Camaro History On Display Tomorrow Evening

[Day2_69Z]

A complete restoration ahead for this pilot car is an Understatement.
I saw this 67 on the trailer at our
Norwin Cruise a year and 1/2 ago,,
it was a sight for curious eyes and inquiring minds.
Low Vin, Low Body #'s and needing one of everything, Two of most and three of any thing else. Solid Shell, partial interior with power windows.
I didn't see an engine or trans in it or a front clip.....327/210 power glide I think. Good Luck to the new owner/resto shop and congrats to the longtime owner in placing it with the right people......It's a really cool piece of history [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img]

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Corey says he looking forward to the restoration of Pilot car #10. For anyone who may have not made it to MCACN..here is #1 as displayed and with the Norwood Ambassadors [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[Car55_History]

As a native of Cincinnati and touring the Norwood Assembly plant in May 1966, I was very excited to become a part of this history of uncovering this #10 pilot car and documenting the car to help bring the car and its many parts into the &quot;light&quot;. By a remote chance from a &quot;69 Camaro Z28 owner at a car show who referred me to the owner, the timing was just perfect in finding this car which had been sitting on jack stands for 32 years. Along with the Norwood Plant History from Phil Borris efforts to write and publish his fantastic book &quot;Echoes of Norwood&quot; covering the pilot car history brought a greater dimension to what I had found. My goal was to have this car saved and I believe Corey and his son will be up to making this a fine restoration to preserve a valuable part of our automotive history for future generations to enjoy. I look forward to helping them do further parts research and to help them complete the restoration.

Jay Stokes

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Jay,

Thanks for the support. The history on pilot production is being revealed in remarkable clarity.. If you have not had an opportunity check out Lawson's site at http://www.pilotcarregistry.com/

It now contains data on each car. Just click on the main tabs and the sub tabs. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[markjohnson]

Here's another early (8D) Camaro that just popped up on the 'Bay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevrolet-Camaro...=US_Cars_Trucks

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Fisher #2556 VIN 123377N102435 [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

Early regular production... looks like it was parked sometime during the pro street craze.

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First MCACN now fox news:

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/02/2...intcmp=features

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Getting questions as to the April 30th display in Scottsdale AZ.

This is a very special day as the car will be on display and in addition a very special guest will join us.

Scottsdale Resident Herb Leitz the Plant Manager of Chevrolet Norwood Final Assembly will be there to say &quot;Hi&quot; and talk about the Norwood plant and its operations.

Herb was the Deputy Plant Manager under Jack Rhodes from 1967 through early 1969 and then succeeded Mr. Rhodes as the full plant manager through the end of the 1971 build out.

The Herb Leitz &quot;reunion&quot; will be hosted at the Barrett-Jackson showroom in Scottsdale and Herb will be there most of the day to meet and greet Camaro and Firebird owners. Bring your car and a sharpie marker - Herb will be happy to sign and autograph or your trunk lid if you want him to.

There will also be copies of the Team #1 Norwood employee newspaper front page from 1970 that Herb will also autograph if you want a copy.

Several artifacts will be on display including the ultra cool &quot;Norwood production gang Wire Tree&quot; which was a gift to Herb While at Norwood. Here is Herb on the right side of the vintage photo accepting the Wire tree in 1970. The second Photo is Herb and his extended family today. He is now 88!

The man in the center of the family photograph is Steve Leitz - Herb's Son. Steve worked the assembly line at Norwood in 1968 while in attending school.

Steve will be there to meet and greet and talk about life on the &quot;long line&quot; while assembling the 1968's.

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Here is one of the event flyers. Herb may stay later than 12:30 we will see how he feels.. media and TV interviews are set during this period of time as well so he will be one busy 88 year old guy. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[Keith Seymore]

I am glad to see Mr Leitz is doing well.

I worked in his organization as a young buck, in a newly created position which demonstrated the now commonplace concept of having assembly plant representation in the engineering community. I found him to be intelligent, fair and an excellent administrator/manager (as you might expect) and I appreciated my time there.

Please give him my best wishes.

K