[mannymen]

Dougherty20. I just sold my Camaro for next to nothing and had just over $33K invested in the roller without a 4 link or Ford 9". I rebuilt this car from 2002-2005 which was during the height cost wise. I can tell you the motor had just over $20K (not including trans & converter) invested and just put out shy of 800hp for BBC BA/CA motor, which doesn't get it done in regards to qualifying for races like Indy or Reading.

For a 69 Camaro even in today's terrible market be prepared to spend more than $50 (easily) turnkey to have a decent car that may not qualify for the 2 races mentioned earlier.

As everyone else has stated, I would go to the combo races or division races and look at everyone else's equipment. You can look at cars like Fletcher's superstocker, which IS NOT a show piece by any means and he'll even tell you that. His is a flat out racecar that sees a lot of track time, so it gets dirty and abused. If you want a show car/racecar be prepared to spend in the $75-100K range.

What turned me onto SS racing was seeing a yellow superstock (67 or 68) camaro at the Winter Nats back in 2002 and boy was it perfect and ran well also. I said to myself, I have to have one of these. Well I got one and dumped a ton of money into it and it still didn't look the way the yellow camaro I saw in 2002. I guess I needed to spend another $25k to get it to look like that. I think I saw the car for sale the past year or so and it was well over 75K turnkey and I can't remember if it was even that fast under its index.

Good luck in your search and I hope you plan living at home with your parents for awhile to pay for this expensive habit Plus don't get married and have children to soon or it's bye bye racecar.

Buy a used dragster for cheap and go bracket racing

Manny