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General Discussion / Re: Emission Stickers 69 Camaro

« on: February 19, 2019, 05:21:01 PM »

Well you pay a "stupid tax", just to live in nice weather. The "stupid tax", also involves the political climate here and all the wacko policies, including the DMV. I grew up in Northern California ( in Southern California now), I was just to much of a wus, to deal with the mid west winters, and then road construction summers. In Indiana the temp would drop in October from mid 70's or 80's down to mid 30's by halloween in just a matter of a couple of days. Then single digits by Christmas, and not (consistently) warm up until about April or May. That 6 month winter was a killer for me.
I still run the black plates o some of my cars, but only my white Camaro is registered, the rest are on non-op registration, because the price is ridiculous. $136 this year. But I drive the others, just not as often as the white 69. My other vehicles are registered in Washington state, they have a one time registration for collector vehicles. so you pay 1 time and never have to register them again. (vehicles over 25 years old).

I hear ya on the winters.  Cinci originally, can't take that stuff anymore.  have no interest even going East visiting anything unless it's mid July there, lol.

Here in AZ we technically can't register cars out of state and actually live and drive them in AZ.  Least not supposed to but I know people who do, and people who register them out of Maricopa County so they don't have to be smogged.    I believe the law here is that you have 3 months to register your car in AZ after you become a resident.  I would imagine other states have similar policies, I just don't know if the police actually "police" it.  We have sun bunnies that are part time residents here that come down from Canada, Wisconsin, Idaho, North Dakota, and all those other really cold states, and spend their time here in AZ during the winter, and leave in the summer.  They don't bother registering their cars, stay for 6 months, then leave.  So I guess that law doesn't mean much.
  Then there are those registering out of state to avoid the high license plate fees.  You're taxed on the value of the car every year so if you drive around a $60k car you're paying $1500 or more for a license plate.  That's one of the reasons we decided to just drive classic cars and sold all the new stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: Emission Stickers 69 Camaro

« on: February 19, 2019, 05:17:10 PM »

We have relatives that live in California.  While I have never lived in California, we have bought a few cars from there to bring back home.  Last time I did that was probably late 90's, and every car we would buy, even though it was leaving the state, had to be smog certified and pass an emissions test before I could purchase it.  Didn't matter I was taking the car out of state.   Really stupid stuff over there and even though I hated the idea the cars thankfully passed and I was outta there asap.  Just a revenue scheme.    I believe they finally wised up and that process is no longer necessary for the older cars, but that state has many other more serious problems as Bert eluded to.  I really don't care to even go over there and spend money anymore.   Then there was the DMV process....AAAAA!!  Ever been through a DMV in California?  One time of that and you'll realize how good other states have it, lol.

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General Discussion / Re: Two questions of 69 Camaro options

« on: February 18, 2019, 03:54:18 PM »

I'm assuming it came from the Len Williamson book as William stated.

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Decoding/Numbers / Re: Caveat Emptor...misleading statement

« on: February 18, 2019, 03:47:48 PM »

Agree, clean car.  At least they put a silver grill in it     and $1400 worth of correct tires is nice.  I kind of like the tach and center fuel gauge, someone didn't actually add a console this time.  While the car may largely be incorrect in many other ways, someone will come along and likely pay the price for what they see as a nice turn key 69 Camaro, considering what it costs to restore one.

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Maintenance / Re: Power Steering Pump seal

« on: January 30, 2019, 03:14:22 PM »

Yep, that's just an o-ring that has flattened over time.

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General Discussion / Re: ZLP955 Racing BITD

« on: January 30, 2019, 03:09:57 PM »

By tilting the hood hinges, it would hold the rear of the hood up a good 2-3 inches, and still latch in the front.   The idea was to allow pressurized air to escape. Usually seen in a lot of vintage drag photos.

Thanks, that confirms what Chick suggested previously, as the reason for the hood being raised at the rear.
Do you know if the hinge was adjusted at the hood bolts, or at the fender bolts, to create that gap? The hinges weren't installed in the car when I bought it.

The adjustment would be at the fender bolts.   By adjusting the hinge, moving the rear of the hinge up all the way, and the front of the hinge down all the way, it will hold the back of the hood up high.  You are essentially tilting the hinge forward as far as it will go.
This also moves the hood forward so after this adjustment you'll have to loosen the hinge-to-hood bolts and slide the hood back just a pinch.

Tilting the hinge the other way has the opposite affect and pulls the back of the hood down.

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General Discussion / Re: ZLP955 Racing BITD

« on: January 29, 2019, 02:49:33 PM »

Just an FYI on propping up the rear of the hood if anyone hasn't mentioned it already.  That was a popular trick dating back into the early 60's as far as I know.  My father used to do it as well on one of his cars.  It's a simple hood hinge adjustment.  By tilting the hood hinges, it would hold the rear of the hood up a good 2-3 inches, and still latch in the front.   The idea was to allow pressurized air to escape.   Usually seen in a lot of vintage drag photos.  I think Grumpy Jenkins was one that practiced it on a couple of his cars.  Maybe the Z11 impala but can't remember.

