I owned a 1970 Camaro. 250 hp stock. We put mild cam, 373 gear in the rear end, Muncie 4 speed. What a blast I had. 20 years old, beautiful, very quick '70 Camaro. Quick silver with black racing stripes. I was young and enjoyed that car. Unfortunately due to marriage, was forced to sell it. Should have kept the car and got rid of the now EX wife. I still have dreams about her....THE CAR THAT IS!
Didnt even get marrtied and lost my cars due to that. They dont pay bills no matter what they promise. Desperately hanging onto my last one. Any time I heard sell the car or were done...they hit the road car stayed
Ya I was already fixed to say yep I bet you wished you had a kept the truck in the barn lol hey man I know where an old it came green with the white stripes over the top of it 70 or 71z actually two sitting in my buddy's dairy farm cow field
Awesome video!! However the 1970 Camaro's also had a 375HP 396 option which was in 1970 was actually a 402CID the same engine in the 1965 corvette in 396CID was rated and dyno'd out at 425HP. The had 11 to 1 compression square port heads solid lift cam's. I have had both.
@@MuscleCarOfTheWeek Of course, but in the video you claimed the 396/actually 1970 and later 402 was only good for 350hp which is not true, you could order two types of 396's one rated 375 horse per my detailed comments. Of course you couldn't get it in a Z28. I had 396/350HP SS/RS 4sp with every option except PW back in the day, even a vinyl top Ugg. Great Vid and car, I'm 61 and this dark green color looks much better as I get older! Mine was burn't copper white vinyl top green cloth interior, crazy cooler combo, the local dealer ordered at least two in that combo with the 396 4sp. I always wondered whether it was a disgruntled sales manager on his last day trying to stick the dealer with weird stuff that wouldn't sell? LOL
I owned the exact model and same color etc. Got it for $1800 in the mid-70s. Probably my favorite car ever. I owned about 12 to 15 cars from the 60s- mostly muscle cars.Chevys Fords ,a Buick GS and my only Dodge. 69 to the mid 70s were the best years of my single life ! Also- music from the mid 60s to mid 70s was the best
@@aarongarcia1101 Frame off resto paid 8500 late 80s sold for the same thousands of miles later for the same Got in so much trouble wiht that thing...lol took me 9 yrs to get a valid license and out of the court system...st racing.
Love the '70 and a half Z/28. Probably my favorite car. The Forest Green paint of the featured car is spectacular and really accentuates the lines of the intended design.
Beautiful Camaro I own a 1984 Z /28 it is not to bad but it is not nearly as beautiful as that Camaro. I do get a lot of good comments about it. I am running a 383 small block Chevy with the 7R400 it has a little less than 54.000 miles on the body. I just love the way it drives and handles. I like the looks of the older ones but I just cannot afford one. The one I own I have had for twenty one years now.
Oh yes! I wish my dad's 71 z28 looked as good as this. Even though we have the full bumper on ours, you still can't argue with the beauty of a split bumper. Keep them coming Muscle Car Of The Week!
My very first car right after getting my drivers license. I was 17 years old. Given to me by my brother inlaw. It was a 1970 but it was only a 6 cylinder regular Camaro. He used it as a salesman car. But I didn't care, like I said I was only 17 yeara old and totally thrilled by it! So much so 4 years later a bought the real deal Z28. And i had so much fun with it! Good memories indeed!
These were a leap ahead of Chrysler in suspension. Anyway I can't believe this channel doesn't have 100k subscribers yet. Maybe word is slow to get out but come on the cars are some of the rarest and top quality conditioned cars around.
I think its very beautiful and i really like the eagle beek front end.my best friend at the time had one and he traded it with his freshly built 454 in it for 2 1967 camaros and he sold me my 1967 camaro back then when i was 21 for 1000 dollars.and it cost me everything i had at the time to own it and i have never regreted owning that car except one thing? Selling it after i wrecked it for 1400 dollars because my son was on the way.i look back and wish i would have kept it amd given it to.my son Lance. I know he loved every vehicle i ever had. I live in regret not giving my son a nice ride because now hes died and hed be 21 today december 4th 1997- 2017 one year ago i lost him.and it messed wirh me veey much.selah
Had the 67 Camaro SS/ 4 speed muncie manual/ 350 V-8 with all the features I could handle... My Dad was a speed shop owner and built race cars ground up oval modifieds to gassers and rails per ordered... He was a Mil Wright and also machined and built engines for whatever specific racing you required or hot rods just to cruise... I drag raced my Camaro and my 56 Belair, at 14 of age I built my own 327 ci. for my 56, from 67 to 70 and military service duty enjoying each day of ownership... Note: Cutting others grass from age 11, a 6 days a week thrown paper route from 12 to 16, working for local cotton and soybean farmers in the summers all paid for my cars... Yes my Mom and Dad helped me plus using Dads speed shop tools helped... But my lessons learned were be there for your children but let them earn their own way... still have both at 67 yrs. old now plus a second 56 Chevy Belair just for Drags... Thanks Mom and Dad...
