This beautiful, but dusty, 1968 Chevrolet Camaro is up for auction! The car is lot T108 and is being offered at the Mecum Chicago auction on October 25th. You can find more about the lot number here on Mecum’s website and more about the auction here.
There aren’t a lot of details listed for the car. It was supposedly restored five years ago and appears to have been parked after that. The engine is a 350 cubic inch displacement that has been rebuilt along with the 4-speed manual transmission. It looks like the engine was probably neat and tidy when the restoration was done. Unfortunately sitting is one of the worst things that can be done to a car. Hopefully, not too much damage has been done.
The interior is the classic hounds-tooth pattern that was popular in the 1960’s. It appears the restoration work was done to a fairly high standard. It’s a little unusual to see wiring hanging down below the dash and if you look closely it appears that the clutch pad is missing from the pedal. A quality restoration should have addressed these issues. So, what do you make of this car? Will you be a bidder on this classic orange Camaro?
There has to be a story behind this car… too bad it’s just being put out there for money now with absolutely no back story.
Well from just under the hood says it’s not been restored..
The wiring seen under the dash is the flat ribbon wire to the turn signal switch. Stock it would have a black plastic cover over that wiring that clipped to the lower side of the column.
The wires under the dash have been cut and spliced with butt connectors, again had this been a true restoration the wire harness would have been replaced. And I agree with Steven, there are too many unfinished details under the hood to have been a restoration, It does have a nice paint job and great upholstery
Looks like one of two things:
The owner died
The owner ran out of funds
Looks like it was stored somewhere else. Then restored here.
Hard to tell but it looks like they cut speaker’s
Into the console could be factory i guess
Not cool if it isn’t. Or made something like a console
Hmmmm.could be a risky one!
What is up with the discombobulated air cleaner?
On a first gen Camaro they should call this color resale orange. Back when these cars were new I don’t remember see any orange Camaros now every other one is resale orange.
Who restores a car then parks it in a dusty old building with the hood partially open. No one I know.
“Restored”? I think not. Granted I’m splitting hairs about terminology here, but “fixed up a bit” might be closer to the truth. Looking at the workmanship and general condition, I’d be very nervous about how well it was fixed up,and baring a very good price would keep away from this one.
Looks like it recently overheated?
A bit of a mis-match on the interior…standard door panels, and deluxe style seats…and the seats are missing the emblems that should be above the cloth inserts…stitching seems wrong on the cloth too…
$10000 at best
A conglomeration of parts from many different donors does not qualify as a restoration. Mostly nice car, though. But the dash looks like someone’s 14 year-old resident electronics expert go his hand on the wiring. Be prepared to order a complete new wiring harness – once they have been “improved” there is usually little way to find a way to repair.
Another “dime a dozen”Camaro.
14 year old chose the steering wheel too. Totally inappropriate for a car built in 1968. Hard to believe Mecum consigned this one as it seems a bit of a cannibalized base car.
Wrong Steering Wheel, Wal/K Mart Air Cleaner and the Valve Covers along with the rest of the Junk Looking GO FAST CHROME Under the hood and those real go fast hose covers. The dash is all cut up again for some Wal/K Mart radio. The grill looks like it was on the wrong end of black rattle can. Oh and I do believe the Z/28 is suppose to be on the tip/front end of the fender, NOT UNDER THE Camaro emblem. We won’t even talk about the EURO Boot around the shifter ….. Just give me the radiator cap and I’ll put i on a Ford and all the problems with this chevy will go away….
Definitely overheated and sprayed water all over the inside of the engine compartment. I suspect blown head gaskets and they tried to fix it with additive in the coolant. That’s the white crap you see everywhere. Expect an engine swap to get this on the road!
They’re leaving it dusty to get the buyers believing they have a “barn find”.
This adds 10 G’s right out of the gate.
Could it have been stolen or an attempt with the wire issues ?
Really….now we’re clutching. Just a bunch of wires. Big deal. I have a bunch in my 69 El Camino hanging down the exact same way. They’ll be fixed when I frame off the car.