For sale is my beloved Chip Foose inspired 1986 custom camaro sport coupe.
This car has had a 15 year build with no expense spared! I always thought I would be buried with this car!!
I have done most of the work so know exactly what has gone into this car. I have hundreds of hundreds of photos and a massive diary (word document) of its build. All receipts/instructions and diagrams are with it.
To sum the car up, it is a smoothed, chromed, fully detailed, air suspension cruiser. Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) has been removed, blasted then painted polished or chromed. Even the propshaft has flames going around it.
The entire floorpan has been media blasted etch primed and painted and polished. Even the inner wheel arches are super smooth and super shiney!
I think the car has only got wet twice in its life!
It is a 5 litre V8 with 700R4 transmission and T Tops. I bought it in 1994 (just after I met my very patient Wife) from a friend of mine and it has done only a few thousand miles since then. The car has grown and evolved with us and our 2 young sons over the last 16 years. It is a massive part of our family and will always be.
The new owner must promise to look after this car and I reserve the right to refuse to sell it if I don’t like them!! I don’t really need the money, just need some very valuable space, since I have another project halfway through and am fed up of working outside.
It is going to be so hard letting go of this car, but its time has come. I never drive it now and it needs to be used and appreciated.
It has its own lowcamaro.com website and has won many shows. All the graphics are airbrushed. No stickers!!
The car has no rust at all. Even in the famous camaro places like the t top centre plate.
God I must be mad selling this. I will never build one to this insane depth again.
Visit the web site
http://www.lowcamaro.com to see its story and have a look at the boring specs below.
I am not getting this out in the rain, so don’t ask! If you want to drive it you will have to prove insurance cover and beg!
The price? £20 000 or damn near offer! 07833 967239 for any questions.
Or
andyfanshawe@aol.com
Bodywork
• Car totally stripped and shell bare metalled (chemical paint stripper on top and media blasted underneath). Doors, bonnet, tailgate and wings chemically stripped both sides. All glass removed during the process. Tailgate glass removed from the metal section. All panels painted inside and out.
• Handles and locks welded up. Keyfob remote control door opening (and spare buttons for any other switching needed in future. Eg window opening/closing…etc).
• T top centre section panel stripped, blasted, painted and reassembled.
• Custom 2K paint applied (inside and out) and flames airbrushed by Andy Scott. Including flames inside door posts and sill tops.
• Battery tray removed and custom one built and bolted in with stainless fasteners.
• Front subframe (K member) removed, media blasted and painted red. Bolted back with chromed fasteners and polished stainless washers.
• Aluminium skid plate fabricated for bottom of front x member and chrome plated and secured with polished domed cap head bolts.
• New T top seals
• New door seals
• Custom front air dam designed, built and painted. Adjustable.
• Custom under nose cone side panels designed, built and painted.
Engine
• Engine rebuilt to stock and painted bright red on an engine stand.
• Computer controlled 4 barrel carburettor, ECU, smog pump, HEI distributor and all associated wiring removed.
• Carter/Edelbrock chrome carburettor fitted.
• MSD e-curve distributor fitted with rev limiter and electronic tuning of vacuum and centrifugal advance (built in MAP sensor and electronic controlled centrifugal advance-no weights).
• MSD blaster 2 coil.
• All fasteners changed to stainless and polished.
• All washers polished.
• Aeroquip stainless hoses used for fuel pump to carb.
• Aeroquip stainless hoses used for heater matrix feed and return.
• Fuel pump buffed and polished
• Alternator stripped, buffed and polished. Red sections painted.
• All pulleys chrome plated.
• All engine ancillary brackets chrome plated.
• Chrome rocker covers.
• Reinforced sump with skid plate-all chromed.
• New red poly engine mounts with chrome plated shells.
• Chrome mini starter.
• New drive belts
• New heavy duty battery
Transmission
• Transmission removed, stripped, painted and rebuilt. No worn parts found.
• B & M megashifter fitted.
• Propshaft stripped and painted with flame effect. Chrome UJ saddles
• Transmission brackets chrome plated.
• Transmission X member chrome plated.
• Transmission to exhaust bracket chrome plated.
• Transmission dipstick chrome plated.
• Red poly gearbox mount.
• Red poly torque arm bushing.
Rear axle
• Rear axle stripped, media blasted and rebuilt. Then painted red.
• Chrome plated diff cover.
• Backplates media blasted and painted red.
• 2 Stainless brake pin plates fabricated and polished.
• Stainless backplate to axle bolts.
• New LSD additive
Suspension and steering
• Custom bolts and plates made for panhard rod.
• Panhard rod media blasted and painted red.
• Rear trailing arms media blasted and new bushes pushed in.
• New bump stops all round.
• Lower ball joints, inner and outer track rod ends replaced.
• Pitman arm chrome plated.
• Relay rod, idler arm and track rods polished.
• Polished stainless locknuts used throughout.
• Steering intermediate shaft polished.
• Steering box media blasted and painted red. Cover polished.
• Grant no wheel, no steal security device fitted and new steering wheel.
• Front lower control arms media blasted and painted red.
• Front struts prepped and painted red.
• Custom stainless front struts to knuckle plates fabricated with stainless fasteners.
• Upper aluminium horsehoe bar chrome plated.
• Top suspension plates chrome plated.
• Full digital air suspension designed, built and fitted. Auto pilot digital management for ride height. Fully adjustable from bottomed out to very high. All brackets chrome plated.
• New rear shock absorbers painted red.
• Chrome rear shock absorber lower fittings and stainless fasteners.
• Chrome plated front and rear anti roll bars. And chrome plated brackets and U bolts
Brakes
• Custom bent stainless tubing.
• Calipers stripped, media blasted and painted.
• Discs media blasted and painted.
• Front backplates chrome plated.
• Master cylinder rebuilt and painted red.
• Proportional valve stripped and cleaned and polished.
• Braided flexible aeroquip hoses.
• New slave cylinders (painted!)
• New pads, shoes and shoe springs and hardware.
• Chrome plated handbrake adjuster plate.
• System filled with silicone (purple) brake fluid DOT 5. Non water absorbing. As used by the army and navy. NOT synthetic.
Interior
• Custom upholstered velour seats, door cards and sail panels.
• Headliner rebuilt and recovered.
• New carpet.
• Ministry of sound head unit with built in memory, CD provision, USB and SD card slots.
Wheels and tyres
• Reproduction IROC wheels. 18” front with 20” rear.
• New tyres ; front rear
Fuel tank
• Bare metalled, flushed. Etch primed and painted 2K red.
• Sender and pickup removed, cleaned and all pipes leaving tank media blasted, painted and sleeved.
• Braided steel connecting pipes joining tank to hard lines.
• Breather on custom polished alloy bracket.
• Custom bracket holding pipes in front of axle.
Lights
• Hi level brake light converted to LED
• Rear light unit lenses highly polished
• Front headlight backing pods media blasted and painted.
• New reflectors and halogen conversion.
• New adjusters.
• New fog lights in front grille
Exhaust
• Custom built stainless throughout and polished.
• All fasteners stainless and hangers custom made.
BAD points
• AC needs regassing with RS24 (alternative to R12). I will try to get this done asap.
• Small paint defect on the passenger door but that will be rectified properly before the sale is complete.
• Needs a centre console designing to house the new stereo and air suspension controller properly.
• There are still 4 primer spots on the underside where the car sat on stands for years while all the work was being done! These need painting red.
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