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General Discussion / YouTube video about 1967 Camaro RS

« on: August 29, 2020, 11:02:35 PM »

I just thought I would let anyone who is interested know about YouTube videos, 4 currently,  being posted by a YouTuber, "WatchJRGO", with ~250,000 subscribers and ~125000 viewers of this particular video. He has acquired a 1967 Camaro RS with Powerglide to do a somewhat strange conversion on. The car's body, while it has some rust, doesn't look that bad although the paint is dull. However, he is going to replace most of that sheet metal. But first, the Powerglide is rebuilt and then he wants to mate it up to a new generation LS motor. I'm not sure how that will work or what I think about it as this is far removed from where my mind goes when thinking about Camaros. But it is his car and he can do what he wants. At the end of the second episode he did look the removed 327 over and did say what he did see and that he found no serial #'s, but what he did find on the pad was V1214ME which, if I can decode correctly, is a 210 hp 2 barrel 327 built at the Flint V8 plant on the 14th of Dec, 1966, and installed with a Powerglide in a Camaro. Color is black, but when he opened the door, it looked to me like the jambs were a lighter color. Car was originally sold new by Van Chevrolet in Mission Kansas, which is the same dealer that originally sold my 1967 RS. I wish the detail of this car could be entered into the Database. The car looks to be equipped with RS, White custom interior, console with floor shift Powerglide; rear bumper guards, A/C, Power steering but manual drum brakes, & Deluxe Wheel are the options I can see, Depending on the original color, this looks to have been a nice, well-equipped car back in its day.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGlu2IppJmg&t=41s

What got me to look at this video in the first place is that I am rather addicted to watching Youtube videos of my favorite topics such as Cars, History, Coins, Agriculture, etc. and 2 other YouTubers who I watch almost all of and are associated with WatchJRGO are "Hoovies" Garage & the "Car Wizard". Tyler Hoover or "Hoovie" portrays himself as the dumbest YouTube channel in all of YouTube, which he obviously is not, but is entertaining to me. His main mechanic is the Car Wizard who I do enjoy listening to about how to solve car issues. Both, however, seem to lean toward European Luxury & Sportscars. Too many Bentley, Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Audi & BMW cars. I've learned that I would never want almost all of them because of the high initial cost that depreciates very rapidly and they are extremely expensive to repair. Because of that, I first thought both must be on one of the coasts and was stunned to learn later that I am only a half-hour from the Wizard and have met him in person actually & Hoover, who is an hour south of me in Wichita KS. WatchJRGO is about a short hour east of Hoover and part of the reason I took an interest in watching the YouTube video about the 67 Camaro and part of why I religiously watch Hoovie & the Wizard.

I'd be curious to hear back about others' thoughts & opinions.

Loren

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Originality / 1967-1969 rear spring single leaf cushion pads

« on: August 29, 2020, 10:06:25 PM »

I managed to secure a set of rear spring single leaf cushion pads from a member over on the SuperCar site. 2 sets of part #3792585 & 3791381 in the original GM box. I, for some reason, had never even tried to source these but when I saw them up for sale, I thought I better buy those. I'm glad I did as I learned something I never knew before. Both the top and the bottom pads each have "Forward to Increase" & "Forward to Decrease" molded into the rubber on opposite ends, along with an accompanying "+" or "-" . If I stack the 2 appropriate halves as they would be installed, it is obvious that the line of meeting slopes up or down slightly from one end to the other. One has to make sure that the 2 halves are properly orientated to each other at installation or the gap at the ends will either be too tight or too wide.  Can someone tell me how to dtermine which way is correct for a car? I will also report that it looks like when you went to purchase these, you ordered a complete set of 2 halves for each side to do the entire car and so since it was a combination of 2 part #'s, the order itself was its own part # under "1 #3921060  G.R. 7.545  Cushion Unit" I likely may also post this on the SuperCar site.

Thank you for any and all help

Loren

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Originality / 1967 Camaro 3-speed floor shift with a Muncie handle?

