My sister bought one straight out of high school. The lady that owned it before her had it for 7 years and took extremely good care of it. Red with black interior, turbine wheels, power windows, no t-tops.
This is my Z28 on Pendine Sands, South Wales. UK.The paint needs doing and you inspire me, but the engine is a tuned up 7.5L (454), with 450bhp and 620lbs torque great fun car had her for 9 years now. These American cars are rare out here and she turns heads (and ears!), everywhere she goes. Thanks for the video, 👍
That is nice!! I bet you get a lot of looks in the UK with that for sure. That is cool having a big block in it vs the factory small block. I know when I travel to other countries I am always looking for cars that are not normally found. They always look so strange and out of place. : )
The song by Kevin Rudolf during the painting made it pretty epic. These are my favorite of the Camaro generations. I have one I'm restoring with my old man. It used to be his. You did this car really well
@@tumbles94 oh man really you sold it after all that hard work and awesome work and it looked like you were very detailed and maticulious. Did you tell the guy you want first buy back if he ever decided to sell. I sold a Harley I had done custom and all my friends told me to do that and I didn’t and kick myself in the ass for not. But you did a amazing job on that car my man.
I live in a small country called Suriname in south America and they have few abandoned z28 1979 here and 1980 so hopefully I could by one and restore it
Very nice! I did the same exact thing to my 79 Z28. Hope you have had better luck than I did! 3 days after I finished and 2 days before I was going to get the car appraised someone hit me in a hit and run at night and tore the whole front end off of my car. All I know it was a pickup that hit me and after when I looked to my right the head lights of my car were facing the passenger door staring back at me. I was lucky the way the car was built and the way the truck hit, right at the radiator support, it tore out all of the new frame mount bolts. The roof was all twisted from having T-tops! It didn’t seem that hard of a hit and I didn’t even get hurt. It was almost like air hitting air from what I remember. I got out of the car, because the truck had stopped about 200 feet away and I started walking towards he/she and then he/she took off. Well I had 3 great days! 👍🏻👍🏻
Yo your video inspired me to not give up on my 79 z28 its a original maroon color not sure if to paint it the same or paint it all black right now i have it at the body ahop getting ready to paint fewe weeks from now hopefully sooner than later
I love this car so much! Only thing I’d do differently I would try and get that same color it had before the sort of navy blue w a hint of green in it... it’s a kinda color that like lunges out out you and it goes rly well w the cars menacing stance in my op
Yeah I maybe should put it back factory but I wanted to pain the color red which I had never done before. The red color is a factory option for that year though if that helps. ; )
Awesome!! thats my dream car. just not orange though, i would like mine to be more of a race car gloss black with black tire rims, red calipers, racing seats (red), and professional tires
That year Camaro has no auto-sport cred but it looks like a nice cruiser. I think it's perfect for the suburban dad to go grab a coffee and a donut on the weekend.
The only thing I don't like is the skull door lock covers. (at least i think that's what I saw) Ironically enough some of those came on my 79 K10 when I bought it 2 years ago. I just like the stock style.. But man.. otherwise, absolutely brilliant restoration. I just picked up an 81 Z28. Unfortunately not a 4-spd car but I'm going to be attempting as close to an OEM restoration as I can. I'm no mechanic but I am going to try. Where abouts in Texas are you? Would love to chat sometime. Between myself and two other friends we have a total of five second gen camaros. A mix of project and parts cars.
Yes you did see skull door lock knobs with matching red eyes. I just stuck them on there for fun. I am south of Houston - I sold the car a while back to a guy near Ft Worth area ish.
I never shot any video with them on it but I changed over to those pretty quick. I like those wheels better than the turbine style although they were pretty heavy.
That is a good question. I did not repaint mine but I did some a long time ago. I taped off all the aluminum part and then used a razor blade and cut out the areas to paint and then re-painted that color. Then removed the tape from the turbines and used aluminum polish to clean each one with a small buffer. This takes a long time BTW but does look good when done. Someone may have a better idea for this so look around. I am sure there is a faster method.
