If ya had the chance to read my BIO (if ya didn't I don't blame you,
I can get a little windy) I stated that as a mid life crisis thing I went out and
bought another Camaro.
She's a 67, with tilt wheel. I only paid a lowsey $400.00 bucks for her, so come on give
her a break. As you can see she doesn't have a motor or trans, yes I did buy it that way.
The guy that I bought her from was driving her last winter and decided to give her a
little gas, well low and behold the N-50-15's on the rear broke free of the slippery
pavement. Oh my imagine that. He popped her into a ditch, smacked the front end on a small
cliff (no typo, here in Missouri we do have small cliffs lining our roads) spun her
around and..........
WHAM!!!!!
Smacked the left rear on the same cliffs!!!!!!
What damage you see here in the second picture is AFTER I pulled the left quarter panel back into some assemblance of where it is supposed to be. The quarter was pushed in about 6" inches, the striker post was shoved almost 1" inch into the left door and the left door has a buckle in the frame, not the outer skin, just the frame. The roof right behind the rear window had a buckle about 4 inches deep in it. In fact it was so deep it broke the welds located in the curve of the rear window.
After much beating and stretching I got the quarter into it's approximate position, and the wrinkle in the roof almost totally out. But while pounding on the wrinkle to free it up, I found that the quarter was replaced before. How did I find out this amazing fact you ask? Well when I was pounding on the roof wrinkle, low and behold a piece of BONDO about the shape and size of a football and almost 3 inches thick (I just had to measure this one) popped out. Now if that wasn't a big enough clue, under where the BONDO was were 3 burn thru holes made by a torch about as big around as a silver dollar. I want to meet the DIPSTICK who thought he was a bodyman.
Believe it or not, only the tailight bezel had just a crack in it.
Now as you can see in the left picture the left frame horn took a pretty good beating, but I got it totally straightened out. You should have seen the front clip. The radiator core support was pretty twisted, I got it bent back into shape, but I'm still gonna replace it. Neither of the wheel house's are salvageable. The right fender was easy to fix, it just had some minor damage to the fender nose and a buckle right in the middle of the wheel well. But the left fender took a pretty good hit. Take a close look at the right picture. What you see is the upper "A" arm slid forward over and off the bushings. It bent the steering arm and BOTH of the tie rods. The left fender is not salvageable, even though I did get the fender pretty straight, the front nose of the fender is toast.
The right side of the car is straight (except for the fender). I did use a magnet and checked for BONDO on this side and only found a little on the right rocker.
Now check out this interior. The front buckets and the rear seat have NO RIPS or tears. Except for the frame on the drivers seat being a little bent back from the accident the seats are cherry. The carpet is a replacement. Both inner door panels are pretty shabby but both rear inner panels are perfect. The steering wheel is cracked from age right around the center post, but other than that it is excellent and the tilt works tight as a drum. The titlt wheel is what sold me on the car. After doing some research befor buying her, I found out that 230,000 some odd camaro's were produced in 1967 but only about 7,000 had the tilt wheel option, that makes her a little rare in my books and yes I checked out the plate numbers and she did have the tilt.
Well she's
going to go into hibernation for a few months, winter's coming on and I don't have a
garage, YET!!!!!!! So I'll update this section as soon as it thaws enough to work on her
some more.
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