Will This 1968 Camaro Run? Sitting Since 1999, Can We Find A Build Sheet?

We're back and working on the '68 Camaro. Can we locate the build sheet? And most importantly, will it run? Let's find out!
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[@eddievantailn2882]

Very nice car, 68 was a good year for Camaro's. Good luck with your project.

[@jetlagheroes7860]

Thanks! Hope to get back to working on it soon. Have been dealing with a lot, and traveling for several months. When I get back to it, you'll see it here!

[@scotcorvette5821]

To find out if its an original SS hood, look at the side flange on the drivers side. There will be a stamp julian date. No year indicatir but it will give you the day of manufacture

[@jetlagheroes7860]

I've looked for that, but wasn't successful in finding it. Probably from the several layers of paint!

[@joemuncie9187]

Nice car, you're a lucky man. The trunk floor in my Chevelle had many pinholes. After coating it inside and out with Por-15 it was strong enough to hold a spare tire. Feels very solid 20 years later.

[@ParadiseBayCustoms]

Fun project. Enjoy!

[@tried2call260]

Fun stuff. I believe an SS car would have the backup lights below the bumper in the lower panel, one on each side, not as part of the main lights. Maybe not a real SS car, but great fun to restore and valuable when done !!!. Great presentation and nice video !

[@Mark-um7ey]

That would be a RS PKG option. Hideaway headlights and backup lights in the tail pan... more of an appearance PKG where the SS was a performance PKG

[@jetlagheroes7860]

Thanks!

[@bigbobk1963]

I can't believe you started that dry engine and slammed it to floor!!!!! :( Gonna need a rebuild soon at that rate!!!!!!!!!

[@Dragunov82]

Sounds pretty gnarly!

[@zcam1969]

the build sheet would have been under the rear seat if it had one after all these years. i think the RS had a bubble bee stripe that wrapped around the header and finder extensions

[@josephfine3394]

There are rust removal processes that will restore that n.o.s. rotor assembly, like immersing it with a sacrificial anode in an electrolysis process. Those restoration parts you're carelessly discarding are expensive, and probably needed, and will clean up easily.

[@jeffstewart7976]

In 68 there's no way to tell if it's an ss or z28 unless you have a build sheet. All the cowl tag will tell you is if it's a V8 or 6 cylinder. It's stupid.

[@leroyll1144]

that fabric with all the junk in it,looks like the original spare tire cover.

[@javierdenardo2607]

Nice find

[@phoenixblack1220]

I’m just catching your videos. Very nice car! Did you happen to drop the gas tank? The build sheet location was a crap shoot between being under the back seat or between the trunk floor and gas tank. Also, your hood is an original. If the car has not been driven since 1990, the hood would have either have been purchased from the dealer, come from an SS car, or be your car’s original SS hood. In all honesty, looking at what you have, my guess is your car is a legit SS. But just like you said, it is a 68 Camaro and a nice one at that! Congrats. Lastly, you can typically tell a real SS hood from a repop. It will weigh a ton, and if I am not mistaken, there should be body caulking between the inner structure and skin, which they don’t do with repop’s. Also, if memory serves me, they did not start reproducing the reproduction SS until maybe around 2002/2003-ish.

[@1976Datsun]

Neat video. Bad audio. You should put the link to previous videos under "Show more".

[@moochannel523]

Damn, that sounds good!

[@ImYourHuckberry]

I bought a 68: Chevelle SS out of a cow pasture back in 82 me and my uncle went in on it together it had 20 different layers of paint on it 396:4: speed SS we looked in every place you have for the build sheet and gave up long story short after a total rebuild on body and drivetrain paint 7 years go by and the drivers side back glass witch rolled down got busted out mowing the lawn low and behold behind the panel where the window crank was the dang rebuild sheet just saying that maybe where your is hiding

[@jetlagheroes7860]

Thanks for the heads up! Might have to look there.

[@shoominati23]

If you wanna know if there's pinholes in there, wait until it's dark and turn a torch on underneath and the pinholes will surely reveal themselves to you

[@GearheadRob319]

nice old 68.

[@dntpearson1994]

Where are you located?... I just picked up a 1967 camaro in similar condition. I'm located near Snohomish.

[@jetlagheroes7860]

We're not that far apart! Maybe we'll run into one another at some of the local meets.

[@williamvandyke1832]

You are one lucky man

[@funnyman1972]

Im thinking of selling my Camaro thats mostly restored for parts. I keep trying to get the title without much luck after I had a lean on it over 20 years ago. I just don’t drive it as much as I used to. If your interested let me know. It’s a true SS 350 car but has a 454 in it now

[@jetlagheroes7860]

Have you thought about going through the Vermont registration process? I'd look into that. What state are you in?

[@funnyman1972]

@@jetlagheroes7860 No i haven't tried that. I'm in Indiana

[@jetlagheroes7860]

@@funnyman1972 We just came through Indiana a couple of days ago. We drove "Grandma", our 1994 Chevy Caprice, across the country. It's headed to Florida with family to stay.

[@funnyman1972]

@@jetlagheroes7860 Oh nice. Yes I just went through a divorce and moved to Cincinnati but the car is at my dad's in Whiteland Indiana i just don't have a garage anymore and need to sell it.

[@jetlagheroes7860]

@@funnyman1972 If you want, send me an email with some of the details on the car, and photos if you have some. Our email address is listed in the video description.

[@joerapoza5991]

I started a 100 year old car the other day..

[@nicksothep8472]

Don't be wasteful, all those old parts will clean up perfectly.

[@zcam1969]

i found a build sheet in my 69 Camaro back in 1985 .being a dumb 18 year old kid i threw it in garage can .lol

[@richardresendez2325]

Build sheet B is gone

[@freddyperez2224]

Ja ja parece un datsun por detras

[@chrismansker8870]

not the correct rotor so not a big loss

[@tracywalters5606]

Put MSD in it and Holley box

[@davidolds1972]

How much was it...$$$

[@jetlagheroes7860]

It came from family.

[@leroyll1144]

you deserve to lose that motor after racing it in cold start,after sitting for how long??no lubrication on any fine metal surfaces.

[@GMCTIM]

Something that has set for years better to take distributor out or coil wire off & pump the oil back threw the motor before starting it !

[@scrappyjunk8793]

may-be we will sell him a motor real soon and generic body parts lol

[@soteful9949]

SPOILER 35:01

[@57chevycha]

fake start up

[@ablessedman50]

I agree & call bullshit