I'm building mine at home. I kept waiting and waiting; hoping I'd have enough money to do a '69 Camaro some day. Then, this year, I finally realized that if I don't bite the bullet, I'll never do it. There are so many people that dream about things for years and then never get around to it or something happens to them. I decided I don't want to be one of those guys and if it makes me happy, I'm just going to do it!
So, I sold my 2009 Subaru daily driver and used the funds to purchase a Camaro and the engine/transmission out of a 2004 GTO. Now I'm stuck driving my 1959 Willys truck to work as it's my only other vehicle but the heck with it. I'm doing it. Some of my friends and family think I'm crazy but at least I won't regret not having tried it.
I have been slowly preparing for this as far as tooling up my shop the last few years though and bought myself a 2 post lift this year.
This picture tells most of the story. My old Willys with Wisconsin winter road grime all over it and the GTO pull-out in it. Does that make this a modern vehicle? I mean, technically it has a fuel injected engine "in" it.
Here is the Camaro waiting for it's new heart.
I'm hoping to get it running in time for spring but funds are more of an issue than time for me. I'm going to drive it this summer (hopefully) and then tackle the suspension next winter. I'm hoping to do a better paint job and body work the year after that.
Here's one more of the Willys which I did with my uncle as a project back in High school in '95.
It now has a carbed vortech 350 in it which we slapped in this spring.
