Sitting for 45 yrs! Restoring a Rare 1979 Camaro Rally Sport with Only 267 Miles!

[@jackgreenstalk777]

Many don't realize this but the dirt actually preserves the paint. Whenever I see a video like this, almost alwsys the paint looks great as long as it did when it got put away

[@kickit59]

Very cool! Back in 79 I went to a local Chevy dealer to buy a yellow T-top Z28 with four speed. I was trading in a 1977 with 25K miles. That dealer tried ripping me off on the trade so I went to the Pontiac dealer and bought a new Gold Edition Trans Am with T-top. I really liked that car and kept it until 1995. This video sure brings back memories!

[@reeldealev]

Nice! I think I prefer the Trans Am over a Camaro anyways.

[@justinstiff5641]

You look like Cletus McFarland's brother 😊

[@reeldealev]

😂 I hear that a lot. I have worked with him on a couple of projects too. Great guy

[@jmiller1817]

Keep it up. We'd certainly like to see it run again for sure. Send a guy from Vice Grip Garage to get it going!!!! 😂

[@NonotEver1]

That cobbler can't fix anything right

[@teslabaytv]

This is epic! A classic Camaro is one of my dream cars.

[@reeldealev]

Pretty cool experience!

[@zzaiahh]

not if it don’t got AC. i got a ‘91 w t tops and the sun is always BEAMING down on me 😭

[@reeldealev]

@@zzaiahh It has A/C! Whether or not it works is yet to be determined. What 91? If it's a Trans Am GTA, I need!!

[@stevent7944]

Keep the videos coming. This looks identical to my very first car. Same color and everything but mine was a 1980.

[@INeeDMyGarageTime]

Great Video, very satisfying seeing that dirt peel off and the color coming back to life

[@reeldealev]

Thank you, I thought the same thing

[@Dsmdude4g63]

Also, I'd really enjoy seeing a vid on that Hurst\Olds getting cleaned up. My first car was an 83 Cutlass Supreme so I've always had a special place in my ❤ for G-bodies.

[@reeldealev]

Noted!

[@DavidRobinson-s4m]

I just sold my '79 RS that I had since almost new; just a few thousand miles on it. Almost identical to this one. No t-top. Changed the wheels and exhaust to Z-28 parts. After being a daily driver for over 40 years, it has a few more miles on it,; over 200K+. It sat for a couple years but with just a new battery, it started right up and idlled beautiful ly.

[@stoveguy2133]

I had a 79. BErlinetta from ariz. stored every year. Ac. Am/fm tilt wheel fact tach, pwr windows locks. Really nice shape. I got it in 1995. Kept it for 10 yrs

[@JeffRipper-z2s]

A boy , I went to elementary school with , his mom , had the same car , colors and all , back then , she used to bring him to school in it , about 1979 , car was new then 👍👍😊

[@reeldealev]

That's awesome! It is also crazy you remember that, it must have really stuck with you over the years.

[@ShaunSavage-kl9pd]

My mom had a 79 z28.loved it

[@tjjoseph333]

Time Mind Warp🔥

[@dmcnamara9859]

Brings back memories,aunt had a 79 blue metallic Z28 with black bland on roof too, vinyl and fabric interior looked very classy. Another family friend had a special order same metallic blue 75 Nova Hatchback. The Seville,Z28,TransAm parts bins were raided in making that special ordered Unicorn. I've never ever seen a fully loaded up and luxurious Nova like hers. She still has it, it's still driven occasionally to keep everything in order.

[@joshup1275]

Beautiful camaro I would love to have it

[@gregwong5498]

Looks great! Like the one I owned from new way back when. Very cool!!

[@Adee4750]

I had a 79 at 19 yrs old red with tan leather i miss that car

[@reeldealev]

I wish I had my first car now too! I guess that’s why the values go up on these things!

[@RedRuffinsore]

I had this identical car except in yellow and black. My kid called it the bumble bee. I sure wish I still had it.

[@scottharris8308]

Gorgeous Camaro

[@johnmarshjr928]

383, EFI, Eaton posi/373 gears, B/M shift kit. Back in the day there’d be a set of Crome traction bars on it as well😂

[@davidhicks2178]

3:22 That Oldsmobile tho 😍

[@sixeight6]

Nice car do u know if there selling the hurst olds

[@reeldealev]

It is not in the plans right now

[@sixeight6]

@reeldealev well let me know I have the 1983 hurst I would like to get a 1984

[@MrSprocket2u]

Start at the top ... work your way to the bottom , otherwise your pushing dirt down over clean stuff

[@reeldealev]

Agreed 💯

[@kevinbuford9130]

Nice Video Content 😊

[@reeldealev]

Thanks 😁

[@johnrussell3869]

Gotta get both cleaned up and going!!!!!! Woof

[@keyper555]

I just don't understand the logic of some people buying a car then parking it to sit 30-40 plus years never touching or driving it again, must be nice to have that kind of money to just through away and let a nostalgic car like this to just sit and deteriorate, makes me sick to my stomach to see such waste and negligence. But it is what it is I guess.

[@reeldealev]

But if it were driven it probably wouldn’t be around anymore. Cash for clunkers ate up a bunch of the cars from this era.

