Fred Ficarra
Nov 4th, 06, 02:03 PM
I wrote a book and it was lost to cyberspace. I'll try it again;
HELLO EVERYONE!
I bought my 69 Camaro NEW. I'm the original and only owner. It was a gift to me from ME for my 21st birthday. It's a Hugger Orange SS RS Endura bumpered, both spoilers car. The steel ducted hood is fully functional. Everything works but I'm not sure about the headlight washers. They haven't been used since '74. That's the last time I drove the car in the rain. It was too much trouble to wash the bottom everytime it got dirty. The engine is a L88 427, .060 over to 440. It's 12.5:1 open chamber aluminum heads with a really long list of stuff. Yep, 37+ years worth of stuff. Here's a picture;
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/135.JPG
Whadya wanna know?
THAT WORKED!!! OK, I dug this out of my dusty harddrive. I wrote it to Hotrod Magazine. I'll edit it for this site, right after ANOTHER PICTURE.
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/136.JPG
(edited text)
" Like many of us here, I go back to the way things were in the sixties. You could order ANYTHING. Of course 'packages' like the RS and SS had many of the same components but the customer DIDN'T get a discount. That was outlawed in the seventies. Anyway, I took the plunge, in 1969 of course. But I was planning to buy Chevy's answer to the Mustang from the second the Mustang came out when I was in Junior High School. But I had to wait until the day I turned 21 to sign a contract to order my car. It was a present to me, from me, for my 21st birthday. Still have it. I even saved the window sticker but my mother threw it away 30 years ago. I still haven't forgiven her!
My Camaro is a Hugger Orange SS RS big block car. I bought a L88 427 for it a year before I bought the car. Us kids didn't know that the 427 was an RPO! All those Yenkos and Baldwin Motion cars weren't even COPO's.
The first item on my option list was positraction. Because the car had big power a 12 bolt was required, not an option. So was a TH400 with high performance innards. (I wanted an automatic. I was tired of breaking parts) I didn't want power steering. That was dumb. But at least I couldn't turn the wheel without moving the car. (really fast PS went in 25 years ago but I try not to wear the steering components too much) That meant all of the end-links are still tight and original. Hell, most of the car is original, even though I've been applying Hotrod Magazine tricks to it since 1969. Even the PTB are still on the firewall. And the 8 track tape player is still on the console and still works. It's just not hooked to the speakers. I replaced the stock AM radio 25 years ago with a cassette w/Alpine stuff. (still there and time to upgrade again) The other day I notice a 'date stamp' on the inner rear panels. Made the day after my 21st. Same with other stuff like my console gages. They all are functional and original. Hell, so are almost every light bulb in the car. I can tell you exactly which have been replaced and count them on one hand. " And Blah, Blah,,,
One more shot for now; (OK-two more)
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/138.JPG
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/139.JPG
HELLO EVERYONE!
I bought my 69 Camaro NEW. I'm the original and only owner. It was a gift to me from ME for my 21st birthday. It's a Hugger Orange SS RS Endura bumpered, both spoilers car. The steel ducted hood is fully functional. Everything works but I'm not sure about the headlight washers. They haven't been used since '74. That's the last time I drove the car in the rain. It was too much trouble to wash the bottom everytime it got dirty. The engine is a L88 427, .060 over to 440. It's 12.5:1 open chamber aluminum heads with a really long list of stuff. Yep, 37+ years worth of stuff. Here's a picture;
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/135.JPG
Whadya wanna know?
THAT WORKED!!! OK, I dug this out of my dusty harddrive. I wrote it to Hotrod Magazine. I'll edit it for this site, right after ANOTHER PICTURE.
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/136.JPG
(edited text)
" Like many of us here, I go back to the way things were in the sixties. You could order ANYTHING. Of course 'packages' like the RS and SS had many of the same components but the customer DIDN'T get a discount. That was outlawed in the seventies. Anyway, I took the plunge, in 1969 of course. But I was planning to buy Chevy's answer to the Mustang from the second the Mustang came out when I was in Junior High School. But I had to wait until the day I turned 21 to sign a contract to order my car. It was a present to me, from me, for my 21st birthday. Still have it. I even saved the window sticker but my mother threw it away 30 years ago. I still haven't forgiven her!
My Camaro is a Hugger Orange SS RS big block car. I bought a L88 427 for it a year before I bought the car. Us kids didn't know that the 427 was an RPO! All those Yenkos and Baldwin Motion cars weren't even COPO's.
The first item on my option list was positraction. Because the car had big power a 12 bolt was required, not an option. So was a TH400 with high performance innards. (I wanted an automatic. I was tired of breaking parts) I didn't want power steering. That was dumb. But at least I couldn't turn the wheel without moving the car. (really fast PS went in 25 years ago but I try not to wear the steering components too much) That meant all of the end-links are still tight and original. Hell, most of the car is original, even though I've been applying Hotrod Magazine tricks to it since 1969. Even the PTB are still on the firewall. And the 8 track tape player is still on the console and still works. It's just not hooked to the speakers. I replaced the stock AM radio 25 years ago with a cassette w/Alpine stuff. (still there and time to upgrade again) The other day I notice a 'date stamp' on the inner rear panels. Made the day after my 21st. Same with other stuff like my console gages. They all are functional and original. Hell, so are almost every light bulb in the car. I can tell you exactly which have been replaced and count them on one hand. " And Blah, Blah,,,
One more shot for now; (OK-two more)
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/138.JPG
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/139.JPG