(Photo by Justin Oney) – The response to this custom built creation should be interesting. Chad is the resident 1969 Camaro obsessed patient here at the BangShift insane asylum and since he likes them completely unmolested, this may not catch him right. Me? I think it is genius and would order one to be constructed immediately. The major flaw in my plan is a complete lack of funding, unless the guys building the car would work for grilled cheese sandwiches. I make a mean grilled cheese.
According to some quick research, the car is being built by the guys at Fast on Wheels and is planned to be at the 2013 SEMA show. If it comes out like the rendering, it will be bad ass. In my eyes, it doesn’t look too weird and seems like it could have been a factory piece back in 1969. The rear glass reminds me of Chevelle wagons and the only thing we would add is an old school roof rack. All old wagons need ‘da rack!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? IS THIS 1969 CAMARO STATION WAGON COOL? WEIRD? WEIRDLY COOL? WHAT?
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Not bad, i love the lines of the 69 and this carries them well. I dont really care for the rear quarter window’s, i think the line should have been lower to more mimick the door window lines. I do dig the front grill, but then again, i like the improvised streamliner looks when someone blocks off a front grill 🙂 Overall, yeah, I like it 🙂
Some dreams are not meant to come true, we call those nitemares.
Interesting idea, but it just doesn’t look right to me.
I am so tired of 69 Camaros I like this take. they seem to be the new 57, not that they are ugly but they just seem to be the only car over built.
I like it.
Much better than the red one Chad is on a rant about. LOL
I would like it only if it has a rearward facing seat in the way-back.
Ill take it…….it’s kool!
Since I am on the west coast and can make a darned good grill cheese; I will stand in a head chef for Brian. Chad’s convert is perfect for this conversion.
But, it needs the Vista Cruiser type of roof.
I agree, it needs the Vista roof. People who think the wagon variant looks wierd, though, are just used to looking and thinking about the “same old thing”. Like tri fives, Camaros are just so overdone they have all become boring, boring, boring…
The Vista roof was an Olds and Buick thing never a Chevy option however, I tried that just to see what it looked like it doesn’t work on this body it made the rear section too tall and heavy looking the slight hump in the roof with the Nomad style chrome ribs on it look great on the car and tie it into it’s Nomad history.
The car is being built to look as factory as possible from the outside. The interior will also be made to reflect “what would GM have done in ’69”. But underneath will be laced a racecar. I am the fabricator for Fast On Wheels and appreciate the write up and “liked” reviews!! Means a lot to my Team and our concept. You can follow this build on fastonwheels.com. We will be doing a site update for this project within the next 48 hours…
If the Camaro build ends up looking like the picture, it’s going to be REALLY cool!
This is a concept car I design in 2009 for Camaro Performers magazine which got a tremendous amount of feedback all positive. I’ve had through the past 4 years at least 10 shops or individuals say they want to build this car but all of them have been all talk.
Last year I brought this design out as a 1/25th scale resin model kit and I sold over 50 in less than a year. So when Jared Basso of Fast on Wheels asked me which car concept of mine we should build I said the Camaro wagon.
I dont know if its genius or not but sacrilege c’mon its a baseline 307 that was rotting in a backyard if we had cut up a COPO ,a Z/28 or an SS big block the word sacrilege would apply. Everything in the wortld has been done to a ’69 Camaro but turn it into a station wagon so why not?
I like it..it looks like something GM could have done..too all the critics..do it better.
Just so everyone knows Chevrolet mocked up two variations of a Camaro wagon as early as 1966 as well a a fastback body style, I have photos of the cars, so it was something that Chevy was considering.
This is just a representation of what the production car might have looked like. The purest need to look at the cars history before they bash an idea.
I like the blue artist’s rendering. The red one in the photo, not so much.
I have never been a huge fan of the 69 Camaro, always prefered the 67 and 68. It seems everyone else likes the 69. At any rate I think the 69 has been over done and this is a nice change. I hope they paint it like the concept picture and put the wheels that are on the concept picture. Its a 69 Camaro that I would drive.
