Ultimate Restorations 68 Camaro Rebirth

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Hey guys, here is the story of our shop car from Ultimate Restorations In Danbury,CT. We have had this 68 for more then 20 years and it has gone though many diffrent changes over the years, The last rebuild was about 4 years ago, but now its time for a change. Here she was in the early 90s when it was a blown big block Thanks to my brother Al, Of Big Als Toybox of CT, with its "out of the blue" paint color.

After a few years the car was torn back down and sat as we grew our business and concentrated more on customers cars and other peoples rides, then 3 years ago, it was time for a rebuild and she came out with her fresh "Ultimate Orange" paint, 700hp Blown small block, and some ugly cheesy wheels, however, the car won a TON of shows including Boston World of wheels, frank miradas car show, and many large local and national shows, Here she is at boston W.O.W







The car also sported a custom interior that i had put in in 1985 LOL!

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The car needed a serious change, so we pulled her in the garage, and got to work, Here she is among our other 68's

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Our Trunk sucked, So we cut it out. We wanted to show off our awesome optima battery and add a new polished fuel cell recessed in the floor.





And then we test fit our fuel cell

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We wanted to do something diffrent with the center console, so we mocked up a few diffrent things with wood and then started bending metal.









Then we lost our ugly rims.. CYA

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After getting the fuel cell to fit, we cut the floor to recess the optima



Then we continued work on our center console.





Then we finished up the trunk section

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With the back of the console mocked up, we got started on the front.












Then we ordered every item Fesler had for the 68 camaro, Thanks Fesler your parts are awesome!

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Time to smooth her out



Then we started to mock up some trunk panels





The stock defrost vents sucked, so we lost them

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More smoothing

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With the interior pretty much roughed out, it was time to concentrate on some other aspects.

Small blocks are nice..

But big blocks are nicer