Looks amazing! Did you do anything to increase the horsepower over stock? I've been looking into these because you can get them relatively cheaply, but I want more than 175hp in a camaro hahah
I have sold the car but I left it all stock under the hood. Yeah it was not fast but I did not redo to make it fast was trying to keep it as it was in 79 or something close to it. : )
About how much did this cost thinking about getting an old muscle car and restoring it to take my gf to prom in for senior year I found one of these sitting for 3500 just wondering about how much it would take to get it looking car show ready
That can really be all over the place on cost. If some of the car is in good shape and needs things just cleaned up but you can re-use it then that helps. If you need to replace everything then that will add up. These are prices for you doing the work and just buying parts and supplies. Inside all new - 2500-3000? maybe find a thing or two used online for sale the rest new. I am assuming the dash is good and maybe a center console. Engine - spend what you want here but say just 1800-2500 here on things - water pump, radiator, fix leaks and maybe new carb? Now paint will get you - if you do all the work and have a decent place to paint it and compressor and things AND you do all the body work - still like 3000 maybe you replace a door or fender. You pay someone to paint it and do body work - 8000- unlimited to get a good job. I am most likely low on my prices for things. If you have to pay someone to do all the work and the parts then a good bit to everything. Look at the car make a note of things it will need then go look online and see how much they are and then add labor costs and you can get pretty close. Hope this helps! I am just making a guess on this stuff.
Solid work on the paint it looks amazing! Saw you painting the original rims but you went with the turbines... let me guess you had trouble finding the correct beauty rings? Wild guess, but that's what put me on a set of Auto Drag Centerlines instead (everyone that had the correct rings wanted an arm and a kidney for them) :)
No I went with the painted rims but did not get any video of it to use. I like those better than the turbines my self. I found some with the trim rings so I did not have to go hunt them down luckily.
@@tumbles94 I got really lucky on the Centerlines found a guy parting out a car at the right time... it was a bit of work to make the 295/50/15 fit in the back... took a little fender rolling and a set of shackles (I know bad for the leafs and makes the rear end less stable) haha
I did not paint the frame or anything but you could maybe with jacks and jack stands or take the body off of the uni-body frame if that is what you are asking. Thanks
Depends on if you do the body work yourself or not? That will add to the cost a good bit. I used high dollar PPG products but you could save a lot using a middle of the road brand and get good results. The interior to change it all 2k - 3k all in - again doing the labor yourself. Just do parts at a time and it does not hit you so hard. You shop around and you can find people with older parts that are in good shape so that saves a lot. If you do a lot of the things say 5k - 8k for everything?? I may be on the high side. Not sure I helped here..lol
Thanks for the reply, it helped a bit. I'm currently pulling the interior apart. I'm trying to get the ignition switch out, it was previously drilled and a obviously a key won't fit. Interior is nearly complete and in good shape though I'm pulling it out to rewire the car. It's already got a 454/4-Speed swap in it, so I'm gonna be doing a good deal of engine work and a transmission upgrade when the Muncie bites the dust. With the rewire I'm also planning on doing a discreet sound system and LED lighting. Did you build the car to more or less factory spec or did you modify anything?
I went back as close to factory as i could. Yeah I bet there is a youtube vid on how to take the column apart - although may be harder to find one for a standard transmission vs an auto to view.
I appreciate the responses, the cylinder hasn"t come out any way that any of the videos I've seen recommend. I moved on to other parts of the project, will go back to it when I'm more calm about it. All in all you have a beautiful car, with any luck mine will turn out close to that good.
Hmm...pull the wheel then the lock plate that has a snap ring holding it on at the shaft. Then take the turn signal switch out but be sure to loosen the column bolts and the plugs at the base of the column so you have slack to pull the switch out of the way. You may have to grab the lower bowl or bottom of the column and twist it after you take the screw holding the lock cyl in?? It has been 15 years since I did a column so going from memory. Oh yeah you may need to take out the bolt on the steering shaft under the hood so it can slide out but line up the steering wheel and remember how you do it so it goes back the just like it came out. Maybe this will help you...
Is she up for sale or trade I got a 1965 Chrysler New Yorker 2 door id be willing to trade it also has a spa are re- chromed frunt and rear bumper and a spare grill that either has been re-chromed or taken really good care of the Chrysler also has a 413 motor .
Awww, it makes me sad that you sold it after all that work. I hope nothing bad happened that forced its sale. I still have my old '79; bought it new! ua-cam.com/video/yra6Yd1Zty8/v-deo.html Question, did you color match code 75 red for your '79? I need to get mine painted some day, but no one has the exact color anymore. Thanks!
Thanks Tara - nah just ready to mess with something else. Yes they did match the color from the factory red color. It was a PPG paint shop and they had the old charts and codes. You should be able to get the right color for you car I bet.
