Canuck finally finds a 68 Camaro in Corvette Bronz

[black69]

great pics of a really nice car. I know I have never seen this color in person on a camro unless at best if was used on a 68 vette.

In some of your pictures years back, you show a front tire that looks like a blue streak radial on the correct wheels, and the tires looks really cool, no rounded edges. Can you share more on those tires? I am having issues myself pulling the trigger on ordering goodyear E70 -15 tires for my 68/z (not wanting to wait that long).

great thread!

-bob

[Canuck]

Originally Posted by black69

great pics of a really nice car. I know I have never seen this color in person on a camro unless at best if was used on a 68 vette.

In some of your pictures years back, you show a front tire that looks like a blue streak radial on the correct wheels, and the tires looks really cool, no rounded edges. Can you share more on those tires? I am having issues myself pulling the trigger on ordering goodyear E70 -15 tires for my 68/z (not wanting to wait that long).

great thread!

-bob

These are Goodyear Blue Streak police Radials 215-70-15 on Camaro 15x7 wheels. 3 are NOS and 4 are barely used. This size was used on Dodge Diplomat police cars. I had 2 sets of these in the 70’s and they are a fantastic tire. Kelsey is using these molds to do their new Polyglass Radial look alike. Only one size is available right noe and that is FR70-14.
I am restoring a 1978 Chev Nova 9C1 police car and that is what these are for. Right now they are shop rollers.

[westonz28rs]

All of the burn out getting ready for the races. That is a lot of burnouts to get to 79,000 miles.

[Canuck]

My last postings are over a year old .these next updates are from the summer of 2002. The front clip was removed and the subframe removed to replace with one that didn’t have a big dent in it. I had it blasted and epoxy prime red until I got around to finish and assembly.





After many hours of prep it got the final coat.

[Canuck]

[Canuck]

With the new frame all prepped it was time to take the old one out.




The handy dandy steel workbench came to good use again.



Then the front clip was removed.

[Canuck]

With the frame waiting, I assembled the final stages of the freshly built 302. It’s dated March 23 1968 and the car is an April 13 build. Notice the faint MO still on the block.

[Canuck]

The rear suspension had all been finished and exhaust installed. I added a rear sway bar from a 69 Nova and installed KYB shocks painted Koni Orange ,that’s actually Chevrolet Engine Orange.

[BJCHEV396]

Lookin' great Paul,keep up the good work!

[Canuck]

At this point I was going to re assemble the car and break in the new driveline. As my Olds 442 was about to come back to me I decided to send the Camaro for painting (Nov 2022).
So with the front clip loosely in place and all trim and door hardware removed off it went.



All the detail work I did was carefully covered up and the frame will be removed for the firewall paint and preparation.