When I was a young lad in the late 80s I purchased a rusty 76 camaro for 750 dollars. And the reason was it was so fast. Well running the numbers it was a 1970 LT1 engine. The rest is history. Had lots of fun beating up 5.0 mustangs left and right with it.
In the 90s had a frame off Z people thought I was nuts using it as a daily .Yrs later not a nick on it at least I got my fun...sitting in a garage is a joke. Best driving musclecar I ever owned...love the looks of my 67 rs and 69 SS better but no comparison as far as a road car Hours at a time on the fwy 3200 rpm with that solid cam humming away. Yes!!
I remember back in the mid 70s when I first became aware of cool cars .a neighbor had a 70 that was white with blue stripes and the first time I saw it fell in love with it! obviously many others did too,i can't even count how many friends and people i knew had one . forget about getting anyone over 3 foot tall in the back seat either. lol! ☆☆☆
These cars un-smogged, when tuned and geared right , would be very hard to beat in the stock wars of the early 70's on the street ..I had tuned one that used a 7 in slicks and Hooker headers thru the real dual mufflers .. ran 12.5's all day long and drive to and from the track.
Really nice Camaro. But I like the 1970 SS 396 Camaro's better. I used to own a numbers matching 1970 SS 396 L-78 from 1988-2001. It was featured in Muscle car review back in 1992, I still have mint copies of the Magazine. My present Camaro is the other BB 1970 SS 396 (402 CID) L-34 also numbers matching. Both had headers. The L-78's real HP was 425 HP and my L-34 is 400 hp. With the headers It probably is 430 Hp. Both my BB would beat the Z-28 Camaro.
I'd love to see that race - L78 vs LT1. I think that race would be close with the BB having the HP and TQ advantage while the SB having the weight advantage.
I have a 70 LT1. It's from a Corvette, it has the Vette Valve covers. It was in an 80 cutlass my ex had bought back around 91. It was spark knocking, so I pulled it to do a build. I didn't think it was anything special at first. Then when I started disassembly, it had guideplates, screw In studs. Then a windage tray, 4 bolt, forged steel crank. The part store ran the numbers on the Pistons. GM part number for LT-1. It was either 10:1 or 11:1.
I bought an RS metallic blue 250 6 cylinder in March 71 in Texas for U$3600. Not a muscle magic but sure was an eye magnet. I wonder where it ended up after I took it to Europe and sold it there in '74. Great fun there but no joy in the UK on the wrong side of the road. Was never sold here in AUS until recently at obscene prices.
I had one back in the late seventies. The cam wasn't very rough but the solid lifters were magical to listen to. You couldn't start it without realizing it was something exotic for the time. They reved forever. Second gear was enough to get you up near 90, if I remember right. There was an edge to everything about it. Suspension, engine, transmission, even the view looking over the stripes on the hood.
I had a 1971 RS 350 automatic. I loved the car. I swear though my current 2013 Mazda 6 with a 4 cylinder engine is faster and handles way better. Everything about new cars is way better and way higher quality, but those old American muscle cars were fun.
Wow, so the power & torque is comparable to my 2022 Cadillac CT5 V Series with 3.0 TT V6. My car weighs in at 4,000 lbs & is actually much quicker off the line to 60 mph. My guess is the lightning fast shifting 10 speed auto with performance gearing in the lower ranges. I used to own a Z28 like this in Citrus Green w/black stripes. The 4 speed was fun & I loved the aggressive sound!
You failed to mention in regard to handling and road feel is that the 70 Z went from front steer steering gear in 1st gen Camaro to a rear steer steering gear in the 2nd gen Camaro.
Yeah they r nice carsmy buddy has one of the RS Z28 70 auto TH400 and with the color is Cortez silver black SS stripes and black interior and 456 in the rear plus a little more that makes it that much of a nice car still mint and dry garage kept .
