| If you spend time on Camaro forums like Team Camaro, Firstgens, ThirdGen or CRG, you might have seen a goober that goes by the name 'sleepsinshed'. Yes, that's me. My real name is Kevin, and this is the story of my 1968 Camaro Rally Sport Convertible.
I purchased this car in January of 1988. After searching all over New England for 2 years looking for a good restoration candidate, I found this one just a few miles down the road. The day I went to look at it the temperature was about 20 degrees, so I didn't spend much time crawling under it. It was almost exactly what I had been looking for, a convertible RS with a factory 4-speed. Truth be told, I would have preferred an SS also, but this car was too good to pass up.
A check of the numbers revealed that it still had the original motor. The quarter panels had been replaced at some point and were in excellent condition. It barely ran, but was structurely solid and most of the original parts were there. Not wanting to let this one get away I did some quick negotiating, and an hour later the car was mine. |
| The next day I drove (okay, pushed) the Camaro into the garage and started cataloging and disassembling it.
It would be more than 6 years until the car was together enough to drive again. Since the summer of 1994 it's probably been driven less than 3000 miles. Having kids, and building a new house kept the car from getting much attention through the 1990's. There are still some things to be completed (I only got the headlight doors working a few years ago) and now I finally have some time and a little money to work on it and enjoy it again.
The car is, and will always will be, a work in progress. There will always be things to be fixed, changed or added as time goes on. |
