eGarage 1969 Camaro

[youthpastor]

Looks amazing guys!! Love the details.

[Leadfoot1]

I LOVE the fab work, absolute masters at the WORK you guy's do....

BUT!! Damn i hate body kits (even if its not a kit...) i HATE aero of any kind on Camaro's. To ME it just kills the car... It looks like Darth Vader's ride.... When a car is taken to that point, i just dont understand the purpose of starting with a Camaro. Might as well start from scratch and build something thruly unique. I know you guy's at RS are apable of such a task and it would surely be kickass!!

Again, love the hand work, just not the style, and i mean it in general, not just that particular car. I'm trying to foresee this style in a few years and trying to sell that car too... Finessed lines, tucke'd bumpers, pans, small scoops/ air intake new rr spoiler style are ok in my book, but anything that protrudes the body or is a major change (like the rear extractors and such) to the original lines i have a little difficulty with... I guess its cause i see too many Honda's with wings and such on 'em and it makes me think of these... Maybe its age related? Then again, im only 40 so...

Love the wheels on the car tough!

Just to make sure we're cleanr, i didnt mean any offense or bashing, just sayin'


Lead.

[RS-Chris]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Sick.

Game over. Everyone can go home now

Originally Posted by badmatt

Jesus H. Christ, I like that....

Originally Posted by Rick D

I got nothin!!! I'm going to throw out everything in my shop!!

Originally Posted by phillym5

Wow.. thats incredible.

Can't wait to see this bad boy live in person!!

Was this mostly your guys vision.. or Bens?

Thanks Josh - This one started really after we thought we had come close to being finished! After the car was shown at SEMA, with the new chassis and the other details we had added, Ben really wanted to alter the look to something other than just a black '69. Something more aggressive that gave more than a hint of the car's potential.
We bounced tons of ideas back and forward (there were 13 versions of the rear spoiler before we settled on this one, for example!) until we got a package that really gave the car it's own identity.

Originally Posted by waynieZ

I love it ! It looks Awesome.

Originally Posted by Jay Hilliard

MAD FABRICATION SKILLS!!!!

Originally Posted by youthpastor

Looks amazing guys!! Love the details.

Thanks everyone

[RS-Chris]

Originally Posted by Leadfoot1

I LOVE the fab work, absolute masters at the WORK you guy's do....

BUT!! Damn i hate body kits (even if its not a kit...) i HATE aero of any kind on Camaro's. To ME it just kills the car... It looks like Darth Vader's ride.... When a car is taken to that point, i just dont understand the purpose of starting with a Camaro. Might as well start from scratch and build something thruly unique. I know you guy's at RS are apable of such a task and it would surely be kickass!!

Again, love the hand work, just not the style, and i mean it in general, not just that particular car. I'm trying to foresee this style in a few years and trying to sell that car too... Finessed lines, tucke'd bumpers, pans, small scoops/ air intake new rr spoiler style are ok in my book, but anything that protrudes the body or is a major change (like the rear extractors and such) to the original lines i have a little difficulty with... I guess its cause i see too many Honda's with wings and such on 'em and it makes me think of these... Maybe its age related? Then again, im only 40 so...

Love the wheels on the car tough!

Just to make sure we're cleanr, i didnt mean any offense or bashing, just sayin'


Lead.

No offense taken. (and thanks!)

That's the great thing about this hobby though is the mix of styles and opinions therein. For every owner that loves the stock lines of a '69 and wouldn't dream of messing with it, there are owners who see the potential for modification screaming from every line.

For this car though, it was on a different trajectory from the day a 2000hp Nelson motor was installed. The 'purpose' of starting with a '69 Camaro, plain and simply, is that is what the owner wanted. As builders, it would be a pretty dull looking shop portfolio if all the cars came in and went out looking the same. No matter what vehicle we start with, someone is going to get upset if you do anything other than a factory restoration. If the owner was worried about resale, he would have probably bought a Porsche.

As a shop, a build like this gives us a chance to stretch our design and fabrication 'legs'. The guys working on the car enjoy it because there are unknown elements that are genuinely a challenge to create, from a design standpoint it is a rewarding challenge to gather hundreds of elements and generate something the owner loves, we can be proud of as a shop and hopefully inspire others down the road. Personally, building something unique is truly more satisfying than building a clone of what everyone else finds 'suitable' or 'acceptable'.

As mentioned before, no offense taken. The owner of this car, ultimately is the one we are looking to please.

[garickman]

Originally Posted by RS-Chris

No offense taken. (and thanks!)

That's the great thing about this hobby though is the mix of styles and opinions therein. For every owner that loves the stock lines of a '69 and wouldn't dream of messing with it, there are owners who see the potential for modification screaming from every line.

For this car though, it was on a different trajectory from the day a 2000hp Nelson motor was installed. The 'purpose' of starting with a '69 Camaro, plain and simply, is that is what the owner wanted. As builders, it would be a pretty dull looking shop portfolio if all the cars came in and went out looking the same. No matter what vehicle we start with, someone is going to get upset if you do anything other than a factory restoration. If the owner was worried about resale, he would have probably bought a Porsche.

As a shop, a build like this gives us a chance to stretch our design and fabrication 'legs'. The guys working on the car enjoy it because there are unknown elements that are genuinely a challenge to create, from a design standpoint it is a rewarding challenge to gather hundreds of elements and generate something the owner loves, we can be proud of as a shop and hopefully inspire others down the road. Personally, building something unique is truly more satisfying than building a clone of what everyone else finds 'suitable' or 'acceptable'.

As mentioned before, no offense taken. The owner of this car, ultimately is the one we are looking to please.

Very well said!! If I had the skills, there is something from almost everyone of your builds I would find a way to copy. Now how about some updated pics of that Firebird?

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by garickman

Very well said!! If I had the skills, there is something from almost everyone of your builds I would find a way to copy. Now how about some updated pics of that Firebird?

and if I had the money I would be right there with you

[frankv11]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Sick.

Game over. Everyone can go home now

yeah . all tools down, go find a different hobby

[Blake Foster]

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I just want to know what the headlight part # is ???
the rest is really nice love it

[Radlark]

Originally Posted by Rick D

I got nothin!!! I'm going to throw out everything in my shop!!

OMG LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!

[Radlark]

I always enjoy your builds, I love the different elements that you take from different eras as well as different vehicles and incorporate them as if the vehicle came that way. Never to "tacky" always with the right amount of "taste"! I have incorporated a few of your "ideas" in my own builds, I look forward to ALL of your builds and thank you for continued inspiration....now back to our regular scheduled AWESOME BUILD!!!!