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Ok guys, I'm diving in on the Camaro. The wife wants to do some bracket racing this season and last time we had it to the track it would only run in the 16's.
I'll start with a little history on the car. It was a demo car that my parents bought in early 1970 from Jerry Roth Chevrolet in Denver. Their neighbor was a salesman there and turned them onto the car. The story behind it is that the dealer wanted a car to show what an SS loked like, but did not want to tie a bunch of money up in an actuall SS. It's only a base coupe (307/TH350) but it has the SS stripes and houndstooth interior. I have all records as well as the original sales invoice, including every gallon of gas and oil change ever done.
My brothers and I all learned how to drive in the Camaro, and when I was growing up it was just a "beater" for our family. I am the only one to never have an accient in the car. My oldest brother darn near totalled it in 1979.
Somewhere around '82 I started getting interested in hotrods. My Dad saw the potenial investment in restoring the Camaro. He had a friend of the family rebuild the 307 and I was allowed to help. We also hung new 1/4 panels and door skins and did a total repaint in the factory hugger orange and stripes. Dad caught the Cadillac bug when he retired in '87 and the Camaro ended up stored in my brother's garage around 1992 and he used it as a work bench, storage shelf, etc. Needless to say, he's not a car guy, and the car ended up pretty trashed.
When my folks passed, I inherited the Camaro and got it out of his garages asap. In 2004 I did my first total repaint on the Camaro, again in factory hugger orange with the SS stripes. It got a new vinyl top and a partial interior restoration. I put the 307 under the bench, and dropped in a high mileage 350 just to drive it. So far I have rebuilt the suspension and brakes too. All of that was done before I had a digital camera and got my second wind building cars (job, house, family).
My goal now is to make this a low 13 high 12 (remember I'm over 6000' elevation) car that Momma can drive to the track and have fun with. I originally had plans to tub it, cage it and basically cut it up but I think the Chevelle is a better candidate for that. I'm thinking drag radials are the way to go here.
Anyway....here is a pic of me racing the highschool series at Bandimere. I think this was in 1984 when I first got my license, shortly after the cars first "restoration". I was racing my friend Gil Karvaski. Notice the old tower at Bandimere.
I'll start with a little history on the car. It was a demo car that my parents bought in early 1970 from Jerry Roth Chevrolet in Denver. Their neighbor was a salesman there and turned them onto the car. The story behind it is that the dealer wanted a car to show what an SS loked like, but did not want to tie a bunch of money up in an actuall SS. It's only a base coupe (307/TH350) but it has the SS stripes and houndstooth interior. I have all records as well as the original sales invoice, including every gallon of gas and oil change ever done.
My brothers and I all learned how to drive in the Camaro, and when I was growing up it was just a "beater" for our family. I am the only one to never have an accient in the car. My oldest brother darn near totalled it in 1979.
Somewhere around '82 I started getting interested in hotrods. My Dad saw the potenial investment in restoring the Camaro. He had a friend of the family rebuild the 307 and I was allowed to help. We also hung new 1/4 panels and door skins and did a total repaint in the factory hugger orange and stripes. Dad caught the Cadillac bug when he retired in '87 and the Camaro ended up stored in my brother's garage around 1992 and he used it as a work bench, storage shelf, etc. Needless to say, he's not a car guy, and the car ended up pretty trashed.
When my folks passed, I inherited the Camaro and got it out of his garages asap. In 2004 I did my first total repaint on the Camaro, again in factory hugger orange with the SS stripes. It got a new vinyl top and a partial interior restoration. I put the 307 under the bench, and dropped in a high mileage 350 just to drive it. So far I have rebuilt the suspension and brakes too. All of that was done before I had a digital camera and got my second wind building cars (job, house, family).
My goal now is to make this a low 13 high 12 (remember I'm over 6000' elevation) car that Momma can drive to the track and have fun with. I originally had plans to tub it, cage it and basically cut it up but I think the Chevelle is a better candidate for that. I'm thinking drag radials are the way to go here.
Anyway....here is a pic of me racing the highschool series at Bandimere. I think this was in 1984 when I first got my license, shortly after the cars first "restoration". I was racing my friend Gil Karvaski. Notice the old tower at Bandimere.
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