Those were the days!
Sweet!
Thanks for posting - lots of memories of the muscle cars in that article. The track performance data is really interesting since it just had an automatic transmission and a 3.73 rear-end.
This isn’t news. It’s chat.
I had a stock 1968 Camaro. It moved pretty good.
Self ping.
I love old cars...my uncle’s has a few old cars in he 6 bay oversized garage - 69 Roadrunner and a Torino Talladega are beautiful. He’s restoring a 57 Chevy BelAire wagon now...
Wow.
“Weaver was a teenager in March 1968 when his dad offered to “buy me something new.””
I was looking at a 68 Buick GS 400 convertible Skylark when my “uncle” came along and gave me something else, a jeep.
When I gave it back, I went out and got a Camaro RS 350. It came with disc brakes a first and the turbo 400 AT. The only problem with it was it was so front end heavy in spun on light throttle. I wish I had it as the blacked out front grill look is popular now.
I am workinbg on restoring my 67 Camaro convertible right now. I pulled it out of a junkyard in 177 for $250. Has a bad torque converter now, but vrrrrrooooom!
$1,000 in 1968 dollars is about $7,389.71 in 2018 dollars, per the BLS online inflation calculator.
If they can do a numbers matching restoration, of the class that Graveyard Cars does for MOPARs, that car will be worth crazy money at auction, well into the 6 figure range.
Mark
I’ve only had two cars that would be considered rare in my over forty years of car-guy ownership and collecting. The first was a 1970 Plymouth 440 Cuda Convertible originally equipped with air conditioning that I bought from my brother for one hundred and fifty dollars. This was in about 1982. I used the twin snorkle hood off of it on a ‘71 barracuda that I had and eventually sold. I had the ‘70 convertible up north in Walloon Lake Mi. where it sat outside of our barn for a few years. At the time, I was ony about twenty five years old and had my 1971 Dodge Charger SE that I was restoring. I needed the money and eventually sold the Cuda to a guy who specialized in Cuda and Challenger convertibles for five hundred dollars. Oh well, win some, lose some. My other rare car, to be brief, was a 1970 Plymouth 440 Six-Barrel 4 speed GTX that was a genuine barn-find that I tracked down in Charlevoix after many inquirees. I didn’t have room in my shop toproperly restore it, so I sold it to a guy from Detroit who sold it to a guy in South Dakota. Sorry if I’m being too verbose. best regards to you all. By the way, after some investigation, I found that there were only about 29 1970 440 Cuda Convertibles built.