Chevy Camaro 1983 Work in progress.

Thanks, i do my best.

I know what you mean about them getting expensive, some nice ones already are, a few bargains left though.

You know i was on about sticking a V8 in a capri beofre mate, well decided that a car that already had one was easier. Sold the Granny estate to make room for this one though and I'm miffed about that.

It was just a very useful car, great parts chaser and you could get so much in it, towed stuff no bother, the other half things 7 cars is too many though.

the camaro is sort of cheating though, come clean time.....................

its not a yank v8, that went pop on the previous owner so i have stuck a rover v8 and autobox in it. One good thing is that the rover has mountings etc made up for a supercharger, so you never know whats next.

Still leaves me with a whole spare rover v8 though. A spare or put into something else?

Am I right in thinking you still have a Dyane in your yard Mr Stinkwheel? Now that would be interesting with V8 power...

Not exactly a "just drop it in" job though!

Well we all know that the rover is actually a buick so GM lump anyway.

And yes i have a dyane. I've been thinking about a 2CV body with Something else frame with big motor, we shall see.

Yeah his purchase of the camaro has made me ave a ponder about this. Sure beats his nova anyway.

Looks cool to me.

These things can be made to really rock. Grown yourself a mullet yet

crucially the all-alloy V8 was developed at a time when Detroit was bringing out new compacts thinking that 1960s would be the decade of the economy car. LOL. By 1964 they realised the market for economy motors was so small might as well leave it to the Corvair and the Beetle. The all alloy engine had suffered a lot of teething trouble and had not been popular with buyers. They suffered overheating and blown head gaskets and other probelms, many of which down to users or even dealers not realising alloy engines are supposed to be run with antifreeze regardless of the weather. People in Texas never heard of glycol. This also killed the spinoff iron block/alloy head version. Buick kept an all-iron taller decked derivative in production until 1967. Oldsmobile and Pontiac had also used the original all-alloy 215 but never used the iron versions (300/340). Buick were playing with the alloy 215 as a boat engine when (as the story goes) an engineer from Rover who was visiting the Flint plant tripped over one in the corner of a workshop... the rest is history.

Oldsmobile had tried to market the all-alloy 215 with a turbo as a light weight alternative to a big V8. If they had used intercoolers in stead of methanol injection as a charge cooler it might have taken off. Neither the F85 Jetfire nor the Corvair Monza Turbo sold in great numbers. IIRC the Corvair was not charge-cooled at all.

Buick have a history (OK another example at least) of selling off engine rights. They sold the 3.8L V6 to AMC and then spent a chunk of money buying it back come the gas crunch and CAFE years... Used it as the basis of a far muse sucessful turbocharger car range - Regal Turbo and Grand National.

No excuse Stinkwheel. You can always have a short top and sides - bingo, instant mullet!

who's the daddy

my list includes a white 84 camaro Z28, cannot beat the square-tastic styling