Street Source Magazine
Street Source Magazine

1967 Chevy Camaro

mattconrad (3 owner profiles)
Purchased: 2002-08-25

Engine

396 BIG BLOCK .040 over. Weiand tunnel ram w/ twin four barrel holleys. Worked closed chamber heads w/ manley 2.19/1.88 valves. All forged bottom end. Lunati roller rockers,lifters, and cam. Hooker ceramic coated headers w/ 2.5 inch dual flowmaster exhaust 40 series mufflers. All mallory digital ignition,coil,wires, and distributor. Lots of chrome. Electric CSI water pump. Flex-lite dual fans w/ aluminum radiatior(5 inches wider than stock radiator). Motor is backed by richmond 4-speed tranny with a 2.88:1 first gear ratio. This motor winds very quick. Lots of horsepower.

Exterior

Original rallysport car with SS badges. 99% of trim is brand new. The color I custom mixed using the PT cruiser Deep Cranberry Pearlcoat as a base with 3 different color pearls in it. The clearcoat I put 4 different color pearls in with a very high ratio of violet pearl. The SS stripe is pearl white with violet pearl.

Interior

All brand new black deluxe interior. Autometer Ultralite gauges. 8 switch panel molded into the console door for the accessories.

Suspension

2 inch hotchkis drop springs up front. 1 inch lowering blocks in the back. All polyurethan bushings. Hotchkis 1 1/8 inch swaybar in front. Four wheel power disc brakes from Stainless Steel Brake Company. Rear end is a 8.5 inch chevy 10 bolt w/ 4.11:1 posi gears. The undercarriage is all painted as well as the suspension pieces. I did a frame-off restoration. Everything on this car is put together with stainless steel allen head bolts(Look closely at the motor bolts).

Wheels

Front: 17x7 Cragar SS wheels w/ 225/45 tires
Rear: 17x 9 Cragar SS wheels with 255/40 tires
Tires are yokohama es100

Stereo

A CD player w/ (4)pioneer 6x9's that I listened to for months while working late nights on the car in the garage, but when the motor was running I never turned on the damn thing. Makes me wonder why i worried about the stereo? The motor sound out the pipes was enough for me.

Awards

I sold this car at Turkey Run 2003 in daytona in less than 2 hours on the first day. I did not get to take it to any shows. It took me over a year and a half to do the frame off restoration on this car. I sold it with only 70 miles on the car. I will take the look on peoples faces as an award as I was parked at the stoplights. The best award is the look on the guys face when i was stoped at a red light with a 300z rice car when i brought it at about 5000 rpm's.

Future Plans

i will get pics up as soon as i can. I sold this car faster than I thought I would have. If i kept the car I was going to put on a direct port nitrous injection from NOS at around 250 horsepower but after driving the car there was really no need.