« on: January 20, 2020, 09:50:12 PM »

I posted this as a hijack to a topic on the Yenko site and thought I might get better responses here. It seems to me I did see something that stated this was true. My 1967 RS was built 3rd week of October 1966 in California. It is an L30 with the standard 3-speed trans with floor shift and a console. I have owned it since September of 1976 and it came to me with a 3-speed shifter with a "MUNCIE" shift handle. That shifter was long worn out and removed and is not available anymore. I ordered a new 4-speed shift lever from a Chevy dealer when I installed a Muncie. Finding correct shift rods was not fun or easy at that time. The new shift lever did not have "MUNCIE" on it so I had a colleague cut my old handle off and weld it on the new shifter which is in the car today. I have bought a replacement 3-speed shifter with a "T" mark on the handle but if my car was originally constructed with a 3-speed "MUNCIE" shifter handle, I would like to find a handle to put in this shifter.

Loren

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General Discussion / Happy Birthday to my Camaro

« on: February 27, 2019, 09:45:51 PM »

I hadn't really thought about it until I was looking through some digital files this morning that I keep on different topics and was looking for something else and went into my 69 Camaro's file and looked at the NCRS Data Shipping Report and was reminded that my car's Official Production Date was today, Thursday, Feb. 27, 1969. From there it was shipped to Bill White Chevrolet Co. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It didn't travel very far as I suspect it was sold and owned in Oklahoma and through title searches in my home state of Kansas and in Oklahoma back in April of 1987, I have learned of 7 owners, including myself, who bought it on June 26, 1979. However, I do have a gap from it being sold new at White Chevrolet until Feb. 22, 1975, when a Dwight Nail, then of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, is shown to have had title to this car. From there it moved to South Central Kansas, around Wichita, up until today (I live about an hour away from Wichita).  Of the 6 owners in Kansas from June 13, 1975, until my purchase in June of 1979, only 1 was a used car dealership. I knew the 2 owners prior to myself, Brad N. & Dallas B, and have talked to the 2nd Kansas owner by phone probably ~30 years ago which didn't give much information. When I bought the car in 1979, the previous owner, Dallas B., was going to make a fake Z/28 with much of the emblems & trim shaved off. He had it in a storage building and I don't think he had paid for that so it was pushed outside which is where I found it. Bare metal, no engine or transmission. All I saw was Disc Brakes, 12 bolt rear end, Tachometer & gauge package, so I assumed it was a Big block car. From what I knew then, which was very little, meant knowing nothing about Trim Tags, X22, single fuel line, and  6000 redline tach, I knew I needed  (really just wanted) to buy this car. I worked at the same plant that summer as Dallas B. as I was also attending college. This may seem far too good of a deal today but in 1979 this was just a well-used Camaro that was missing many items and was far from road worthy. I found Dallas B., offered him $200, He discussed with his wife and came back with $600 being acceptable, and I then upped my offer to $300 which they accepted. The next Sunday I rounded up a high school classmate, took my folk's 1970 Impala and a chain and we drug it and its loose parts home about 15 miles. Somewhere prior to my purchase, this Camaro traveled its last mile under its own power.

As the information about 1st generation Camaro's grew from then until now, I came to see that my car was originally constructed in Norwood as an SS 396 with the L78 engine option, Muncie 4 speed, and 3:55 non-posi rear-end, It also is an RS car in Hugger Orange with the standard 711 black interior, console & gauges, Power steering, & AM radio with rear speaker. The car came with a non-original M20 with a 68 build date and no vin. anywhere, steel wheels that I later learned where code CL that came on 1970-72 Camaro SS's. The reason these wheels where on it was because of the owner prior to the one I bought it from, Brad N.,  was who I also purchased my 1967 Camaro RS from in September 1976. When I was in Grade School in about 1971-1972, our local town guys, like everyone else did, loved to drag main up and down the street countless times and at that time Brad N. had a 1970 Camaro SS/RS in Citrus Green with a 396 L78 motor and M22 transmission in it. I wish I had been old enough to have bought that car from him. Anyhow, that is where the wheels came from and I also, later, acquired the smog pump system from that car. This Camaro was disassembled by myself and all parts are stored as I fairly quickly came to the realization to not through anything away.

