british newbie

[evilzee28]

Hi guys, my name's Nigel & live in Great Britain. I'm currently putting togther a '69 Camaro. It's at the bare shell stage, so loads to do, but thankfully I own my own custom body shop so no problems there.I've a had a '69 'bird & pro street 10 second 55 Chevy & a '72 T/A in the past, plus a variety of other odd ball stuff, rods, VW's etc, but my first love has always been muscle cars.!!I'll post some pics of the Camaro as I work on it. Have a good 'un.Nigel Great site!!

The car's gonna run a heavily worked small block,manual trans, race suspension ( it's going to run in one of our race series as well as being road legal) full original interior but with Sparco seats trimmed to match original trim, full cage,mini tubbed & well lowered. Painted in black with very dark grey metallic stripes (almost black),hideaway headlights, with all factory badges & chrome trim. Wheels as yet are undecided.

Hopefully I've attached a pic of my '72 T/A which I've recently sold to make way for my '69 camaro. The intention was to run it in our Historic Road Sports race series & was set up to do so, but was made an offer I couldn't refuse for it.

[907rs]

I'm glad you found us, Nigel. Welcome!

[KAA]

Sweet!!

[XcYZ]

Glad to have you on board, Nigel. Your project sounds great.

[camcojb]

We'll need those pics Nigel! Welcome to the board, and thanks for your input on my project.


Jody

[evilzee28]

Originally Posted by camcojb

We'll need those pics Nigel! Welcome to the board, and thanks for your input on my project.


Jody

I'm hopefully gonna get the car to my 'shop in the next few weeks as it's at the media blasters being bare metalled at the moment. As soon as I get it back I'll post some pics of it. Would you like me to post pics with the basic repairs being carried out stage by stage?

[Mean 69]

Welcome aboard, Nigel. I'm also a new member, but recognize several of the folks from other similar (but not nearly as cool) forums.

The T/A looks terrific, nicely done. Additionally, as you no doubt probably know, the 69 is basically the most popular base muscle car on this side of the pond, a fine choice for your latest project. I see that you are intending on racing it, which is even better in my opinion. Is the sanctioning body historically "correct" in terms of the suspension setup you will run, or do you have liberty to stray beyond the basic stock configuration?

My hat is off to you for taking on a project that will no doubt require parts that are "hard" to get over there. When you hit a bind for finding something, there are plenty of folks here that can help you out.

Cheers!
Mark

[evilzee28]

Hi Mean '69 how ya doing? glad you liked the T/A, but hopefully this one will be better The car is being built at the moment & will run in our HSCC (Historic Sports Car Club) in the Roadsports class. There are limits to what is allowed to comply with the rules. Engines must be standard original for the year, ie if it wasn't fitted you can't have it. However, modifications to compression, cam, headwork etc are free. I'm going to be running a 350 with 2.02 Fuelies (heavily worked) 12.5.1 compression with quench, FIA race cam (big x large, very special one off grind) Performer RPM, (has to be a dual plane) An aaaaawful lot of blueprinting & strenghthening of the engine, 4 speed with 3.28 rear gears. Engine will be producing approx 450-470 bhp with a lot more torque.Should rev to 7000 or so, now I know it's not exctly G-Machine stuff or the sort of HP you guys are producing, but it's "built" to race for 30+ minutes at a time & live to tell the tale, plus it's gonna be street driven. The suspension has to run stock front arms, but with poly bushes.Shocks will be Koni multi point adjustables. The rear springs are stiffened & has an antiroll bar fitted. Front springs are 1500lbs / side. Brakes have full competition pads & linings, ( My mates Mustangs discs glow cherry red when he's racing with the same pads).His Mustang is based on a similar sort of set up as mine will be & is easily able to outperform Subaru Impreza's & Mitsubushi Evo's on the track in a different class, so it's not exactly a slouch.I posted a question on the "brakes" part of the forum asking for comparisons between aftermarket & standard style brakes but haven't had a single reply, his brakes are awesome. The wheels for racing will be Minilights with Yokohama 032R's, whilst for street use it will run 17" or 18" alloys of some description, not too sure about that yet. Body will be black, full cage, full interior, all the chrome & badges renewed, with a dark grey metallic painted underside with dark grey hockey stick stripe, with the suspension painted gloss black.

Thanks for making me feel welcome guys.

[Steve Chryssos]

I love the way you guys talk/write over there! Welcome to the club. Sounds like a great project. The rules sound in line with US Vintage racing--which is to say: strict. Is there an open or unlimited class as well?
/Steevo

[evilzee28]

Originally Posted by streetfytr68

I love the way you guys talk/write over there! Welcome to the club. Sounds like a great project. The rules sound in line with US Vintage racing--which is to say: strict. Is there an open or unlimited class as well?
/Steevo

Hi Steevo, Yeah, we've got a few. Rolling Thunder is an unlimited class with big/small block Camaros,Mustangs, Galaxies, Falcons etc Some of the Falcons were raced back in the day by the Alan Mann racing team & run in his colours of red & gold. A lot of the cars run quite a lot of fibreglass panels etc & are an awesome sight. We did have a class called Anglo American challenge which saw Aston Martins & other Brit cars racing against American cars, this was very good to watch & was very close racing. You'll be glad to hear that the American cars won more often than not.

I know we all speak the same language, well sort of, but I didn't realise I wrote or spoke different to you guys