There have been a couple first generation Camaro Rally Sport convertibles on the blog already, but they were both 1967 models.
The FMVSS-compliant side marker lights and the lack of vent windows on this Chevrolet Camaro RS ragtop in Palomino Ivory mark it as a 1968 model.
According to the fender badges, this one's got a 327 Turbo-Fire small block under the hood. That could either be the base two-barrel motor with an 8.75:1 compression ratio and 210 gross horsepower, or the four-barrel version with a 10.0:1 squeeze and 275 ponies. Both versions had a single exhaust from the factory, so there's no real external clues.
Both photos were snapped in September of 2023, the top one with a Nikon D800 and a 24-120mm f/4 VR zoom lens and the lower one with a Nikon 1 V1 and a 1 Nikkor 32mm f/1.2 lens.
Well I'll be...I thought for sure that duals came standard with the 327/275 engine but a little research shows that they were a $26 option.
ReplyDeleteMany, many years ago I was a single guy fresh out of school and I bought a basket case '68 Camaro convertible for $1000. I had no business trying to take on that kind of project and I struggled with it (with a *lot* of help from my dad) for awhile before finally selling it 11 years later.
An absolute boon for research for this blog has been the site "Dezo's Garage", which is an amazing archive of automotive brochures online going back almost to late Cretaceous.
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