Royal Purple / V8TV Royal Sport 69 Camaro Project Update - Lateral-g Forums

**V8TV** · #1 02-06-2006, 07:35 PM

Here's a 2-photo essay of the past two days in the shop... the car goes to the blaster Wednesday. We hope something comes back!

- Kevin Oeste

**XcYZ** · #2 02-06-2006, 08:00 PM

Kevin, what's the outline for the project?

Did we talk about that already?

**V8TV** · #3 02-06-2006, 08:10 PM

Hey Scott -

The Royal Sport is going to be a P/T style Camaro that is obtainable by average enthusaists... we're loading it with a Gen III small block / 6-speed combo, a moderately modified stock flavored interior, and some trick suspension pieces. The car has some issues from the waist down, so we're going to be doing some surgery pretty soon. Imperial Blasting is going to strip the car this weekend, and we're off to the races from that point on. We didn't want to go the "mail order" Camaro route because I enjoy putting old cars back together, but we've got lots of work ahead of us. SEMA is the deadline, the car will be in the Royal Purple booth (it's their car) and we're chronicalling the whole build on our show and in a Build Book with Team Killen. We're also doing some cool stuff with eBay Motors, and a DVD of the whole thing when we're finished.

awr68 · #4 02-06-2006, 10:13 PM

Sounds like a cool project! Keep us posted, as some of us don't get your show, ie. Direct TV.

hotwheels · #5 02-06-2006, 10:48 PM

man, that really rocks..........hell of a job so far.

**V8TV** · #6 02-06-2006, 11:33 PM

Thanks HotWheels... it's been a long weekend!

Anyone know how to put a Camaro back together?

**V8TV** · #7 02-22-2006, 09:58 PM

We had the Royal Sport '69 Camaro stripped by Imperial Blasting Technologies... Wally's crew did a fantastic job. We were worried that nothing would come back, as the car's pretty rusty on the bottom. Luckily, our fears were unfounded and we got a whole car back! The media blast job came out really nice, but it revealed some new secrets and made the obvious even more obvious. It's pretty amazing what kind of "innovations" people come up with when they're hacking a body together with pop rivets and body filler! We do have some substantial panel replacement to do, and we're going to cover it all on our show between now and SEMA.

- Kevin Oeste, spending some long nights in the shop!

**XcYZ** · #8 02-23-2006, 05:28 AM

Pop rivets, nice.

907rs · #9 02-23-2006, 06:30 AM

I was just wondering about this car the other day. Good to see some progress, Kevin. I need to ditch the cable and get the dish!

**V8TV** · #10 02-24-2006, 08:58 AM

Everyone loves pop rivets.... (especially Momma Rivets!)