Camaro History On Display Tomorrow Evening

[70 copo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bcmiller</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh, come on now. Be nice. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>

I am [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[L72copocamaro]

Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone. I'm sure it will, but turrets won't let me stop....is it possible that with no hidden vins that it could be rebodied and only the trunk floor reused as evidence of it's history? That might explain the trunklid.

[70 copo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L72copocamaro</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone. I'm sure it will, but turrets won't let me stop....is it possible that with no hidden vins that it could be rebodied and only the trunk floor reused as evidence of it's history? That might explain the trunklid. </div></div>

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img] it will only offend you when I have to waste more time posting pictures of the quarters being patched in.

[L72copocamaro]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L72copocamaro</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone. I'm sure it will, but turrets won't let me stop....is it possible that with no hidden vins that it could be rebodied and only the trunk floor reused as evidence of it's history? That might explain the trunklid. </div></div>

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img] it will only offend you when I have to waste more time posting pictures of the quarters being patched in. </div></div>

Post away. They can't be any worse in comparison to the trunk lid photos.

[70 copo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L72copocamaro</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L72copocamaro</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone. I'm sure it will, but turrets won't let me stop....is it possible that with no hidden vins that it could be rebodied and only the trunk floor reused as evidence of it's history? That might explain the trunklid. </div></div>

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img] it will only offend you when I have to waste more time posting pictures of the quarters being patched in. </div></div>

Post away. They can't be any worse in comparison to the trunk lid photos. </div></div>

Quarters were rebuilt and patched in. Trunk lid was restored using the original skin.

You know perhaps you can explain something to me... Being serious and not sarcastic:

With all the criticism and banter that goes on pertaining to a so called rebody restoration....when somebody actually goes all out to do the restoration in a way that saves literally everything that can be saved as accomplished with pilot #1 seemingly this is exactly what the hobby would applaud and support right??

Yet You seem critical...tell me why--I am curious as to the rationale.

[427TJ]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

With all the criticism and banter that goes on pertaining to a so called rebody restoration....when somebody actually goes all out to do the restoration in a way that saves literally everything that can be saved as accomplished with pilot #1 seemingly this is exactly what the hobby would applaud and support right??

Yet You seem critical...tell me why--I am curious as to the rationale. </div></div>

Because the Internet makes it easy to nit-pick and criticize. It empowers otherwise invisible people (yes, me too) to become visible by sounding educated and informed on a given subject, often while actually being not at all educated and informed on a given subject. People complain that the world has too many lawyers. Well, it seems many of those 'lawyers' exist on car forums for the sole purpose of making themselves visible through endless nit-picking and critique.

If one of the &quot;big gorillas&quot; owned this car--and explained it as it has been explained here--the glowing praise and adulation would be nauseating.

[L72copocamaro]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Yet You seem critical...tell me why--I am curious as to the rationale. </div></div>

It's my nature to be skeptical until presented with the facts. Don't get me wrong, I think the car is real. I'm not questioning that at all. I just wonder how much of it is real. The reason given for saving the original trunk floor sounds unrealistic and the trunk lid photos that you posted do not help your position in my opinion. The car looks fantastic; kudos to the owner for getting it done, especially at that cost. But if you're going to put it out there and pump it up with originality, yet not show your work, you need to be prepared for the questions.

[FESTIVAL78]

Phil. Any chance you could furnish the Social Security numbers of the older fellows in the parking lot? I'd like to quickly make sure they are who you say they are.
Please thank the owner for spending a 1/4 of a million dollars for our collective hobbie. I honestly appreciate the car being saved in such a well executed way.
I'd like to thank you personally for the thousand + hours you have spent researching the factory the proper and correct was and then putting it to ink for all posterity

Tom McGinnity

[bcmiller]

You included one above. But here are the two pics.

[427TJ]

Leave this poor car alone! It's cool that someone found it and restored it as best as he thought necessary. If it was &quot;fake&quot; then the sniffers would expose it as such. If you had a financial interest in the car, as in buying it, then yeah, some kit-picking would be in order. This car is an interesting part of Camaro--and automotive--history. Relax and appreciate it for what it is.

The Internet is ruining the car &quot;hobby.&quot;