Welcome to A1 Auto Restoration. We are a family owned and operated auto restoration business and shop located in Russia, Ohio. Leroy (grandad) opened for business in 1938, We've been restoring and rebuilding mopar musclecars, chevrolet musclecars, ford musclecars, pontiac musclecars, olds musclecars, and classic cars since. Auto Restoration is not just a job to us, it is a way of life for my family. We will not sacrifice quality for quantity. Every auto restoration job we do is an important job, wether it is a small auto restoration job or a full blown project. We will take the time to work with you. When you choose to restore a classic car, or musclecar, choose an auto restoration business that will care as much as you do. Choose a family owned 3rd. Generation auto restoration business.
Many auto restoration shops, services and businesses are forgetting about quality when restoring your classic, muscle car, and vintage automobile. We use the best products offered and take our time doing the work correctly. We strip every project to the bare metal, blast all jambs and hard to reach areas of the body. All sheetmetal has the rust cut out and new metal welded in were needed. All dings and dents are worked over and hammered out, very little filler used. Once the sheet metal work is done we then Epoxy prime all the bare metal and let cure. Once the epoxy cures and is scuffed down again, we then apply the filler if any is needed for smaller blemishes left from the sheet metal repair. We will then block the filler and proceede with another rust preventer primer. ( Your muscle car, classic, and vintage car will be protected by 2 types of rust prevention primer.) that is also block sanded when cured. This leaves us with the 2K primer sealer to be applied. (grey) This is also blocked down and applied in several coates as needed. The clean sheet metal has been repaired and protected several times. Plus, we will spray your classic, muscle car or vintage with a top of the line paint, Glasurit base coate clear coate, unless you want something else. The paint is then ultra fined (1000 grit, 1200 grit, 2000 grit pad) then buffed to a mirror shine. Flawless. We can leave a little orange peel like the factory would have or we can give you a mirror shine like a painted piece of glass. The choice is yours. Please browse our auto restoration web site, if you like what you see and read, Please feel free to contact us for a free evaluation of your muscle car, classic car or vintage automobile.
For muscle car restoration, a leading mopar auto restoration shop, muscle car restoration, classic car restoration, vintage car restoration, sports car restoration, whatever type you may have we are here to build your dream cars. Whatever it takes. Since 1938.
The Chevrolet Camaro: Then, and Now
As pony cars go, the Chevrolet Camaro was among the last to arrive at the ball. Rushed into production for the 1967 model year in order to compete with Ford's successful Mustang, it didn't join the party until four years after the pony car trend had begun. Forty years later, on the heels of a 2005 splash made by a redesigned Ford Mustang that reached sales figures of 200,000, Chevrolet is offering a new Camaro –or at least – it's been hinting at such an offer. The concept version of the new car was introduced at the North American International Auto Show in 2006, and the first images were released last year, but with GM among those corporations suffering from the current economy the 2010 Chevy Camaro may not show up on time. Even so, it's worth a look back, to compare what was to what will be.
Created as a direct competitor of the Ford Mustang, the original 1967 Chevrolet Camaro scored more than 220,000 sales in its first year. It was offered, at the time as soft-top convertible or hardtop coupe, in three different trims: the Rally Sport (RS), Super Sport (SS) and Z28. The standard engine was a 140-horsepower, 230 cubic-inch inline six-cylinder, but there was an available upgrade to a 327 cubic-inch V8 with 210 horsepower. Optional engines included:
155-hp 250 cubic-inch inline six
275-hp 327 cubic-inch V8
290-hp 302 cubic-inch V8 (for the Z28 only)
295-hp 350 cubic-inch V8 (the Chevy small-block)
325-hp 396 cubic-inch V8
375-hp 396 cubic-inch V8
By 1968, the Camaro had proved to be popular with racers and consumers alike, winning that year's Trans-Am championship. The performance oriented Z28 became more widely available, and all Camaros received minor cosmetic changes and the option to upgrade to four-wheel disc brakes.
The Camaro of 1969 had updated styling that made one of the best looking cars to ever bear the name, with revisions to the fenders and quarter panels, changed to the front and rear, and a new dashboard, but it only lasted for a year, and the 1969 Camaro became the last so-named car for two decades. At the same time, the Z28s equipped with high-revving 302 cubic-inch V8's had their horsepower rated at 350, and the 1969 Camaro Coupes became early-1970 models as well, when the second generation of cars was delayed to February, 1970.
Jump forward to 2006: the Camaro returns, and is introduced at NAIAS, with a projected production date of 2010.
Like the original the modern Camaro will be offered in three trims, with the LS and LT joining the more familiar SS, and, like their F-bodied predecessors from 1967 it will come in both six-cylinder and V8 versions. Camaro aficionados will, no doubt, prefer the 6.2-liter, 422, horsepower V8 SS, but the V6 is hardly a bad bet with its 300 hp output, and insuring your new car will undoubtedly be cheaper with the V6 model.
Don't resurrect your mullet hairdo just yet, though: GM recently announced that it was putting the 2010 Camaro "on hold" because of economic conditions. When might we see it? At this point, nothing is certain.
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