Scott Payton, one of the geeks that keeps BangShift.com up and running on the web, sent us this one yesterday and we have to say it shocked us. We had never heard of Corbin Rods all fiberglass ’69 Camaro, even though we had seen some of their other stuff. It’s not a drag race type of body either, but rather an alternative to building a steel Camaro street car. Like Dynacorn bodies, they are supposed to help you build a Camaro without actually having to buy an original for a jillion dollars or that needs a jillion dollars worth of rust repair. We called Corbin to ask some questions, and this thing is very interesting.
The Corbin kit costs just over $5000 with everything you need to build a Camaro body. We’re talking body shell, floors, trunk lid, hood, doors, fenders, inner front fenders, etc. It’s all glass, and bolts onto a factory GM G-Body Chassis. What is interesting about that is the amazing number of parts available for G-Body Chassis, and the relatively cheap price to buy one. Buy a junk 4 door G-Body, scrap the body, build the chassis the way you want, swap the engine, trans, and rear, and then bolt on Corbin’s Camaro body. On the one hand we are intrigued. On the other hand we think it’s weird. What do you think?
This one is for sale directly from Corbin and is a full roller. Buy it and build it and take lots of pics so we can run the project here on BangShift.com.
Click here to see the complete Ebay listing.
The G-body chassis is a great choice for a car you want to drive. It accepts many parts from the other GM mid- and full-size cars like B-body front brakes, F-body sway bars, A-body 12 bolt rears along with other goodies. The real issue you find with them is clean G-body frames are hard these days, most of them are rotted. When you do find one, you’d better hope it’s in a less desirable model, a Monte SS will fetch $4000. They should have engineered that body to fit small S-truck frames. They have the same front end and accept the same parts there, but they have more correct-looking leaf springs out back. They’re much easier to find cheap too.
S-10’s are however narrower and therefore tighter in the engine bay. Would be a limitation for people trying to put big block power in there with a real set of headers. Also I don’t know what it would do for getting track width right with common wheels if the body was as wide as a Camaro.
that being said…. I’d buy one and put it on a 4×4 frame and build an AWD Camaro using Bravada and the late 3.8L Buick V6 block with the Metric 60 bellhousing but still takes parts from the Turbo6.
Nnnnnn…not all our ideas are good ones, huh. Hats-off to the guy for trying it.
S-trucks are too narrow, (3″ less than a G) and couldn’t have a rear seat.
Yeah, but in Cali it would be registered as a G body based on the chassis it sit sits on which means biannual emissions testing.
Hmmmm……Drag Week Project?…I think so !!!!!!!
it sold for $2200. Am I the only one that noticed how badly made the inner doors and detail stuff (firewall, dash, etc) was molded? That thing makes the ’70’s kit cars look overengineered…
As the resident G-body freak, I would be ALL over this if it was a steel body.
Dave nailed it. Make it steel, up the quality because I’m drooling already.