Advice please for newbie :-)
#1
04-06-2011, 06:46 PM
Advice please for newbie :-)
Howdy all and great to be a part of this forum and thanks for having me here. I am posting from Melbourne, Australia so don't hold that against me. 
I have been ponedering for sometime about getting myself a Camaro and have always had a preference for the '67 to '69 model. I don't want to sound like a broken record on here as u guys would get this poser regularly. My preference at this stage is the '69 model. Now just to clarify, how many variations of this model were released as ideally I would like a numbers matching car....I assume the RS and SS are different models but then I hear of some calling them an RS/SS?? I take it these are getting rarer and to find one here in Aus would be a taller order then finding one o/s.
Did the 454 come standard in these Camaro's? Or was it just 396 and 427 in the BB??
Any advice/assistance would be greatly appreciated however I am consistently doing research on these and will be better for it.
Oh and is there any websites I could check out that (beside this), explain all about the history of Camaro's.
Cheers all and thanks in advance.
Ash.
Melbourne, Australia.
I have been ponedering for sometime about getting myself a Camaro and have always had a preference for the '67 to '69 model. I don't want to sound like a broken record on here as u guys would get this poser regularly. My preference at this stage is the '69 model. Now just to clarify, how many variations of this model were released as ideally I would like a numbers matching car....I assume the RS and SS are different models but then I hear of some calling them an RS/SS?? I take it these are getting rarer and to find one here in Aus would be a taller order then finding one o/s.
Did the 454 come standard in these Camaro's? Or was it just 396 and 427 in the BB??
Any advice/assistance would be greatly appreciated however I am consistently doing research on these and will be better for it.
Oh and is there any websites I could check out that (beside this), explain all about the history of Camaro's.
Cheers all and thanks in advance.
Ash.
Melbourne, Australia.
#2
04-06-2011, 07:02 PM
from 67 to 69 you could get an rs equipped camaro, an ss equipped camaro or a z28 equipped camaro. the rs option was a pure looks option. it added the hideaway headlight and added some nicer trim and badges onto the base camaro. the ss option was the performance option that could land you a big block car. these had some special ss badges and hood. then the z28 was a basically a street race car. they were built so the camaro could run in the trans am racing series. you could pair the rs option with a ss car or a z28 car. you could not get a z28 ss that never happened. also the biggest motor that the factory normally made was the 396 in all three years. in 69 though through a back door program at chevy they produced a handfull of 427 powered camaros but those rare and not that common.
for some research on camaro history on the first gens i would pick up a restoration guide becaue they help explain all the different options and ways to tell the differences between camaros. also try
camaroresearchgroup.com and camarosource.ca for some online stuff
for some research on camaro history on the first gens i would pick up a restoration guide becaue they help explain all the different options and ways to tell the differences between camaros. also try
camaroresearchgroup.com and camarosource.ca for some online stuff
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