Not Your Average Red 1969 Camaro We Promise

LokaRS

By Brandan Gillogly, Photography by Matthew Jones

Hot Rod Magazine, July, 2013

Ben Weber at Goolsby Customs is responsible for much of the custom metalwork on the car. Note the shaved cowl vents and the one-piece sheetmetal lower valance and spoiler. Detroit Speed’s (DetroitSpeed.com) electric RS headlight kit was installed to eliminate the clunky, OE vacuum actuator system




Goolsby Customs (GoolsbyCustoms.com) has been making a name for itself by showing up at the yearly SEMA show in Las Vegas with at least one high-profile show car. The Bessemer, Alabama, shop has been turning out top-quality trucks, hot rods, and muscle cars for the past eight years, including the most ambitious and most attractive 1971 Mustang we’ve ever seen (“Pegasus,” HRM June 2012). Skip and Debbie Walls, founders of Lokar Performance Products (Lokar.com), met the Goolsby team at SEMA in 2009 and mentioned they might one day like to collaborate on a project. Just after the 2011 SEMA show, Skip decided he wanted to put together a build to show that Lokar’s products aren’t just for 1932 Fords and 1957 Chevys, since the company seemed to be better known in the street-rod world than in the muscle-car realm. A ’69 Camaro convertible that Skip found on eBay looked like the textbook build candidate. It was complete and rust-free, and the topless car would make the perfect display piece for Lokar’s interior products. Skip’s son, Kevin, contacted the eBay seller and paid the Buy-It-Now price as a surprise for his father. When Skip checked the auction, the car was gone, and he assumed he’d missed his opportunity. He spent a good portion of the PRI show telling the story of his rust-free Camaro that got away only to later reappear as a surprise for him at a Lokar company event. The Camaro proved cleaner than advertised and had all original GM sheetmetal.

• Weber’s handiwork includes the scratch-built rear spoiler, custom rear valance, and the recessed rear quarter gills.
  
  
• Nutek Series 710 wheels were custom configured for the car. They measure 19x10 in front and 20x12 in the rear. Baer six-piston calipers are used all around.
  
  
  
• These hood inserts were custom made for the LokaRS, but Lokar is considering offering them for sale.
  
  

• 01] Heath Wood built the dash from aluminum, but the finish work and black suede and leather upholstery was done quickly by M&M (MMHotRodInteriors.com) to meet the car’s SEMA deadline. The aluminum interior door pulls are universal pieces made by Lokar’s Kevin Ford. The door pulls should be available from Lokar soon
  
  
• 02] Lokar offers the aluminum parking brake handle and might offer the leather and aluminum shifter soon. Just forward of the shifter is the control panel for the Vintage Air A/C system and the Kenwood head unit.
  
  
• 03] As with the rest of the interior, the gauges were designed by Ben Hermance. They were custom made by Classic Instruments while the bezel is from Lokar
  
  

The first-gen is the quintessential platform for a Pro Touring car, which makes it difficult to build one that stands out in the sea of existing projects. The task of designing a unique 1969 Camaro fell to illustrator Ben Hermance, who worked with Lokar to get their idea for a modern 1969 into a two-dimensional rendering. For starters, Ben tidied up the rear valance, recessed the rear quarter gills, extended the rockers, eliminated the cowl vents, and flush-mounted the bumpers. Shop Manager Josh Henning headed up the team at Goolsby, where metal fabricators Ben Weber and Heath Wood had 11 months to deliver the real deal in time for the 2012 SEMA show.
The 545hp, 414ci LS3 from Mast Motorsports uses Dynatech headers and a Billet Specialties Tru Trac accessory drive that mounts the Vintage Air compressor. Billet Specialties also supplied the hood hinges. Ben Weber built the inner fenders and the shroud that covers the C&R Racing radiator that has dual 11-inch fans and integrated coolers for the power-steering fluid and engine oil. American Powertrain assembled the Tremec T-56 that’s linked to the LS3 via the company’s Science Friction clutch.








<hr>More from Goolsby


Goolsby’s other SEMA show-stoppers include the aforementioned ’71 Mustang Pegasus…


…and this 502-powered ’67 Chevelle that won the HOT ROD Power Tour® Challenge, both owned by Buddy Shores.


