Let me see if I can load up a video to Youtube.

A buddy of mine and I are obsessed with the idea of having a a true street car that runs 7.90, he has a very nice '69 Camaro that he did all the work on. He's been 8.6@157 so far.

I drove mine all over Chicago this year, put about 12 street hours on it.

Kevin's car (started out as a rough roller):

Looks like my old Camaro?!

His starting point:

Nope that’s not it, the blue fooled me. What’s he running?

He's been 8.61@157, similar combo to mine (turbo ls).

I'm a fan of Tony Karamitsos' '69 Camaro too, he runs true street classes in the Midwest. SBC with a big turbo.

So moving along, I plan to wrap or partially paint the car in 2023.

Car is a '67, originally F-F paint, and that blue is fine but I don't feel a burning need to go back to it. Car was then red and is now some sort of yellow.

A local painter friend of mine thinks he can match the paint, his confidence impresses me but I am pessimistic. I will see where that goes.

If it's not possible, might wrap it butternut yellow it's a color I keep coming back to. I don't want to do white because everybody copies the Grump cars.

I'm closer to wrapping my '67.

I'm going to have to stay with my current hood and I actually came across a car with the same hood that is painted up '68 style.

I was kicking around trying an L88 hood but I really doubt it will work with my intake.

Bulging the center of the L-88 hood to clear might be cool.
But I like the Sunoco hood also.
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Thanks for the interest!

I also bought a MOPAR style hood scoop but I think for now I'm going to just focus on wrapping the car and replicating the '67 style nose stripe. I would love to run a more vintage looking wheel but they are heavy, don't fit a 5/8 stud (rear) and I don't want to run old wheels into the mid 8s.

A local racer to me has the look I'm going for, I told him I won't do black lol.

That was the look I wanted to do with my old 69. Paint it Frost Green again (original color), turbo'd LS. It would have been fun but reality and the opportunity to trade for my fathers 68 L78 from my brother altered plans.