Introducing JimL78...he wants to say Hi!

[Xplantdad]

Jim contacted me about helping him out by posting some pics of his cool Camaro....so here is the email, in full...and the pics that he sent to me.

Let me be the first to say...Welcome Jim, to the best musclecar site on the net!



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Bruce,
Thank you for agreeing to do the post. The following is what I wanted to say in the post along with the pictures:


Hello I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Jim House. I joined this site a little while ago and have really enjoyed reading all of your comments. I did not know it existed until I talked to Jason L78 and he told me he posted some pictures he took of my car last summer. I have been looking at the site ever since.


I am the original owner of an unrestored 1969 SS 396 coupe with NL 78, TH400 and 410 posi rear. When I got the car out of the barn as of July 07 it had 21,066 original miles on it. When I put it away at the end of October it had 22,070 miles on it. The car is not a showpiece; it is my driver. I took the car to a cruise night and could not believe the interest it attracted, so I went to another and another and then a few car shows. One of the shows I went to was Hemmings Musclepalooza VI at Lebanon Valley New York. It caught the eye of the editors of Hemmings Muscle Machines. They decided to put it in the original owner February 2008 issue. Maybe some of you have seen it in there also. I am really looking forward to getting it out again this summer.

Jim


Bruce thanks again for your time I really appreciate it. I hope the pictures come out all right. Jim

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And here are Jim's pictures...

[akcamaro]

Very cool. What are the hanging white things, that look like bottle caps, used for?

[prototype]

Welcome Jim!!!

I suspect the white thingies help keep the critters away.

What a great engine bay. Nice upper rad hose and clamps, engine lift hooks, clutch fan, etc, no wonder you had such interest. This is the proverbial "car in the barn".

Keep on being the wonderful custodian that you have been.

[plumL78]

Check out the curved neck rad. in a L78. I read his hemmings article and he said it had heavy duty cooling. So I guess that ment it got a copo curved neck rad. Hats off to you. Hope you bring it to the all GM nats. in carlisle so we all can enjoy seeing it.

[JQ]

Welcome to the site Jim,
Would you happen to have pictures of the interior.. Cool car

[jimbo]

Nice. Dont change a thing.

[ORIGLS6]

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Nice. Dont change a thing.

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Ditto on both! car!

[Charley Lillard]

Weoclme to the site. Is the car orig paint and if it is can you confirm how glossy or non glossy the black paint on the tail panel is ?

[plumL78]

Charlie if you see his article in hemmings it shows the top of the right quarter next to the tail panel where the black goes inside the lip it looks like some one has welded the quarter to the tail panel by hand. I know some times on these cars you do see some mig welds where usally spot welds shoud be. Could have been a factory problem or some thing has been repaired or replaced

[Z28DZ]

Very nice . I love looking at cars with that type of patina .



ps - I'm looking at it in HMM right know