While it may seem like we are going too hard on the Ford 427ci displacement engines on this date, we’re going to balance the universe out with this amazingly cool Camaro that is currently for sale on eBay. We were a little confused at first because it is referred to as a restoration but then later in the ad it is listed as an “homage” to the legendary 427 Chevy powered hammers produced as a collaboration between Joel Rosen’s Motion Performance company and New York’s Baldwin, Chevrolet. The real examples of these cars ranging from the Camaros, Chevelles, Novas, and Corvettes fetch incredible money these days and rightfully so. They had a host of great parts including 427ci engines of varying “phases” that allowed the customer to spec out how wild they wanted their street machine. If we had a few spares tens of thousands of spend on something today, it would be this car.
Among the things we love are the color, which is a really rich blue, the stinger hood with the white accent stripe, and (what looks to us, anyway) the accuracy in which this thing was replicated. It seems like the builder really took pains to make this car as close to the way a lucky customer would have received their machine in 1968. The interior is as beautiful as the exterior. Also done in blue, it features proper period aftermarket performance gauges and a four speed handle coming up through the floor. Under the hood the 427ci big block is dressed right with the fly eye air cleaner, finned valve covers, Edelbrock intake, and while the tube headers may be a little nicer than what was on there in ’68, we still think they are appropriate and don’t take away from the rest of the car at all.
We realize that this is backward logic but the narrow bias-ply tires and Cragar SS wheels complete this car like nothing else could have. If you wonder why muscled up examples of factory cars were crazy to drive back then, spend some time staring at the pizza cutter width tires and then think about how easily this car would have melted them down for blocks and how they have so little contact patch that “high speed” cornering would be a fantastical dream at best and a bloody nightmare at worst.
As complicated as a fork, this car is perfection on wheels. It really spins our crank for sure!
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As a very young kid this and the Corvette parked next to it are what I dreamed about before the discovery of the female gender, nice stuff
Current Bid: $34,500 and the reserve hasn’t been met? When you build a car like this, you are going to lose money on it. Seems the seller doesn’t understand that.
Beautiful car!! I’m being really nit-picky here, but….any big block Camaro SS, whether ’67-8-9 had the tail light panel blacked out. I seen ’em when they were new. Now, that being said, I know a lot of these cars were built from small block powered cars. I would be very happy to have this car in my stable…..although my wife drives a 454 ’70 Impala We also have the ’67 Camaro RS, (among other Camaros, Chevy II, etc) that we purchased new with the 327/275 horse 4 speed combo….Marina blue inside and out of course 🙂
Interior would called “Bright Blue”. I USD to own a 66 Chevelle SS396 with that color combo.
Its funny how people make ” Tribute” cars and think its worth more than a plain jane Camaro with a BBC jammed in there.
A little research told me that it was an ‘option’ on ‘big block’ cars, only, to have the tail panel blacked out. Our ’67 interior is called “light blue” and is not quite as blue as this ’68.
Not big on the early Camaros but this one could sway me.
I dig it, but if I had the money and those cars I’d build that vette into a 427 powered green and white Baldwin Motion clone. Those are dead sexy.