Pardon me if this has already been posted:

http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/product.htm

 

I remember on a hot rod magazine that 68 Camaros were available in kit form, like the superformance cobras..is this it or is this an Eleanor- type reissue?

 

this appears to be a more or less scratch-built replica. You can now buy new steel vert 69 camaro bodies, and build to suit your desires, but they are not Chevy Camaros, but merely a replica steel shell, from firewall back.

IMHO, the LS1 Camaros had a modern chassis, despite the ignorant clamorings from people who have never driven one.

 

The replicar market I think is going to continue to grow, and may become a major force in new cars period. I mean, how cool is it that you can go out and buy a $20k kit car that looks like a Porsche 356 or 550? Talk about making the halcyon days really accessible...

 

scratch built from the ground up. the designer is a regular over at camaroz28.com

they will be selling replica 68 camaros as well but the 427K is completely tooled in house.

 

whats so "un-modern" about the previous generation camaro chassis?

 

Seems like it would have been cheaper and more effective to simply rebody a new Corvette than build a whole new chassis from scratch... Probably could have sold those for around $130,000 with a fat profit margin and better all-around performance to boot.

Andrew

 

Might be cheaper, but I don't know about better all around performance, unless you're talking mpg or interior noise.

 

^^^ I'm talking about the Corvette chassis layout as being superior for a performance car/sports car design - lightweight, low center of gravity, independant double-wishbone suspension all around, execellent suspension geomentry, fantastic brakes, and the ability to cram ridiciulous amounts of tire under it.

If you base your custom car on the Corvette, GM already did all the hard engineering stuff you. If you wanted to build and sell a custom-bodied sports car, especially a Chevy, the thoroughly state of the art Corvette chassis is the place to start IMHO.

Andrew

 

isn't it kinda dumb to assume you can bolt anything you want to any chassis you want, and get a result that looks like a 69 Camaro? In order to use the Corvette chassis for a project like this, one would need to buy a Corvette, strip the car to the frame, fabricate new panels, fabricate whatever mounting structure you'd need to place the panels in the proper position, with enough strength to support the panels in the event of a wreck or someone leaning on them, figure out some way to get the seats where they ought to be in a late 60's Camaro, find some way to place the dash in the proper position, cobble together some kind of linkage so the steering wheel is in the correct spot, ad nauseum.

You cannot just say "I'll use that chassis, reap all the benefits of it, and through the magic of cutting torches and welders, everything else will take care of itself, leaving me with the exact look and feel I am going for. And all the modifications I do will not negate the benefits of the chosen chassis, however different the chassis is from the desired final product." Things are not so easy. You can more easily swap suspension and powerplants than swap bodies. It isn't like all vehicles are just Lego sets that can be entirely reconfigured at will. Making a tube frame from scratch is far easier than buying a Toyota Corolla and rebuilding it to look like and behave like a Ferrari.