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The white Camaro in the photo with the TYK 000 license has been owned by me since 1970. The car is a true SS 350 Camaro with White Paint code CC. The car was a suspension development car for Guldstrand Egineering that was owned by Gary Wheeler at the time. The car was supposedly one of the first SS 350 sold by Clippinger Chevrolet in Covina. Jon Mello is aware of the car and its history.

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It will most likely be restored with standard body panels even though I have some SS parts for it. I will try some combination of green and yellow, but it will be black on top.

Ahh, I just happened upon that image just browsing the web the other night, which spurred my interest in searching for more images. Its a very good image and I was surprised when I saw it. I messaged the guy, Jerry Britain on facebook about the car since he briefly discussed the car. He has not replied back yet.

I have been meaning to get around to posting some info and pictures on the car for a while and I am glad I finally got around to doing it. I want to get in contact with Mcginty while I can to further discuss about the car. I appreciate what you do have, since I have so few pictures. I really would like to have the car painted back to the black and yellow paint scheme, but my son would prefer the black and green colors so I don't know which direction I will go for now.. I have not fully looked into the full history of the car as to what it started out as from the factory. From my knowledge, the car was acquired from Mcginty from a bank repo to which I figured the car was a standard Camaro and not an RS/SS, but from the early pictures it sure looks like it was an RS/SS. I know the factory colors were a bright blue from digging down through all those layers of paint. The doors gave the most info to all the colors it has been over the years. I don't believe the hood nor the lower valance have blue on them, which was another reason why I thought the car was standard from having a flat hood and a standard lower valance. I have kept every panel and part I bought the car as, which were pretty damaged and pretty crude in how things were cut, drilled and designed.

In the Last few years I have started to concentrate on finishing the car and redid the firewall (involving lots of welding up pin holes and all over interior of car) I painted interior after sanding off rust and painted firewall and inner fenders and underside of car. I finally installed the front sub frame and assembled most of the suspension pieces. Redid the fuel cell to hold my future to be determined fuel cell... I installed the dash from stock panels I found at a swap meet since it was missing when I bought it. I will be glad to get the car back and continue more of the installation process and body work.

Here are some current pictures of the car in Dec 2014. I have all kinds of pictures of the car as a work in progress, but the biggest thing is to get the quarters and back end fixed up to move on from there.

Thanks for the pictures and info, I really appreciate it. I wish I could find more pictures if any of the Don Smith version of the car as I have no images while running in those colors. As of now I just sent the car off to a guy in Pomona to get new quarters installed and flare them. In regards to Chuck Beck involvement, I knew he had a hand in the car and I saw his shop at cable airport in Upland, Ca. I saw the Titus Firebird in the background at the time, but I can't recall when this occurred. I can only date this event when Beck built the Lister with the crate engine with 58 mm Crossed Webers on the engine.

I am restoring the Bob Mcginty Camaro that was yellow and black #78, 48. When I got the car in 1983 it was painted Lime Green and Yellow saying "Sungro" owned by Don Smith. I would appreciate if any one can supply any info or have any pictures of the car.