thought i would start a new post as the other was getting quite long
made it home last night after 3000 miles of driving with the z28 that was in barn for over 20 years covered in dust. Owner had taken it from the barn and washed the car and had all parts pulled out and ready to go for me. I think he had tears in his eyes as I was leaving. I have a couple pics of it cleaned up that i'll try and post

awaiting the pics

hope you took plenty in the "before" condition

Yes Please Pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ill have pics in the morning, before I arrived the owner removed it from the barn and washed the car and cleaned out the interior and the trunk, the smell would take your breath away.. I was actually hoping to do the washing when i got home...and now that it is safely in my hands i can say that it came from western Oklahoma where it has been since 1969. I got all the extra parts that the owner had as well, found the 480 distributor in a box behind a bunch of other stuff. Other than needing some work on the quarters its very solid, paint is still shiny on the floors under the carpet. Had about 4 offers to sell it on the way home. I do have a couple pics of it still on my trailer if i can post them and try and link them

Western Okla is not far from me. Very dry. Good to hear you got it home. Post the pictures.

Another one comes to our great white north!!! Question, if its been called a Z(pronounce zeee) all it's life, will it still come when you call it a Zed (proper way to pronounce):) EH!
All kidding aside, nice find.

hah..when i was dealing with the owner i referred to it as a "zed" a few times,all i got was ..its a zee, whats a zed? ..same as "yall" and "eh"...I have the new pics in photobucket, trying again to link it here

can't link it,maybe someone with more comp knowledge than me can do it

How did ya find it ?

have family there, talked to a guy who knew about some old cars not far from where i stay, bought 5 camaro's in total off the family, 3 are at home already

Wow thats cool . glad to see some one got lucky : )
Still looking << may be forced to shop Ebay

I can set them up on photobucket if you want. Email them to me at Rivparadise@hotmail.com and I will do this for you. We are all anxious to see the pics of the car cleaned up. If I remember the other pics correctly it looked like an entire herd of mice had set up home in the trunk.

Mark

I can set them up on photobucket if you want. Email them to me at Rivparadise@hotmail.com and I will do this for you. We are all anxious to see the pics of the car cleaned up. If I remember the other pics correctly it looked like an entire herd of mice had set up home in the trunk.

Mark

Mouse motor factory huh?

ill send them to you thanks...they took out 2 garbage bags of mouse and rabbit droppings, i think there is still 2 more to go

Dammit it, man, I have no nails left! I need a fix of PICS!

Guys and gals:

I have the pics and will set them up tonight.

Mark

ill send them to you thanks...they took out 2 garbage bags of mouse and rabbit droppings, i think there is still 2 more to go

May have to open up a can of coffee and roll up windows, let it set for about a month. If there was any cross breeding between mice and rabbits,,, you will have some awfully fast large mice.

they must have been big, took out the back seat today and found several of the rear seatbelts have been chewed up pretty bad, i did find the crayon mark of the "7" on the bulkhead, took a pic of it, pretty clear but there is some glue that has been sprayed on the that area, got date code of rear end
BU0506G2, then E under that, no surprises yet on the car, came with an extra door to replace the passenger that was hit 25 years ago

Okay folks here are the pics. The car looks really good to me.


Mark

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/NmillerZ28/?sc=1&addtype=local

Agreed, looks real nice. Needs air in driver side tires and a washer hose.

I remember the decals from the 70's.

they must have been big, took out the back seat today and found several of the rear seatbelts have been chewed up pretty bad, i did find the crayon mark of the "7" on the bulkhead, took a pic of it, pretty clear but there is some glue that has been sprayed on the that area, got date code of rear end
BU0506G2, then E under that, no surprises yet on the car, came with an extra door to replace the passenger that was hit 25 years ago

Does the rear code out : 3:73, May 06, 69? Looks like the boy is asking, Daddy , can I drive? Thats gonna be a good future photo for him.

very nice good luck with it

AS you have time available, I would appreciate some pictures of all that original paint. Cowl area, rear window area showing stripes. Thanks.

Great find. Do you have pics of the other four.
I say let the kid drive it. He can brag his first car was a camaro.:)

thanks for the comments, the kids like the car, wife likes it better than my elcamino and monte carlo, I do have pics of the 69 rs car, just a shell and subframe but very solid, the other 69 i do have some it, its going to be sold to help pay for the Z, also have pics of the other 2 that i'll be going down for this coming week, and i will get some extra pics of the paint etc, still has the green paint P,B,T stamps on firewall

Boy, I thought I had to many projects. My hat is off to you. Nice to see these cars being saved. Keep the pictures coming.

It is a nice starting point.
I didn't take any pics of the cowl (too dirty), but it is very typical Z painting. Some white on the top of the cowl, but not complete coverage.
Oh, and it did stink..... :)

Nice find, how many miles does the car have on it? Did the the seller have any of the original documentation?

car has 65,000 on it which is original, hasnt gone around..I have the pics of the RS car to show the back up lamps and cowl area to see if everything looks original..again my apologies for not being able to figure out that link to photobucket

Throzoo:

I sent and email reply to your regular email along with the link to photobucket, your user ID and password I set up for you. It shouldn't be too difficult from there. Just click the button to upload pictures and go to explorer and double click the pictures you want to upload. You can do it, it's not too difficult.

Mark

have the images loaded up but linking here is where i'm having problems

if you go up the page a bit to the link the pics are there, a couple of the Z and also the 69 rs, the 67rs with a tag pic as well, the 68 coupe and one of my Monte Carlo that my father and I just finished...no laughing at the "custom" overhead light in the Z

Go to photobucket, login and go to your album of pictures. Highlight the address in the address bar, this will be the URL that starts with HTTP up top, it will turn blue when you have it highlighted. Hold down the ctrl key in the lower left of your keyboard and then hit c and release both keys. Then go to this thread. Start a reply and with the cursor in the reply box hit ctrl V jsut like you did ctrl c earlier. This will paste the link to your pics in your reply.

Good luck.

here goes

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/NmillerZ28/http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/NmillerZ28/http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/NmillerZ28/http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/NmillerZ28/

im gonna freak..not working yet

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/NmillerZ28/

hallelujah...i can finally stop pulling my hair out, thanks for all the patience
enjoy the pics, and if someone can tell me if the rs looks to be original
thanks Mark

Yea, My friend,s wife in Florida keeps on telling me.it,s alright to say EH! once in awhile. She is from up North. Great People.
I would of shot a video of the new find.Once in a life time for these kind of dreams.

Worth calling in sick tomorrow at work.

Glad we could help. Thanks for posting the pics. We look forward to seeing more as the restoration progresses.

Mark

Kool interior dome map light,, just missing the crystal and fan.

great find. the r/s looks legite, the cutouts in the tailpanel looks like a factory cut.

I thought they looked factory, id like to keep it to but the z will take priority, cant fix them all, though i would like to

The old school dome/rolling light is still intact, id bet there were many twisted using that light.

You mean that thing is supposed to be there? Wow, I do have a lot to learn. Do you think if you were fast enough on the switch you could get the strobe light effect? That would be failrly cosmic after you stopped to twist.

Mark:p

No its not supposed to be there, maybe a pothead owned it at one time is all im saying.

That makes more sense. It might also explain all the really hungry mice and rabbits that inhabited the car for years and just wouldn't leave. I guess throzoo will have to be prepared for the car to naturally stop at all the mini marts for oreos.

Mark