"1967 Camaro RS Convertible Rare L30/M20"

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Ouch, my brother had a hardtop. A great car. Seeing that makes me sad. Personally I would want a hardtop and not one in that condition, ymmv.

It'll buff out.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
.....Personally I would want a hardtop and not one in that condition, ymmv.

But, but it's rare and priced right?

Potentially worth $70 after you put $75 k into it. Would be very cool once all done....

$15,000.00 just seems too generous. I would haul it off for a lot less than that.

Hmmm. Just my suspicious nature perhaps, but the area of the VIN plate around the rivets looks tampered with.

The biggest problem is it’s not a ‘68.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Hmmm. Just my suspicious nature perhaps, but the area of the VIN plate around the rivets looks tampered with.

VIN plates are usually attached with rosette shaped rivets. These do not have that shape.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Hmmm. Just my suspicious nature perhaps, but the area of the VIN plate around the rivets looks tampered with.

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Originally posted by 400m:
The biggest problem is it’s not a ‘68.

Whew I'm glad I ran it by the Sig Forum experts, I could have gotten taken.

On the same page (at the time I viewed it) there's a '95 Toyota 4Runner for $7K. I like that better.

A number of cars from the mid-1960s to early 1970s tickle my fancy. One already fixed up might be $25-30K, but that's no worse, and better than many, than many used cars with 100K on them already, let alone new cars.

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Originally posted by egregore:
On the same page (at the time I viewed it) there's a '95 Toyota 4Runner for $7K. I like that better.

I do too. TBH that Camaro is the worst $15K car I've ever seen.

From what I've seen 60's and 70's car values have been dropping as those interested in them die off.

Interest ain't going to die off off in those cars. Values are stable.

The 70s Camaros are climbing in price now.
I remember just a few years ago I could get one for under a $3000.
And an 80s one a grand or less!

“Ran when parked.”

I had a ‘67 Camaro. It was nothing special, not an RS or SS, but it was sure a good car. In fact, if you’ll indulge me, I just wrote this out a few days ago.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> My Pagosa Springs Story

Many years ago (sometime in the mid-70s) I had some free time and decided to travel around Colorado by myself, in my ‘67 Camaro. If you have a mental picture of a cool, Camaro SS with mag wheels…no, it was just a blue automatic, with a black vinyl top, and a black vinyl interior. It was a good car though, and I abused it thoroughly, taking it places few Camaros dared to tread.

I was headed west across U.S. 160 and stopped at a cafe in Pagosa for something to eat. There were two truck drivers at the table next to me, and they had laid their semi over on its side, up on Wolf Creek Pass the night before. This would have been approximately at the time C.W. McCall released his album that contained the song, “Wolf Creek Pass.” The story they told was that one was back in the sleeper while the other drove over the Pass. Descending down the other side, the driver didn’t control his speed well. The story may be as simple as that. He claimed the truck went off the right side of the road where a rock was kicked up. It bounced up, hit the air brake lines that connect the trailer brakes to the tractor. I don’t know, but the truck and trailer didn’t make it down the mountain.

West of town, I left the highway and drove north on a Forest Service road. I ended up driving way back in there on a logging road, where I camped for the night. The next morning I went to leave, turned the ignition key, heard a Pfftt, saw a puff of smoke, and found myself sitting there miles from the highway with a shorted out ignition switch.

I walked downhill from there to the main Forest road and started trying to hitch a ride back to Pagosa to get a new ignition switch. At this time, the biggest concern for Coloradans was an influx of Texans buying summer homes, particularly in Hinsdale county, around Lake City; there were a lot of them. I believe there was a lake up this road I was on, and there was a steady stream of Texans heading in. All the Texans going in, smiled and waved hello to me, standing there on the side of the road. You couldn’t imagine a friendlier bunch of people. All the Texans going out, headed my way, looked anywhere but at me. I was invisible to them.

I stood there by the side of the road all day. Finally, a logging truck stopped next to me. “I’m not supposed to pick anyone up,” he said, “but I’ve been by you twice already, and I just couldn’t leave you here any longer.” God Bless him. I got into Pagosa, got an ignition switch, and I guess didn’t have too much trouble getting back up to my car. I replaced the switch, and continued on my way to Durango and Silverton.

That Camaro, before I got rid of it, was showing quite a bit of wear and tear. When I worked as a Wilderness Ranger in the High Uintas, I drove it back and forth to the trailhead—we had a corral hidden off the parking area where our horses stayed when we were down below. The screws vibrated out of the instrument cluster and the assembly fell forward onto the steering column (attached by the speedo cable) ; it WAS a good car though.

T042TMK, I’ll agree the first letter indicates a Tonowanda New York engine. BUT, the three letter code at the end, through the 1969 model year ALL Chevrolet engine codes were two letters, the three letter combination started in 1970. Early on the letter T was assigned to truck engine builds. I don’t have access to parts books anymore (well usually, I can pull a string or two if needed) to decode it further.


We were always taught NOT to try and identify in GM a part by the casting number. One “famous” hot rodding book in the late 70’s emphatically stated that all 3978010 blocks were four bolt main bearing engines, not so, we proved that in dealership parts back then. For those that don’t know, I was in GM dealer parts from 1970 to 2017 and still pay around with hot rods and restorations to a degree today.


Also, that tag and the rivets. That isn’t a VIN, that’s a Fisher Body tag, on the firewall or as we referred to it in GM parts a cowl panel. That tag was assigned at Fisher, tagged to the body with two large hollow rivets, about the diameter of a pencil eraser, those are removed pretty often during restorations.And it appears that there are “witness marks” where the rivets were removed.

The VIN for all GM cars in 1967 is on the left A pillar, the one the door hinges mount to. And yes, the plate is held on with two stainless steel rosette punched rivets. While the Fisher Body plate on the cowl can be removed legally it’s a BIG no-no to remove the VIN plate, Feds don’t like it. By 1968 the VIN was on the dash, driver side visible through the windshield.


I like the 67-68 but that’s a bit optimistic in my opinion.

Whew I'm glad I ran it by the Sig Forum experts, I could have gotten taken.[/QUOTE] Yes it could have been worse, you could have been suckered into a ‘69. As everybody knows the former two are much better looking than the ‘69.