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My '68 is a loaded 09D 396 SS/RS. I bought it from the 76 year old original owner in '86 with 47k miles on it.

The story was told to me by him when I first happened upon the car and I have no reason to doubt it as being the truth. It wasn't to get me to buy it (I was going to buy it come hell or high water and had to beg him for 3 years to sell it to me), or to up the selling price since he sold the car to me for $3,500.

His story was, he saw it being unloaded from a transporter at Charles Smith Chevrolet in Florence, South Carolina. He stopped to look at it while additional cars were being offloaded. A salesman came out as he was looking it over and they started talking. He ended up putting a deposit on the car and planned to pick it up several days later. The dealership called the following day to tell him that they couldn't sell him the car, that is was destined for CA going to a GM executive and that the salesman would be glad to order one just like it. He said he told the salesman that he committed to buying the car when signed the paperwork and they committed to selling the car when they accepted his deposit check. He said he picked up the car several days later as originally planned and that it took weeks to get all of the paperwork as it had already been forwarded to CA and had to wait for it to be sent back to South Carolina.

So I have no way of backing up the story but it seems logical.

Very nice! I'd like to see that out of the garage where it can be combed over well. With the options it could have originally been a "Brass Hat" car like mine is.

Here is the 68 Console multiplex knobs. Malibu and other Chevy multiplex units have them. Can't speak for the 8 track, but pretty sure it's the same knob as the under dash unit. What does the AIM show?

Yes, that's what I'm on the hunt for.

I'm not sure about the '69 but I'm on the hunt for a set of the console multiplex knobs for a '68. Good luck!

Great article! Thanks for sharing the update.

I found this... It appears some manufacturers started incorporating them prior to the mandate.

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 207, which took effect for passenger cars on January 1, 1968, is one of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's initial vehicle regulations. It specifies strength requirements for automotive seats and their attachment assemblies, so as to "minimize the possibility of their failure by forces acting on them as a result of vehicle impact." Many of the specific requirements of Standard 207 are based on the Society of Automotive Engineers' Recommended Practice 0879, which had already been in place since November 1963. The one significant difference between Standard 207 and Recommended Practice J879 - the one tangible modification of vehicle seating systems in model years 1967-68 - was the introduction of seat-back locks in the folding front  seatbacks of passenger cars with two doors.

GM 8 Track

My originals are now wall art but is just slightly below center.

Mine is just barely below off center.

I don't see where I can edit my original post. It was Aero-Kroil.
FWIW, I have a 60's vintage rotating lighted Budweiser pocket watch hanging clock that I got working again several years back using the same process (other than the gears required disassembly which was tedious).

I thought that I would share this in the event someone wants to try to revive there dead clock in their Camaro.

My clock hasn't worked since I don't know when. The second hand had also worked its way off the stem and has been laying in the bottom of the housing for years. I had considered doing a quartz conversion so decided to open it up and inspect it. I removed the clock from the tach housing and decided to try to get the original one working before doing the conversion. After some cleaning the contacts with a contact file and the gears with an electronic contact cleaner, I followed up with some Pene-Lube and put 12 v to it. Fifty-eight years later it's running like a clock again. I also cleaned the contacts that winds it every couple of minutes.

  Glad to see you back! Thak you for the hard work and wishing the best of health. It has been missed by many...

Sorry, I thought it was understood that it is a 2-speed rear window defroster.

My '68 SS/RS came with one as an option. I think they were more common in full size GM cars. I've never seen many of them, especially in Camaro's.

I'd heard that applying Easy Off Oven cleaner on it and let it soak/set for a bit to loosen it up and then get you several of the plastic sheetrock scrapers.