I grew up with a real deal 1968 Z28 Camaro in the garage so real Z cars have a special place in my heart. A 1969 Camaro is my favorite, likely because I own one myself and love it. This particular 1969 Camaro is for sale for $59,000 and is a numbers matching car with original interior. It doesn’t say the paint is original, but everything else sure seems to be and that makes this thing valuable for sure. Especially with only 77,000 miles on the odometer. This particular car also reminds me of my childhood for two reasons. Number one, my dad did maintenance on a Fathom Green 1969 Z28 like this one that belonged to a man named Avery. It had the wrong center caps on it, the ones from a 1967 Camaro, and it was lowered quite a bit. I can’t remember if it had green interior or not, I want to say it was black. But I could be wrong, it’s been about 30 years.
The interior in this green Camaro is dark green which reminds me of the interior in my 1969 Camaro convertible because it is the original interior to the car but I dyed it black so it wasn’t green on the inside of my now LeMans Blue Camaro. Originally my car was Frost Green, sort of an apple green color, so the dark green interior made sense. But I digress. Back to the Z28 at hand.
This car claims to have the original engine, trans, and rear end which would seem to suggest this car was not terrorized like many Z28s. After all, most of them went through a transmission or three, and a rearend or two.
On the surface this thing seems like a nice car for the money. We think it is worth a look. Someone check it out and buy it.
Here is the info from the seller:
1969 Camaro Z28 with a clean title and registered with 77000 original miles. It has the original 302 DZ motor with the matching transmission and rear end. It has the original interior in great shape and the paint job looks awesome. This is a great Survivor. Give me a call at 916 856 7931 thanks.
Nice – is there a price discount for the “Aunt Gurlene” green inside & out?!
See if the seller will do a package deal and pick up the second generation Camaro as well!
Buyer beware! Two years ago I had a transporter stop in front of the dealership I worked in and push off a newly restored numbers matching 69 z28 and being the old guy in the service dept it was assigned to me. It would not run,just kicked a little.I was to get it drive-able for the new owner for graffiti night cruse as this is why he just bought it and shipped here across country. I got it to start and the idle was set at about 2500 and timing was over 60 degrees.I started getting numbers off the block and carb and body and distributor.The block no. started with the DZ but only had one row with no serial no. the cast date was from the next year.The carb had the right numbers but did not look right the way it was cast.The distributor was from a 70\’s truck,the trans casting no. was from something else.The cam was a 30-30 as a DZ should have.The customer complained that the right rear tire rubbed over small bumps.When put on a rack the whole right rear trunk panels and uni body mounts were replaced,When you stood 25 feet behind the car you could see the trunk slope down to the right from the window line.The carb and a lot of the replacement parts were cheap parts from China.The body tag was correct,Maybe this car was a wrecked Z28 or a tag removed from another Z28.I got it running but the owner could not learn how to drive to low vac 30/-30 cam and large carb. He got pissed off at me because I pointed out all the half ass parts and non matching parts and a wrecked car.He said he was going to take it to a real Camero mechanic.I found out he paid 80k for the car so he could go to a cruse night and look cool.Like I said buyer beware,do your home work! There are a lot of trash cars being built as original with matching numbers.(note,Iam not claiming this car is not) just warning you collectors to whats out there.
If that’s a real deal car and not badly restored or something, it’s probably underpriced. Sadly.
Maybe I’m the only one sick to death of the late 60’s Camaros being everywhere. Sign me up for a split-bumper, maybe.
At that price I hope there’s $10 Grand in the glove compartment.