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General Discussion / Re: This is a nice original 69 Z28
« on: January 05, 2014, 07:32:04 PM »
I am saying if there were two cars, one had spoilers and a ZL2 hood and one did not. I would want to find out if the car that had those options came with them. If both cars came with originally with the flat hood, and one car had it added later on, I would take the car that had the original flat hood. AND depending on color for me, if they were the same color and one had a factory ZL2 hood vs the other car of the same color having a flat hood, and everything else being equal, then I would take the ZL2 optioned car.
All I am saying is there are other things that may sway me more than that hood, I am just very fortunate I found the car that i have and it happened to be a car that was ordered with the ZL2 hood so along with the color it fit my criteria for the Z that I wanted.

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Originality / Re: factory eqiiped headlights
« on: January 05, 2014, 07:24:34 PM »
interesting my 08C (august of 69) car has its original T3 lights, dated from july of 69 If i remember correctly

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Originality / Re: factory eqiiped headlights
« on: January 05, 2014, 08:56:34 AM »
on the T3 it would be found on the back side in a red ink screened manner it seems. You actually have to remove them to see if the red date stamp is on there.

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Foreign Camaros / Re: Is this the first 69 Camaro sold direct to Sweden?
« on: January 05, 2014, 08:19:21 AM »
interesting info. I know I would like to see more pics of your first gens gathered together at one of the shows over there.

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Originality / Re: factory eqiiped headlights
« on: January 05, 2014, 08:13:47 AM »
if they do be very careful the red ink stamp comes off very easily.

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I keep checking the home page, looking for the new pics. How long does it take once you submit them? second question Can I nominate sombody's pic for the home page?
you stated you wwanna see the project stage of our cars or in primer....
our new CRG member Vellu has a awesome "before " pic of his car that got hit in the rear. I say awesome because looking at the pics of him finishing the car now you would never realize how far he has brought the car back. The man is dedicated!

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Originality / Re: factory eqiiped headlights
« on: January 05, 2014, 07:18:54 AM »
do your GE power beams have the red date codes on them?

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General Discussion / Re: This is a nice original 69 Z28
« on: January 05, 2014, 07:15:09 AM »
I would disagree. I would say flat hood *if it originally came with a flat hood*
I have said it before though, I flat hood Z/28 just exudes correctness to me these days. Maybe because that was a popular item to switch if you had a flat hood car back in the day. I also like the spoilers but if the car didn't come with any, then don't run any. The hood, the spoilers, RS, none of that stuff does it for me. First and for most is that bad ass combo of the 302 the mandatory 4 speed and 9 times out of 10 a 3.73 or better 12 bolt posi unit. To me that separates the men from the boys. The other stuff may or may not add in small part to the performance, but more often then not is just flash,  the drive train is what makes the car magic to me.
But I am a big 4 speed (manual trans) guy. I do have a couple of automatic cars but that is only because that is the way they left the factory.  My 66 Chevelle SS is a 360hp power glide car, I would trade it for a SS 4 speed car if I found the right car/guy to do so.

Just my 2 cents. (It may be easy for me to say that though, the invoice for my Z car shows it came with the ZL2 hood and D80...  ;) )

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General Discussion / Re: 69 rosewood Steering Wheel
« on: January 05, 2014, 01:25:54 AM »
So you mention you somewhat collect steering wheels. Where did you find it?, what did the seller represent it as? Did you buy it to re-sell it?

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General Discussion / Re: This is a nice original 69 Z28
« on: January 04, 2014, 07:31:35 PM »
I agree it is a treat to see these cars coming to market, hopefully the new owner will find us here at the CRG.

So of course I read the description and did a quick look over the pics. The close up of the firewall stamps is interesting, looks like the "B" is brighter shade of orange.
I also noticed it has incorrect spark plug shields, probably put on when the motor was pulled?

Out of the 20 thousand Z's produced wasn't only about 5,000 that got the cold air hood?

Answer: actually less.  10,026 ZL2 hoods were factory installed on the 1969 Camaro. Of these 3674 were installed on Indy Pace cars. (not sure if that included the hardtop indy pace cars as well)They were also mandatory on the COPO cars (I am not sure the production number of these) Then the 69 ZL1 cars that were produced all had them I believe. So after all that you had about 5,000 to divide among 20,302  Z/28 's , and the remainder of SS production (about 30,000).  I think Jerry figured it to be 1 in 10, but it seems like it would be closer to 1 in 11 or 1 in 12 new Z/28 had the ZL2 option from the factory.

Of course now a days it is just the opposite. Seems to be 1 in 12 has the flat hood, maybe 1 in 20 IMO....
Flat hood cars rock man.... ;)

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General Discussion / Re: Closet Find..
« on: January 04, 2014, 08:55:54 AM »
Nice find Cook. I also lucked out, An old rodder that lived across the street from one of my muscle car buddies ended up giving me his magazine collection that he acquired from his high school library back in the day. I have boxes of pristine hot rod, car craft, custom rodder, mags from the early 1950's (comic book size) on up through the 80's when the fad was to paint everything one color, monochrome? or the multi colored scallops. My father in law and I dug up a magazine stand and have about 50 choice issues in the rack for educational reading in bathroom at our shop. One thing that stands out is even into the 70's the first gen Camaros were seen as something worth having, and as time progressed you could still see new fads and how they stacked up versus the 60's favorite fast rides. The COPO and 69 Z were the bench mark for some time it seemed.

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General Discussion / Re: '68 on the main page
« on: January 03, 2014, 06:37:51 PM »
Very clean looking car. I love the picture of the back of the car, all the panels have beautiful spacing. It looks factory fresh in that pic to me.
Question: that brick building in the back round, looks like it says auto parts on it , with a house? behind it. is that your property or was that an old auto parts store?

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Mild Modifications / Re: Side Exhaust on my 69
« on: January 03, 2014, 06:24:22 PM »
Headman shortys fit perfect and 2 stock bends welded in fit my new 2'5" 67 Vette pipes and just needed to bend the covers slightly to make it all work. Sound awsome now!
That is a nice install, looks like it was a factory option with the way it appears in your photo. I am not sure your gaining power, but there is a coolness factor you will have at the next car show!

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Trans-Am Camaros / Re: 45th anniversary of the first Z-28
« on: January 03, 2014, 07:22:36 AM »
that is some good info I hope you are able to locate that other car and the motor. How many of the 4 survived?

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General Discussion / Re: 69 rosewood Steering Wheel
« on: January 03, 2014, 12:38:03 AM »
A simulated wood 2 spoke sounds more like the 66 optional wheel. (I have one on my 66 chevelle)

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