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Buick "Darth Vader" "Bad to the Bone"

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  The Grand National had humble roots beginning in auto-racing. In 1978, because the energy extremity demanded additional svelte platforms, the elephantine 17-and-a-half-foot-long Buick imperial lost a bottom of length and a brace of cylinders. With this everyday base erected on the G- body platform associate degreed an mechanics plan in 1981, the Buick came a significant contestant in NASCAR , with Richard Petty winning the first race of the season — the‘81 Daytona five hundred — in his imperial. The imperial steamrolled the competition. 1981 - 1982 saw Darrell Waltrip skilled worker a imperial to win the Winston Cup steeplechase Championship succeeding.However, the machine swept  the manufacturer’s crown, with a imperial within the winner’s circle in a very gorgeous forty seven out of sixty two races, If that was n’t enough. In 1982, Buick moved  to subsidize on this success and introduced the steeplechase , named for the Winston Cup Championship it had simply won. the first Buick
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1969 Chevrolet Camaro

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  The 1969 Camaro carried over the previous year's drivetrain and major mechanical parts, however all-new sheetmetal, except the hood and lid, gave the automobile a well sportier look.   The grille was redesigned with an important "V" cant and deeply inset headlights. New door skins, rear quarter panels, and rear framing panel conjointly gave the automobile a way lower, wider, additional aggressive look. This styling would serve for the 1969 model year solely. Collectors usually dialogue the deserves of swish, rounded lines of 1967 and 1968 model versus the heavily rumpled and sportier appearance of the 1969 . To increase aggressiveness within the SCCA Trans-Am sport series, facultative four wheel disc brakes with four-piston calipers were created on the market throughout the year, below RPO JL8, for US$500.30.   This method used parts from the combat ship and created for a serious improvement within the braking capability and was a key to winning the Tr
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1968 Chevrolet Camaro

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  The styling of the 1968 Camaro was terribly kind of like the 1967 style.   With the introduction of Astro Ventilation, a fresh-air-inlet system, the facet vent windows were deleted . facet marker lights were else on the front and rear fenders that was a government demand for all sixty eight vehicles . It additionally had a additional pointed front grille and divided rear taillights. The front running lights (on non-RS models) were additionally modified from circular to oval. the large block SS models received chrome hood inserts that imitated speed stacks . The muffler mounting was staggered to resolve wheel hop problems and better performance models received multi-leaf rear springs rather than single-leaf pinyon units.   A 396 cubic content unit (6.5 L) 350 HP (261 kW) huge block engine was else as associate degree possibility for the SS, and therefore the Z28 appeared in Camaro brochures. The 427 cubic content unit (7.0 l) wasn't obtainable as a daily Producti
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1967 Chevrolet Camaro

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  The 1967 Camaro   Shared the subframe / semi-unibody style with the 1968 nark II star . nearly eighty works and forty dealer choices, as well as 3 main packages, were on the market. The RS was associate degree look package that enclosed hidden headlights, revised taillights with back-up lights below the rear bumper, RS badging, and exterior rocker trim. The SS enclosed a 350 cubic measure (5.7 L) V8 engine and therefore the L35 and L78 396 cubic measure (6.5 L) big-block V8s were additionally on the market.   The SS featured non-functional air inlets on the hood, special marking, and SS badging on the grille, front fenders, gas cap, and push. it had been doable to order each the SS and RS to receive a Camaro RS/SS. In 1967 , a Camaro RS/SS convertible with a 396 engine paced the capital of Indiana five hundred. The Z/28 choice code was introduced in Dec 1966 for the 1967 model year.   It had been the inspiration of Vince Piggins, WHO formed providing "vi
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