1969 Camaro

[coobies5 43]

Mom got her a '69 camaro the other week as a toy/project

Just a base model 307, holley carb, edelbrock aluminum intake, all new exhaust minus the manifolds, 10 bolt rear end, muncie 4 speed. Plans are to do a LS swap, disc conversion, possibly a/c and restore it little by little.

[coobies5 43]

[azagtoth502 31]

Nice Camaro there

[Sencheezy 689]

lloks clean

[coobies5 43]

Thanks yall!

It's not showroom by any means, just a driver, but we plan on cleaning it up and restoring it bit by bit.

[Randal Johnson 544]

Nice Ride

[nem 2,019]

Nice car there!

[swift 501]

Love the old Camaros. Nice car!

[coobies5 43]

Nice Ride

Nice car there!

Love the old Camaros. Nice car!

Thanks everyone

[onebadmonte 235]

Let me know when you're ready for some a/c and engine accessory brackets for that LS swap. I might be able to help. Sweet project.

[coobies5 43]

Let me know when you're ready for some a/c and engine accessory brackets for that LS swap. I might be able to help. Sweet project.

Awesome, if my metal fab guy can't help me out, I'll be sure and contact you Hugo, thanks!

[j-roadtatts 1,129]

Sweet ride!!

[mlcantin 32]

It must feel amazing to drive around with system in that Camaro. I really dig the 69 model.

[coobies5 43]

Both sides the coils had snapped one coil off and was just laying the lower control arm......and those shocks.......holy crap. Travway shocks, a quick google search informed me that k-mart carried them back in 1979......I compressed them yesterday when I took them off and they are still compressed. Front end is pretty much stripped clean, I have one lower control arm bolt that is giving me hell but tomorrow it will be out one way or another.

[coobies5 43]

went ahead and dropped the control arms off to be blasted and coated and new bushings/ball joints pressed in. Went ahead and wire wheeled the frame and put some rustoleum on it, used the rust primer then regular flat protective enamel.

[coobies5 43]

[onebadmonte 235]

Yay! We all scream "yay" for progress. Awesome dude! Pretty soon you'll be going vroom vroom up and down the roads raising all sorts of hell. Muahahahah!

[coobies5 43]

Hell yeah!

 

I'm about to place my order for some new moog coils, hotchkis shocks and some drop-in multi leaf springs for a mono perch along with new shackles, pads and u-bolts.

 

Today I removed the booster/master cylinder and some of the brake lines, going to try and get to the rear end tomorrow if the weather is nice. Probably put the rear on jack stands and remove the whole axle and try to disassemble/assemble it in the garage and just slide it back up there to only hook up the lines and that's it.

[coobies5 43]

Had a bit of trouble trying to remove the shackles off this old car, so my neighbor came over and helped me slide the rear end out across the leafs. Trying to avoid having to drop the tank and cut off the shackles as much as I can.

 

[BigGuy 22]

3.42 or 3.73 with posi.  Light em up!!!

[coobies5 43]

3.42 or 3.73 with posi.  Light em up!!!

i think it has 3.08 which is fine, just means high speeds, lol and traction. Going to be doing a LS swap in it later on and it will for sure need as much traction as it can get.

[matthewvance 0]

Edited July 3, 2013 by Aaron Clinton

[coobies5 43]

removed the gas tank, grinded the heads off of the spring brackets and shackles and torched the bolts too and voila! two broken leaf springs were found. then I had to spend a hour or two trying to get the leaf spring eye bolts out of the brackets and remove the shackle bushings from the frame. i have all the old brake hard lines out and am about to start installing the new booster/master cylinder and hard lines then do the front suspension.

[coobies5 43]

tried pulling the rear end apart to pull the axles and remove the drum backing plates and the bolt that holds the centering pin in place snapped in half, so i tried to remove it with an extractor and it broke too. went ahead and dropped it off at pyle bros and they said they should be able to get it out and chase the threads to make sure it's good and i'll have it back soon.

 

in the meantime, i went ahead and put the new hardlines in up front and hope to do the rear tomorrow, along with installing the new booster/master cylinder.

[NighthawkFG 6]

You should throw an air ride suspension under it and I suppose your going with the LS motor for better fuel mileage over a carberated motor.