- coupe
- 23,367 below average
- 12,500 great
- Placerville, CA
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- epage.com
- 23,367 below average coupe
equipped with nearly every factory optionChevrolet offered in 1968. The first things people notice on this car is the unique nose stripe, which unbeknown to most wasactually a factory option introduced in mid to late '68 production. It is the RPO D-88 Multi Colored Nose Stripewhich was pictured in the second issued 1968 Camaro dealer brochure. The car in the brochure was a red RS with thisidentical stripe - colors and all. In all my research, this stripe never made it to production due to thecomplexity of painting the 5 color band. But it was believed to have been factory installed a few Camaro's to beused as GM promotional cars. These promotional cars were all supposedly loaded up Big Block convertibles, like thisone. As stated before, the paint on this car is mostly original (has had a few areas touched up here and there overthe years), but the nose of the car and the stripe appears to 1968 original! All that said, this may be the onlyoriginal example of this option existing in the world! Now, about the options. Yes, it has virtually every option em all! Here is a summary.... This is truly a RARE Camaro, no doubt. So, here is my history with it....... I originally purchased this car in 1996 from a man near St Paul Minnesota, after seeing it in Hemmings Motor News. The car was described in a non-photo ad as a 'RS/SS convertible, red, V/8, many options'.... and I paid a whopping$16,000 sight unseen. I kept the car for almost a year before deciding my wife and newborn son needed a minivaninstead of a Big Block RS/SS Camaro convertible. So along came the Chrysler Town and Country (ohh, a beauty forsure in fairway green with tan leather - LOL), and away went my dream Camaro. I offered it for sale and it didn'ttake but a week or two to sell it. But it wasn't long after sneaking in a few Camaro books (while I was supposedto be reading Dr Suess) that I read an article about the odd (if not ugly) front 'stripe'...... it was actually anoriginal Chevrolet option (almost). I guess, as the story goes, it was a bit to difficult to paint in production,so it was cancelled almost as quickly as it was announced. And I sold one that may have had one of these original,pre-production stripes!?! Seriously, I let this unique and potentially ultra rare Camaro get away - for aMINIVAN!?!!! Power Windows✔ AM/FM✔ Cruise Control✔ Air Conditioning✔ Sport Package
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