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When my brother and I were young, my Dad said, "Boy's when you go to high school, you could have this car". We went to high school, graduated, and we still do not have access to this car. There is nothing special about this car. It only has an AM radio with one speaker (located in the middle of the front dash). The antenna is located in the front windshield so don't bother to try to pick up a station because you will not get any. The car does have power steering, but it does not have power brakes. The car only goes to car shows and is displayed in its original condition. Everybody else who shows their cars at car show, add a bunch of chrome and other stuff to their car.
If you look at any part of the car, it looks the same as it did when it came off of the factory floor back in 1971. The only thing that is not original are the rims. The rims that are currently displayed on the car came of a 1981 Buick Regal. The car only has 39,000 miles on it.
The story started when my brother, Anthony, slid our '81 Buick into a sidewalk. (Just a month before that, my dad toke the hub caps off and trade them with the 81 Buick). From then on, everywhere we went in the Buick, we had to keep a rubber mallet in the back seat so we could pound the hubcaps back on after they fell off. If you hit a bump and you were going faster then 10 miles an hour, at least two will fall off. Every time we drove on top of Bridgeport Hill, one will fall off for no particular reason. Tony suggested that there must be some short of magnetically force field on Bridgeport Hill which just plucks them off.
One day, I was coming back from my grandparents house, and I was just driving along and I heard this, "skek, . . .skek . . . skek . . skek . skek. skek, skek". I looked out my passenger mirror and I could see my right hubcap bouncing next to me. It then shot behind the Buick, bounce across the grass median, and hit a van coming in the opposite lane at 55 m.p.h. The grass median that this hubcap went across was about 20 feet wide. It hit the on-coming van, right between the headlights. Let remind you that these hubcaps were built in 1971, and back then they were made out of steel. They weighed a good fifteen - twenty pounds, not to mention it was probably traveling around 35 mph at impact. There was some great momentum behind this hubcap. After I saw the hubcap hit the van, I was in complete shock. Should I pull off of the road, or should I keep going? Well, I pulled off the road. The van did not pull over; instead he just stopped in the middle of the highway and then took off. The first thing that went through my mind was, "YES, I don't have to pay for his damage." I stayed there for about three minutes to see if the guy will turn around and come back up the highway, he never did. Then, I decided to get out and get the hubcap. I ran across four lanes of traffic, grabbed the hubcap, ran back to my car and placed it in the trunk. Just then a Clarksburg Police officer pulled up in front of me and asked me why I was pulled off the road. I stated what happened and he just laughed. When I showed him the hubcap, he just laughed harder. Instead of having the "O" shape, it looked like the letter "D".
The data in bold corresponds to the type of Camaro that we have. This car has a rare 3-speed in it.
wheelbase: 108.0
Width: 74.4
Height: 50.5
Weight: 3313
Engines
disp carb HP Torque C/R Add Weight
307 2bbl Roch 200@4600 300@2400 8.5 0
350 2bbl Roch 245@4800 350@2800 8.5 0
350 4bbl Roch 270@4800 360@3200 8.5 0
350 4bbl Holley 330@5600 360@4000 9.0 0
402 4bbl Roch 300@4800 400@3200 8.5 100 lbs?
Note: BHP figures are gross. I believe that if you multiply by .8 you get a fairly close approximation of net HP.
1971 CAMARO
PRODUCTION
6 cylinder coupe- 11,178
8 cylinder coupe-103,452
Total production-114,630
ENGINE CODES
250-145-I6 CAB auto
CAA mt
307-200 CCA auto & mt
350-245 L65 CGA mt
CGB powerglide
CGC th350
350-270 L48 CGL & CJD th350
(SS350) CGK & CJG 4 speed
350-330 Z28 CGP 4 speed
CGR th400
402-300 CLA 4 speed
(SS396) CLB th400
The 1971 Camaro received a different front seat from the 1970. It was a high back bucket like the Vega seat. The Z28 retained the 6500 RPM red line. A front spoiler was added to the D80 package. Both the short, one piece rear spoiler and the tall, 3 piece spoiler and the taller 3 piece were available again for 1971, but most 1971 cars had the 3 piece. Engine compression was down from 1970 so all engines would use regular grade gasoline. A UAW strike stopped production of the 1971 from Sept-Nov 1970 (See story at bottom). The 12 bolt rear end was no longer used in the Camaro.