I know a Vietnam vet that bought one after returning home. I don't know what he had against that car but he tortured it mercilessly until it burst into flames and burned to the ground a few years later.
1970 r.s.camaro 350 2 baron altow 350 tran. I think carb. 650 cfm slit front bumper, seat belt harness flow out window and broke back glass but was a grate car also it was red? "Sold it in Heltonvell, IN. for $450.00 to pay of lone" Mark Inman,
The LT1 WAS a great motor. But it's lack of torque made it feel like a slug compared to other muscle cars of the day. However, that same lack of torque and the f60 tires and the fact that stock, it could rev to 7000 RPMS, made it very easy to launch even with the 4.10 gears. Thus is was a killer on the street light drags. It just didn't feel very quick.
Z22 code car (RS) for the Z28 which I believe the Z28 is the code for what was supposed to be called the "Camaro Cheetah" Chevy loved the cool sounding code hence the famous Z28 was born.., great video!
A huge mistake here is that the speaker is not familiar with Big Block Chevys. There were rectangular port and oval port. Rectangular port were much higher performance with 4 bolt mains, forged crank, forged rods and pistons. rectangular intake ports, larger valves, solid lifter camshaft, aluminum intake and Holley 780. He quoted a 396-350 hp as the highest hp engine. That is wrong. Chevy had the L-78, which was 396/402-375 hp. I was at a huge Muscle Car show and there was someone with a '70 1/2 L-78. It was brown and pretty basic, but it had that very special engine.
Some had solid lifters some didn’t . The solid lifter cars were incredibly savage and pulled hard into the red. One of the best muscle cars of all time . The big sway bar helped . I will never forget the summer spent tearing down and rebuilding my uncles 70.5 . It was kept as close to original as possible . I think the only thing we changed was adding a msd distributor. Between 3500 and red it was one of the most intense machines I’ve ever been in . Get the feeler gauges out time to do a valve lash .
I owned a 70 camaro , a 70 Z28 and a 70 Z28 RS . All 70 Z28s had solid cam/lifters . My Z28 RS was the same 48 code "forrest green" But had been repainted with black stripes (this was not an option for dark green in 1970 except for citrus green) Mine was a van nuys car , no rust . Automatic T400 , 3.73 , There is nothing that sounds better than a solid lifter motor NOTHING !!
Please can you guys do a review on a 1974 or 1977 Camaro Z28?!!! You just don’t see those years! Don’t get me wrong I love the 1970 Z28 it would be nice to see those reviewed too! Please and thank you! Great videos!
I doubt you'll see such a review. By those years the HP had plummeted due to reduced compression, emission controls, etc. It's hard to justify reviewing a 16 or 17 second car that ran high 13s just 4 years prior.
Man I was born in 71 and I'm 52now but if the good lord is willing I'll be contacting you guys to hook me up with a 70 ..70 and a half 2piece split bumper Z28 thank you guys love the blue camaroe
Please note folks that the Z/28 grill is "silver" on the leading edge, and black on the inside, not all black. This is just a friendly reminder for all you rattle can wielders out there in car land.
Has 71 Z28 valve covers with the rubber oil cap. Also missing the orig master cyl with the 2 bleed screws. Front spoiler was only available if you ordered the COPO. Also has 1973 pass side smog tube. Caution fan shroud is also incorrect. Missing rear bumper fangs. I also think you should stop leaning on the car. Stand up straght.
Churchill, sorry to disappoint, but the HP rating was pretty accurate if you used the old gross HP rating process: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AjJSK5sLOeE.html
Jeff House yes i believe there was a 3 piece spoiler and a solid spoiler. Not sure what the original story is but 1 had problems so they switched to the other
I love the Gen 2 Camaros I had one high school but sadly it was a 72 and it didn't have any real power I've always been upset that the 70 Camaro never gets the credit that it's due I think that's mainly because of the one-off Year 69 that everybody loves well most people anyway but in my opinion the handling and yes even the looks are better in a 1970
Plus Gm had big problems with mfg. the sheet metal they had to retool because of cracks in the body so they extended production of the 69' Camaro , hence the 70 1/2 Camaro and that hurt sales but they were soo much better than the first gen because they were built on their own platform with better steering and suspension whereas the first gen used the Nova platform , beautiful cars in both looks and performance
