raging sloth

Auction has been closed, anyhow UK freight would be ridiculous. So sad.

13.606 @ 106.04 First pass on fresh rebuilt motor. 106 at WOT is good, but launch needs some work. I just put it drive and let it rip. Met some nice new people and a few old friends. Andy

ME! ME! ME! Andy

The car was blue when built. I don't mind it being black, but a new paint job would have to be back to the original color, and stripping the car back to bare metal. I have been told that Imron can be bitch to strip, but what do I know? As long as it looks shiny when I go down the road, it's all good. BTW, nice meeting you at Lennox.

I would love to repaint the car, but then it would end up as a resto project. I keep hoping somebody will back into it or something, since the insurance has a 1 grand deductible and a paint job is $20k. Kevin's dad is a vintage race car restorer and racer, so he came by his need for speed honestly. I also heard he was the CEO of the "More Money than Brains" club. I think he gave away the car because it was an unfinished project and he wanted to cut his losses. The Grand Prize was the hood, and he probably figured he could keep the car. It took 6 months of wrangling to have his dad get a title for the car, in Maine. I would still like to ask Kevin some questions, but I doubt that will ever happen.

Hard to say if this was Kevin Eastman's personal car, as he owned a lot of cars back then. When I spoke with Kevin's dad about the car, back in 1994, he told me they bought it at swap meet in New Hampshire in '89, and they didn't know it was a COPO. They bought a correct CE stamped 427 replacement motor, but did very little else. This car would not have passed an OSHP inspection when it was delivered to OHio. The brakes were shot, there were no horns, the wipers were broken,and they installed a Muncie 4 spd when this car was originally an M40 auto. The car was black when they bought it, but it was a 71-71 LeMans blue when new. It was sold to Berger Chevrolet in Grand Rapids, MI, and is the last known COPO car ordered by them. How it got from GR to NH is a mystery. Everything mechanical has been worked over, but the paint was laid down in the mid-80's. It's a twenty footer today, but it still holds a shine, which is good enough for me.

Jeeze, is there an edit or delete option.

This is me at NTR about 7 years ago. 50 miles round trip from my house, and about a half a tank of gas. I can watch the gas gauge move going down the track. http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/ameyers215/National%20Trails%20April2010/P4300005.jpg

OK, so this is the hood that came with the car. True story, my step-son won this car in a comic book contest, then signed the title over to me. The previous owner was a co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, had the painted by his artist, then gave away the car. The hood is on his living room wall, and I've been having fun for over 22 years driving a real COPO.

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Please allow me to introduce myself. Call me Andy, everyone else does. The Raging Sloth is just my screen name. I have owned my Camaro for going on 23 years. It is a real COPO car, and is listed on the Yenko.net database. The motor is a correct replacement, as is the transmission but the rear end is born-with. This car is a driver, not a lawn ornament. I have taken it to car shows all over Columbus, and have run the car at Trails, Gateway International, and Beech Bend. Hope to lurk here and maybe put my .02 in some times. Thanks Andy