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chevy-stu
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:26 pm 
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Car Details:79' camaro road & track day toy. 383 stroker, 5 speed TKO trans, lots of suspension stuff, 13" Vette brakes, 18" wheels.
Location:Luton
Congrats.... a rust free body is rarity so excellent work... enjoy it !!!!!!!!

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 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Tue Jun 28, 2016 12:39 am 
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Car Details:3rd Gen camaro RS 305TBI M5 Ttops
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Happy with your purchase then lee :thumbup: :thumbup:
Love your description about the headlining Ginger snow :lol:
As for the underside I too had a bit of dread 20yrs ago !!
As I put my 71dodgecharger on the 4poster and got under it thinking it was going to be bad only to find it too looked like a 10 year old uk car :thumbup:
Do you have any car shows lined up ??
The headlining is knackered I can live with the colour but when you get out of the car you have ginger dandruff.
overall very pleased with the car just glad its not a rot box Ive had my fill of welding up old scrapheaps apart from the front bumper the paint is not bad not show quality but certainly presentable the only bad bit is on the roof where the Ttops have caught the roof, but a nice local repair should blend in nicely.

I plan to join the "Tyneside American Car Club" and get to some shows. in fact there is a one in my home town Seaham on Sat dont think I will have time to sort MOT by then
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 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:58 am 
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Car Details:1986 Camaro, bought into Spain by me in 1993.
305 replaced by a 355, 750 Demon carb, RPM AirGap intake, Brodix heads, Hedman Hedders, 3" Flowmaster exhaust.
Wheels are Summit aluminium 5 spokes, tyres are 245 rear 225 front BF Goodrich.
B/M transmission, battery relocated to the rear, GoodMark 4" cowl steel hood.
Location:Spain East Coast
One day the material on my headliner came unglued, ended up wearing it like a hat.
I took it out, stripped it off and recovered it.
My fix has lasted longer than the original.
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lee52
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:11 am 
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Car Details:3rd Gen camaro RS 305TBI M5 Ttops
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One day the material on my headliner came unglued, ended up wearing it like a hat.
I took it out, stripped it off and recovered it.
My fix has lasted longer than the original.
so easy enough to recover? I take it its material glued on to a compressed base material bit like modern cars?
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3rdGenmalc
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:23 am 
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Car Details:1986 Camaro, bought into Spain by me in 1993.
305 replaced by a 355, 750 Demon carb, RPM AirGap intake, Brodix heads, Hedman Hedders, 3" Flowmaster exhaust.
Wheels are Summit aluminium 5 spokes, tyres are 245 rear 225 front BF Goodrich.
B/M transmission, battery relocated to the rear, GoodMark 4" cowl steel hood.
Location:Spain East Coast
The biggest pain is removing all the trim to get it out and you must be careful the headliner splits easy.
When I had the material off I reinforced the dodgy parts of the headliner with denim spray glued to the topside.
When you do the material you need a helper to lay the new material down, start one end, helper holds the material up and move to the other smoothing it down side to side preventing "bubbles".

I thought I had pics of mine but can´t find them, or my mind is playing tricks. :lolno:

CAMARO/FIREBIRD NEW 82-92 HEADLINER KIT INCL HEADLINER, SAIL PANELS, AND SUN VISORS
http://www.hawksmotorsports.com/camaro- ... un-visors/
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lee52
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:21 am 
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Car Details:3rd Gen camaro RS 305TBI M5 Ttops
Ginger head liner mmmmmmmmm
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lee52
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:34 am 
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Car Details:3rd Gen camaro RS 305TBI M5 Ttops
not looking forward to painting the front bumper the whole nose is the same there is a awful lot of paint to remove and to make matters worse several layers are nice chewy paint clogging up the da discs and as far as I know there aren't any paint strippers that wont destroy the plastic.

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lee52
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Sun Jul 03, 2016 12:03 am 
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Car Details:3rd Gen camaro RS 305TBI M5 Ttops
starting to lose the will with the front bumper/nose paint is 3mm thick taking some getting off the main bumper is fully stripped plastic primed and etch primed just the splitter to sand and prep then high build prime and guide sand then colour
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chevy-stu
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:58 pm 
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Car Details:79' camaro road & track day toy. 383 stroker, 5 speed TKO trans, lots of suspension stuff, 13" Vette brakes, 18" wheels.
Location:Luton
Looks like thats's been touched up about 3,00000000 times...

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3rdGenmalc
 Post subject: Re: My first Camaro
PostPosted:Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:23 am 
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Car Details:1986 Camaro, bought into Spain by me in 1993.
305 replaced by a 355, 750 Demon carb, RPM AirGap intake, Brodix heads, Hedman Hedders, 3" Flowmaster exhaust.
Wheels are Summit aluminium 5 spokes, tyres are 245 rear 225 front BF Goodrich.
B/M transmission, battery relocated to the rear, GoodMark 4" cowl steel hood.
Location:Spain East Coast
You can purchase another aftermarket spoiler...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/91-92-Camaro-Z2 ... g8&vxp=mtr

I'd get to scratching and sanding.
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