My 71 camaro! Slow recovery.

lsx71 · 02-24-2011, 08:55:02 PM

I bought this car back in october of this past year, haven't got much progress aside from pulling the old pontiac 400 and muncie out. I plan on going with a lq4 and 4l80e with a mild cam, nothing too crazy. I'm just now starting to strip paint and find all the rust, this is a southern car so ya'll know how they get lol it'll be hit and miss on progress but heres some pics of when I first got the car, note the motion paint scheme!

Old pontiac big block, gone to a better home lol

70SSRS350 · 02-25-2011, 07:20:32 AM

Excuse me, just curious, are you sure that is a '71?
Front seats looks like '70 (low back and separated headrest)....

High Country Z · 02-25-2011, 07:44:52 AM

I love the "cheese grater" grill.

lsx71 · 02-25-2011, 08:23:08 AM

Most certainly am sure its 71, sixth digit on vin is a 1 not a 0. Seats were probably swapped sometime in its life, but thanks for clarifying that up for me i couldn't figure out what those seats came out of.

lsx71 · 02-25-2011, 08:25:14 AM

Yeah i hate that grill haha it has got to go

Philly · 02-25-2011, 11:03:55 AM

Nice buy!! A guy in town here has a paint scheme like that but only black & yellow. Its pretty neat!...Good luck!

brooksman9 · 02-25-2011, 11:47:16 AM

Cool. Post more pics when you can.

70SSRS350 · 02-25-2011, 05:17:36 PM

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Originally Posted by lsx71

Most certainly am sure its 71, sixth digit on vin is a 1 not a 0. Seats were probably swapped sometime in its life, but thanks for clarifying that up for me i couldn't figure out what those seats came out of.

Ok, 1971! Well, from the photo I don't know for sure if the seat are really of a Camaro 1970, maybe also similar other's car seats.
I'm a bit informed about that 'cause in my '70 happened the same but in the other way!

lsx71 · 07-20-2011, 07:40:20 PM

Well finally got around to taking my subframe to work to sand blast it. Should have some paint on it this time tomorrow, I'll post pics when I get them. Did anybody elses have bb's all over like mine did? I had to grind all that crap off, considering I'm a welder I couldn't leave that on there lol

hoov81 · 07-20-2011, 07:46:45 PM

I'm diggin that grille. Nice find good luck

lsx71 · 07-20-2011, 07:53:55 PM

This grill will be for sale as soon as I get that far haha I hate to look at it

71camaroz27 · 07-21-2011, 08:34:28 AM

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Originally Posted by lsx71

This grill will be for sale as soon as I get that far haha I hate to look at it

Ya. That grill definitely looks "Old Shcool"!!!

JohnL71RS · 07-21-2011, 05:17:04 PM

Nice start on the project. Keep up the work and pics.

lsx71 · 07-21-2011, 10:26:28 PM

Well finally got my subframe blasted down this afternoon and coated in epoxy primer. This is actually the first time I've ever put a paint gun in my hand, our painter at work gave me some pointers and threw me at it. Props to you guys who do this for a living, I'll just stick to welding haha like what I got it hangin from? Talk about a engine hoist, 5 ton overhead lol
What color do ya'll usually paint these, flat, satin or gloss black?

lsx71 · 05-06-2012, 08:36:36 PM

Been awhile since I've updated this thread. Since I've had this car I bought a nice 78 yellow z28 and sold it last week to finish this build, as of now I'm workin on new floor pans and have brand new front sheetmetal. Also had bought a lq4/4l80e which got sold and I came across a 5.3/4l60e and yesterday it got put in the machine shop. I'm still deciding on what I'll do wth it, maybe bore it out to a 5.7 but who knows. I'm hopefully going to be updating this more often now because I want to atleast be driving it by October so I'm crossing my fingers on that.