They’re disappearing

[1967 4K]

Good pic of the gold 69 Jeff thanks for posting that. My point is these base non performance, non SS, plain Jane, whatever you want to call them Camaros are becoming a thing of the past. I understand exactly what ARC is wanting to do with a base car and that’s fine n dandy with me.
These cars are the bread n butter, the bones of our hobby we all enjoy them and you hardly ever see one out at the cruise in or shows in my area. Last year at the Somernite Cruise In I saw a base 67 Camaro coupe with a small block automatic column shift. I spent a half hour looking at small things that were untouched, understanding things I need to correct on my car.
I know of a 67 and 69 long time family owned base cars around me. I’ll try n get a few pics of them and post them up for everyone to see.

Later

[Too Many Projects]

My first Camaro was a 1967, base 327, column shift, powerglide car. I bought it from my supervisor at my first full time job, right out of HS, in 1970. Being we lived in the St Paul area of MN, we deal with snow and he was a ski patrol officer at a ski resort in Lutsen MN, so he ordered it with a positraction axle with the standard 3.08 ratio. It had an AM radio, but I don't recall if it was push button or manual, since as an 18 yr old, I HAD to put a better aftermarket radio in. At only 3.5 yrs old it had 100,000 miles and needed a new exhaust. No teenager was going to replace the single exhaust with original....so it got a dual exhaust and it just HAD to have one of those super cool rear spoilers...right ??!!

[big gear head]

That '66 Fairlane GT looks like it's got a lot of potential.

[1967 4K]

Yes and it appears to be a GT. I like the 66, 67 Fairlanes especially with a R Code 427 in them.

[Formula455SD]

I'd take an untouched base model over a cloned SS/Z28 any day.

[SupremeDeluxe]

Yes, those Camaros seem to be nearly extinct. I remember in high school (1993-1997), there were still a lot of first-gen basic cars in the weekly Auto Trader and Tradin' Times. Going rate for a drivable car was $4-5K. I was poor and had a max of $2500 to work with on my best days. I wasted any money I could make on engineering school at Northwestern. Of course, all those cars had rust or rust repairs in the quarters and fenders by then (unkind Chicago climate), but they were drivable. Still never achieved 69 Camaro ownership 27 years later!

Who remembers the eager anticipation of going to 7-11 early on Thursday morning to get the new issue of Auto Trader??

[Pro Stock John]

Originally Posted by SupremeDeluxe

Yes, those Camaros seem to be nearly extinct. I remember in high school (1993-1997), there were still a lot of first-gen basic cars in the weekly Auto Trader and Tradin' Times. Going rate for a drivable car was $4-5K. I was poor and had a max of $2500 to work with on my best days. I wasted any money I could make on engineering school at Northwestern. Of course, all those cars had rust or rust repairs in the quarters and fenders by then (unkind Chicago climate), but they were drivable. Still never achieved 69 Camaro ownership 27 years later!

Who remembers the eager anticipation of going to 7-11 early on Thursday morning to get the new issue of Auto Trader??

I bought / sold a bunch of cars through the Tradin' Times and I used to look at Autotrader all the time. The cheapest car I ever bought was a '68 Chevelle 300 deluxe, I think I paid $400 for it. Six cylinder power glide 2 door. My buddy still has it he's of course put a small block in there.

Those days are gone because the cars got fixed up or just plain rusted out. I picked up a '69 Nova SS former drag car for about $600, the gas tank was held in by the straps that went over some conduit lol. This was in 1991 and already the car was very rusty. Good times.

[60sStuff]

Originally Posted by Pro Stock John

I bought / sold a bunch of cars through the Tradin' Times and I used to look at Autotrader all the time. The cheapest car I ever bought was a '68 Chevelle 300 deluxe, I think I paid $400 for it. Six cylinder power glide 2 door. My buddy still has it he's of course put a small block in there.

Those days are gone because the cars got fixed up or just plain rusted out. I picked up a '69 Nova SS former drag car for about $600, the gas tank was held in by the straps that went over some conduit lol. This was in 1991 and already the car was very rusty. Good times.

The good old Autotrader, was good times buying and selling.

[RPOLS3]

Originally Posted by SupremeDeluxe

Who remembers the eager anticipation of going to 7-11 early on Thursday morning to get the new issue of Auto Trader??

This ^^^ .......except I was so broke I usually picked them up second hand at someone's shop after someone else rifled through them.

[CamaroNOS]

It was like yesterday that I would sit in the parking lot of the local corner store waiting for the Auto Trader magazine delivery to show up and another great buy and sell newspaper here in Ontario called the Tri-Ad.

These would supply me with a good hour of entertainment with a hot cup of coffee from Tim Hortons.

Boy I miss those days.....

Paul