Originally Posted by Tyler Wolcott (Post 65575)

Back to that dual carb setup, I was once told that you did not need that, because those engines were capable of blowing up with just a single carb.

PS. do you know what Z/28 Stands for........ Two Tires Spinning @ 8000 RPM :D

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland (Post 65430)

Wrongo, Bob. I worked at a Chevrolet dealership in 1969 and was best friends with the owners. The cowl hood was an option on all 4-bbl equipped Camaros after 10-1-68, including Z28s. It was spec'ed as a required option with the Pace Car package and the COPO 427 cars, but never a "standard equipment" piece on anything. It's like a four-speed transmission. The Z28 option required ordering a four-speed and front disc brakes, but they were not part of the Z28 option. The Z28 code option only included the special engine, special suspension pieces, HD rear axle, HD cooling and the badging. The cowl hood option was not required on the Z28. Its option code was ZL2.

In the period between 1969 and 1973, I owned a '69 SS 396-325 with a cowl hood and the spoiler package, a standard '69 Camaro 350-255hp with the cowl hood option (Wierd car. It had a four-speed, disc brakes, 12-bolt w/posi, then a single exhaust. The original owner special ordered the car but didn't realize that the regular gas engines all came with a single exhuast system.), a '69 coupe with the Pace Car package, 350-300 hp which required the cowl hood option, a couple of cowl hood optioned Z28s, and a '69 SS 396-375 with the cowl hood package. I also owned a late-July 1969 built Z28 with a flat hood, a December '68 built 1969 Z28 with a flat hood and no positraction (dumb!), a '69 SS 396-350 hp with the standard SS hood and a '69 307 PG standard car with a flat hood. All were original production equipped cars.

The cowl hood was a 1969 year option only.

The short '68 style spoiler was never factory installed. There was a supplier problem shortly after the '69s were introduced because the spoiler package was so popular and the demand exceeded the supply. Many dealers responded by installing the '67-'68 spoilers, which were available, to satisfy the buyers.

The cowl hood has always been such a popular item and so many have been installed on early Camaros that the production availability facts have been blurred in time.

Those are the facts.

Dwight Southerland

Originally Posted by Chevy454 (Post 65504)

Someone built that car (either your buddy or the dealer): you couldn't combine the Z/28 package with the SS package, so you couldn't have a Z/28 option on an L78 car...Z/28 was more than trim, as it included 15" rally wheels and special Z suspension...and the only big block cars to get Z wheels/suspension were the COPO 9737 Camaros (had to have the COPO 9561 427 to be able to get COPO 9737). Also, no gold stripes from factory...only white/black/red, unless it was a pace car which got orange).