1967 SS 396 Camaro Barn Find Parked 43 Years

okay take two I forgot to turn on the recorder we're here in Eau Claire Wisconsin and it's a little cold outside but we're here with Russ, Jay and Johnson and they have this wonderful

barn

it's a 67 ss396 but not just any. 396 this is the L 78 the one with 375 horsepower the big one the rare car and it has four speeds it has original paint original red paint and hurry you bought it when I bought it in 1971 this is what I found there are only one thousand one hundred thirty -eight were produced with the L 78 and what is all this in it, it all comes down to that, the more space we have, the more things that you don't throw away and that you should throw away, yes, I think you said it, your children are grown. and they told you Christmas or no fur it was my birthday recently they gave us a dumpster so they gave us a hint that they didn't want to clean this pool shed when they left so we have to start working on it. and get rid of the garbage and this is definitely not garbage under the treasures, we can see a real treasure come out for the first time in many decades, so, let's do it here.

I bought the car in 1971 at a Chevrolet dealership in Wisconsin. I had spun main bearings out of sponge connecting rod bearings and I don't know the whole story that happened or how it got there that way but I ended up buying the car for eight hundred dollars and then I took it to my cousin's farm and we

parked

it. in his yard until I could make a place, take it to a garage, take the engine out and put together another 396 that was compatible and that would bolt on and end up with three and a quarter horsepower 396 and put on the heads and intake and we made the headers and put it on.

We put in a service pack cam and set it up for a drag race and yes, we started with the stock 308 gears and it went through the traps at 6000 rpm in second gear at 97 miles. an hour, so at that time, did you know it was an L 78, wasn't this 375 horsepower either, or was it just a 396 Camaro SS? Simply put, the SS 396 was a big black Camaro and back in the day, the car guys talked about how there really was no replacement. for cubic inches so I know I wanted a big block and another friend said the big black Chevrolets got hit on the drag strip and so the crash was set up for a drag race so we got here here there is the original block. the piston rods, everything is still with the block, they are not in it, it has four bolts, which means it has the correct numbers.

I'll take it to the machine shop and probably ask them to clean it and tell me if so. One second, you know the bike is fine and from there it starts matching the numbers. Start by opening the driver's side door and looking at the ein plate on the inside of the pillar. Here we see that the last six digits are one, six, three, four, four, zero. look at the stamping on the engine deck of the original block and there you will see the same matching six three four four zero. Then on that same engine platform there is an engine application suffix code, we see sir here and it's easy to search.

Sir, this application is a 375 horsepower 396 l78 option. Another key area to investigate is the adjustment tag that is riveted to the firewall above the master cylinder at the bottom. We see option code 4k indicating that 396 was option code l78. Hopefully we'll get enough error. horse, but it will retain air well, since try it here. Roadrunner tires must be good. The teen 78 pumping air into the right front tire pulled that wheel out of the hole it made for itself over the last four or five decades. Going up, it was amazing the hell of tires there, but I don't know if they can even give it the biggest pace, well that's holding up well so far, that should be good, the actual wheel had also sunk below the level of the terrain took care of it, so when Russ matched the tire, he took the wheel out of that routine, the water didn't explode to be so magical when Russ inflated this tire.

I thought about other times when I put gas and fix punctures at Hales. The guy worked under the name Raymond and one day he wanted to time me to see how quickly I could fix a flat on a manual machine. I took it out of the tire patch, put it back on the tire and aired it in less than two minutes, two down starting. to look like a car again, so what do you think is in the trunk? tires treasure tires they have to have light look at them why there are two probably because these are on the front of the car and they had slick tires on the back when we drove it like a race track this one still has air both of them I'm Harry random that's what unique in the truck e 78 for teenagers small restaurant Laura fourth panel he is just a small scale enos no, it is a whole that really surprised me.