[@keyper555]

@reeldealev true but still why just let them rot I would've at least protected it from critters and dust and dirt, mold etc

[@kevinschoeppler4115]

What a sweet pair of cars just waiting to be On The Road Again. What a find! 🎉

[@CharlesMarshall-c1v]

I wood forsure watch all your videos one heck of a car to start with im sure you know its rare

[@reeldealev]

Thank you! Yeah and I could have done it years ago, but life. So yeah why not start with a super rare one! 😂

[@johnrussell3869]

I would die for a ride in that standing up out of t roof...last Indy pace car was sold maybe 94.....so hard to find one in that condition

[@Dsmdude4g63]

Thirdly, watching you pressure wash the dirt off of that car is sooooo satisfying to watch. Lol

[@Dsmdude4g63]

So the parents buy a brand new Camaro with a 350 and a 4 barrel in 79 and their son throws a temper tantrum because mom put a couple hundred miles on it before it was given to him?! So they just gave in to him acting so very entitled like a spoiled brat?! I mean, one could possibly understand this from a bratty child of a family of multimillionaires. But it looks as these people are middle class or slightly upper middle class. My mind is blown. If I was his dad or mom, I would've just kept it for myself, drove it like I stole it, and told him go buy his own car. Lol

[@reeldealev]

Hopefully I didn’t mislead the story, but the son bought the car new. He was working so mom picked it up and drove it home. Thanks for the comment about the pressure washing I thought people would really enjoy that like I did.

[@bowman1455]

@@reeldealev Still dont get why he then never drove it a mile, strange, beautiful car and i would have drove it till the wheels fell off, unreal how beautiful it looks after you pressure washed it, loved watching that to a lot

[@philhiggins5482]

Very cool!

[@theczar6171]

Exactly. Get a job and get your own car.

[@richn7299]

I had a car like this back in High School. Chocolate on copper, red stripe, camel interior.

[@Victorm.Robinson]

170 horsepower stock from the factory 😊

[@reeldealev]

But looking like a baddie while doing it! 🤣

[@earnestramey6343]

I really hope you do a video starting it

[@ronbryant9934]

I take both of those cars

[@allanfranklin9615]

I do find it hard to believe the brakes were not locked up. Garage is very clean but cars are very dusty. Just my observation.Also thete is some device hanging under the glive bix. An equalizer, perhaps, kinda odd that someone would install that in a car that was never driven. Any ideas on that?

[@stonemills1546]

My first car was a 79 cam!

[@johnmarshjr928]

I had the tan Berlinetta 305 with Edelbrock dual plane /450 Holley, to replace the lame 2 barrel. Headers/flow master , rear air shocks and staggered cragar wheels. It was 1984 and it was cool enough for an 18 yr old. Ps I couldn’t afford the car I’d drive by for sale for 5600, it was a 69 396 black Chevelle with a flamed out hood , convertible. What’s that now? 56000 or more , we would have bought them all had we’d know right?

[@Ken-zr8fl]

Well you better cut that part of the video out where you're running your hand over the tire and the whole thing has like no tread on it.

[@tomsmith5947]

Sweet Hurst Olds next to it, I would take that over the Camaro, a Z28 might be a different story

[@reeldealev]

Right! I am trying to go clean it and pull it out but these darn hurricanes keep messing everything up!

[@DanielLopez-me9mh]

I like the 84 hurst olds 2 GM gems one F body and a G body

[@my2wheels]

❤it!

[@johnboy007]

Nice Camaro RS but what about the Hurst/Olds?

[@reeldealev]

That’s next!! I’m excited to dive into that one

[@kevinbuford9130]

@@reeldealev let me know if the cutlass is for sale.

[@johnmarshjr928]

I never did like when Chevy turned all RS model Camaro’s into V-6’s. The rs was today’s 6 generation LT1. It was a unique trim Pkg./ paint scheme yet still had a V-8. 5/6 gen should have plaid out like so , first no 4 cylinder. We start with the 3.6 base car, then the 5.3 non Dod RS at 380 hp 6.2 SS at 525 hp 7.0 super charged ZL1 wet sump, 720 hp. Is the market done with comebacks? Now’s the time for an El Camino, plenty of room under the bed for a battery for the all wheel drive SS model as long as they don’t over square/ cyberfi it too much. Street version/ work version. I’m already done with the motorcycle size cheap-o corporate 4 cylinders. What’s the top selling Ford (Boo) explorer? The ST = people still want power. Ps they didn’t ever get me to the cattle gates, no I don’t NEED an SUV. We need Affordable/ fun Cars. Not the Lyric, not the 80000 dollar truck , the now out of reach C8. Hell I loved my 2010 Cobalt SS which had none of the problems of the first base models, yet was ruined by them. Chevy can’t even give us a small 275 hp suv . That would make for a fun AWD Trax with the 10 speed or Opt. 5 speed transmission.

[@thomasarmistead9603]

Nice

[@jasonclendennen9731]

Car has more than 269 miles on it. Back is faded and the front bottom grille is missing.