My sister bought one straight out of high school. The lady that owned it before her had it for 7 years and took extremely good care of it. Red with black interior, turbine wheels, power windows, no t-tops.
This is my Z28 on Pendine Sands, South Wales. UK.The paint needs doing and you inspire me, but the engine is a tuned up 7.5L (454), with 450bhp and 620lbs torque great fun car had her for 9 years now. These American cars are rare out here and she turns heads (and ears!), everywhere she goes. Thanks for the video, 👍
That is nice!! I bet you get a lot of looks in the UK with that for sure. That is cool having a big block in it vs the factory small block. I know when I travel to other countries I am always looking for cars that are not normally found. They always look so strange and out of place. : )
Beautiful, I had a '71 and '79 - regret letting both go.
The song by Kevin Rudolf during the painting made it pretty epic. These are my favorite of the Camaro generations. I have one I'm restoring with my old man. It used to be his. You did this car really well
Best selling Z for good reason. Happy for you broski. My old "Bandit Colored" one had the awesome turbine wheels I loved so much.
This is absolutely my dream car, I saw you sold it. Hope you got a good price!
finally a proper video of a 79 Z28 that doesnt look like it was taken on a flip phone or is just a slide show. Awesome video sir
Thanks! Some shots are from a Galaxy Note but most from a Canon HD vid camera.
Nice Rolling stones hit,one of my favorites, nice car
Yeah it called can't you hear me knocking.
Awesome job. Beautiful restoration. Glad you kept the turbine wheels they look way better than 5 spokes
I did switch to the 5 spokes though...: ) then I sold the car.
Car looks better than great pal. Awesome job. Definitely something too be proud of. Wish I was as handy as you my man. Job well done 💯
Thanks man! I sold it a few years back but did not turn out too bad for a garage paint job.
@@tumbles94 oh man really you sold it after all that hard work and awesome work and it looked like you were very detailed and maticulious. Did you tell the guy you want first buy back if he ever decided to sell. I sold a Harley I had done custom and all my friends told me to do that and I didn’t and kick myself in the ass for not. But you did a amazing job on that car my man.
Amazing work at home garage
Well done , beautiful camaro !!!
Thank you! 👍
That's impressive!
Nice video. Really like how you condensed it.sweet ride!
Thanks! Yeah that was a lot of time put in a short vid for sure.
Man that red really pop's very nice job
Holy cow a t-top 4-speed car very rare 👍
Amazing job man
Turned out really nice!
Thanks man!
Very nice! I need to do this to my 79 Z/28!
Very nice! I miss my old '79 Z so bad. Decided against the painted rally wheels?
No I put them on there before I sold it. I like the painted rally look better myself.
Amazing car
Thanks!
I live in a small country called Suriname in south America and they have few abandoned z28 1979 here and 1980 so hopefully I could by one and restore it
Very nice! I did the same exact thing to my 79 Z28. Hope you have had better luck than I did! 3 days after I finished and 2 days before I was going to get the car appraised someone hit me in a hit and run at night and tore the whole front end off of my car. All I know it was a pickup that hit me and after when I looked to my right the head lights of my car were facing the passenger door staring back at me.
I was lucky the way the car was built and the way the truck hit, right at the radiator support, it tore out all of the new frame mount bolts. The roof was all twisted from having T-tops! It didn’t seem that hard of a hit and I didn’t even get hurt. It was almost like air hitting air from what I remember. I got out of the car, because the truck had stopped about 200 feet away and I started walking towards he/she and then he/she took off. Well I had 3 great days!
👍🏻👍🏻
Man that is too bad. Yeah that would suck after getting it all going and the bam! get hit. Well at least you did not get hurt.
Yo your video inspired me to not give up on my 79 z28 its a original maroon color not sure if to paint it the same or paint it all black right now i have it at the body ahop getting ready to paint fewe weeks from now hopefully sooner than later
I love this car so much! Only thing I’d do differently I would try and get that same color it had before the sort of navy blue w a hint of green in it... it’s a kinda color that like lunges out out you and it goes rly well w the cars menacing stance in my op
Yeah I maybe should put it back factory but I wanted to pain the color red which I had never done before. The red color is a factory option for that year though if that helps. ; )
Man you got skills!
I am blushing...lol...thanks man!
Bravo du beau boulot
Great video!!!
