427 Camaro found in backyard...

[Motion Camaro]

<font color="blue">A customer came by with this 427 Camaro
last week. It's rough, but sounded &amp; ran good.
He said it's been sitting in the back of his mom's
house for about 20 years!!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
Heres a couple of pics. </font>

[Motion Camaro]

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[COPO]

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

[resto4u]

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]

Deffinatley a small block car. The heater box is Small block and six cylinder stuff. Cool car though! 12 bolt? gears? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[firstgenaddict]

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

[olredalert]

-------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]

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?

[camarojoe]

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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?

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Good point... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif It never hurts to check these cars out a bit further before denouncing them as "nothing" the second you see the small block heater box. I'd bet there have been lots of rare cars unfound because no one ever dug a little deeper to verify what they may or may not have. You never know....

[olredalert]

68,

--------Of course you could possibly be right. Its a stretch, but possible.
--------I can tell you from living in south Florida from 69 on and off till 76 that BM was sort of like the enemy. All my buddies felt like they could do better than the New Yawk boys. That, of course, doesnt mean that they could, only that they thought they could. As in all parts of the country back then some builders were better than others. Those guys names are the ones that still seem to pop up today. Ken Veney just ran out of his gas station on Oakland Park Blvd. for a long, long time, but,oh boy, could he make em run. And there were many others in South Fla. just like him. Some stayed with 4 wheels, alot sort of graduated to fast boats and never looked back. There was a bunch of money in fast boats back then, if you know what I mean. A friend of mine "Joe" went the boat direction and he had one of the biggest Corvette shops in the south. You should see some of the boats they built and rigged back in the day.
--------Where am I going with all this? I dont know. Just reminising, I guess. Hope you all dont mind!.........Bill S

[budnate]

Nothing wrong with boats...I went crazy and sold everything and went into Jet boats all the way in the early 90's...you could make them run hard and not get pulled over every other block and get a huge ticket...we have plenty of water out this way...it was a free for all for years then people started flipping them and other stupid stuff forcing the law on the water and things tightened right up..no more running around uncorked at 90... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

[ANDY M]

Fast boats never got speeding tickets. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[yenkoman]

Anyway I guess he doesnt want to sell it right.Another 427 could be handy.

[Motion Camaro]

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Anyway I guess he doesnt want to sell it right.Another 427 could be handy.

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<font color="blue">A customer asked how much, while we were inside, I said "it's not mine but gimme 10K and it could be yours,".
The owner laughed &amp; the guy pulled out a wad of cash &amp; said "I'll give you 6K right now"!
The owner said "No way" &amp; walked out.
Guess it's <u>not for sale</u> . http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif </font>