My old SS396

[Steve Wood]

Now has 800 hp of LS

[Steve Wood]

and

[Tim Hensley]

so nice

[nocooler]

NIce - looks awesome

[Grumpy]

Wow ...

[wmsonta]

Not sure what is going on with Texas, early Camaro convertibles and big LS power. An acquaintance of mine just completed an LS for his customer. After a dyno break-in and tune, it will go into a '69 Camaro convertible.
Not sure of the size allowed, might try a picture-

[wmsonta]

here goes-

[Steve Wood]

It belongs to someone in Oklahoma

[wmsonta]

Good.
I was beginning to think Texas had more than their share of early Camaro convertibles.
In my limited world, they were rare.

[Steve Wood]

I think there were around 1900.  The purchaser of mine did some work to it and then he found one of the original (7, I think) Indy Pace cars that had been restored and he bought that as well.  Then he set out of "improve" mine with modern components.  It's pretty slick, for sure. 

[wmsonta]

  It's pretty slick, for sure.

yes.

[Forzfed]

Very Nice!  One sweet car!

[Grumpy]

Good to see it being used 

[Steve Wood]

Yes, it is.  I did a lot of work on it about 20 years ago, then I stripped the wiring harness out, did some other stuff but it basically was just sitting in my shop needing to be put back together.  It sat long enuf to flatten the tires, it turned out.

I was talking to my eye doctor who is a car guy and mentioned that I had this car in my shop.  Told him that he needed a rare car to add to his collection which at the time had a turbo Porsche and a new McLaren amongst other things.  He said he would love to have it but it would kill his brother who had wanted a 69 Camaro SS all his life.  His brother is a doctor also.

My doc was passing thru town one day and stopped to look at it.  It was basically, apart, covered with dust and being used as a shelf.  That took him back a bit even tho I had told him it needed to put back together.  He said his brother would like to look at it but he didn't know if was too much for him or not.  Turns out his brother was coming to town in a couple of months.

I fiinished the wiring, rebuilt the brakes, put a new gas tank in it to replace the new tank that I had installed 20 years earlier, LOL, put a new carb on it and so on.  Cranked it up and it ran like it had never been parked.  Slapped a little wax on the new 20 years prior paint job, etc.

He brought his brother over and told me that he had warned his brother that it needed a lot of work before it could be driven.  I opened the shop and my friend almost passed out from shock when it saw it sitting there like a new car.  His brother just stood there with his mouth open.

They say asked what happened and I said I put it back together for you.  They walked around it and fiinally asked what will it take to get it running?  I reached thru the window, turned the key and it fired right up.  Told them to drive it and then is when they found out the tires were flat spotted when they hit 75.  LOL

I think the brother had rebuilt it at least twice.  The last time was after he found the original pace car that had been restored.  then he went full restomod on mine.

The moral to this story is Live is good when you are a successful doctor.