!!!

Please post your information in this thread you started. I am not sure of the current status of what we are looking for data-wise. I will email you direct.

Personally I am interested in all Camaros, including HD 3 speed cars.
I will also let Kurt know.
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: Niblet on December 01, 2019, 11:30:21 PM
Heres the belts, note there is no cover for the retractor
11/5/66 build
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: bcmiller on December 01, 2019, 11:36:32 PM
Thanks for posting! Have you seen this report? Go to the link below. There is a pic of your tag or one very similar in it.

http://www.camaros.org/seatbelt.shtml
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: bcmiller on December 01, 2019, 11:40:40 PM
681 Camaros in 1967 received the M13 HD 3 speed manual transmission. Please share some pics when you have time.

Corrected. M13 in 67 and 68 became MC1 in 69. Yes I had 69s on my mind thus the error above. Fixed now......
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: JoeC on December 02, 2019, 01:55:19 PM
do you have the 3 speed original shifter?
I  have an original shifter for a 3 speed 67 68 Camaro
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: JKZ27 on December 02, 2019, 03:40:01 PM
I'm pretty sure Bryon meant M13 (not MC1) for 67-8 HD Borg Warner.

I truly believe all cars and the data they provide are significant to this group.

John.
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: bcmiller on December 02, 2019, 04:42:22 PM
Oops, yes thanks John!

btw, I have an old vintage Hurst 3 speed shifter looking for a new home for a Day 2 car.
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: 67CruiseMaster on December 02, 2019, 05:08:03 PM
Those 67 belt pictures were from my turquoise car send to Kurt 15 years ago I believe.

Scot
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: KurtS on December 03, 2019, 03:17:11 AM
Sorry, I don't keep up with email and 'every day the paperboy brings more'.
It's clearly not prejudiced in any form.  Guess you haven't noticed how much information on non-hipo Camaros is on the site, be it L6, L30, foreign, etc.

Key question about your belts - is there a center belt set?

Scot, if you hover your cursor over the 67 pics, your photo credit is listed. :)
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: 67CruiseMaster on December 03, 2019, 02:01:50 PM
Cool that's good to know Kurt. Thanks.
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: Niblet on December 03, 2019, 08:20:58 PM
Sorry, I don't keep up with email and 'every day the paperboy brings more'.
It's clearly not prejudiced in any form.  Guess you haven't noticed how much information on non-hipo Camaros is on the site, be it L6, L30, foreign, etc.

Key question about your belts - is there a center belt set? No center seat belts in this car

Scot, if you hover your cursor over the 67 pics, your photo credit is listed. :)
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: KurtS on December 04, 2019, 08:25:03 AM
That's helpful confirmation. From the data, it's clear that 67 bench seat cars didn't get center belts. But 68 benches did.

I spent about 5 hours updating the report. Ain't html great! Or a great time sink......
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: 69Z28-RS on December 04, 2019, 02:51:53 PM
Kurt,

If I understand your post correctly, you're saying that in 1968, center seat belt (ie. 3 seat belts) in the front 'bench seat camaros??   Didn't it matter what transmission/shifter was installed?   ie. with a 3-4 speed in the floor, it still had belts for a center front seat passenger?

ps.. man, if we'd known that when we were single, they would have sold lots more of them...  :)
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: PURESS on December 04, 2019, 03:49:59 PM
That is why I took the center counsel out and had a nice gal make me color matching pillow to put on the hump so she could sit next to me......
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: PURESS on December 04, 2019, 04:04:47 PM
console....
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: 69Z28-RS on December 04, 2019, 04:26:17 PM
That's the reason many console lids are broken!  ..  *L*
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: BillG on December 04, 2019, 10:51:02 PM
Yeah, my old column shifter turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  :))
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: JoeC on December 05, 2019, 01:39:50 PM
there is a sort of famous 3 on the tree "to the moon Camaro"

 http://www.roadkill.com/the-camaro-thats-been-to-the-moon-and-back-sort-of/
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: 69Z28-RS on December 05, 2019, 02:00:00 PM
Neat story... that I had not heard before..  :)

Good luck to Dr Krupp in keeping it going (and original) for another 500K miles..  :)
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: crossboss on December 05, 2019, 09:34:43 PM
there is a sort of famous 3 on the tree "to the moon Camaro"

 http://www.roadkill.com/the-camaro-thats-been-to-the-moon-and-back-sort-of/




I filmed Dr. Krupp back in the 1990s for a local LA TV show about the 'Solar Systems' and I remember his Camaro! Too bad, we did not get any shots of the car…Thanks for posting the article.
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: uscrichter on December 05, 2019, 11:02:41 PM
It just goes to show that this group loves ALL Camaros!!!
Title: Re: How come no one seems to care unless your car is significant?
Post by: janobyte on December 05, 2019, 11:59:26 PM
Cool story.