Re: Grumpy's Toy Camaro's
The 70 camaro Toy #8 was found as a tube chassis race car with some of it's original body shell remaining,and was restored and featured in a magazine.It had been discussed extensivly around here.
The 68 Camaro was sold to Brooklyn heavy back in 1971,the feds came to confiscate all of heavy's stuff back in the early 70's for some legal problems that he had.Witnesses to the raid said that the Camaro was not at the shop during the raid,and Heavy claimed it was at his "down south" house and was taken from there by the cops.A driver for Heavy at the time by the name of Carmen Rotunda,a speed shop owner form New Jersey,was said to have had that car the entire time and raced it in Modified Production back in the 70's after Heavy was arrested.There was some confusion since Heavy owned another 68 Camaro That he owned since before he bought the Jenkins car and it was believed that the car that Rotunda had was the other car not the Jenkins car.
I never followed the history of the 69 other then to say that I have heard that it was originally a non RS L78 car.This was stated by a few people to clear the air about the specualtion that the car was really a ZL1 because it was raced with an aluminum block in Stock classes.
A car being backhalfed wouldnt be reason to chalk it up to history,today they restore cars based off finding the original roof,quarters and doorjambs,and they replace everything else.
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