1969 RCR Series 3 Camaro

[mechmike0034]

Holy schizz... (http://www.series369camaro.com/):gle:


Forty years ago when Richard Childress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Childress) spent his days hand crafting his own racecar chassis and custom building his high performance motors, he was consumed with one thing, racing. In fact, he’d spend all week working on his car, run it on the bullring racetracks of the Carolinas on the weekend, then drive all night to get back to work on Monday morning. He’s definitely no Johnny come lately. He is an icon of the sport.


http://s92425274.onlinehome.us/wsc92425264/Linked/1969_RCR_Series_3_Camaro2.jpg

50 will be built, with pricing in six figures. They will each come with a full-on 600 HP race engine as well as a "detuned" 500 HP street version.

[johnnymk]

To me, the '69 Camaro is a perfect icon of the musclecar era. There is just something magnificent about that car.

[mechmike0034]

I like how, if you read through the linked literature, the word Chevrolet never appears.

He's building these from reproduction aftermarket bodies. I wonder how they're titled...

[uncledaddy]

Man, if I could only afford one. :drool:

[ArkiStan]

To me, the '69 Camaro is a perfect icon of the musclecar era. There is just something magnificent about that car.

It was all downhill after that year.

[johnnymk]

It was all downhill after that year.

Do you mean Camaros? Then I agree.

However, 1970 produced some of the prettiest and fastest musclecars ever: the Chevelle, Challenger, Barracuda and Monte Carlo are on my list.

[Jeffbx]

It's cars like that that make me proud to have been born in Detroit.

No high mileage, GPS laden, auto this and that - just pure power & style with no apologies. The kind of vehicle where just starting the engine scares pets & small children.

[mojo]

To me, the '69 Camaro is a perfect icon of the musclecar era. There is just something magnificent about that car.
for me it would be the camaro, along with the mustang and the barracuda

just spreading the love :D

[mechmike0034]

It's cars like that that make me proud to have been born in Detroit.

No high mileage, GPS laden, auto this and that - just pure power & style with no apologies. The kind of vehicle where just starting the engine scares pets & small children.

Like the late Jimmy Addison's Silver Bullet (http://www.carcraft.com/featuredvehicles/906_1967_plymouth_belvedere_gtx/index.html)...

I wonder if that's where Bob Seger got the band name.

It's funny you bring this up - here over the last few days I've gone back and am re-reading Jim Wangers (http://www.geetotiger.com/JimWangers.htm) memoir, Glory Days (http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Days-Horsepower-Passion-Detroit/dp/0837602084).

That WAS the way it was...

[renovation]

anyone got a 1/2 mill to loan ?

[Showtime]

:drool:

Very nice except for the rims.

[Prngr44]

I wasn't a big fan of the whale tail on the back.

Oh, someone needs to proofread that website. Lots of misspellings and grammar mistakes!

[mechmike0034]

I wasn't a big fan of the whale tail on the back.

Oh, someone needs to proofread that website. Lots of misspellings and grammar mistakes!

Unlike 99% of the spoilers you see on the street, that one's not for looks. I'm with you on the aesthetics, though - it would indeed look a little cleaner were it spoilerless.

[thresher]

The baddest Camaro I know (and they have a GREAT website!) is the Big Red Camaro: www.bigredcamaro.com/

I had a '70 GS stage 1. Before you guys get all creamy it was in 1988 when no one knew what muscle cars were and I bought it from an older hispanic guy for (get this) $200. A new battery and tires and she was street worthy. I raced her for a while then sold her to a drag racing family in Houston for (get this) $900. I thought I was rich! :) It was a 455, positraction, ac delete muscle machine. That car is probably worth an honest $50k or more nowadays. Ha.
I have also owned a '69 GS convertible, a couple of very nice cutlasses and Buick converts. All before the musclecar rush. They were cheap, ran great and looked good. Now I drive an F150 (and very happy about it).

[mechmike0034]

The RCR Series 3 at Woodward (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/woodward-2008-gm-at-athens-coney-island/980492/), from Autoblog...

[mechmike0034]

I had a '70 GS stage 1... I have also owned a '69 GS convertible, a couple of very nice cutlasses and Buick converts.

Does this look familiar (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/woodward-2008-gm-at-athens-coney-island/980483/)?

How about this (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/woodward-2008-gm-engines/980531/)?

[thresher]

Oh man the GSX. I never got that lucky. I did have that gorgeous ram-air in both of my GS's. My '69 GS 400 convertible was a machine. It was a super low mile car that I bought because a guy caught his son burning rubber with "his precious". I creamed a pole the first night of ownership. :) It took me three months to rebuild but back then you could actually find parts (new front clip) and she was good as new.