Chris' 69 Camaro ( yes I know it's a Chevy .... )

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Chris' 69 Camaro ( yes I know it's a Chevy .... )

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Hi, though it was about time I put some pics of my 69 Camaro on here,I've had the car since 1998 , when I first got it the car was pretty much stock with the original 307ci and TH350 trans, I've since had a 406 small block in which ran 12.40's @113mph with a 3.90 gear and for the last 4 or 5 years it's had the big block in it as follows
540 merlin block with world products iron 'Grumpy Jenkins ' heads, comp mechanical roller cam with around .680 lift ( I forget the rest the cams been in the engine for years when I had it in another car) compression ratio is around 9.3-1 , I wanted the compression this low as I like to put regular unleaded in the tank rather than super, early 70's edelbrock C427 intake which is a low rise dominator intake but I have an adaptor to run a regular square bore 1000cfm Holley , the car is very very basic even down to having a mechanical stock looking fuel pump and steel fuel lines, all the suspension is completely stock apart from traction bars as I like 'period parts ' most things on it like the gauges and the valve covers etc are all old school, it has a Th400 with a 3000 stall coan converter and a DANA 60 rear end with 3.54 gears, it runs 10.60's at around 127-129mph on the motor on regular unleaded. The wheels are 15x3.5" Fentons on the front with 215-75-15 pro tracs and 15x8.5" Americans on the back with L60-15 pro tracs. The car still has the factory manual drum brakes all round which work fine although with the pro tracs on the front the steering is more like piloting a small water craft but as I think it looks cool I'm not too bothered :lol:
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Couple more pics
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Picture perfect, Chris - thanks for posting up! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
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Like the colour fella. Very nice camaro
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70_charger wrote:Like the colour fella. Very nice camaro
Thanks , it actually has a mopar link as its Viper GTS blue , it was that colour when I got it in '98 but it had white stripes so I had them painted out a few years ago , I probably prefer a more period colour to be honest ( fathom green or rallye green which are both 69 Camaro colours ) but with the price of paint these days it will be staying this colour for the foreseeable future , maybe I'll get it painted when I celebrate 40 years of ownership :lol:
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I like that a lot, first yank I ever tried to buy back in 76/77 was a 69 camaro, missed it by 10 minutes. :(
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great looking car there chris strong runner too !! ive just had a black 69 in for work this week but my mate owns this one you may know of the car ?? 540 ci robinson rear end 9.60,s on pump fuel @ 137 he,s got 400 shot of nitrous tryed to run 200 shot at halloween but track far to damp still went 9.6 @ 150. really like these first gen camaros
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Great cars and great photos!

One of my favourite cars.
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Looks great 8-)
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Great car and a favourite of mine too.
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Hi mate
Great looking car and love that colour, what is the story with the number plate ,looks like a Norfolk registration if so where abouts are you .
Mine is EVG 380H
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=P~ =P~ =P~ nice cameros guys !! love the 67 -69 shape 8-) :thumbright: :thumbright: :thumbright: 8-)
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challenger wrote:great looking car there chris strong runner too !! ive just had a black 69 in for work this week but my mate owns this one you may know of the car ?? 540 ci robinson rear end 9.60,s on pump fuel @ 137 he,s got 400 shot of nitrous tryed to run 200 shot at halloween but track far to damp still went 9.6 @ 150. really like these first gen camaros
Hi , no I haven't seen that 68 before looks good I would think it will be in the 8's with a 400 shot , I saw the black 69 at the mopar nats a couple a years ago really nice car :thumbright:
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guy whitwam wrote:Hi mate
Great looking car and love that colour, what is the story with the number plate ,looks like a Norfolk registration if so where abouts are you .
Mine is EVG 380H
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Hi guy, yes it's a Norfolk reg. It came over to lakenheath in 1988 and was registered at Norwich , it's on an H rather than a G as they made 69 Camaros into the '70 model year and it's a late build one , the second gen cars came out midway through 70 hence the 70&1/2 designation you sometimes see them refered to as , although strangely I've never seen a 69&1/2 Camaro advertised :lol:

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Very nice, I really like the first generation Camaros

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