[Oldtimer]

Nice pickup! I'm sure you won't regret it!

Not sure what rock I have been living under, but I’ve got to get me one of these!

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[Oldtimer]

Not sure what rock I have been living under, but I’ve got to get me one of these!

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I've only taken it out briefly to take this pic, but first impressions are very positive. I'll go over it more closely later on. It's such a cool car and it's modelled very well. I've since looked at YT and there's quite a few videos of it in period, it raced at Bathurst for 4 years in a row including two pole positions, just either ran out of brakes (Kev Bartlett said that it didn't stop when you hit the brakes, rather it "eased up" - that is until they got decent disc brakes on the rear instead of drums......that's a bit of a story in itself) or had bad luck. There were some privateer Camaros running at the same time so I suppose they could produce those in the future.

I don't think you'll be disappointed.

It looks great! Mine arrived today as well. Now I am curious about how the paint holds up, but on the open wheel CC, the paint seems to be well applied.
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Wow, as I was checking my collection room to see if I had space for this one, I found this.

CC Camaro by Jim Forte, on Flickr

Similar, but slightly different livery, seems I've had it for a while.

Anyone know the backstory about the difference between the two?

Thanks!

 

[Oldtimer]

Yep, already placed my preorder for the Bathurst 1983. Love that livery!

These are really nice!!! Somw very unique liveries. I'm assuming though none of them were very successful overall?

Interesting how CC is taking advantage of their Camaro mold now. I wonder if it went missing/was misplaced for the better part of a decade and was only recently located? Or perhaps something to do with licensing? Regardless, it's nice they're taking advantage of it giving us collectors more options.

I would love to get one of those, in a blemished condition.

Would make a great donor for a custom version of some that ran here in either SCCA Trans Am or IMSA GTO.

 

[Oldtimer]

Thanks @slartibartfast229 for the info! A heavy car like that would need better braking especially when upgrading from the anemic and choked 350.



I'd love to see them offer it in a stock version. It's the nicest end-of-the-road 2nd generation Camaro out there.

Interestingly, we could run four-wheel disc brakes on our racing Camaros from the late 60’s.

My ‘69 had Corvette L-88 brakes front and rear, with factory adapters.

 

[Oldtimer]

Didn't the 1st-gen Z28s come standard with 4 wheel disc's? If so, then it should be considered a standard feature. I'd imagine at some point during the 2nd gens lifespan the, let's keep it cheap, mentality took over and the 4 wheel disc were gone.

No, first Gen Z28’s came from the factory with rear drums. A rear disc axle dealer option was available and homologated for SCCA A-Sedan and Trans Am racing.

I stand to be corrected, but I don’t think you could order a factory-installed rear disc axle.

My racer had the further upgrade to the Corvette J-56 front disc brakes along with the rear disc setup.