Putting “project” into the search bar of eBay Motors is dangerous…you’ll get everything from cars that look like they were drug out of a fetid swamp to late model rides that are cheerfully termed “mechanic’s specials”…meaning that something electronic has died and the current owner is too cheap, lazy, or both to be bothered with the repair. Then there is what you are truly looking for: somebody’s project car, half-completed, ready to be turned over to a new and loving home, ready for your vision. Such is the case with this 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. At first glance I had originally thought that the old Cherry Bomb Camaro had been stripped and gutted, but luckily that isn’t the case…that car should still be just fine. This Camaro, on the other hand, is a rolling shell that needs quite a bit to put it back together. But there is something about the pictures that caught my eye immediately: those wheels and that stance. Where have I seen something like that before?

If you read the book, you’ll know that it was really a 1976 Camaro that had been rolled over gently, but in the film antagonist Buddy Repperton drove a 1967 Camaro, complete with Western turbines on white-letter tires. Unlike the other star cars of the film, there were no survivor Camaros. One was cut up to be used as a camera car, and the other, with it’s engine pulled, was the car that got pile-driven through the gas station by one very pissed-off Plymouth before getting the automotive equivalent of a Viking funeral.

The rolling shell of this first-gen F-car is pretty much just metal. What is left of the original gold interior isn’t exactly what you’d be excited to see (though the three pedals are a welcome sight) and you’ll be making friends with all of the restoration companies to piecemeal the car together if you want something more than a rough-and-rugged machine. But with no surviving copies of the Repperton Camaro, we think that cloning one out of this shell is a great idea. It needs to have a high-revving small block, we’d shove a Tremec in place of a four-speed just for drivability’s sake, and other than locating center caps for the wheels, we’d leave the rolling stock alone. Paint it Nantucket Blue, add the black stripes, and make sure the exhaust has the right amount of menace to the sound.

eBay Link: 1967 Chevrolet Camaro