I was touching the inside of the trunk and everything seems very solid. There is a little rust underneath, but I wonder if just blowing it out will get rid of much of that, compared to many Camaros. I see people have been for the restoration, they are just a hopeless case and this is really a solid car, yeah, I don't feel any soft spots. I think the floors are pretty solid now, yeah, can you see under that nice metal? Yes, do you have the? stock air filter box, as soon as I look upstairs and hum the attic, there are a ton of extra parts up there that I'm not even sure what's up there anymore.

I hope there's an air filter base up there, I guess you'd think. Well, first of all, there are original connecting rods, now these are someone else's pistons, okay, here are the original pistons and connecting rods, the original exhaust manifolds, it has some smog emissions plugs and look at them from the factory. The intake was that stock in the car that's there. I have to look if this was the original one that came with the car or the one in the car is the original, or I'll probably have to do some research on that, but unless they are the same, I don't know.

I know, look what I can

find

Camaro parts and a girl's console loft of 69 players or 68 1 to 2 heads painstakingly excavated. I believe these are the original hubcaps. I think this is the original small part, one of the valve covers and there is the other valve cover, it seems like a more contaminated piece of equipment, well, it doesn't seem to have a trick ticket, no, good girl, laughs down there, although this first time you had the seat outside, yes as far as I can remember I'm sure it was loose so I must have done it. I took it out for a reason, it doesn't have headlights at the moment and I was wondering where the bezels work.

I didn't remember that part, but looking at the back here I'll show you something about the trim and the bezels. The reason they're not on the car I had, where I still have it, is a '73 Dodge truck, which needed a headlight port, so I left them on this car and thought, well, I'll get some new ones for this and well , this. that's how far she's come I think she'll see the light of day I think she'll make that turn and get out of here ah I see first of all the path from she meets the polish seat cover she says there's a little dust inside so get it ready so girls here first, maybe she wants to keep the car, you want to keep it now Jane, it's been three

years

since people try to buy this car from you, oh yeah, today you go through the parts and people comment, I don't want to tell me that Camaro Hanna, me always. use the standard engine, go out, I'll put any one in it.

I'm on the list and it never got any further than last fall a guy came through the grapevine here that someone said he was selling the Camaro and I sent him the picture for another friend you know you were doing a '55 Chevy and besides , here's another project, you just know, joking and they didn't know it's true, it's not for sale at all, it must have been overlooked, this guy talked to this guy. developer deities cars for sale didn't come to my door well, you know, I heard you had a car for sale Isis, well, not really, you know, take a look at it, it's very, you know, you can't see much of it, You know? and he was ready to buy everything, except ice too, not at this point, I'm not ready, you know, and this is life swallowing it all the time, which made me think and made me move on when the daughter gave me a certificate. for the dumpster and you think, well, yeah, there's a lot of trash, we should throw it away at seventy-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-three point four one hundred and twenty miles per hour, speed meter, it's got a tack, red lines at 6,000 rpm.

It has the AM radio it has the cluster with fuel gauge temperature gauge oil pressure on point and battery it has a hearse for speed yes, transport boss I saw an opening to shoot, I learned a lot but I couldn't access it. I bought the new car lives in the same city here. I discovered it about a week ago and bought it new when it was on duty in California. Built in Los Angeles. In fact, he ordered the new car and said he waited. I know two or three months to get the car and then he drove it back to Oklahoma Skansen and had it until '71 and then he created at a dealership in Sutekh Wisconsin for ANOVA an SS Nova and then that car was resold to a girl and the girl who If she really went to college in Eau Claire and has a sticker that says it's a parking sticker for a University of Wisconsin-eau Claire.

What I have researched on the force 3:96 l78 375 has service 1138 made in 67 so it is nice. weird car, the base model, no disc brakes, no power steering, AM radio, those are the basic necessities for a muscle car, it won't be sad to sell, although I mean, it won't make you sad, and what do you think? Well, I've enjoyed it and I'm definitely sad to see it go, but I'd really like to see it all redone and pictures of it and have it mounted on the wall. This was my Camaro and it was lost. I'm in photos. So whether you physically have the car or not, it hasn't seen the lighting outside in many moons, so if you secretly have it, the picture is probably better.