TimmyP
10-06-2025, 06:45 PM
Hi all,
I’ve been a car nut for as long as I can remember—since I was eight, to be exact—when a neighbor started showing me the dark arts of resurrecting tired old machines. That was 49 years ago. I’m 57 now, and the disease hasn’t let go.
At 14, I bought my first car: a ’68 Camaro. No engine, no transmission, no interior, and the sort of rust you’d expect to find on the Titanic. The plan was simple: spend two years making it roadworthy and drive it at 16. By some miracle, it did run and drive by then, but as you can imagine, it still needed far more than my teenage wallet could handle. So I sold it, reluctantly, for something more practical.
Fast-forward to 2011. Better funded, older, and supposedly wiser, I bought a ’67 Camaro off eBay. It looked great on the screen. In person? Not so much. And driving it? Even worse. I threw suspension, brakes, engine, and interior bits at it—catalog parts galore—but in the end it still disappointed. So I did the sensible thing and moved it on immediately.
Then in December of 2019, I decided it was time for another go. This time, though, the goal was different: not just a “nice old Camaro,” but something that could hold its own against the modern machines I’d grown used to. Something that looked the part, but could also stop, turn, and accelerate with the best of them.
I’ll post a few teaser shots of the current ’69 Camaro build here, and promise a full build thread shortly. Think of this as the beginning of the story rather than the end.
Glad to be here, and looking forward to sharing the journey (and probably borrowing plenty of your collective wisdom along the way).
—Tim
218635
Donor car on the left, new Dynacorn body on the right.
218636
Roadster Shop Fast Track IRS Chassis
218637
Chassis back at home for assembly
218634
Almost ready for the body
218638
On the chassis and getting ready for final paint.
I’ve been a car nut for as long as I can remember—since I was eight, to be exact—when a neighbor started showing me the dark arts of resurrecting tired old machines. That was 49 years ago. I’m 57 now, and the disease hasn’t let go.
At 14, I bought my first car: a ’68 Camaro. No engine, no transmission, no interior, and the sort of rust you’d expect to find on the Titanic. The plan was simple: spend two years making it roadworthy and drive it at 16. By some miracle, it did run and drive by then, but as you can imagine, it still needed far more than my teenage wallet could handle. So I sold it, reluctantly, for something more practical.
Fast-forward to 2011. Better funded, older, and supposedly wiser, I bought a ’67 Camaro off eBay. It looked great on the screen. In person? Not so much. And driving it? Even worse. I threw suspension, brakes, engine, and interior bits at it—catalog parts galore—but in the end it still disappointed. So I did the sensible thing and moved it on immediately.
Then in December of 2019, I decided it was time for another go. This time, though, the goal was different: not just a “nice old Camaro,” but something that could hold its own against the modern machines I’d grown used to. Something that looked the part, but could also stop, turn, and accelerate with the best of them.
I’ll post a few teaser shots of the current ’69 Camaro build here, and promise a full build thread shortly. Think of this as the beginning of the story rather than the end.
Glad to be here, and looking forward to sharing the journey (and probably borrowing plenty of your collective wisdom along the way).
—Tim
218635
Donor car on the left, new Dynacorn body on the right.
218636
Roadster Shop Fast Track IRS Chassis
218637
Chassis back at home for assembly
218634
Almost ready for the body
218638
On the chassis and getting ready for final paint.