Well put
just for the record Keith and Jared are amazing people …. They have completely ignored the nay sayers and are building something unique and different … and if you think you can do better then i’d like to see it…. for the meantime give these guys some credit for stepping outside of the box
Thanks again for your help on this! Great to see you at the show
no worries brother …. youre good people … keep up the good work and i will do what i can on my end…. i comend you guys for taking on such a huge project and i know it mean a lot to keith to see it steel … \m/ you guys rock
Krass and Bernie did one several years ago in the cartoon in carcraft
I say …… Cool as all hell and build the thing … detractors be damned 8)
What’s the problem? It’s not like the world’s about to run out of ’69 Camaros . . . .
haha … amen to that… and if we do … then theres a dynacorn body
LOL! There were a total of 243,085 Camaros built in 1969, and with Dynacorn repopping ’69 Camaro bodies and so many of them being restored every year there very well may be tad more of them now then in 1969.
If the work is “top notch” then its cool. Phantom is the word that comes to mind.
Tat’s it? One Fn’ picture…..this is B.S.
garry … if you shoot me an e-mail at [email protected] I will send you a group of pictures … the o is a zero…
For all I know you’re a bill collector….lol!
Much appreciated sir. I think the car looks killer.
It is one of the ugliest piles I have ever seen!
And what have you built? Easy to talk trash when you haven’t built anything worth mentioning!
the last creative thing he made ….. he flushed!
F*ck ’em if they can’t take a joke. It looks better than the red Camaro wagon in the other thread, it’s one of many projects they have going on, and it looks well-done so far.
Remind me, guys…y’all are the ones who LIKED my Mirada, right?
Let’s all play nice now. Friends, Family, Fast On Wheels. 🙂
While I too am a ” Wagon guy”, and like the notion of a Camaro SW, there are a couple of things I see in the drawing, as well as the bare metal pic that Brian posted that I do not care for.
Some might call me nit picky, but the single most glaring thing I see is the difference in elevation between the driprail over the door glass, and the top edge of the trim over the quarter windows. To me, they should be at the same elevation…..(ie:The top edge of quarter glass/& trim needs to come down to match).
Having said that, the lower portion of the quarters looks really good, easily recognizable as ’69 Camaro.
If you look at a ’68-’72 GM midsize wagon that is how the window line was, this car has been designed with all of GM especially Chevrolet’s styling cues that they were doing at that time to build a Camaro wagon that looks like Chevy built it. that line drops down too by about an inch when the rear side window trim is installed.
Like I said in the blog item, I am a fan of this thing. Like several people have said, there are 1969 Camaros on every corner and this one is different from all the rest.
To me the response here is indicative of what you encounter with any good and intriguing design. It provokes thought and emotion…positive and negative. In my mind there is no such thing as a sacred automotive cow (aside from a few insanely rare and significant examples) and to take a new spin on an icon like a 1969 Camaro….Hell yeah!
Brian
A common point brought up has been the rear window elevation. I posted a pic just now on facebook.com/fastonwheels that gives a nice view. Keep in mind that the rear side window trim is not on and will add another inch of fill. But if you align the rear sides with the door top, the angle will cut the window down dramatically. And that means the kids just ain’t gonna see the tops of them redwoods. And this IS a family wagon. For all those poor souls who had to choose between the kids and the car.
That’s right Jared, this is the “Ultimate Grocery Getter”, for the man or woman that wants a Camaro but has little ones and a budget for one muscle car in the family.
Ok the reality of it all is that MOST of us can’t have what is basically a 2 seater, I bought a 2011 Camaro recently and I just couldn’t get rid of it fast enough, I just don’t have room in my life for a vehicle like that. This is a car that could be, it’s cool and I’m sure it stands out in any crowd, I have a porsche with an LS3 engine in it, the Porsche purists whine a lot but an ls motor is 60 pounds lighter than a Porsche turbo motor, has a 50000 mile gm warranty and will run off and leave that hair dryer junk, it works for me and if this works for him GREAT.
