Camino LS6

Saw a black one yesterday- looked pretty good.

I 2nd Razor's advice, it's exactly what I would do. Keep us posted. Pics?

Good story -thanks.

Sounds good. I guess that GM found some reason to make the TH400 available with the 327 -odd but I wouldn't complain as both are excellent pieces and should work well together. Do they have the build sheet? BTW: TH350 and TH400 transmissions are ,by definition, 3spds. The only other auto was the 2spd. Powerglide.

I see Corvette,Corvair, and '59 Impala cues all over this thing. Also, the headlights are reminiscent of the hood bullets on a '57 (enlarged ,of course).

How did that car ever end up in such horrible condition? Who has it and where is it being restored? Do you have the full story on the car ,Balthazar?

Update: Sorry Z, I haven't been able to locate that packet yet but I'm still looking.

I have an old Motor manual that could answer the trans question but I can't find it. So far I know that Chevelles didn't get the Hydra-matic even with the 396 in '67, but the Camaro did(only with the 396). A TH400 would be overkill behind a 327.

What gears are shown at the shifter? And, does the indicator look stock? See if you can get pics and numbers on the car and we can all pick it apart for you. OH yeah, check to see if it is a Canadian-built car and if it was built for the Canadian market. Sometimes the same model will have unusual differences depending on that. Also, I think GM Canada can tell you how it was originally equipped if it was built there.

Car sounds pretty cool. I'm betting somethiing is off with the pairing of a 327 and a 400 trans.- possible I guess, but that the car came with either a different trans or engine would make more sense to me. The price translates to what, about 11k American? I would check it out very closely for that money.

The grille doesn't sound so good to me, but the rest seems ok. For the wheels I'd keep an eye out for take-offs from an uplevel 355 or 360 as these are often available with tires when someone goes nuts with the "dubs". Buy an Auto Locator, they have ads for places that sell all sorts of wheels and tires (recent and old) here in PA.

It was an outlandish era and the showcars reflect that. The Biscayne fits right in. Yes the headlights are very much a Sprite cue, but the Sprite did very well for itself in the market and on the track. Not really my cup of tea, but so little from the 50's is.

Over the last few months the news on GM has become ever more positive and is gaining momentum. So celebration on this board is more than warranted. GM is rounding that proverbial bend, turning that corner, and it shows. We are getting better and better product at an increasing pace as the General's financial picture continues to look up. The detractors are being given less and less ammo and have to pick ever more insignificant nits. I've noticed how often they resort to harping on the past lately - makes me smile. Toyota? Not so much.

By the sound of the wind outside my house right now, I'm guessing I'll be using the chainsaw to get trees off of the driveway while I wait for PECO to fix the power.

Though unloved by many (including me) for various reasons, they have done their job by keeping GM in the game. I won't mourn their passing however. With so many strikes against them in today's market , I'd say it is amazing that they still outsell the LX cars.

Touche

It's most likely a semantic argument anyway, so I have no problem ageeing to disagree. :AH-HA_wink: I think I can shed some light as to why you can't find the official confirmation you were looking for on the TTA. The cars were shipped to an upfitter as completed GTAs and then underwent the transformation to TTA spec. Very few were built, and they were done outside of GM proper much in the way the Firehawks were. Firehawk though is actually a product of SLP officially,not GM. Both cars did carry GM RPOs for the package though. These are certainly muddy waters and obviously subject to interpretation. Here's an aside: '64-'68 Chevelle SSs actually bore a different body ID code because of their SS status while the later cars did not. So, up to '68 they can be positively identified by the VIN of the car. After that, it becomes much harder to prove that a given car is,in fact, an SS. Content was the same, only that official designation via body code/VIN changed. Model?, option package?, trim level? You decide.

I'd love to see Z/28 as the lean roadcourse performer it began as. With that said, I love the SS tradition of being the highest horse version of each car. I have always loved SS Camaros, and if a way exists to make the SS king of the street and strip with Z/28 the roadcourse dominator, I'd be happiest with that . So, no , I didn't vote. BTW: choice#2 makes an incorrect assumption. In the years where both Z/28 and SS were offered, the highest powered version was the SS.

The flush backlight was a big deal as it required a sheetmetal "plug" to be used. The grille is certainly different and possibly the front fenders and hood (been a while since I read up on the car). I think my objection to calling it a trim level stems from the limited nature of its production as well as the motivation for offering the car at all(NASCAR rules required it). The Superbird and Daytona both qualify here, but they are only more obvious because their visual modifications are so over the top. The Charger500 was modified in nearly as significant a fashion , just more subtly. The TTA is way more than a trim level as I mentioned earlier.

I can't believe such a pointless topic is still active.

Wow, you learn something every day. I have never heard the '78-'81 cars called A bodies (although they should have been all the way to '88). Collectively, those two platform designations covering the years from '64-'88 comprise most of my favorite cars of all time. In fact, the end of G-body production in '88 effectively ended my interest in almost all new cars as we entered the dark ages of FWD domination of the market. Terrible days indeed.

Good call! I couldn't remember if it was a 1 or 2 year model.

Thanks for the input TB.

No chance of that.

Following that logic would make the GNX just a trim level of the Regal, both cars were built separately from their donor cars by an outside subcontractor to GM. So, I still disagree. Both the TTA and Charger had very specific and genuine engineering and hard parts that are not found on the donor cars. The TTA's engine, for example, is unique to this car only (though based on the GN/GNX turbo V6). The Charger 500 had significant sheetmetal differences from a standard Charger. Neither of these cars were simple trim upgrades.