Here's a typical hole-in-the-hood Camaro. It sits like a truck. The wheels are dated, the valve covers were hip when Reagan took office, and it sucks enough gas to implode OPEC. This represents everything that magazines, and good taste, have banished for 20 years. All told, it's virtually flawless.
This throwback represents the third life for the Crusher Camaro, a '67 that's been around here since we paid $700 for it in 1993. (A brief history appears in this month's Where It All Began column.) We decided to act on our long-standing retro urges and revert the car to the cruise-scene imagery we 40-somethings ached for during our junior high through high school years after mainlining the feature cars in HOT ROD and Car Craft every month. We're talking about the pre-Pro Street days. The car we want for today is like the junk that was built from, say, 1978 to 1982 with lots of ripple effect into the late '80s.
As a bellybutton Camaro, the Crusher seemed like the perfect candidate for street machine greatness, so follow along as we ditch the old billet 17s and modern brakes and revert this junk to '80s style. It's the most fun project we've done in quite a while, and we can't wait to go hit the newly renewed Van Nuys Boulevard cruise scene in the car. Happy days are here again.
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