'68 Malibu 300 Deluxe
Paul Wright
Bay City, MI
One Eye Open
Take a close look at this pristine piece. Everything you see seems to reinforce that bone-stock notion until you catch the rear tire sipes in your periphery that mark 'em as Mickey Drag Radials. Now what? Build a serious 331-inch small-block to put in it, of course, but Paul saved the original drivetrain to reinstall if it came down to a numbers-matching shout. He bought his sleeper four years ago and changed everything out so he could run the motor at 7,000 rpm. Ahh, graybeards, remember that sound? The high-winder provides an 11:1 compression ratio via KB domed slugs and 64cc RPM Performer heads. Paul slid a Cam Motion hydraulic roller in the block and paired it up with Harland Sharp roller rockers. Induction swirls through a 650 Holley and RPM Performer intake. Torque is plied by a Turbo 350 with a 4,000-stall converter to a 12-bolt with 4.33s. The drive tires are 2 75/60 Mickey Thompson ET Street Drag Radials. Keep an eye out for this one.
'94 Camaro Z28
Jim Packard
Sugar Grove, IL
T-Top Guru
It's been a long process getting the car to this point, but I had lots of help from the people at nifba.com [the Northern Illinois F-Body Association], of which I am president," 'fessed Mr. Packard. Yeah, you might have already seen his ride in a recent Nitto tire ad. He had Jerry Clayton Racing Engines (late of the Keeling and Clayton F C) build him a 355-inch LT1 with a forged bottom end and reworked heads fitted with cut-down LS-engine 2.02/1.60 valves. All valvetrain hardware is titanium and springs are Comp 918s pressed by Comp Pro Magnum 1.6:1 roller rockers and worked by a Crane camshaft. Proformance Racing Transmissions supplied the worked 4L60E along with a Hughes 3,000-stall converter. Jim's a known ace with T-top installs and he cut some for his Camaro. All the chassis components are from UMI Performance. To bring the body back to its tuxedo sharpness, C&S Autocraft restored all the panels to current condition.
'87 Camaro LT
Tony Bruno
Springfield, PA
Stroker Breath
Tony's had his ride since '93 and unbeknownst to everyone save aficionados, it is somewhat rare. In '87, the LT replaced the Berlinetta and was produced for just one model year-there were only 784 of these third-gen Camaros ever built. During its tenure with Tony, this LT was fitted with a 383 stroker motor, a tunnel ram intake posting a pair of 600-cfm Holleys, and a 250-shot NOS Pro Fogger system. Down the power line, it incorporates a strengthened 700R4 transmission and a 4.10:1 Auburn limited-slip. He built a custom 3-inch exhaust system featuring Flowmaster mufflers and stopped to sip a cold one. The interior was already too clean to mess with as was the original sheetmetal. To give it a little bit of history, Tony added an anniversary stripe and the side emblems from a '67 Camaro. Tony's taken many show trophies and he only drives it on weekends in good weather.