1967 Camaro RS SOLD

I haven't been updating my blogs, and it has been almost a year now that the Camaro has been sold. I do miss her, but I have plenty of pother projects to keep me busy and the time was right to let her go.

'67 Camaro RS Headlights

When I first picked up the Camaro, the RS headlight system needed some work in order to make the doors work correctly. After much research, I finally figured the system out. There are three relays tucked up in the driver's side fender, along with a few switches and a pesky little rectifier diode up under the dash. The relays were incorrectly wired, so that was an easy fix, and I did need to replace one of the headlight door motors. Finally the rectifier diode went, because the doors would open normally but not close at all. I couldn't see any reason I should have to replace that entire harness under the dash at a cost of over $50 for one small faulty part that cost less than $1. 

It turns out that the RadioShack-276-1661 part is a perfect replacement, so I just had to run down to my local... oh wait, they closed Radio Shack stores. I quickly jumped on eBay and grabbed a 4 pack. I swapped the rectifier, covered it in the correct cloth tape, and now the headlights on the '67 Camaro RS are once again working perfectly.

The story of my Camaro...before it was my Camaro

I asked my friend Michael, the previous owner of the '67 Camaro, how he acquired the car. This is his story.

"At the time I was buying and sell cars on Craigslist. One day I saw an ad for a  67 R/S Camaro for sale with no pictures. Father and son project, true R/S with 32,000 miles in south Jersey. He wanted $5,500 for it, no less. I loaded the trailer up and drove 2 hrs. She was all apart but all there. His son wanted the Camaro at one time but lost interest in it, and now wanted a 78 Corvette. As far as I know it's a one was owner car before him; an old lady had the car new and only drove to store and round town. It just sat outside and started to rust (body) and she never drove it again. On the day I got there he had 4 people already there looking at the car, they all wanted it then. I had the cash and trailer and that how I got it. . he wanted it out that day. It ran but was backfiring. Debra was not happy when she saw it."

I put together a YouTube video with the photos Michael sent to me of the restoration of the Camaro...

I traded the '64 Stingray for a sweet 1967 Camaro RS. It is a numbers matching car that has been totally restored, and looks great.

The previous owner, that would be Mike, did a great job on the body work, however there were a few things I had to fix. The radiator must have had a leak, because it was full of Bars Leak, and he added an electric fan to compensate for the resulting overheating of that crap in the cooling system. A good flushing, new thermostat and new radiator, and now she sits at 160. He also had installed an Edelbrock carb, and you need to install a  Edelbrock #9266 heat insulator gasket on those things like I did with the '71 Chevelle or the fuel will percolate when it gets hot, making hot starting a bitch. I fixed both of those items today.

The RS hideaway lights were not functioning correctly, and after a ton of research, I found out that they were wired incorrectly. The system on the '67 is electric with 3 relays and 4 limit switches and a flux-capacitor....man it is a pain to get right. I finally has it, and all I needed to do was to remove the drivers side motor and tighten up the bolt after shimming it up. Yup, I broke it. Snapped that sucker right in half.