Greetingks from the UK

[March Hare]

Hi Guys,

Recently found your website and with the ammount of information on it I wish I had found it sooner.

There is a good number of Camaros here in the Uk but unfortunately the V6's are not favoured so much as the big brother V8 even though the there are probaly more V6's than there are V8's. Anyway good to find a websited for us.

I have had my Camaro for 15 months now and it still puts a smile on my face every time I drive it. In the seventies and eighties I had a 1965 289 Mustang a 1964 Impala and a 1978 Firebird, then I went to work in the Middle East and drove all americar cars and trucks which were available at that time so I have plenty of experience in driving amaerican cars. But the Camaro is the best of them all.

Ok mines a 1999 model Coupe T-top EU spec. It was sold new in the UK in May 2001 and I'm the second owner. It has done just over 50,000 miles and is all original except for a Magnaflow cat back exhaust which I have just had fitted. If I knew what I know now ffrom this website I would not have gone with the Magnaflow as it didn't fit and modifications had to be done to get it to fit correctly so now I am fighting with Magnaflow who wil not admit that there is a problem with this system.

Have posted a few pics of the car. Look forward to getting involved on the site

Cheers Gerry

[2.8 Bird]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

When I was in UK I didn't see any Fbodies there. I was there for quite awhile too. I saw a lot Ford Focus and a couple of Mustangs and one Vette.

Many of the streets there are too small for Fbodies.

Glad to know you got one.

[March Hare]

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You would be surprised by the number of America cars are in the uk.

The Corvett club just had their National show and there were over 400 Corvetts plus over 150 other American cars. It was quite a site seeing so many corvetts in one place.

Check out this website for Camaro's if you haven't already.

http://www.classiccamaroclubuk.com/phpBB3/index.php

Cheers Gerry

[bigairboarder44]

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Welcome man, clean car. :wavey:

[firebirdn]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

Welcome to the site! Nice clean car.

[2.8 Bird]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

You would be surprised by the number of America cars are in the uk.

The Corvett club just had their National show and there were over 400 Corvetts plus over 150 other American cars. It was quite a site seeing so many corvetts in one place.

Check out this website for Camaro's if you haven't already.

http://www.classiccamaroclubuk.com/phpBB3/index.php

Cheers Gerry

That's awesome.

Welcome btw.

[nimrod.sixty9]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

Welcome! Neat to see all the Euro spec safety items added to the Camaro. Not sure if Im a fan of it exactly, but the car itself looks amazing! Very clean.

[unvmyrs]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

Welcome. You're not the only one here from the UK. The gentleman by the user name of pbryant knight is a UK camaro owner and a nice guy with a cool pace car clone.

[March Hare]

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Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I know what you mean about the Euro specs. The mirrors and the seats without the built in headrests are my two beefs but I can't do anything about that and I do wan't to keep it as original as possible.

pbryant knight wa the person who told us about this website on our website here in the UK, and yes he does have a nice car.

Cheers Gerry

[LETZRIDE]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

lets see a picture of the whole rear of the car? I think your bumpers are different than ours?

[ssms5411]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

His rear bumper is different , lights are on the rear of the bumper instead of the sides.

[Everglades W68]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

Very nice!

The mirrors are the most noticeable difference - they don't blend into the body like the domestic F bodies. There must be a UK requirement for larger / different mirrors.

[March Hare]

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Yea there's a number of differences.

Door mirrors here have to fold, that's why they look so ugly and don't blend in.

The seat headrests must be adjustable for different height people.

We have to have rear and front Fog lights.

We have to have direction repeaters on the side

EU glass is a different standard so all the glass is different but what that difference is I don't know.

Number plates are different shape and size, again ugly.

That's all the exteior stuff I can think of.

Here's a few more pics.


Cheers Gerry

[ssms5411]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

Looks good.

[Everglades W68]

Re: Greetingks from the UK

Nice pictures; nice car!