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I'd like to turn it into a daily driver of sorts. Interior is mint, needs nothing. Body needs a bit of sanding along the channel on the top, I haven't seen it in years but I'm going to say there's still plenty of material there and I shouldn't have to cut & weld any of that. The door skins are gone, but, whatever, I'll just get new doors later. Underneath is mint.

He's owned it for 10-15 years now which is why the dilapidation. I had it running and driving 3 years ago, but the master cylinder started leaking, he put it up, and told nobody to look at it It isn't anything that I'll need to do body and paint, and the engine was rebuilt in '01 professionally, as he stored it improperly, it froze, it cracked, and he spent some cash getting that straight. I'll say it has 6000 miles on it since. I would like to tone it down a bit, though, there's just no need to have a car that fast. (Perspective: I drive a Wrangler 7 days a week, and a Volvo 740 turbo is a fast enough car to me)

Mostly, I think the big thing is do something about the wheels and stance. I'm puzzled as to what to do about the traction bars - Do I just take them off? If I could put 4 15" wheels with 205/70/15 BFs on there and lose the traction bars for the summer, I'd consider that a major victory, I'm just not sure what happens when I remove them.

Hi Camaros.org, I thought I'd post to introduce myself. I recently came into a 1969 Camaro. It was my father's - Unfortunately, he let it rot in a barn for a few years - He's just not a car guy, and spent some time being bitter about it for some reason, and just yesterday he said "I don't care anymore. Go do what you need to do to make it run."

My dilemma: I know next to nothing about Chevy SBCs. I do Jeep and Volvo as a hobby. Further compliating the matter, this particular '69 was used as a pro-street drag car in the 80s. So the motor, while being a 1969 350, has been modified, it has a high overbore (I'm told .080, but .060 I'd believe) and is mated to a 2-speed Powerglide on a ratchet shifter with a reverse lockout pin and line-lock. The front wheels are 14" and the back are 15"s with 60 series tires, and there are traction bars on the rear leaf springs. When it ran, it went like hell.

I'd like to get the motor tuned down somehow, once I figure out what's special about it, and get it running well on pump gas instead of race gas, and make the car not so suicidally fast, and get it back on 15s with normal summer tires, fix the stance so the rear end isn't so jacked up, and put disc brakes on it so it can stop in a straight line, so the old man can get in and drive the thing without fearing for his life. I also have to do a bit of rust work - Oddly, none underneath, but the channel along the roofline has some rust bubbling in it. This summer I'm just going to see if I can't rebuild the master cylinder & drums and put some decent wheels and tires on it. (It has some old Cragars, but one of the lips is bent on the front from his brother hitting a curb with it. One of the reasons for him throwing it in a barn to rot.)

I have full access to an auto shop, we've got about everything but a pipe bender an an alignment machine. The car can run - Well, maybe - He last put it up 3 years ago and spitefully (Nobody understands this) ignored the jackstands, fuel stabilizer, etc, etc, that I gave him so it wouldn't, you know, be ruined.

Anyone have a good recommendation on where to start? Obviously, tires, but what to do about those traction bars? I've never encountered them before and Google doesn't seem to know what to do about them. I don't expect I can level the car out without getting rid of them first.

Pictures when I get it out of the barn it's been sitting in for 3 years. : / If you guys can stomach it!