Built to Drive - Battle of the 1969 Camaros - SPEC vs Stock

You vs your carbon copy 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

Can this accommodate 315s at all 4 corners on a 68?

The quality and engineering in these chassis kits is beyond reproach! I've spent hours drooling over the cars in the Gallery section of your site.
My only qualm about most RS Shop conversions I see is the wheel offsets - mainly the fronts - but sometimes the rear as well. The wheel center sections are offset outboard so much that the dog dish caps (in this 69 Camaro's case) look goofy. Would it possible to somehow engineer the front suspension (spindles/hubs) to be 2"-3" narrower so as to allow "deep(er) dish" wheels? I guess this really only applies to cars with steelies. Newer/modern wheels can get away with the high-offsets and look decent - on the front anyway.

“Mustang guy hoppin the curb at cruise night”
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Do you guys work with any companies that deal with financing? I was about to pull the trigger and order the chassis, but then I got caught up in all the options and realized I needed another 10k

I wish you guys would have a giveaway with a chassis for a 69 Camaro or one of the winner's choice

We will never see body lean like that ever again

Did u guys disconnect the swaybar links to get that much roll ? Lol

What do you expect those stock tires are not meant for sharp turns

Did you replace the 51 year old shocks and springs in the red Camaro? Nice to have a new SPEC-chassis, but be real.

What the heck is wrong with that red car? I have a 69 that looks just like that and aside from Caltrac bars , split mono leaf springs and radial tires, it is a stock suspension car with generic gas shocks and it doesn’t go around a corner anything like that. Body roll is very minimal.

Lmfao!! When I had a muncie in my camaro I was the only person that could drive it because It had a trick to shifting it to 3rd so you wouldn't lock up the linkage like that

The stock 427 needs the Guldstrand mod horribly or it'll suffer serious camber issues. The bias ply tires aren't helping either. It doesn't take much to make a stock 69 subframe/leaf car handle. That said this comparison is unfair to a degree.

Insane

Buy a RS chassis... a repop body... yeah, style with modern performance and ride

Well at the very least, you know the cops in 1969 didn't have a better performing car. What year did radial tires come into existence anyway?

Great video

Thumbs Up and Happy 4th of July.

I get that you guys are comparing an old stock muscle car to your new chassis, but listening to 2 grown men talk about being scared over taking a turn at 30 mph makes me shake my head. I want to get the spec chassis for my 65 mustang and i know its going to be a crazy improvement campared to stock with 4 drum breaks but it still makes me laugh how dramatic you're being lol.

Very cool build! Had to get some cheese for all that whine, though :P

Bullshit. My 67 ss big block car is all original and dose not lean like that.

whooo those are too hot dam can even choose

OK was that a factory 6cly car that someone slapped a big block in and left the 6cly front suspension on because my buddy had multiple 69s one 68 and one 67 none of them had body roll like that and could take a corner way faster and better than that

Had a '69 SS with 350 engine and 4 speed manual. It was mostly stock F41 suspension, good tires, and it handled awful. Just sayin' 😔

Did a pan through the comments section and I'm seeing some skepticism. Sales idea for you guys: Toss a 6 axis IMU and a datalogger and shock pots on an old camaro and a spec equipped model. I don't have any experience on how much those units track NVH-frequency vibrations so maybe a decibel meter too. Then toss the graphs on the screen and show off how much less body roll you've got throughout a course, do a skidpad test etc. - I see what you've done and I believe you've really accomplished something here. Show these guys with numbers how good these platforms are, and watch the orders roll in!

You lost me with the autotragic in your build car

Love my spec chassis on my 68 Bird convertible

🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Why does the person in the gray Camaro keep trying to pass? Is he wanting camera time?

Nope, the Camero's I've ridden in were a lot better handling than that red car. Yes, they all squeaked and rattled, but the suspension never looked like it was going to fall out from under the car.

Original 1st generation cars actually don’t ride or handle that bad really. My 68 RS/SS Camaro is matching numbers car 350 with the Muncie 4 speed 115k original miles. It absolutely doesn’t lean or act like the car you’re driving. I can let go of the wheel and it will go straight down the road and I have no issues using my stereo whatever I know exactly what the car is going to do at all times.

The had to have removed the front sway bar out of that red camaro. No way its leaning over that much!! Maybe if it still has the tiny stocker half inch bar. I have a 68 firebird with Hotchkis springs and front sway bar on 18's tires. Handles a lot better then stock with giant donut tires. But Yes, rides like crap on bumpy crap roads of california.

The red car has no sway bars. So, duh

Videos like this tend to make me think that the race driver's back then were so much better than the drivers now.