1968 Chevrolet Camaro SS for sale in Charlotte, North Carolina

$69,900

There's just no such thing as an early Camaro that isn't a great car. Fun to drive, with plenty of power, and striking good looks, even 40 years later, and it's hard to imagine a better hobby car. The strength of the aftermarket suggests that they are some of the most popular cars in history, and when you see a beautifully restored one like this '68 SS 396 convertible, it's certainly easy to understand why.
This lovely Lemans Blue is fresh out of the shop, where it received a rotisserie restoration that covered every aspect of the car. The finished product is handsome and well-executed, with obvious signs of skilled workmanship throughout. The quarters were replaced, but if you're one of those guys who still frets about replacement body panels, feel free to pay the $20-30,000 premium on an otherwise identical car. This one looks great and with the level of finish work, there are no strikes against it. Panel gaps are good, with perhaps only a deck lid that's a fraction too high on one side keeping it from being exact. Lemans Blue looks great when it's rendered with modern finishes, with an incredible gloss thanks to hours of wet sanding and buffing. The white stripe gives it an aggressive look that isn't over-the-top, and it follows the original contours better than the factory job ever did.
All the chrome and trim has to be new, it's just too nice to be original. Perhaps the bumpers were treated to an expensive trip through the chrome shop, and the stainless spent a lot of time under the buffing wheel, but things like the emblems, door handles, and mirrors are extremely nice. The hood insert, which is one of my favorite features on the early Camaros, looks like a set of velocity stacks poking through the sheetmetal. There's a correct blacked-out grille up front, with a matching SS tail panel in back, and all the glass appears to have been replaced during the restoration.
Lift up that very cool hood and you'll find an L78-spec 396, complete with L89-style aluminum heads, looking like it just rolled off the assembly line. You've already glanced at the price and know it isn't a real L89, but you can't fault the performance this one delivers. There's an aluminum intake fed by a Holley 4-barrel, just as it should be, and the block was painted in a vivid coat of Chevy Orange. Show-quality chrome covers the air cleaner and valve covers, and anything that wasn't painted was given a correct plating job, including the brake booster and hardware. Camaro experts already know that the solid lifter big blocks were not available with power steering and received large-diameter alternator pulleys thanks to their high-winding performance. The raw cast iron exhaust manifolds show a few heat cycles-just enough to make sure the car was right-and dump into a correct dual exhaust system. New throughout, it absolutely runs as good as it looks.
A full rotisserie restoration means that the bottom of the car is as nicely finished as the top, and nothing was overlooked. The transmission is a date-code correct Muncie 4-speed driving a correct 12-bolt full of 3.73 gears on a Posi. The floors are satin black, not over-restored and matching the body, although there is some overspray, which is just like the factory did it. As I mentioned, the exhaust system is a reproduction piece that duplicates the factory setup (no mandrel bends here) and uses a correct transverse muffler in back. New lines, hoses, and hardware ensure that the braking and fuel systems are in good working order, and there's a new gas tank out back. Power drum brakes live behind a set of appropriate Rally wheels wearing F70-14 Firestone Wide Oval redline bias-plys for a period-correct look and feel.
The interior is a very handsome black vinyl bucket seat setup with an optional center console. When you're restoring a car as thoroughly as this, you don't just clean up the old parts and hope they look good enough, you spring for new equipment throughout. That means new seat covers, door panels, carpets, and even a fresh dash pad were installed. The gauge cluster is all-new as well, with beautiful detailing and appropriate brushed stainless finishes on the gauge faces. Fresh wood appliques were used on the console and dash, and it really looks much more convincing than the original stuff ever did. A correct SS steering wheel has that classic '60s thin rim and racy-looking brushed aluminum spokes, and the chrome-plated shifter falls readily to hand while you drive. In the center of the dash, the original AM radio has been rebuilt, and the seat belts all feature new webbing and buckles. The finishing touch is a new white vinyl convertible top that fits snugly, and we have a new top boot on order, which will be delivered with the car to its new owner.
If you're shopping for an early Camaro, you've come to the right place. RK Motors Charlotte is proud to offer more than a few spectacular F-bodies that should suit anyone's tastes, and this big block 4-speed convertible is a great example. The restoration work is uniformly high quality throughout, and it runs and drives like a brand-new car. Thanks to the potent big block under the hood, it's one of the more potent machines on the street in 1968, and its legendary solid-lifter sound was the stuff that nightmares were made of. Even more popular today than when they were new, early Camaros are a great way to enjoy the best hobby on Earth. Call today!

Year:  1980 or older
Miles:  60 000 - 64 999

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