"Baby Pictures" of your supercar....

[Bill Pritchard]

Forgot to include a few pics of the green 69 Camaro after I got it all done. Last two was its first time out at Byron IL Dragway, and the others were after I had paint & bodywork done,

[Xplantdad]

Originally Posted by 427425

Wanted to add to the baby pictures thread with our Berger car from the early summer of 1971. Just got returned from the Army ( thus the haircut ! )and got the car out of storage. My fiancé and I posed for these at the end of my parents driveway. We were married in August and took the car on our honeymoon to upper Michigan for @ 5 days. We were out of gas $$ and came home early ! Notice the copper colored rally wheel centers. I could never afford mags, so we painted the wheels different colors, to change up the look. After we were married I wanted a Baldwin Motion look so we added Corvette side exhaust to go with the 427 numerals we had already added to the hood. We traded cars with a friend in 1974 to get a 66 Corvette. The car had 33,000 miles on it and was still under factory warranty. Bought the car back in 1994 and all the original paperwork from Berger was still in the glove box.
Yesterday I pried those numerals off the hood to strip it, but my buddy and I are putting them back on with tape after the new paint job. ONLY painting the car because it had been painted in 1986, when it was in a large car collection and had lots of bad lacquer checking.
My wife, same one from 1971, and I will be hauling the car to Berger in 2025 for their 100th anniversary.

Here you go...

[427425]

Thanks Bruce, almost called you to post them initially. This looks lots better.....

[Xplantdad]

Originally Posted by 427425

Thanks Bruce, almost called you to post them initially. This looks lots better.....

You can always call me

[Bill Pritchard]

Bruce has this picture posting stuff down to a science

[Bill Pritchard]

In a previous post here I made mention of a friend's 68 Camaro SS396 L89, one of 272 produced that year. Here are some pictures of it when I bought it in early 1980, from another friend. Back story.....I've known this car since 1972, when my friend Bruce bought it from a salvage yard as a running, driving car. He went thru the motor and added headers, a Hurst Super Shifter, and probably a few other goodies that I've forgotten. Factory 4.10 gear, and I think it's an M21, not M22. This thing ran really strong. I had planned to do a total resto on it, but a couple months after I bought it, I had the opportunity to buy a 70 Dodge Hemi Challenger from the original owner, a guy that I worked with. So, I jumped on that opportunity and sold the Camaro to my friend Brian, who still owns the car.

[Bill Pritchard]

After 27 years of doing absolutely nothing with this Camaro, another friend and I shamed Brian into getting the thing off to the body shop for body work, and paint. We hauled it down to a shop near Springfield MO, where the work was done, and they did a really nice job. That's the good news.....the bad news is, once back home, it got pushed into Brian's shop and buried with absolutely nothing else done to it in the 15 years since

Not long after Brian bought it from me, he was able to do a title search with the State of Illinois (back in the good old days when you could do things like that without people getting their panties in a bunch) and he got in touch with the original owner. He confirmed that it was indeed an original L89 car and that he blew the engine under warrranty, which explained the "CE" block in the car. In late 71 or early 72, his lower level garage flooded in a heavy storm and the Camaro was inundated. His insurance company would go either way, fixing the car or totalling it. He said the car needed brakes and tires and had some rust showing, so he decided to let them total it. That's how it ended up at the salvage yard where my friend Bruce bought it.

[dykstra]

WOW! I could listen to these stories all day! Keep ‘em coming.

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

In a previous post here I made mention of a friend's 68 Camaro SS396 L89, one of 272 produced that year. Here are some pictures of it when I bought it in early 1980, from another friend. Back story.....I've known this car since 1972, when my friend Bruce bought it from a salvage yard as a running, driving car. He went thru the motor and added headers, a Hurst Super Shifter, and probably a few other goodies that I've forgotten. Factory 4.10 gear, and I think it's an M21, not M22. This thing ran really strong. I had planned to do a total resto on it, but a couple months after I bought it, I had the opportunity to buy a 70 Dodge Hemi Challenger from the original owner, a guy that I worked with. So, I jumped on that opportunity and sold the Camaro to my friend Brian, who still owns the car.

Do you know what ever happened to the 70 Dodge Hemi Challenger from the original owner car? Do you remember what you paid for it back then? I had the opportunity to buy a Plum Crazy 70 Hemi Challenger that had the motor apart, out of the car with 5000 original miles for $3500.00 back in 1977 and I passed on it because I was a Chevy guy and had never worked internally on a Hemi, Young AND Dumb. Bill

[SeattleCarGuy]

My '68 L72/M22/4.10 Biscayne when Larry Myers brought it home to his mother's driveway from Polar Chevrolet in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. And some photos from his days racing it.