Cool I know the guy here in West LA that built the very first PorChev as he calls them, in 1969 after finding out how expensive it would be to rebuild the 4 banger motor for his ’68 912, he looked over at the 283 Chevy sitting on the garage floor and thought Hmmm? He went on to build several more including a twin turbocharged 377 Chevy powered 914 that turned 217 MPH on the back straight of Riverside in the mid Eighties.
Camaros and wagons are my two favorite things. Love it.
krass and bernie did one in carcraft several years ago!
Leave the Icon alone is my vote……….Station Wagon?? lol
The Icon almost had a production wagon as Chevrolet did numerous design studies of it from 1966- 1970. We’ve built fake concept car that didn’t get crushed.
looks great!.. especially the rough no-paint look, in the pic of actual car that is… hatin’ the too-large rubber band wheels in the illustration, wheels ‘n tires like that on a muscle car makes me want to throw up… now THAT’S sacrilegious
The concept drawing looks nice. Build the car the way you think it should be built and nevermind what anyone else thinks. Unless you plan to put it into production, who cares what anyone else thinks. I have owned 6 Camaros over the years, I am burned out on them, but this is a fresh idea.
I would never talk about another mans project in a negative way, those that do usually have no idea or the skills it takes to pull something like this off.
On the other hand if you are going to ask what people think, expect to hear negative things. You don’t have to defend your project or idea. I look forward to seeing the finished product. Great work so far!
I love a good shooting brake, and this one shows great promise.
I love wagons (hate SUVs), my hot rod is a wagon. I love to see cars that were never wagons turned into wagons and this one looks right as one. Keith, my question is, can I get this in a sedan delivery model? How about a 70-73 RS Camaro wagon? Just a thought.
I don’t currently offer a sedan delivery version of the Camaro wagon model, but its an easy conversion just glue in a solid piece of plastic in the large rear side windows and putty around it.
The second gen Camaro wagon is another one that I’ve considered doing but right now I have 14 masters going at once and no time to work in my shop to finish them right now.
Keith,
Outstanding !!! I’m a Ford man myself , but this design is really cool. I want one! Think of the sound system you could put in this thing . What a head turner. Keep up the good work , you inspire thinking outside the box with designs like this. The world could do with a few less 69 Camaros
I have owned 3 Camaros, 1967, 69 and 76. All bought brand new. I still have the 69. Usually I don’t like it when something is done to change the lines of them, but I really like this one. If they had offered them back in the day I would have owned one. Go for it guys it looks GREAT!!
Here’s my thing nothing really works on this car. For starters the doors are too long for it to flow right. Chop’em off about six inches. It’s just that front is too long for the rear to work right. In the drawing it doesn’t look to bad but on the car itself it just isn’t right. Also It sort of reminds me of the new Magnums. I hate the rear of these cars. They just sort of fall off. And with this it’s like we wanted to put a mini spoiler on it but it just doesn’t look right. The only wagon roof top that I see working is the ’64-’65 Malibu wagon top. Plus too you need to rework the rear panel area to look right too. Because while these cars had sexy rears they’re not going to work on a wagon.
its almost impossible to go wrong with a 69 front clip with hidden headlights…but this is not even close…the idea is very cool…very cool…ive seen the 69 and 2002 conversions…they were pretty cool..of course there were the haters…but dont sink any more money into this design…its not even close to cool…
I owned a 67 Camaro for 30 years, love Camaros. Always loved 69s also, even had a few. Now I own a 66 Chevelle wagon,66 SS coupe, 71 Elcamino SS. I’m a Big fan of wagons. This build is going to look “AWSOME” you got my vote. Can’t wait to see it at SEMA. Great work and design.
I like the “they should have made one of these” type builds. I am driving a 56 Chevy ElCamino I designed and am currently working on a 66 Malibu 2dr Nomad Wagon conversion.
69 Camaro’s are a great looking car. This concept design caught my eye in a good way. Interested to see how the back is being designed. So far I love what I am seeing. It should be a real head turner.