427 Camaro found in backyard...

Motion Camaro · #1 02-17-2005, 11:29 PM

<font color="blue">A customer came by with this 427 Camaro
last week. It's rough, but sounded & ran good.
He said it's been sitting in the back of his mom's
house for about 20 years!!!

Heres a couple of pics. </font>

Motion Camaro · #2 02-17-2005, 11:31 PM

PIC 2

Motion Camaro · #3 02-17-2005, 11:31 PM

PIC 3

Motion Camaro · #4 02-17-2005, 11:32 PM

PIC 4

**COPO** · #5 02-17-2005, 11:33 PM

Looks like just an old 68 small block car w/a BB swap. Still fun to find a forgotten car.

resto4u · #6 02-18-2005, 01:20 AM

Maybe used to be a six cyl. car, with that fan shroud. Bonded on hood scoop. What is that on the firewall by the heater core box? What is the engine code? Roger

copojoe · #7 02-18-2005, 04:41 AM

Deffinatley a small block car. The heater box is Small block and six cylinder stuff. Cool car though! 12 bolt? gears?

**firstgenaddict** · #8 02-18-2005, 05:49 PM

I agree with the 6 cyl assesment look at how far offset the fan shroud is.

**olredalert** · #9 02-18-2005, 07:42 PM

-------You cant even imagine how many Camaros there were in south Florida just like this back in the late 60s, early 70s. They were everywhere. Big-blocks were everywhere. The ocean reacer era was just starting in earnest and big-blocks were floating all over the place.
------- A buddy of mine that worked at Slaton Chevrolet in Ft. Liquerdale in the parts Dept. once told me that literally hundreds of complete engines were getting stolen out the back door of the dealership.
------- My best friend back then built a Vega with an LS6 with a 10 inch setback and Dana rear for the street. Said the thing was lethal. Cant begin to tell you how many 435 67 Corvettes he built out of stolen and stripped Corvettes he bought at the auction over the years. I bought everyone of them I could afford as they were so well built. He was a perfectionist and his cars just did everything right. You could always tell his cars if you drove one because he loved to put in 456 or 488 gear-sets. In south Florida all you had to do was get from one stoplight to the next (FAST)............Bill S

68TopStock · #10 02-18-2005, 08:09 PM

Probably just some old early BM conversion, with an early rivet on hood scoop, like Joel did in '67, with the stinger style hood, to a plane jane no frills street racer. Or maybe even a little known early '68 conversion by Harrell sent to one of his Florida connections? What is the vin and cowl tag read?