In December 2015, Brian Lohnes found one unique eBay surprise: a seriously worn-out 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS that had been treated to a mid-1970s full-kill customizing job…though, you could tell that the years since had not been kind to the early F-body. There was no mistaking the white body with the blue flame stripe, the green-to-gold low stripe, and the red sail panels with spiderwebs, but the primary color of the car was rust. There was a lot of tin worm in the car and many of you were at best, cautious, if not in near unison that it was time to put the Camaro out of it’s misery, which I personally didn’t agree with. Would it take a whole hell of a lot of coin to put back together? Oh, yeah, without a doubt. But each car has it’s story and there is an ass for every seat. Somewhere in the world there has to be at least one well-heeled dreamer who saw visions of this car cruising down the road with neon signs reflecting off of fresh paint.
Fast-forward to a few hours before my fingers hit the keyboard. We get a message from Paul Doolittle, who sent us a picture of that very car, taken in Middletown, New York circa 1980. The old picture does tell a bit more about the car itself…period-perfect, with skinny and fat Cragar S/S wheels, the nose-down rake, and the attitude that most muscle-era cars displayed right about the time Lohnes was arriving into the world. How the car wound up in the condition we saw it in back in 2015 after someone put so much time into the Camaro is beyond us. We just hope that someone has taken on the task of starting some kind of repair to the shell. Imagine this thing looking the way it does in present-day, but with fresh floors, probably a tube chassis because there’s no way the subframes weren’t paper-thin, and the proper motivation: a tunnel-rammed small block and an M-22 four-gear.
Looks like it’s ready to donate it’s VIN to a dynacorn body .