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Space , Nice Camaro ..
Welcome Back.

 

Thanks much `Jerry, it's great to be back home on the MCF I hope life has been good to you & family !!!
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987 Chevy Monte Carlo SS - Mean, Mean Monte

What the General couldn't do in '87, Darrell Hyde added today





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Looking back on the '80s, it's tough not to have a jaded view. We've had a decade and a half since to be spoiled with the kind of high horsepower numbers not seen even in the '60s. By comparison, the '80s, while an improvement over the mid-to-late '70s, seem slow and pedantic by comparison. The most robust offering was the 245hp L98 in the Corvette. You couldn't get a manual trans with the 350 in a Camaro, and the only engine to be had in the Monte SS was the LB9 305 that wheezed out less than 200 ponies. On the plus side, horsepower numbers were climbing throughout the '80s, signaling the reawakening of performance that would give us the power boons of the late '90s and 21st century.
A transfer from his job at Autozone had Darrell "Poppa" Hyde working in Columbus, Georgia, when in the fall of 1986 a brand new, black Monte Carlo Aerocoupe, sitting on the lot of Bill Heard Chevrolet stole his heart at first sight. Undaunted by the car's $17,000 sticker price, Darrell traded in his '80 Bonneville and '74 Suburban, laid down some cash, and drove off the lot in his brand new Monte SS. For six years it was his daily driver, until a divorce in 1993 separated him from the homologation special edition.

In 2001, fate again dealt him a blow, when Darrell's daily-driver was stolen. In need of transportation, he found out his '87 G-body had stopped running and was left to rot in a field. With the help of his daughter, Darrell managed to get his old car back and into running condition for everyday use. By 2005 the Monte was showing its age--not to mention the aftereffects of being left for dead. The T-tops allowed water to leak into the interior, soaking the carpet and breeding rust that would to eat through the floorboards. The black paint was sunbaked pretty badly, and overall the car was just tired.

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In his garage, Darrell started disassembling the G-body for a full refit, with some modifications to give it the performance not available back in the go-go '80s. The stock 305 was pitched in favor of a 427 Mouse he built himself out of a Dart Iron Eagle tall-deck block, Brodix cylinder heads, Eagle rotating assembly, Comp Cams valvetrain, Edelbrock intake, and Holley 950 cfm carb. Steve Larkin in Memphis performed all the necessary machine work before assembly.
To handle all the power and torque of the new mill, California Performance Transmissions built up a 200-4R with 3,000 stall converter. The factory 10-bolt rear was junked, and a narrowed Fab 9 9-inch rear built with 4.30 gears and Detroit Locker. Speaking of narrowed, to help fit enough rubber underneath so the car would hook, Darrell got help from friend David White to cut and narrow the rear framerails to make room for mini-tubs and 255-width rubber.

Most of the body repair, including welding in new floorpans, was done by Darrell himself. Another friend, Scott White, helped detail and paint various interior and trim pieces, different brackets, and some miscellaneous items. A custom console insert was made by Darrell to mount accessory gauges, and the stock buckets replaced with 3R Racing units. There's a fake floor on the passenger-side, behind which hides the MSD ignition boxes. The factory A/C system was also junked, replaced with a Vintage Air climate unit.

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To modernize the look of the car and make the frame less visible from a distance, Darrell built his own ground effects, along with lengthening the nose two inches, and installing the massive rear spoiler. Once everything was set, the car went to painter Tommy Gann for coating in DuPont black and clearcoat. Finishing the package are Intro GT Sport 17x8 wheels wrapped in Khumo rubber. There are many who might question all the time, effort, and money expended on what most people only see as "just a G-body Monte Carlo." For Darrell, building for value wasn't the idea of the project.
"I always liked the lines of the G-body cars. This Monte Carlo was the last new car I ever bought, and I wanted to fix it up and add the performance you couldn't get back when it was new. I didn't want to build another Camaro or Chevelle like everyone else. I wanted something different, a pro touring G-body." Indeed, one with a NASCAR high-banks heritage and theme. Even though the Aerocoupe isn't his daily ride anymore, Darrell still drives it at least once a week, and to most shows within a reasonable amount of distance from home.

