67 Camaro project "It Don't Fit" - Page 17 - Lateral-g Forums

makoshark · #**161** 01-01-2013, 07:53 AM

I highly recommend House of Kolor. You can make any color you want and get whatever affect you are after. The panel I displayed with the blue I'm going to use is their standard metallic in the Shimrin line with no effects added to it. However, HOK regular base, such as this color, does provide a pearl look to it without it actually being a pearl. I was considering using their Shimrin2 base and adding a pearl to it, but after spraying a test with this color I'm deadset on this. I might like the Shimrin2 with pearl better, but cost would more than double. I can shoot the Shimrin in this color for $40 a quart unreduced.
I am thinking about spraying a charcoal grey bumblebee stripe and possibly also the tail panel. I'm still on the fence with that right now, but have plenty of time to decide.

One thing that is bothering me right now is my car came with the RS package. The doors have the large holes at the bottom for the RS trim and the rockers and fenders have the holes for the rocker spears. Also, the car had, originally, wheel well trim. I am just not feeling all this trim with the direction I have went with this car. What does everyone think about welding up the RS trim holes in the doors, rockers and fenders? The roof rain gutter is supposed to have chrome trim as well. Should I delete that trim as well?

Roberts68 · #**162** 01-01-2013, 08:23 AM

This might be more of a Team Camaro question but did only RS package cars come with all the trim? I only ask because mine has all that bling but to my knowledge was a standard coupe with deluxe interior.

If you have moved on and do not want to go back then buzz them shut. It is your car... if you have the trim, and are still intent on selling it I think I would put it on. Tough call.

makoshark · #**163** 01-01-2013, 08:30 AM

I'm confident the answer on TC would be to keep the trim on the car. Too many purist over there. Quite frankly, I'm not fond of a protouring car with all the trim and badges all over the car, but that's just me. To me, one of the goals of building a protouring car is to give the car a sleeker appearance. It's a difficult call, though.
The 67 RS cars came with trim on the doors, fenders and quarters along with a spear directly below it on the rocker along with wheel well trim. I really like blubalz trim delete look. Maybe I should weld it all up and shave the rain gutters

I do have some rare NOS wheel well trim and some mint rain gutter trim I could sell for more parts funds. One thing I can't really delete and actually like are the wing windows. Let me rephrase that, I like the functionality of the vent windows, but don't care for how they break up the flow of the side appearance of the car. Make sense?

Roberts68 · #**164** 01-01-2013, 08:47 AM

I guess I phrased that rather poorly. I meant to be inquiring to you about whether non-RS Camaros would have been optioned with the full trim... and that my question might be better served on TC.
I hear you on the oversaturation of purists over there, but it is a good resource.

As to PT cars bearing trim and emblems it is a personal choice. Some shed them as "weight" as well as seeking a different appearance. I like a mix, but then if my build was more advanced to the PT curve who knows?

What's a "wing window"?

makoshark · #**165** 01-01-2013, 09:03 AM

I suppose non-RS cars could received wheel well trim and the rocker spear, not completely sure about that though. The fender, door and quarter trim was specific only to the RS optioned cars though.

'Wing window' cars were the 50 hp extra cars that were only specific to the 67 model Camaro, hence making them faster than the slower two years

**WSSix** · #**166** 01-01-2013, 10:16 AM

You answered your own question about all the trim. I agree for the most part with you as well. To me, by the late 60s and into the 70s all the excessive trim is almost a distraction so I like seeing it deleted completely or reduced. No wheel well trim for sure. On older cars, the trim seems to fit the design and personality of the cars more. Early 60s Impalas come to mind.

I really like this blue you've chosen. I think it'll look great. Don't over analyze this or keep scrutinizing your choice after you've painted the car. Lay on it nicely and as best you can and it'll be great. You don't want to keep questioning your decision after it's done. That might lead you to dislike your choice instead of enjoying the car.

I also like the charcoal accents idea. In general, I like seeing the tail panels on 1st gen Camaros an accent color or blacked out. It just gives it a different attitude. Hard to explain. I just know I like it.

Keep the vent windows. You can always darken the window trim to make it stick out less. I personally like vent windows on vehicles unless you go really hardcore and start doing major body line changes. Then deleting them almost seems necessary.

Good luck.

makoshark · #**167** 01-03-2013, 03:56 PM

I did some measuring the other day and found out I didn't install my subframe completely square to the body, so I pulled it back out. I never was able to get the same measurements I found in the Fisher body book. I was an inch shy of one of their cross measurements...strange...I did however get it square. I finally welded on the DSE subframe connector brackets to the frame as well. My frame has a flare at the end and the DSE brackets would not fit flush, on the side, to the frame, so I had to get creative. What do you think?

Roberts68 · #**168** 01-03-2013, 04:05 PM

Well that post was enough to create paranoia over swapping my subs one for the other...

I think your fix looks about like it was made that way. Got a pic from above? Or another angle?

I'm still torn over whether I want to take the front clip apart or off, contemplating pulling the motor then dropping the sub out... and so on.

makoshark · #**169** 01-03-2013, 04:10 PM

It's strange, I had a 68 frame under the car for a while that I did the permanent Guldstrand mod to. It fit perfectly under the car right on spec with the Fisher body manual. I switched back to the original frame to this car when I purchased the Truturn system. Ridetech states their system cannot be used with the G-mod. Now, the original frame to this car measures nearly an inch shorter at one of the cross measurements from what Fisher manual states. I'll find out tomorrow how the fenders fit with this frame.

I'll snap some more pictures tomorrow for you from different angles.

makoshark · #**170** 01-03-2013, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Roberts68

I'm still torn over whether I want to take the front clip apart or off, contemplating pulling the motor then dropping the sub out... and so on.

I would do everything I could to not have to remove the fenders. I've been trying, off and on, for quite some time to get my fenders aligned properly and have yet been able to get a fit that I'm satisfied with. I have all GM metal, minus hood, and still am having trouble. I'm about to defeat these ill-fitting fenders though!