David K...I see you have a '68 with a 6-banger, but I couldn't find it in your 35 pages (what-the-hell?!) worth of posts. Congrats on not destroying it with yet another BORING V8 swap. Doesn't it feel good to go to a show with something that is truly rare and cool (and drives people nuts)?
I was stationed in "Sandy Eggo" from 1978-84 at 32nd Street Naval Station and owned a couple of cool F-bodies...a blue '67 RS with a 327 and a 4-speed that I bought for $1,200 from a guy in Ramona. I put an Edelbrock Torker intake and a Holley 650 on it, as well as Hooker headers, a Hurst shifter to replace the Muncie, and a 12-bolt posi rear from a junkyard in San Ysidro (I think it was $350). I stupidly sold it for $3,500 to another squid so I could buy a new KZ1000. My other F-body was a '69 Trans Am I bought in Tijuana for $500 in March of '80. It was in extremely rough shape, but I intended to keep it and restore it. I stored it at 4-A ("AAAA") Auto Storage in the Gaslamp Quarter (oldest part of downtown SD for the uninformed) during a Westpac (a 9 month-long deployment to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf). When I returned to reclaim my prize, it had been stripped of all of its Trans Am parts. Not having a crystal ball to look into the next century to see all of those parts being reproduced, I figured I would never be able to find the rare '69 TA-specific parts and I sold the car for $3,000 to a Pontiac collector from Newport Beach. It was equipped with its original Ram Air III engine, an M-21 4-speed, posi rear, rare factory gauges and tach, rare '69-only Formula wheel (2nd Gen Formula wheels were slightly different), blue standard interior, power steering and brakes, an AM radio, Rally II wheels, and factory AC. It also had red "Ram Air" decals on the hood which I have never seen on another '69 TA (very faded...hard to see in the first photo). The photos below show me as a 22 yr-old punk with a bad attitude
. Note that the license plate is from the Mexican state of Fronteras de Baja California ("Front BC").
Per your request I am posting the VCCA article on Glenn Kope's '69 six-banger Camaro. He is mistaken in thinking that his '69 was produced with a leftover '68 3-on-the-tree steering column ('69s are the only First Gens that had their ignition switches on the steering columns). He is also mistaken in thinking that he has the only '69 Camaro with a six-banger and a 3-on-the-tree (mine will have its 3-speed returned to its original column-shift by this time next year). I contacted him to talk about his car and mine, but he decided not to stay in touch...his choice.
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