The Camaro Club (UK)

Big day yesterday as the 69 Camaro was finally ready for its MOT. Almost the completion of a 3yr rebuild (which I kept updating) on here but thanks to Facebook changing all the URLs the pictures in that thread have all disappeared..... Anyway, this is the restoration of MLL 40L known back in the 'old days' as Red Devil
So here are a few pictures of the journey along the way...

IT ALL STARTED BY poking around the nearside rear quarter and finding a load of rust and a botched welded rear quarter panel



BY THE TIME I HAD FINISHED WITH THE AIR CHISEL the entire rear end, including seat supports, parcel shelf and the roof skin had GONE... !!



ALL THE RUSTY inner roof supporting metalwork was exposed, cleaned and rust treated as best I could before a new roof skin went back on



FOR SOME STRANGE REASON the car had a 67 dash welded in which was removed and a new 69 dash was welded back in



NEW FLOOR PANS were installed as the old floor was badly bent from its drag racing days



Last summer THE ENTIRE NEW BODYSHELL was welded together by a friends bodyshop to get all the alignment and strength back and then it went back this summer to be finished off and painted in Hugger Orange with black stripes. AND FINALLY we got the car through the MOT yesterday and its back on the road.
I'm not a trade professional, all this work was done in my spare time in a rented garage with the help of two brilliant sons, particularly in re-assembling the car. I'm amazed at the result, even though I say it myself...............





We still have a few jobs on the interior to complete and exterior window trims to fit. Definitely need new tyres and will probably change the wheels to Torque Thrust 2's but for the moment I am well chuffed with the result...............

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Lordy.

That is a stunning car,credit to you and all that had an input into its revival.

That's gorgeous, I can't imagine the feeling you must get driving that after rescuing it from being such a rotter, hope to see it out and about one day

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1993 GMC Typhoon

Excellent job..
I can believe the satisfaction you feel from it seeing so transformed now, and after such a long time.. Congrats and hope you get many miles of driving pleasure ...

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Cracking job! Well done on saving another one. I used to know Sam Connell back in the '70's when he was D racing the Red Devil car and later in the 80's or '90's when he was racing a mostly stock early Camaro at Avon Park. I'm sure he would like to know his old car was still about.
Cheers, Martin

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Great to see it back on the road. Have been following the build on Facebook. You've done a great job

Thanks for the positive replies.

Did about 40 miles in it at the weekend and need to sort out the timing on the engine as it felt like it was running on 6 cylinders and had no go at all when put under load. I had to remove the distributor to make a few dents in the firewall (so that it would fit better without hitting the firewall) and most likely got the timing slightly out when sticking it back in.... And definitely need some new tyres as the ones that are on there are very old and very hard !
Other than that I am well pleased with how it looks..........

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Its only a hobby that keeps us off the street !!

Yeah would be good to meet up with him although its hardly the same car now....... bit like Triggers Broom really !!
After Sam, it became Rampage under Phil Turk who passed away a few years ago and his grand daughter has been following the rebuild as well.

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Its only a hobby that keeps us off the street !!

Stunning..simply stunning, well done

Looks amazing! Loving the colour, you have done so much work from when I saw it nearly 12 months ago! Can't wait to get mine on the road!