Another new guy, another 69 Camaro
 

Hi all,

My name's Matt and I've been lurking around here a while. Back in April my father Steve and I picked up a 69 Camaro project in Vegas off of ebay. Now, were not the most technically inclined and looking back on it now we probably didn't know what we were getting into, but that doesn't really matter know because its been a blast, even if we haven't really gotten our hands dirty working on it, just seeing it come together and figuring out what we want has been fun.

Anyway, I figured I should introduce our little project although you guys have probably seen everything on a 69 Camaro already. In fact, 67ragtp's new Camaro project motivated me to post since I think we've been living in a parallel universe. Seriously, I thought I was looking at our project, same Forgelines and all.

Ok, here are pics because this would be pretty boring without them.

The car is over at Hot Rods and Custom Stuff now, but will be moving over to Best of Show pretty soon for paint and everything else.

This is what we bought, supposedly a complete car disassembled.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o.../8533_1JPG.jpg
And here are all of the parts we don't need. suppose it was pretty complete.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...82493_5336.jpg

We ended up getting a DSE subframe, quadralink and minitubs. I don't think we have any pics of it going together but you can see (sort of) the wicked stance on the original wheels
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...93531_1305.jpg

We picked up the Forgelines from Jon over at Driverz Inc. Big thanks to you Jon for handling the order to make them clear the brakes.

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00696.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00695.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00765.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00768.jpg
Also, thanks to Tobin at Kore 3 for the C6 Z06 brakes.

Right now, the engine and trans are coming together. We got an LS2 from TurnKey, which was incredibly simple. They gave us everything with the engine, the vintage air frontrunner, the headers, etc. I mean everything. They even ordered the valve covers we liked.

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00761.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00763.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00770.jpg
The T56 from ATS (thanks Tyler!) is coming together as well. Last Friday the the work on the trans tunnel was almost finished.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC00771.jpg

Anyway, that's where we are now with the project. It should be finding its way over to Best of Show very soon.

Really nice project Matt, and welcome aboard! :thumbsup:

WOW, nice project. Keep up the good work. :thumbsup:

Never to many 69's. Nice start.:thumbsup:

lookin good.....

Nice:thumbsup:

Cool, keep us posted. :thumbsup:

I thought this looked very familiar too.

Btw, looks like you and your dad are off to a good start with a great father/son project. Keep posting pics of the progress.