Thank you!
Looks fantastic
Nice car thank you for posting 👍
Thanks sir!
we need an update on this beauty
I sold it a few years back - Look for it in Ft Worth, TX I think. : )
Awesome!! thats my dream car. just not orange though, i would like mine to be more of a race car gloss black with black tire rims, red calipers, racing seats (red), and professional tires
Nice
That year Camaro has no auto-sport cred but it looks like a nice cruiser. I think it's perfect for the suburban dad to go grab a coffee and a donut on the weekend.
The only thing I don't like is the skull door lock covers. (at least i think that's what I saw) Ironically enough some of those came on my 79 K10 when I bought it 2 years ago. I just like the stock style.. But man.. otherwise, absolutely brilliant restoration. I just picked up an 81 Z28. Unfortunately not a 4-spd car but I'm going to be attempting as close to an OEM restoration as I can. I'm no mechanic but I am going to try. Where abouts in Texas are you? Would love to chat sometime. Between myself and two other friends we have a total of five second gen camaros. A mix of project and parts cars.
Yes you did see skull door lock knobs with matching red eyes. I just stuck them on there for fun. I am south of Houston - I sold the car a while back to a guy near Ft Worth area ish.
I'm up northeast of Dallas. I'll actually be headed down to Houston area this weekend to visit the battleship museum.
Where are the orange rims you prepped and painted wanted too see thise
I never shot any video with them on it but I changed over to those pretty quick. I like those wheels better than the turbine style although they were pretty heavy.
How should I go about refinishing my 79 camaro turbine wheels? Sand blast????
That is a good question. I did not repaint mine but I did some a long time ago. I taped off all the aluminum part and then used a razor blade and cut out the areas to paint and then re-painted that color. Then removed the tape from the turbines and used aluminum polish to clean each one with a small buffer. This takes a long time BTW but does look good when done. Someone may have a better idea for this so look around. I am sure there is a faster method.
Awesome!
Looks amazing! Did you do anything to increase the horsepower over stock? I've been looking into these because you can get them relatively cheaply, but I want more than 175hp in a camaro hahah
I have sold the car but I left it all stock under the hood. Yeah it was not fast but I did not redo to make it fast was trying to keep it as it was in 79 or something close to it. : )
Nice job! What color red is that called? My 79 Sport Coupe is that color.
Thanks! I think it is code WA7032 Red if I recall.
@@tumbles94 Thank you so much! I have a replacement fender I need to paint and put on.
About how much did this cost thinking about getting an old muscle car and restoring it to take my gf to prom in for senior year I found one of these sitting for 3500 just wondering about how much it would take to get it looking car show ready
That can really be all over the place on cost. If some of the car is in good shape and needs things just cleaned up but you can re-use it then that helps. If you need to replace everything then that will add up. These are prices for you doing the work and just buying parts and supplies. Inside all new - 2500-3000? maybe find a thing or two used online for sale the rest new. I am assuming the dash is good and maybe a center console. Engine - spend what you want here but say just 1800-2500 here on things - water pump, radiator, fix leaks and maybe new carb? Now paint will get you - if you do all the work and have a decent place to paint it and compressor and things AND you do all the body work - still like 3000 maybe you replace a door or fender. You pay someone to paint it and do body work - 8000- unlimited to get a good job. I am most likely low on my prices for things. If you have to pay someone to do all the work and the parts then a good bit to everything. Look at the car make a note of things it will need then go look online and see how much they are and then add labor costs and you can get pretty close. Hope this helps! I am just making a guess on this stuff.
Where are you getting most of the aftermarket parts?
Camaro Central and Classic Parts if I remember for most things.
I have a 76 camaro. How much would you charge to get to this good shape?
Too much - It took a lot of hours to do what I did on the car. I do it just for fun and dont have any time at all lately for "fun" stuff...lol
How come you decided to sell it? Very nice job
Thanks! Yeah just went onto something else.
Solid work on the paint it looks amazing! Saw you painting the original rims but you went with the turbines... let me guess you had trouble finding the correct beauty rings? Wild guess, but that's what put me on a set of Auto Drag Centerlines instead (everyone that had the correct rings wanted an arm and a kidney for them) :)
No I went with the painted rims but did not get any video of it to use. I like those better than the turbines my self. I found some with the trim rings so I did not have to go hunt them down luckily.
