Is this what I think it is???

[thehueypilot]

No, we are not part of the 1957 Chevy project as Tri-5 cars are not our market. As for the comment about another chinese muscle car...Virtually all of the Camaro body shells sold, that weren't damaged in shipping, have been built into cars and there have been no issues with either quality or workmanship.

What? Where is this being built at?

 

[180 Out]

Here's a link to the Camaro being discussed.
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/dynacorn-first-gen-camaros-86089.html?highlight=dynacorn+camaro
If it's going to be done it should be done right.

I read the linked thread and it does not mention a Year One Camaro. It does mention the Camaro vert that Lou and Jared -- the original hosts of the show -- built on the Spike TV Muscle Car show.

I really disagreed with their approach, which was to make the skin perfect. This meant using a ton of filler skim coats. That's what I would not do. What's the point, to start with all new sheet metal then give it a second skin of plastic? For example, at every seam -- door-to-quarter, hood-to-fender -- you naturally get a dip in the sheet metal on each side of the seam. Look at any unrestored survivor, the way it reflects the light, and you'll see this. But the Muscle Car guys decided to go for an over-restored glass-smooth look. Jared -- who learned his stuff working on one-off six-figure show cars at Rad Rides by Troy -- piled on a layer of bondo to fill the valley at the hood-to-fender seam. Then he used a pneumatic die grinder to cut the seam open. Same deal at the door edges: a layer of bondo. That filler's going to chip and fall off on the ground the first time you tap something with your door edge.

I read the stories in Hot Rod, too, about their Dynacorn '69 Camaro vert. Was this the "Year One" car too? Because they bought a ton of stuff from Year One to finish the car. I don't recall any criticisms of the unibody in the Hot Rod stories. Don't tell me it's because they did not want to offend advertisers Year One or Dynacorn unless you have something other than cynicism to back it up. Hot Rod did not do the Rad Rides treatment. The Hot Rod car is the way I would do it, or maybe buy a donor car for all the bits and pieces they bought new.

I'm pretty excited about these new unibodies. Rust repair -- or in my case rust denial -- is the least appealing part of the old car hobby. It's enough to make you think about late models, if only they weren't so tangled up in government regulation that you can hardly open the hood without breaking some law or other. Dynacorn deserves only praise for stepping up to the plate. Unique Performance too, for that matter, who only buys the most needy cores, strips them out completely, and brings them back to something that someone can use and enjoy. Free enterprise means people are free to buy what they want and to produce what will make money for them. Free speech means people are free not to like those products. I guess it also means people are free to spend their lunch hour writing rambling posts, which I just did and now I'm going to stop.