1973 Z28 Camaro

[jbsides]

I bought a new red '73 LT off the showroom floor ($4400US) in the fall of '72. No stripes, no spoilers, with the 5-spokes and what I believed to be the same motor as was in the Z28 backed by a TH400. I remember the salesman telling me that was how to get around paying the extra insurance for the badging. Had finned valvecovers.
A couple years later I purchased a green '73 LT with 5-spokes and it HAD spoilers AND stripes (which were painted on and they had cracked) with A/C and a Saginaw 4-speed with a posi 10-bolt. Is this what is being referred to as an LT Z28, or is it something different? Don't recall the Vin letter.

JB

[al8apex]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jbsides</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I bought a new red '73 LT off the showroom floor ($4400US) in the fall of '72. No stripes, no spoilers, with the 5-spokes and what I believed to be the same motor as was in the Z28 backed by a TH400. I remember the salesman telling me that was how to get around paying the extra insurance for the badging. Had finned valvecovers.
A couple years later I purchased a green '73 LT with 5-spokes and it HAD spoilers AND stripes (which were painted on and they had cracked) with A/C and a <span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Saginaw 4-sp</span>eed</span> with a posi 10-bolt. Is this what is being referred to as an LT Z28, or is it something different? Don't recall the Vin letter.

JB </div></div>

no Saginaw transmissions were installed in Z28's - a PLAIN Type LT with a 4 speed (non Z28) would have a Saginaw, not a Z28 though.

Since someone painted stripes on it it was probably an attempt to &quot;make&quot; a Z28 out of something that wasn't (that NEVER happened/happens does it? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] )

It was likely an early clone or tribute car, not a LT Z28

[Bill Pritchard]

JB,

If the red Type LT you bought new had a T400 and finned valve covers, it definitely had the Z28 option. The green one you bought a couple years later.....hard to say, as people did a lot of things to those cars fairly soon after purchase. It could have been a Type LT Z28 that someone had the stripes painted on, or it could have been just a Type LT without the Z28 option that someone added the wheels and painted the stripes. The 73 Z28 cars that had stripes from the factory were painted on stripes, not decals.

73 was the only year that a Camaro could be a Type LT/Z28/Rally Sport (all 3 on the same car).

[firstgenaddict]

Finned covers factory in 73 is L82/Z28.

As far as the 4 spd goes, if I am not mistaken with the A/C you got the Saginaw... without you got the Muncie or maybe trans was related to gear ratio?

[copo69]

I bought my '73 Z in 1974 from a little blond who ran a classified ad saying she had to sell her second love in order to marry her first. I was in college and through the next few years it got almost the same mods as Bill's. 69 Z intake, angle plug heads, 780 Holley, Cam Dynamics cam, headers, looser converter and shift kit. Cragar S/S mags with L60's on rear and g78's on the front. White rally sport with no stripes and it ran really well. In the early 80's decided to return it to bone stock and still have it today. 16k miles and original paint. Very neat car to drive but I miss the day 2 stuff.

[al8apex]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: copo69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I bought my '73 Z in 1974 from a little blond who ran a classified ad saying she had to sell her second love in order to marry her first. I


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Is that the blonde you bought it from and are those Nancy Sinatra's boots? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[copo69]

That's not the girl I bought it from...that's a shot taken last fall during a photo shoot for a calendar. I think those boots did in fact belong to Nancy Sinatra at one time...lol. The girl I bought the car from cried when she sold it as her fiance was there pressuring here to sell the car as they were late for dinner with his parents and she was agonizing over my offer. The car was completely the opposite of what I was looking for. I had wanted a black, striped, non RS, 4 speed but really fell for this car when I saw it.

[Dicky]

Guys, When I worked at a Chevy dealer I ordered and owned a '73 Z28 also, and I would like to know what the Craigslist car's air cleaner came off of?? I know the '73 Z's had open element filters on the Qudrajets. It reminds me of the '70 model air cleaner. (by the way, mine was silver w/ black guts)

Dicky [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

[Bill Pritchard]

A few pictures of my 73. First two when it was still pretty new and being used as a daily driver...







Next three in about 1978, after I had a custom paint job and did some engine work. Can you say &quot;Day Two&quot;?

[DarrenX33]

Bill-

How bout posting that great picture of all the 73s lined up in front of the gas station?

Also, love the 200-S. What exhaust were you running at that time? I see no tips at the back. Wondering if you were doing header mufflers.