I have certainly made errors in the unfinished progress of this restoration. The 2 most regrettable were early on I was going to add every option I could instead of just rebuilding it as it was originally. So I have acquired D80 front & back spoilers, Cowl hood, Tilt wheel, Woodgrain wheel, Power windows, Deluxe interior seats, seat belts, & door panels, Fold down rear seat, all the lighting packages, Blue tooth radio, Rear defrost, 3:73 gears & posi unit, Darrel Shepherd built M22, Transistor ignition set up, and countless other parts acquired from local Chevy dealerships in my wife and I's BC days (Before Children). Those ideas have been changed and discarded as I know want to keep it as close to as original as constructed.  Another regretful mistake was purchasing new GM quarters and having them installed as the originals were not bad at all. But then it was just the cool thing to do then to put on new sheet metal. Another mistake was taking the bare body to someone with a sandblast operation. When finished, they told me someone must have had this car walked on and the dents filled with putty as both the original SS hood and trunk lid have been warped and I'm not sure if that can be brought back or not. Obviously, they were just covering for themselves as they used too much pressure and or time on those panels and they distorted them themselves. Not being very smart and having any knowledge or concern in those days, I did not try to protect the Trim Tag and so it was also pitted although certainly readable.

I have acquired many correct and original GM parts for this car that I have to confess, are worth more than the garage I store them in.

There are a lot more sentences I could write but this has gotten far too long, to begin with, so I'll stop here.

Happy Birthday to my 1969 Camaro

Loren

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Originality / Shock absorber #3192481

« on: May 16, 2007, 01:54:29 AM »

Does anyone know if front shock # 3192826 is correct for a 69 Camaro? The ad says they came off  a 69 Camaro SS350 and have a 24 69 date. I have a set of #3192481's with 312 68 dates that I pulled off a 69 SS 350 many years ago. The problem with my used set is that at least one of the two has almost no resistance left in it.

Loren

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Originality / Caps for 69 (68?) RS windshield washer bracket

« on: February 28, 2006, 07:11:09 PM »

I found these for sale on ebay (#4615700167). I purchased mine much the same as this seller. Can those of you with original RS cars or experience comment on correctness. I know the part # is the same as listed in the ASM. They always struck me as being to small for the screws I have on my bracket. I'm also intrested in pn# 3866096 Cap. I do not have these and would like to know any differances.

Can someone explain to me how to link the ebay site to here so you just have to click on it to get there?

Thanks

Loren

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Originality / Date codes on 67 wheels?

« on: February 09, 2006, 04:00:24 PM »

I am looking for some rally wheels for my 67 RS built 10C at LOS. Were wheels always date coded or is there a possability that early wheels weren't? If GM was date coding wheels thru all of the 67 model year any idea when that practice may have started?

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Restoration / Repop spiral shock absorbers

« on: January 18, 2006, 06:58:23 PM »

What is the opinion on these? This is ebay auction #460560480. Anybody have a hands on look at them and who is repoing them? This same seller had another pair about 1 1/2 months ago that just didn't add up to me so I emailed and asked if they were used shocks that had been blasted and repainted. I was told that they were NOS, and the winning bidder (not me, I wasn't going there) paid over $1500 for the 4. I own a pair of NOS 851's and 1 NOS 477 that I have had for almost 20 years. What caught my eye was the nut and washer on the bottom of the rear's are painted. The supposed NOS shocks from before also had no code tags on them. Mine do. If I was selling mine I would make sure you saw the tags.

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Originality / Early 67 rear bumper guards?

« on: January 06, 2006, 12:43:04 AM »

Anyone intrested check out ebay #4601402060. I also own a set of rear bumper guards like this that are solid and have no rubber strip. I found mine in a salvage yard in the mid 70's (that car also had a bench seat that I didn't pull). I have asked others for their opinion but no one seems to know what I was talking about. My 67 is a 3rd week of October 66 build and I'll have to do some more research to see when this change might have occured if legit.