Original rear sway bar?? or not.

[allcamaro]

The short history on the car is it looks to have some road race alterations small but evedent, support bars and such, lowered the springs ect but a low mile very original car.

[John Brown]

Rear sway bar wasn't available on 69 Camaro, to my knowledge.

May have been available "over the counter".

[Jeff H]

Definitely not the GM over the counter setup. It attached completely differently and the bar was shaped different. That looks like an early aftermarket setup.

[Rick H]

The rear sway bar and attachments are not original. The frame bracket looks homemade and the two support arms are from a late model Camaro/Firebird. I.E. Late 1970's, early 80's.

Rick H.

[1967Z28]

I believe the old Chevy parts books listed a rear sway bar set-up for the '70-'72 Nova SS. Something like that would work in an early Camaro. Could this be one of those?

-Jon

[John Brown]

The Nova bar would work on a 69 Camaro, but it's narrower than the one pictured and uses wider shock mount/spring mounting plates that attach the bar end bushings. Also the upper "links" for the Nova bar attach to stamped brackets that are spot welded to the underside of the trunk floor, not the frame rails.

[iluv69s]

i have seen on other camaro sights that state that the rear sway bar was not available original on 69 camaro, but i definetly bought one years ago out of a junkyard that i am 99.9999% sure came from GM with the sway bar. The reason is that the upper link mounts were bolted up with a 'Ú'type bolt that came through the frame rails(as opposed to 2 separate bolts....I had to cut through the floor boards in order to remove it...I cannot see how anyone could have installed this Ú'bolt after the floor and frame rails were welded together...this was atleast 15 years ago and I wish I could have documented it...but who knew?? I did install the bar on my 69 SS camaro...maybe its still around...it was an original cortez silver car...then painted orange...I would know the car if I saw it because I also installed power windows...and put in a non-original big block...I sold the car in North Jersey somewhere...
....not that my opinion matters, but they never made a convertible 68 Z-28 either!!!

[budnate]

I would like to see a pic of your bar, I pulled one from a '69 bird in the '80s and it had the u-bolt you are refering to but if you wiggled it just right it could be pulled around and out one of the holes, I always thought it was JC Whitney piece??? never installed it on anything and not sure where it went??? it was a treasured piece in the '80's to have a rear bar...