67 B-M Camaro

[JChlupsa]

[427TJ]

Note that it's a factory 396 car (emblem) and not a converted 350 car. Looks like Joel Rosen himself leaning in the passenger door. Any guesses as to how much his Motion T-shirt would fetch on eBay today? Think: Feeding frenzy.

Skinny Cragars rule.

[berger]

its got a 327 gas cap, non ss..

[427TJ]

Yet they called it an "SS 427."

[JChlupsa]

The first thing that was taken off cars back then by collectors (5 fingered kind) were the SS Gas Caps. Would like to see what the cowl tag on this car read to be sure. Or depending on the build date, did all SS's receive the SS cap??

[427TJ]

My guess was that it was either a L-35 or L-78 car to begin with. I think the front fender SS emblems have been removed from this car too, perhaps they went in the parts bin along with the gas cap. They probably just removed the SS emblems from the car when they modified it for strip use. No wait--perhaps it was a rare '67 COPO with the big-block but no SS package! Just kidding. Note the stinger hood.

[Supercar_Kid]

My guess would be that it's a base Camaro, and those are actually 427 flags from an Impala added to advertise the engine conversion. The lack of a bumblebee stripe supports the non-SS theory as well. Guess it doesn't make much difference what was now. Cool car either way.

[berger]

I think you nailed it kid, easily could be a z28 w/ impala emblem and stripe delete..- -

[Supercar_Kid]

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I think you nailed it kid, easily could be a z28 w/ impala emblem and stripe delete..- -

[/ QUOTE ] That doesn't make much sense either. Let's take an already high ticket car and tear it to pieces, toss this 302 in the corner of the shop and plop this 427 between the fenderwells and go racing. Let's keep in mind that Joel Rosen built hi-performance cars because he made $$$ doing it. It just doesn't make sense making an expensive car even more expensive by removing the drivetrain that made it what it is in the first place. '67 Z/28's were very rare, already high performance cars that sold themselves...while lowly 327 or even 6 cyl cars sat on Baldwin's lot ripe for the picking, and they were cheap too. Add a $5-600 L-88 crate and it's off to the races. Joel was no dummy, my money's still on it being a regular old small block car at best. Any figures on stripe delete '67 Z's? Of 602 I'd guess about 15-20 at best, any way you figure the odds are certainly against this car being one of those. Just my 2 cents. Wish I was around back then to see for myself.

[SuperNovaSS]

But what about the disc brakes, 12 bolt, 4 speed, HD cooling, springs, etc that go along with the SS and Z28 cars? You are right Joel is smart and probably realized the cost and labor to add these parts outweighed the cost of ordering the car that way new.

Jason