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Jack, how is your Camaro project, keep us up on your original Camaro. I enjoyed what Bill Porterfield did in 1983 by finding the car and restoring it as close to it's last set up(Dana 60 and all pro goodies of the time), I can't remember if it was in HOT ROD or Car Craft magazine but one of them had an article detailling the long and hard task that Mr. Poterfield went throught to finally finish his project. I'm sure if someone was ready to drop off a tractor trailer full of Cash I wouldn't sent him home without it. My phylosophie is: if you restore an automobile, you can do whatever you want with it but you should use it as much as you can. A friend of mine who had an Indy Pace car Corvette in his garage under wraps, with 100 miles on it, died two weeks ago, I told him many times, drive it and enjoy the car, he was paranoid that someone would damage it, now his kids have just sold it for peanuts. I've own many classics musclecar, and had a great restored 69 ss 396 Camaro that I had to sell after my divorce but I have to say that I never missed that automobile because I drove it everywhere and had a ball with it. I'm now building a Monte Carlo ss with 427 4speed with 12 bolts rear, with the 1983 ss 15"wheel that came with, just my way to make a car that GM should have made. My Monte Carlo ss, is the second one built in 82 for the 83 model year(I picked up at City Chevrolet with the help of a certain Rick Hendrick that I had just met in Florida). I don't care if it's going to be worth something in the future because " no one is promise tomorrow". CR