Oh and Centerlines were so cool in the day but I never had enough money to buy some as a kid...lol
@@tumbles94 Lucky! :)
@@tumbles94 I got really lucky on the Centerlines found a guy parting out a car at the right time... it was a bit of work to make the 295/50/15 fit in the back... took a little fender rolling and a set of shackles (I know bad for the leafs and makes the rear end less stable) haha
Period correct with the shackles for back in the day. : ) lol
How you paint under the car because I am attend to start my restoration soon
I did not paint the frame or anything but you could maybe with jacks and jack stands or take the body off of the uni-body frame if that is what you are asking. Thanks
wow,
How long did this take from start to finish?? Amazing job
Thanks! Hmm I guess about 10 months working on it when i could. I put in a lot of hours I can tell you that...lol
Could you do this to mine ?
It is a lot of work and time that much I know...lol I do not think my wife would let me do another one like this. : )
Where did the red rims go I mean I like the newer ones that you did actually put on there but where's the red ones
Sold car with red rims on it
I have a 1978 Camaro Z28 I/m currently restoring. Any idea rough dollar figure you spent restoring this car? Thanks.
Depends on if you do the body work yourself or not? That will add to the cost a good bit. I used high dollar PPG products but you could save a lot using a middle of the road brand and get good results. The interior to change it all 2k - 3k all in - again doing the labor yourself. Just do parts at a time and it does not hit you so hard. You shop around and you can find people with older parts that are in good shape so that saves a lot. If you do a lot of the things say 5k - 8k for everything?? I may be on the high side. Not sure I helped here..lol
Thanks for the reply, it helped a bit. I'm currently pulling the interior apart. I'm trying to get the ignition switch out, it was previously drilled and a obviously a key won't fit. Interior is nearly complete and in good shape though I'm pulling it out to rewire the car. It's already got a 454/4-Speed swap in it, so I'm gonna be doing a good deal of engine work and a transmission upgrade when the Muncie bites the dust. With the rewire I'm also planning on doing a discreet sound system and LED lighting. Did you build the car to more or less factory spec or did you modify anything?
I went back as close to factory as i could. Yeah I bet there is a youtube vid on how to take the column apart - although may be harder to find one for a standard transmission vs an auto to view.
I appreciate the responses, the cylinder hasn"t come out any way that any of the videos I've seen recommend. I moved on to other parts of the project, will go back to it when I'm more calm about it. All in all you have a beautiful car, with any luck mine will turn out close to that good.
Hmm...pull the wheel then the lock plate that has a snap ring holding it on at the shaft. Then take the turn signal switch out but be sure to loosen the column bolts and the plugs at the base of the column so you have slack to pull the switch out of the way. You may have to grab the lower bowl or bottom of the column and twist it after you take the screw holding the lock cyl in?? It has been 15 years since I did a column so going from memory. Oh yeah you may need to take out the bolt on the steering shaft under the hood so it can slide out but line up the steering wheel and remember how you do it so it goes back the just like it came out. Maybe this will help you...
Only gripe with the whole thing is the color but that’s just personal preference
The car is originally a blue car. I wanted to try and shoot red because I had never done it before.
Is she up for sale or trade I got a 1965 Chrysler New Yorker 2 door id be willing to trade it also has a spa are re- chromed frunt and rear bumper and a spare grill that either has been re-chromed or taken really good care of the Chrysler also has a 413 motor .
I sold it to a guy in the Dallas area a while back so you might see it around there?
Thanks .
Great video, did you have a hard time finding interior parts i.e. seats, dash, center console and glass?
No it is easy to get parts for this car. There are a few places that have them.
Ross Johnson Ik this is from two years ago but would you mind telling me some places? Thx
@@abundantxp3421 Ricks Camaro, Classic Industries I think are two places. You can just about everything for these cars so not hard to find parts.
Ross Johnson thx!
Pls paint the tail pipes
Awww, it makes me sad that you sold it after all that work. I hope nothing bad happened that forced its sale. I still have my old '79; bought it new! ua-cam.com/video/yra6Yd1Zty8/v-deo.html Question, did you color match code 75 red for your '79? I need to get mine painted some day, but no one has the exact color anymore. Thanks!
Thanks Tara - nah just ready to mess with something else. Yes they did match the color from the factory red color. It was a PPG paint shop and they had the old charts and codes. You should be able to get the right color for you car I bet.
Thanks Ross!
should have kept original color
Nice car terrible music