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Classic Car Review: 1969 Chevy Camaro 307 V8

A Vintage Car Owner's Exerience.......

By Cleveland Gonnawinn, published Jun 04, 2007
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Rating: 3.0 of 5
My 1969 camaro, a car too good to keep building. There I was in my 69, ob baby she sure was fine, my 307 small V8 caused me tickets but I was never late. This vehicle's engine outlasted it's body. The 69 I had was equipped with a "hydromatic" transmission. The gear bar was shaped like an upside down closed "U." It did not have the curious notorious unibody frame to my recollection.

Ratings1-5. Five is the best in each category.

Eye Candy...5

Acceleration...2

Perceived Acceleration....4

Likely to be pulled over...4 3/4

Reliability....4

Gas mileage....Nobody cared at my age then

Major experienced problems...3, The wiring harness and components should had been re tooled as this car aged. The car hated me when I put in a new stereo. Fuses, blown. Back end light, not too stable in the snow, but notably more stable on rain slicked roads when transmission was in a lower gear.

Owner Regret ability...Oh yea, This was not like regretting throwing away baseball cards, or Pez dispensers. Getting rid of this car was tough personally. The car was an easy sell. Real Chrome, real bucket seats, and round headlights that looked good. Headlights where only about 3.00 bucks.

Forgettably....Never.

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Bought mine in Mineral Wells, Texas in March 1969. International orange , white interior, bucket seats; let my kid brother use it while I was in Vietnam. He treated it well, but my step-mother put 40K on it. Took it back to the same dealership and got a 1970 Cutlass Supreme that was bored out to a HUGE 400plus. She was a beauty til I had to let her go for a wife...I don't have the wife either.

Posted on 07/25/2008 at 6:07:26 PM

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