Epic Magazine COVER CAR Found in Georgia 49 Years Later – History Exposed! You Won’t Believe The Life This Camaro Has Lived
We dig old race cars and show cars, and nobody is better at finding them and telling their stories than Tommy Lee Byrd. This Hot Rod Hoarder on YouTube, Tommy is one knowledgeable and passionate hot rodder. His taste for vintage drag cars and show cars makes me smile and his tenacity in finding out all he can about them so that he can tell us all the stories and history surrounding them, makes me so thankful. Without folks like Tommy, you’d never know about a fraction of these cars unless you lived closed to them. So what’s in store in this video here? Check out this awesome Camaro and find out.
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’70s Street Machines are always WILD, and this ’67 Camaro is no different. It was built in 1976 by Street Customs Limited in Garden Grove, California. This is the same shop that built the Camaro for the “Eat My Dust” movie in 1976. Street Customs Limited built the car to showcase the custom fiberglass fender flares and other custom components the company manufactured. The car was featured in multiple magazines, including two cover shots, both in Popular Hot Rodding magazine. The first was in March 1976, and surprisingly, there was no article related to the car inside the magazine. The magazine staff got a bunch of complaints, so they re-shot the car for a full feature. By this point, the car had a brand new paint job and a few other custom details. It was featured again on the cover, and then in a full article with build photos in the June 1976 issue of Popular Hot Rodding.
I’m not sure what happened after the car ran its course as a Street Customs Ltd marketing piece, but it changed hands and got a fresh look with a Pro Stock scoop, a red and gold paint job and a CRAZY crushed velvet interior. The car still has its Monza headlights and Cadillac grille, as well as the fiberglass flares and front air dam. The car also still has the Cougar taillights and Hooker side pipes from the earlier version. One of these days I might be able to find out who handled the stage 2 version of this car’s build, but for now I wanted to tie the pieces together on this historic California show car that continues to live on nearly 50 years later.