1971 OPTIONS # MADE
AK1 Belts, Custom Deluxe 16,922
AS4 Belts, Rear Shoulder 99
A01 Tinted glass on all windows 67,250
A02 Tinted windshield only 751
B37 Floor mats 22,576
B93 Door edge guards 33,124
C08 Vinyl roof 38,329
C24 Hideaway wipers (included with SS & RS) 30,488
C50 Rear window defroster 8,794
C60 Air conditioning 42,537
D34 Vanity mirror 5,522
D35 Remote LH mirror (included with SS & Z28) 40,684
D55 Center floor console 72,656
D80 Front & rear spoiler 6,489
F41 Performance suspension (included with Z28 & SS396) 10,975
G80 Positraction (included with Z28) 11,753
J50 Power brakes (included with SS & Z28) 41,630
LS3 Engine 396-300hp (SS) 1,533
L48 Engine 350-270hp (included with SS) 6,843
L65 Engine 350-245hp 2bbl V8 34,017
M20 4 speed (Includes Muncie & Saginaw) 7,603
M21 4 speed close ratio 1,721
M22 4 speed "rock crusher" 1,290
M35 Powerglide transmission 13,446
M38 Turbo 350 75,139
M40 Turbo 400 2,402
NK2 Custom Steering wheel 621
NK4 4 spoke steering wheel 6,216
N33 Tilt steering 8,734
N40 Variable ratio power steering 93,163
PL3 E78-14 tires 55,834
PL4 F70-14 white letter tires (included with SS) 20,457
PM7 F60-15 white letter tires (Z28) 4,862
PY4 F70-14 white stripe tires 24,579
P01 Wheel covers 55,363
P02 Special wheel covers 1,809
T60 Heavy duty battery 5,168
U14 Special instrumentation (gauge package) 12,174
U35 Clock 10,338
U63 AM radio 95,776
U69 AM-FM radio 13,310
U76 Windshield antenna (included with radio) 112,403
U80 Rear seat speaker 20,018
VF3 Deluxe bumpers 1,309
V01 Heavy duty radiator (included with Z28) 1,594
YD1 Trailering axle ratio 130
ZJ7 Rally wheel 14x7 34,604
ZJ9 Auxiliary lighting (ash, hood, trunk, glove, courtesy) 6,323
ZQ9 Performance ratio axle (Z28 only) 1,294
Z21 Style trim group 38,161
Z22 Rally Sport 18,408
Z23 Interior accent group 32,411
Z27 Super Sport 8,377
Z28 Special performance package 4,862
Z87 Custom interior 11,643
1971 COLORS
Exterior Interior Vinyl Top
11 Antique white 775 Black-standard A White
13 Nevada silver 776 Blue-standard B Black
19 Tuxedo black 778 Green-standard C Blue
24 Ascot blue 779 Saddle-standard F Dark brown
26 Mulsanne blue 777 Sandlewood-standard G Green
42 Cottonwood green 785 Black-custom
43 Lime green 786 Black with blue-custom
49 Antique green 787 Black w/ green-custom
52 Sunflower yellow 792 Black w/ saddle-custom
53 Placer gold 789 Black w/ white-custom
61 Sandlewood
62 Burnt orange
67 Classic copper
75 Cranberry red
78 Rosewood
1971 DIFFERENTIAL CODES
(stamped on front of passenger side axle tube)
Posi Non-posi
2.73 CA GZ
3.08 GY GX
3.42 CJ CK
3.73 CG
4.10 CB
From John Z. DeLorean's book Delorean.
In 1971 we had a strike at the Norwood, Ohio, assembly plant that left hundreds of Camaros on the line in the middle of production. This was a period of tightening pollution and safety standards, and compliance was federally mandated for all 1972 standards. The government would not allow cars manufactured after September 1, 1971, to be sold without meeting the new 1972 standards. When the strike was over, the on-line cars were completed to 1971 standards but after the law had gone into effect. They could not be sold without modifications, and it was too costly to modify them.
Three options: Rebuild the cars to 1972 standards, scrap them and absorb the loss, or give the to a trade and high schools so students could take them apart as a mechanic's training experience.
The decided to ship them to Canada where safety and smog restrictions were not so severe. However when word got out, Canadian public was extremely unfavorable. In the end, they were giving to mechanic classes and GMC took a tax write-off.
