I am currently attempting to locate my fathers 67 camaro. He passed away 3 months before I was born back in 92 and it would mean the world to me to find his old car. I am not trying to part the current owner from the vehicle if they do not wish to. I merely would enjoy seeing it and being the first to get the chance to purchase it if they ever did decide to part with it. The last known location is New Jersey, it was a 67 hard top with the V6 in it. The VIN is 123377N190051. If anyone has any information about the car or suggestions on finding it please contact me. Thank you.

 

Good luck with your search, would have been an I-6 by the way if stock, no V-6 Camaro's in the 1960's.

 

It is very difficult to track down a car these days with all the privacy laws. Evern guys with huge resources struggle. If you remember Papa John's owner was looking for his Camaro a few years back. Even with a 1/4 million dollar reward out it took a year to find it.

A lot, I mean a lot of 6 cylinders where scrapped in the Late 80's and early 90's. In many cases they were worth twice as much in parts as they where as a whole. Later when GM stopped producing door and fenders original used fenders shot up to $1000 for one. I know a guy that claims he himself parted out 250+ 1st gen Camaro's in the early/mid 90's. There is a 80% chance the car no longer exists and 19% chance it looks nothing like it did, most of the 6'ers that survived the great parts grab where made into drag cars or V8 clones. There is probably a 1 in 100 chance the car still exists looking anything like when your dad had it. In fact that number is probably way too optimistic because most of the survivors I have seen are one owner car.

I wish you all the luck because you are searching for a needle in a hay stack and your not even sure its in there. Who knows sometimes luck is with you. A few years back I read a story about a guy restoring old 70's hot rod and it had a 69 Z28 302 in it. Knowing what a matching numbers Z was worth the guy posted the vin in a forum. The current owner saw it and ended up buying it and put it back where it belonged.

 

You might ask a cop to run the VIN and ask if it is still on the road - he/she can't tell you the present owner - maybe a detective service?
But, if scrapped and title turned in, might tell you the salvage yard.

 

Hey good luck man. Like everyone else said, these days it's almost impossible to find a car like that. I went to my local DMV and gave them a list of 3 VIN numbers and asked if they could tell me "if these cars were still on the road?" If they were, I'd continue to try and find them. If not, I can stop wondering.


Yep, the new privacy laws suck for that reason. Oh well, best of luck to you and I hope you can get some leads and find the car.