While "different" is the obvious adjective to use about this car, we look at it more as a great example of original thinking, and the true reason why most hot rodders build cars.

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Super Chevy's 40th Anniversary - Happy Birthday To Us!

It was 40 years ago that Super Chevy magazine was born, and we’ve not had a mid-life crisis yet

By Jim Campisano, Photography by Jorge Nunez

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If Super Chevy magazine were a human being, chances are it would be balding, growing a paunch, and looking for love in all the wrong places. Instead, it is as fit as a 20-year-old Marine and looking to kick just as much butt.
A lot has happened in the publishing world since Super Chevy first hit the newsstands in the spring of 1973 as a special issue by Argus Publishing. It helped start a revolution in automotive publishing—it focused on only one marque, and when the results started pouring in (along with the dollars), a lot of other companies took notice.
The gorgeous wheels on our ’12 Camaro SS are 20-inch Billet Specialties Turbine models. They measure 20x10 (r) and 20x8.5 (f) and are wrapped in Nitto NT05 tires (275/40R20 all around). Phastek Performance provided BC Racing adjustable coilovers to improve cornering and lower the car.

The gorgeous wheels on our ’12 Camaro SS are 20-inch Billet Specialties Turbine models. Th


A second issue followed, and the magazine quickly became a quarterly, then a bimonthly, then a monthly. Circulation exploded. Soon a world that previously knew only Hot Rod, Car Craft and Popular Hot Rodding, found newsstands populated by magazines devoted solely to Chevys, Corvettes, Pontiacs, Mopars, Mustangs, and so on.
Over the years, dozens of Chevy-only periodicals have been launched, and except for Super Chevy and sister publication Chevy High Performance, all have bitten the dust. The Internet buried more than a few, yet our circulation continues to grow. Super Chevy has not only survived, but also thrived. There are a number of reasons for this—quality of information and photography, the Super Chevy Show series, and (as important as any of them) the staff has always been comprised of hard-core Bow Tie enthusiasts.
We don’t necessarily create the trends, but we do anticipate and follow them. We’ve always been on the cutting edge of technology when it comes to the stories we do. We were the first Chevy magazine to do before-and-after suspension testing with timing equipment. We have in our office a state-of-the-art shop with a DynoJet chassis dyno. Our engine tech is the go-to place for people looking how to get the most for their hard-earned dollars.
In this digital age, Super Chevy is far more than a magazine, it’s a brand. Our website sees over 2.5 million unique visitors a year. You can buy Super Chevy in paper, digital or tablet form. We have adapted to the challenges of the new millennium and by doing so, have remained relevant. Our website is populated with web-exclusive stories and photos, videos, blogs and forums. Our Facebook page is a place where we get to interact every day with our readers.
Who knows what Super Chevy will be like 40 years from now. Heck, only a fool would try to predict the market on our 50th birthday, but we will promise you this: As long as we’re publishing it, we will try our best to make Super Chevy everything you’ve always loved about it and more.
Thank you for all your support over the years.





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You can tell SPACE is back with us. All the Nice Hot Rods pictures are back on here again. Thanks for that Space really glad your back.

 

Thanks much `Rick,
It makes me feel good that my efforts are not in vain. I must also give high praise to my good friend BeachBum `Mike who made many posts/threads during my absence from the MCF. I haven't checked them `all, but he sure did his best at filling in many empty spaces on the forum.

I love so many Chevy Models from the 50's, 60's 70's 80's.
Thanks also for all your super contributions to the MCF

 

GREAT post Space!
We sure do miss all these wonderful threads you creat for the MCF Family to view and share.

 

Thanks `Rick, Mod `Wayne & Member's,
It's great to read that my effort & my love for cars is appreciated + I love to share my love of Super Super Cars 4-Sure

I know that the Monte Carlo brings us all 2gether, but I believe that the majority of member's really enjoy/love a large variety of vehicles
Our forum has many member's that no longer own a Monte, but they enjoy the comradeship of others that love automobiles

I don't think we would have a active auto community `if all there was to read is about problems...It's great that member's can help each other when a problem occurs with their Monte, but I don't think that is the only thing that member's what to view everyday...

Thanks to everyone for their contributions to the MCF 4-Sure