Original X11 Style Trim Car, Great Restoration Project

Description

This car is a late-production '69 and was originally a triple green stick-shift V8 car. It lived in Alabama until the mid 1980s when it was brought up to Michigan. You can still see the community college sticker on the rearview mirror from its Alabama days.

It runs and drives but the brakes are very soft so I have only driven it up and down my driveway. I changed the plugs and emptied out the old gas, and it seems to run OK but I haven't driven it any distance. The engine is an early 1970s truck 350, with 1967 492 double-hump heads, an Edelbrock intake, and an Edelbrock 4-barrel carb. The stock belt-driven cooling fan was removed and replaced by two large electric fans mounted to the radiator. The battery tray is missing and will need to be installed (I had a truck battery loosely placed next to the radiator just to start the car). The trans is a Turbo 350 and it has a non-original 8.5" 10-bolt rear. The car has tubular front control arms, a big anti-sway bar, KYB shocks, and urethane bushings so I guess the previous owner must have had a corner-carver in mind. The car wears a pretty decent set of 15" Cragars with old Cooper tires.

Although it still wears ugly 1980s paint, the body is actually pretty clean especially for an unrestored car in the midwest. In my estimation it will need quarters, a partial trunk floor, patches behind the front wheels, and patches on the lower corners of the doors. The floors look solid and the passenger front pan has been patched years ago, and there is a patch over what looks to have been a hole cut in the tunnel for a racing 4-speed shifter sometime in the car's past. The base of windshield looks good and solid. I removed the vinyl top and spent an hour with a scraper to look for rust-through. There is quite a bit of surface rust on the C-pillar area but I could only find one small area that would probably show a pencil eraser sized hole if you media blasted it. I think you could get by without replacing the roof, and I had planned to MIG up any spots that went through.

The interior will need to be completely gutted and redone, but the original seats are still there and the original upholstery is still under a second recovering job that was probably done in the 1980s. The instrument cluster has been cut up and I have a good used GM housing that comes with the car.

Although the headlights and taillights still work, the wire harness has been so chopped up over time that the car should be completely rewired. I have a very nice original set of GM dash and underhood harnesses that will come with the car.

The Camaro has a clear Michigan title in the previous owner's name.

Terms of sale: The Camaro is a project car needing complete restoration and is sold as-is, where-is, with no warranties expressed or implied. A $500 non-refundable deposit is due via Paypal within 48 hours of the auction end. Payment in full via US Dollars (cash) is due 7 days from the auction end unless we make special arrangements ahead-of-time. All transportation is the responsibility of the winning bidder; I will do my best to help load the car.

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