67 Camaro Autocross Build

[Spyke427]

I have a few minutes where I can't work on the car, fix anything on my house and am not at work so I'm going to try and start the build thread I have wanted to make for a long time. The car is a 67 Camaro my dad gave me when I was a kid. it was a 327 manual trans car from the factory and unfortunately spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania rotting out. I have replaced a lot of sheet metal and there still is more to do but little by little It is getting back to road worthy. I hope to rebuild this into an autocross car that can be drive to the track and go to a cruse here and there.

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The car has come a long way from when these photos were taken. I will do my best to get the photos loaded up and provide some notes as to what was being done.

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Here is where the upper control arms got relocated. It took some work to get the Global West control arms to clear the mount.

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Not Long after getting the sub frame sandblasted and doing the Guldstrand mod I got a new job Opportunity in Tennessee so I bolted the car together enough to have it shipped to the new home. Here i took a photo of the bottom of the car when it was up in the trailer. I was so concerned it would be the last time I saw it. As if anyone would want that rotten rust bucket.

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A couple years later in the new to me shed I had the opportunity to get back into the project.

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I started seeing builds like Bad Penny and Red Devil and I knew I wanted to build something like them of my own. It was about this time I added the front sway bar.

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I originally intended to rebuild the leaf spring suspension to keep costs down and get the car going in short order. Unfortunately, the amount of rust under the car really became the deciding factor in favor of a much more involved project that has gone way out of control. I found out just how bad when my jack collapsed the rear passenger side frame rail while trying to jack the car up. Rebuilding the rear stuff became replacing everything.

[ryeguy2006a]

Looks like a fun project and reminds me of the early days rebuilding my 68. Keep up the progress and you'll be driving it. Pick something to do each week and try not to be tempted by scope creep.

[BonzoHansen]

Love it!

[Spyke427]

Thank you for your encouragement. Unfortunately or fortunately, the project has gotten way out of hand. I will try and dump as many photos as possible tonight so I can show how much work has gone into this thing over the last few years.

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I ended up replacing framerails which led to replacing the rear seat pan and torque plates. I'm not doing a good job putting these photos in order. I am trying to find the photos I took of all the measurements and the templates I made so that I knew the new rails would go in correctly.

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After the frame rails were replaced, I did a minitub using the Dynacorn wheel wheels. I also replaced the trunk floor and rear seat pan.

[phtcbra]

Awesome work, love seeing the older stuff get rebuilt and brought back for another 30-40 years. Keep up the progress.

[Spyke427]

Thank you. This is the first time I have looked at the photos since they were taken. I am happy with the progress. I am frustrated with my lack of file keeping skills though and so I am spending a little time organizing my photos so that I can do a better job of posting them in order.

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New minitubs installed. I bought the cheap ones on eBay and they did not come with all the small bits and frame inserts needed to notch the framerails. I ended up making all the parts from scratch. I think if I was to do this part again I would buy the DSE ones.