[@reeldealev]

267 miles

[@etexbassfreak]

I believe the engine is a 305 with a 4 barrel i thing the only Camaro had the 350 was the Z28 which only put out 170 horsepower. It was the bad days for American muscle due to the new smog laws in 1974. Keep it put up in the winter they rust away very easily

[@reeldealev]

Unless the window sticker is a lie, it is a LM1 350.

[@Mike-s2u5r]

My rally sport just like this one it had 31000 miles in 1985 and had a 350 4 barrel no t tops.wreched 15 minutes into the new year in 86. No one drinking the other guy just got his license the day before the accident.

[@hughporter1741]

The odometer on cars this old roles over after every 99,999 miles. Edit: Some comments mention bald tires, maybe the dirty condition made some of them appear to be bald.

[@reeldealev]

Did you see the reported bald tires? I didn't and I was there! Who knows though it could have 400,000 miles on it and maybe nobody ever sat in it.

[@hughporter1741]

@@reeldealev It was not easy to see the full condition of the tires, especially while they were dirty. If the tires were not bald then that's great. I edited my first comment, sorry for my mistake.

[@jeffleary1598]

If that 84 hurst is probable worth 30-40k if it’s low low miles like that camaro

[@reeldealev]

I need to get inside of it, I know it isn’t as low, but still pretty low. I think it’s around 30k miles.

[@haroldstrickland8416]

Sure wish you could fix one with 200K miles, floors rotted, t-tops leaking, doors sagging, subframe bushings shot, dash busted & gauges sagging, seats torn/worn, rubber bumpers warped & dry-rotten taillights with just a wash & detail!

[@reeldealev]

Me too, if one of these has 200k miles on it and is still around it may be more rare than this one 🤣

[@haroldstrickland8416]

@@reeldealev It's rare to find them in the condition of that RS. It's a nice ride for certain.

[@mikerocco2506]

They kept the car but you didnt say were the SON WAS BURIED

[@bulldoggarageapparel7511]

clean the Oldsmobile up I think that's a 442 if so a lot better car and worth more looks like a 85, that defaly should be a video

[@reeldealev]

Thanks for the comment, I will get more info on the Olds on the next visit

[@phillywalz]

A hurst olds next to it

[@ronbryant9934]

Sounds like that dude was a spoiled little brat

[@Ken-zr8fl]

So fake. Bald tires on a 200 mile car. You've been lied to. You need to revise your story

[@reeldealev]

The tires are not bald, 😂. I know for a fact for 20 yrs it has sat here, because I have seen it. Regarding the other 20+ yrs everything adds up, sorry to burst your theory.

[@karmabomberger4410]

Those are the original tires that came on it. Tire technology has changed since the late 70s. These were just everyday tires, meant to get you there and back again. They did nothing very well but were just okay at everything. The low tread depth is deceiving, but these tires were only designed to get 10,000-15,000 miles before replacement.

[@jasonclendennen9731]

Agree! The back bumper faded and the the bottom front grille is missing!

[@Dave-tm8rp]

Ya right. You just put dust on an already restored car.

[@reeldealev]

lol

[@Imthe1dancing]

So exactly why does the hood not close? So exactly why does the engine not start? If you're going to keep a car protected in a garage, start it up occasionally to keep the battery charged, lubricate cooling, help fuelling system, etc. Check the oil for degredation. If your going to protect the car, protect what's under the hood too. Whoever owns the car doesn't deserve it. I currently drive my third Camaro (2012). Always loved Camaros even though I grew up in a Ford family. I really like the TLC the car is getting now. Normally, it is satisfying to watch dirty old cars getting detailed; did not like your video. Good luck with other videos that I will NOT be watching.

[@reeldealev]

The hood probably would latch, but it was open when I started, so I left it open when I left it. You seem upset over something, and I wish I could address it, but you provided no context to the reason why you didn't like the video and why you wouldn't be watching the next one, so I cannot change what I do not know.

[@Imthe1dancing]

​​@@reeldealev This was the first time I watched a video off your channel. Do you detail the engine compartments? Such a shame to leave it that way. Did the owners not want it done? Leaving the hood like that sure helps their pet rats comings and goings. All rubber seals to door windows, hatch, t-tops need to be conditioned/restored/protected. Maybe then the t-tops wouldn't leak. Did I miss the part where you removed the t-tops to clean the crevices beside rubber seal? I not mad or angry. I guess that I didn't like the order of your steps and that small spray from the power washer wand made a slow go. I did like your observations about the car; painted rubber seal to the bumper boot, pinstripe sticker, the factory paint goof up inner door jam, etc. Nevermind me. I'm just an old car enthusiast (64 yrs old) especially muscle cars. I guess that I prepared too many cars for too many car shows. Good luck and take care.

[@JIMFED63]

Car still needs lots more detailing, still a mess !

[@davidhicks2178]

4:22 How did ALF get there i wonder?

[@reeldealev]

🤣😂 I wondered that too!! I never asked, but I will note it to figure out for the next video

[@leelee4302]

Throw dirt on a car it's a barn find,2 exact cars dirty same video really?? Fake, fake

[@reeldealev]

Oh lee lee..if you only knew, but I appreciate the interaction and view!