3 point Lakewood roll bar value?

[cwc]

I have from a good source this is first gen camaro,I just want
To confirm this and get an idea on value

[jer]

Those are soooo cool! Don't know value because they rarely surface but I'd probably guess somewhere above the fab cost of a clone. That might run you $3-$400. Keep in mind that just doing the leg work to fab a clone is worth something so I'd guess $500.

Either way GLWTS

[NorCam]

$400 to $600 depending on condition seems the norm. Feet look correct for Camaro

I bought one just over a year ago in that range.

Blasted and painted would surely double that value as there are many people looking for them. Shipping is the tricky part unless you can ship it shrink wrapped and placed on a skid using Fastenal

[Rumbleguts396]

I bought one from a member of this site about 4 years ago. It was a nice clean bar for a 67-69 Camaro. I paid $575. I was happy to pay that amount. I had looked for an original for a few years. They truly are difficult to find. Nice job on locating what appears to be a real clean bar. Rob

[GotGrunt]

Is the value of the roll bar affected by which mounting kit it has?

[NorCam]

Is the value of the roll bar affected by which mounting kit it has?

Doubt it, but each mounting kit is going to make the bar specific to the car culture it was designed to fit. (i.e. a guy with a Camaro isn't going to pay top dollar for a bar from a 55 Chev because he'd have to find or fab new feet for it, while a guy with a 55 would trip over things for it) You need to know what mounting kit you have and cater to that market to get top dollar for it.

[chevyandpontiac]

It is worth $500 up, all depends how bad you want it.
for how many they made they do not show up very often.

[whitetop]

25 years ago when I was into this stuff I was buying them at the swaps for $25-40-no one wanted them. I remember paying $10 for one a guy did not want to drag home

I sold 4-5 on this site for $75.00-100 each and thought I did great lol.

I was at a swap meet in Pa around 90-91 and a guy cleaned out some old speed shops and had 15-20 of the NOS Lakewood mounting kits but no bars and was asking something like $10 each. Should have bought them.

Early style Cragars and now hot. Wished I bought up every NOS one I saw on ebay or the swaps.

Oh well.

[whitetop]

A guy is restoring this old 396 Camaro from my hometown and he threw out the old 3 point bar just last year. Car is going back to stock-paint is alreadys tripped off I believe. That is the factory original OEM GM Lemans blue-never repainted. Car was made into a 100% drag car since 1970 and sat in a garage near me since 1980. 20k original miles-never out in winter except maybe first year.. Made me sick is getting restored-I remember the car when i was a young kid in the 70's at shows.

Amazing some people just don't care and some would give their eye teeth for it.

[GotGrunt]

A guy is restoring this old 396 Camaro from my hometown and he threw out the old 3 point bar just last year. Car is going back to stock-paint is alreadys tripped off I believe. That is the factory original OEM GM Lemans blue-never repainted. Car was made into a 100% drag car since 1970 and sat in a garage near me since 1980. 20k original miles-never out in winter except maybe first year.. Made me sick is getting restored-I remember the car when i was a young kid in the 70's at shows.

Amazing some people just don't care and some would give their eye teeth for it.

What a shame, that car should have been preserved. Also, imagine seeing a rollbar out on the curb with the trash? I don’t think I could pull over fast enough :D

[whitetop]

What a shame, that car should have been preserved. Also, imagine seeing a rollbar out on the curb with the trash? I don’t think I could pull over fast enough :D

I know people who begged for that car and was going to keep it the same and preserve it as a survivor. Someone else came in and got it. I saw it stripped down in the new owners garage and almost became sick to my stomach. Hey, it's his car though.

I walked by this car almost every day walking to school in the mid 70's as the owner kept it in a bay in his gas station or had it outside when he needed a bay

[Bernhard]

Period correct day 2 build priceless

[Bernhard]

I have from a good source this is first gen camaro,I just want
To confirm this and get an idea on value

Nice

[GotGrunt]

Doubt it, but each mounting kit is going to make the bar specific to the car culture it was designed to fit. (i.e. a guy with a Camaro isn't going to pay top dollar for a bar from a 55 Chev because he'd have to find or fab new feet for it, while a guy with a 55 would trip over things for it) You need to know what mounting kit you have and cater to that market to get top dollar for it.

Here’s mine... feet are for 70-81 Camaro/Firebird. Also attached pics of the car it was in.

[The Squid]

Here’s mine... feet are for 70-81 Camaro/Firebird. Also attached pics of the car it was in.

Very cool. I wish someone would reproduce these. I really want one for my 73 Camaro. I suppose I could have one custom fabbed.

[markinnaples]

Mine had one of those roll bars in it back when it was built, but it was gone by the time I got it.