1968 Chevrolet Camaro SS BARN FIND Sitting Since 1999! Is it Real? New Project, Muscle Car Style!
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- Today we reveal the new project car for the channel. Is this a real SS Camaro? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section! This will definitely be a long term project for the next several years, but you can count on some tire smoke and muscle car action coming up this summer!
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Green with a gold interior would be amazing wow
Black interior and a nice dark blue. I would love to have that car.
I'm a Ford guy but I also like Camaro'. Very nice to say the least.
Cool car...minimal resto is the way to go..."drive it before you die" is my motto.
Yes by all means get it running and feel it out. SS or not this is a car worth having. Take pride in it.
right on man have fun thats what it all about ,for sure .keep going ..sir
If it were mine, I would say it is an SS. For 1968, it would be very difficult for someone to prove otherwise. I have a very early 1967 and I drive it like a bat out of hell. Enjoy your car, don't worry too much about the small things.
that trunk floor panel is savable . i applied Rust oleum truck bed liner on mine Camaro
I’d call that car Don Magic Juan “green for the money, gold for the honey”
Cool project for sure. Dad’s drag car was a rally green with the white hockey stripes RS/SS 396 four speed car. Sadly that car was sold when I was seven to buy the truck that started his trucking company. Hopefully you’ll find the build sheet for your car or be able to track down some of the previous owners. Good luck with the new project.
Have fun with it this summer, do a little here and there 🏎
I have a 1967 and a 1968 Camaro, They have been in my family since the mid 70s. There are a few more differences to help spot the year... As you stated a vent window on the 67 and not on 68, side markers on the 68 not on 67, Rear lights are divided on the 68 and not on the 67. Also on the front the standard signal lights are round on the 67 and sort of rectangular shaped on the 68. On a SS the hood lovers are divided on a 68 (like multi ports) and ribbed on the 67. The rally wheel centers on a 67 are flatter than the ones on 68. Inside there are a lot of differences in the dash panels and consoles. The standard seats look very similar, but I think the deluxe and Hounds tooth seats look different (not blessed with those options so not sure). Although there certainly were many options for the stripes on a 68 to look like the 67, most of what I see is the bumble bee stripes on a 67 and D90 stripes on the 68 that start like a Bumble bee stripe then go partially down the sides of the car. Funny how all those very small almost unnoticeable differences made me love both model years so much I am not sure which one to say I like the best. My two cents here on worrying about it being an SS...don't worry about offending any car purist that says you cant make the car what you want it to be, if you were looking to modify a one of kind Z-28 convertible that may be different. The key is to just be honest when you describe what you know and don't know about the car. I got taken years ago by a Lemans faked completely out to be a GTO - An expert showed me the issues. I loved that car anyway and it was scary fast but once I knew what it was...had to be honest about it. But make it your car and don't apologize for that at all.
Clean it up and run it a little. Looks like a great project!
Very difficult to determine the options on a 68 Camaro compared to all '67s and many 69's. The 12 bolt was a special order that was also put in 327/275 Camaros, the L30. If the front fenders were original and had the SS badges with the speed nuts, that would be telling because no one would go thru the trouble to pull the fenders off just to add those. Without the original motor, it's a guessing game.
For real my yellow 68 is a l30m20, makes it a pain to tell. If it was a manual transmission car you could tell from the routing if the speedo cable. But that auto will make it hard. You will have to have a couple pieces of the drivetrain numbers matching to tell.
I love Rally Green Camaros, but man, I think I would just clean it up and drive it as is.
That's the plan for now! Paint can come much later. It can be enjoyed now without too much effort, I think.
distance between door to wheel opening 68-69
the vin # will tell you if is a factory V8 the third # should be a 4 that's an indication that migth be an SS if is a 3 is a 6 cyl car no SS and looking a the diff. I think is out of a 67 Camaro it looks like it has a traction arm on the passenger side they use those on 67 Camaros with mono leaf springs to eliminate wheel hop but that's my opinion I hope it helps nice project! good luck!
You have an awesome project car that you can drive while you work on it! I am not sure if the build sheet would possibly be behind the passenger door card? I read they did this on some of the 1970-72 Chevelle models. Worth a shot to look there if you have not already.
Thanks! Yes, I'll have to check behind the door panels.
All SS camaros have power stirring power breaks and a 12 bolt rear end
Original front fenders? If so, check inside of fender for the holes for the exterior badge.
if it is built in Norwood then it probably is a real SS!
This is a Los Angeles car.
How I know about them is these 68,s came as a rs/ss 396 with four speed tranny hide away headlights the tail light were red meaning four basically red lenses the back up lights were on either side of the roll pan where the license plate was ours was creamed color with black stripe.acrossed the front in front of hood and it had chrome hood like scoops run vin number on firewall driver side in engine compartment good luck with your the I'm talking about is worth a something these days brings back when we cruised van nuys Blvd. Have fun w it th it
Unfortunately, without the original matching numbers engine, there is no way to tell if a 68 is a true SS.
Doesn’t matter to me. Multi leaf springs, 12 bolt rear end and emblems is the only way I know unless you can find the build sheet somewhere in the car.
Will look for it, but I agree with you. Doesn't really matter at the end of the day!
@@jetlagheroes7860 I have full dse mini tubs and subframe so original is out the window but now I can make it the way I want and it will still go up in value.
@@jetlagheroes7860 paint may have been something like this, mine was except it was lemans blue with white.
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very cool colors!!!! go back to those colors. I'm betting it's not an SS and please don't fake it!!!!
Thanks for the input! Just curious, what clues make you think it's not an SS?
who cares. make it a SS! It's your car. Make a dream come true.
It's all rotted out around the rear window track, under the chrome belt and glass, which is why the package tray area and trunk fills with water. That's very time-con$uming to repair! They all rot like that. Trunk lid and weatherstrip is shot as well. But the first-gens are all like that. Out west, they rust from the top down. Go to a car show and study one of the first-gens. You'll see what your extra parts are for, and where they go.
Yeh if U can smell it touch it and see it it's a real Camaro 🤣
It doesn't appear to be correct for an SS. It's a small block heater core, which if it was an SS 350 automatic, would be a Powerglide. The console shows to be a 3 speed auto, which would mean a 396. It looked like monoleafs too. But anything can get changed over 50 years. Great to already have a 12 bolt.
Wondering what you paid for that car?
Got it from a family member.
Let me buy it off u
Thank you, but it is highly, highly unlikely we'll ever be selling this car as it has been in the family for a long time.
There are three things right off the bat that indicate it is not a real SS.
Mono leaf rear suspension, Does not appear to have SS gauges and Doesn’t have correct engine . Just my first observations