My 69 Camaro Project - updated pics

[Rybar]

Thanks alot guys,

Tony, your site is awesome. I've found a ton of LS1 info over there that swayed my decision to go with it.

Craig & Steve,

I know 100% what you mean, you start something like this thinking it's all easy and your only going to do so much and spend so much $$$!! Then a new car comes out in a magazine article, and your like left in the dust! Mind keeps changing, as you want better parts etc. And the thing just blows up! You all know it, the SNOWBALL EFFECT!! You see guys building magazine rides in less than year and it's tough to compete. Now this show Overhaulin (which I love) they build a car in 7 days ??!!??

I started this project in 01/1999 in the mean time, I've had a few major hold-ups let's just say. Started my own business, bought a house & fully renovated it, got married, wife started a new job, my dad went through a messy retirement with his ex-partners and my mom's been through cancer twice.

It's amazing what life will throw at you, now were talking about having our first baby, and I can't wait to share this car with my family down the road one day. It's going to be awesome. And I have to thank my wife! She's been behind me 100% blowing all this money we "should" be saving and investing.

Oh well, I love this sh*t, I'm always going to be a gearhead at heart. And I'm leaving my LS1 relatively stock, so I can have room to play later on. Let's just say stroker with AFR's in a few years time.

[Nine Ball]

I think most of us are guilty of going further than planned. When I purchased my '69 I was just planning on throwing a heads/cam LS1 under the hood without any dress up items, and maybe changing the brakes, wheels, tires. I didn't plan on chroming/polishing/powdercoating everything I could get my hands on until about the middle of the build. Then I went nuts on smoothing the firewall and other stuff I wasn't originally going to do. I figured once I had it tore to pieces in the garage that I'd just go ahead and do things the right way. We all know how that goes!