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General Discussion / Re: Wheel and tire advice needed

« on: January 23, 2019, 03:43:50 PM »

On the back I'm willing to bet they are the same 15x7's.   The only wider wheel in this style is 15x8.5 and they only come with the same 3.75" back spacing.  So the extra 1.5 inches is towards the outside.  They don't fit on the 69's very well because it pushes the tires out past the wheel well lips.

Even the 7's are tight back there.  On mine with a 255-60-15 (equivalent to the G60's you see in the picture) I can't even get a finger between the tire sidewall and the wheel well lip......it's TIGHT, but it works without rubbing.  There is no way a 15x8.5 is going in there at a stock ride height without tearing up the tire or the quarter.

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General Discussion / Re: Wheel and tire advice needed

« on: January 21, 2019, 02:26:06 PM »

It's the same wheel I currently run on our RS Z.  15x7 with 3.75" backspacing.  I can tell you though the F60's up front don't clear the upper front fender lips or the plastic covers for the headlight door actuators if the car is sitting at it's stock ride height.  An F70 will work but it's close.

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General Discussion / Re: A/C on a Z/28?

« on: January 21, 2019, 02:20:28 PM »

We daily drive our Z/28 in Arizona.  Adding AC never crossed my mind and in the summer it's well over 100 degrees.  Actually it's my wife that drives it the most and she's fine with it.  Real muscle cars don't have AC 

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General Discussion / Re: 69 Camaro power steering pump repop v original

« on: January 13, 2019, 03:09:57 PM »

I bought the complete power steering conversion kit from Heartbeat a couple years ago to convert my Z.  Complete with the correct casting pitman arm, all the hoses, clips, new box, deep groove pulley,  etc...   Wife did not like driving it with manual steer.  Fit, form and function are all perfect and for my purposes it looks factory and does the job.   Don't know who actually makes it.  I'm not concerned with that.  It's just on the car until my wife no longer enjoys driving it, then it's coming off and going back to the way the car came equipped when I restore it.

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General Discussion / Re: 1967 Z28 options

« on: January 07, 2019, 04:03:09 PM »

James,
Thanks for letting me know about the ELC Code=BB=Cowl Plenum Air Cleaner. It apperently was never installed when this car was new because the original owner, a friend of mine, never ran the car with the CPAC.
Brooks did have a 1969 White COPO. He was a big drag racer and supplied a lot of the HP cars in our area.
He also ordered a Capri Cream, 67 SS Camaro 396/375, with radio heater delete and 456 read end as well as a Butternut Yellow Z28 with radio heater delete and 4:88 rear end, which is the car I now have. His plan was, which ever car sold first, the other would be the Brooks Chevrolet Super Stock race care for that year. Attached is a photo taken from Mr. Brooks office showing the 396/375 SS Camaro sitting in front of the Dealership after it was lettered up. You can see the Window Sticker still on the quarter glass.
Houston Platt, Georgia Hall of Fame Drag Racer, drove this car that year, “Dixie Twister, Jr”

Hubert Platt's brother who had a ton of success racing Fords, very cool!!   

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Original Cars and Details / Re: 1969 interior details - Sep 1969 car

« on: January 04, 2019, 09:44:54 PM »

Thanks Bryon, appreciate it.   I removed the dead scorpions before the pics 

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Original Cars and Details / Re: 1969 interior details - Sep 1969 car

« on: January 04, 2019, 03:38:03 AM »

Maybe this will help.   Here is the original carpet in my 12D  69 RS Z/28 

You can see in the second picture the front halves of the carpet (console car) in front of the console also have a piece of Velcro to hold the 2 halves together.

Aaaa, file too big, sorry.

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General Discussion / Re: Bloomington Gold adding Camaro's for 2019

« on: January 03, 2019, 05:11:30 PM »

Yep Goodguys is pricey,  $70 to enter a car now and it includes a membership I don't want (they force that on you)   They did open the year up to 1987 which certainly increased the car count.  It didn't go over well with some but overall a good decision.

Shucks even we realized it had to be done back in the 1980's when our tri-5 club was holding our annual muscle car drag race.  There was turmoil within the group, hardcore 50's guys that didn't want anything newer than 62, and also wanted to use the 1959 rule book with flagmen instead of the tree (which we tried the first year) but the car count sucked and we eventually opened it to 1972, and then later to all muscle cars through the mid 1980's at that time which didn't go over well within the club.  But, the car count got so big we eventually started having 2 events a year instead of one.  I don't recall hearing any complaining much after that, lol.

I think from what I've read here, the vette people are starting to realize their car count and members dwindling and are taking a similar approach.