1967 rs/ss l78
 

This car will be featured soon in members rides. The car is back home and is a survivor Tahoe Turquoise L78 from the famed Baldwin Auto Company, in Baldwin ,NY. There are more specifics posted in the L78 forum.

Very cool car. Congrats on the repurchase. Look forward to reading more about it.

Way to go! Glad you pulled the trigger. Happy New Year!
Buddy

I just arranged to finally have my car transported back home. In a week or so I should have a lot more pictures to post. In the mean time here's a data sheet I put together years ago and just updated.

Very Cool Steve!

Thanks Bruce. When it arrives I will take some pics and forward the history, and look forward to you working your magic!!!!

Yowza! Congrats on getting her back Steve. Looking forward to lots of pix and stories!!

super nice car Steve, same color as Jerry M,s stock eliminator,:3gears: 67 love that color

That is really a neat car. Pretty smokin' trap speed, too....

Beautiful Camaro, love that color.

Outstanding 67 Steve. It's funny, so many of us refer to the PBT stamps placed on the firewall of restored cars as "firewall graffiti" when in fact it's not if you're going for an authentic resto, as proven by survivors like yours.
L78 M21. That must be a hell of a lot of fun to drive. Congrats!

When I purchased the car it hadn't run in 15 years. In fact it wasn't even running when I purchased the car. After cleaning the tank , flushing the fuel lines and rebuilding the carburetor she fired right up. The car sounded awesome, and had some radical cam that wouldn't idle below 1300 rpm. The tires were L 60's and hard as a rock. It wouldn't hook up worth a darn.

Brian D. purchased the car from the original owner just 3 weeks before he sold it to me and told me it had been raced some, and provided me original owner contact info. I called Yue the original owner, and made arrangements to meet and discuss the history, and see if he had any documentation on the car. He provided me with a test and tune log documenting the adjustments he made such as timing, jets, plugs, gas ect.., along with corresponding results.

Although the motor was original, it was a mystery in term of internals and knowing it was run hard I decided on a rebuild. The engine was clean inside and still standard bore, heads original and were in excellent condition. The rebuilder, Hampton Engines said the main bearings caps had shifted, due to over revving.

Me being a purist, I brought the car back to stock, however I kept some original day 2 components I took off in 1996. Who knows I may reinstall at some point. To me a Motion stinger hood would look awesome on the car.

Presently I'm in the process attempting to reconnect with Yue. I also have info of an identical car ( same color options and powerplant) that was tearing up the street, but different owner.

Just for clarification The firewall had already been painted at the time of my purchase and orig PTB were covered over. The only ones present, and undisturbed were on the tub (between the door and fenders). With a rag and solvent I carefully wipe paint in areas where firewall PTB stampings were usually found. Well it paid off because I was able to locate the original stamping locations. I believe I have a VHS tape that shows me uncovering the original stampings.

You sure that old VHS tape isn't really a Betamax tape? ;)

I converted all my VHS tapes to DVD !:grin:

We're the stamps behind the fenders Steve? That's where I found mine.
Buddy

Yes found them behind fenders first and then on firewall.

She's Back
 

Here's a video I posted on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7vCaQ1cTA


I've been collecting and installing original parts that were pirated off the car when I sold it 2003. Someone re-cored the radiator incorrectly ( put a 4 core) and took the UN tag off and kept it. The radiator and tag has been corrected. Changed the oil waxed the car and took it out for a thrashing and tucked it in for the winter. I have a few Items to replace. This car just puts a smile on my face as I run through the gears. Over the winter I will be installing TTO' s and some vintage radials.


Here's a video from this morning.

https://youtu.be/9zNDPBn7Plk

Love that car Steve!!!

Thanks Mark. It arrived at 9:30 this morning. I take my dog to a county park every Sat morning for a 7 mile walk. If I don't take her she will pester me to no end.
On our walk I received a call from transporter that the car would arrive in 40 minutes. Well I cut the walk short and raced to where I store cars. When i arrived they were unloading, however they couldn't get the car to turn over. I crawled under the car and tapped the starter, and immediately a symphony that only a solid lifter BBC can make began. What a spectacular car that I'm fortunate to own again.

Great car!!

Well done Steve. She is a fine looking and sounding BEAUTY!:biggthumpup:

Awesome car Steve I cannot believe this was out there... KILLER... hey where are my member stars?

beautiful camaro. Love that color

Making Progress
 

It was a cold rainy night and had plan to go to the gym, but this car has me excited and felt like fixing and improve some things on the car. Tonight I completely detailed the exterior, next on my list was to fix the tachometer. The first thing I checked was the negative coil terminal. This is the location for the tach and also the distributor connection. What was missing was the brown tachometer wire which feed pulses to the tach which converts the pulses and displays them as RPM's. I searched a little further and found the wire coiled and taped to the harness and hidden. Started the car with it running reconnected the tach wire and it works perfect. Not sure why it was disconnected unless it caused an ignition problem previously. Last I adjusted the close limit switch on passenger side head light actuator door.

Next project is the interior.....

That was easy!
Buddy

Diggin' it Steve. Keep the progress updates coming (and post a photo or 20 too!:cool2:)

That is a great sounding car! Love the color also. Excellent all around.

I was going through some old correspondences related to this car. This car was ordered with F41, front spring part# YJ 3912532 and rear BY 3925817. When I first acquired the car (1996) there was a question in ICC magazine related to tire size used on late 67 SS Camaros D70 or F70. I believe I answered that or at least added a data point. My car was built 7B (last week of production), L78 ,F41 and 456 axle ratio and still had it's original D70 spare in the trunk.

Very nice Steve. Thanks for sharing...Joe

great car...remember chatting in '96 when you located it...great find then and better that you bought it back after letting it go..

It's beautiful!