Camino LS6

In the wagon, the tank is mounted inside the driver's rear quarter panel - totally different than El Camino, coupe and sedan.

The gas gauge in the wagon hasn't ever worked, and I really want to fix it before I drive the car again. The number one suspect , of course, is the fuel tank sending unit. They are available for every bodystyle of '73-'77 Chevelle/El Camino.... except the wagon. Let's hope it's a bad wire...

Balthy: I've heard you rave about Buick's drums before, they must really be something. Every car I've ever had with front drums was a nightmare as far as brakes went. I don't miss front drums - at all.

Confirmed. Disc first offered on Chevelle in '67, made standard in '73.

Exactly. I should clarify a bit before I get called on it. Big block Chevelles got standard front disc (I think in '67 or'68), but base cars retained the front drum into the 70s. Not sure when discs became standard across the lineup (probably '73).

Yes It was only an option on the TA and Z. As for the front they did not have drum front since 1969. GM converted them in 1970. It was an option in 69 Exactly why I questioned what you said in the original post. I knew front disc was made standard on Chevelles back then , so I was sure it had to be the same with Camaro. And, I had never seen any 2nd gen with front drums - even base cars.

Ah, ok, you are talking rear drums - that explains things. I got the impression that you were indicating drums up front as well. Even on Z28s and T/As the rears were still an option.

Cool. Sure would like to see it from other angles.

There's a black '75 just down the street from me for sale.

Yeah, a HUGE improvement over the '74-'77 cars, even if they fall quite short of the '70-'73s.

Couple of points: - Decent writeup there, Hyper. - '81 isn't exactly a legendary year... - Are you sure this thing had drum brakes? I very much doubt it. - Buy the man the right speedo gear so it reads true! - This car would not be indicative of the best of F-body handling (even in '81). The equipment just isn't there on a base car.

Waiting for pics. That's a most unusual Camaro for an '81.

No, no he isn't.

It's critical that the lane be plowed and kept open these days, and if the ROPOS coughs up its last in the middle of January - I'm screwed. That, and the fact that I need a truck I can actually drive places, makes this a must do.

That truck is one of my least favorite years, but it sure is clean!

Okay, now I want to know the context where that quote came from! This is an easy one for me, there is no contest. Firehawk. Not just any Firehawk either, but an LT4 Firehawk. Extremely rare and collectible right out of the box, and commanding quite the premium today.

I quit plowing commercially a few years back, Horse. So, there is really no income from that source to balance any loan. And, we aren't talking about 2k here - there is a huge gap between the 3-5k trucks and those at 10k and up where there just isn't much of anything for sale. The pickings are oddly slim. If I get that close, I'll find a way to make things happen - but it just hasn't been like that. On both the high end and the low, the trucks for sale are mostly overpriced junk.

Minus the cost of getting the wagon squared away and the Tahoe itself puffed up. Not really enough to get what I'm after, but closer.

That would be the nightmare scenario.

You guys have all been unwilling witnesses to my fruitless search for a decent plow truck, and distractions with more interesting stuff as I look for ways to get things rolling on my personal automotive front. Sorry about that if it transferred my frustration into yours! When is he going to freakin' buy something?!! Well, maybe not until I sell my daily driver Tahoe. I'm unlikely to find what I'm looking for within budget, so that means I have to find a way to increase the budget, and selling the Tahoe is probably the most effective move I can make on that front. Of course that means I have to push the wagon back into service for a while which I hadn't planned on. Getting the wagon back on the road again and legal won't take all that much, and I don't have too much I want to do to the Tahoe to get it ready either. So, this may be the way to get things going. The risk, of course, is that every day I don't find a plow truck moves me closer to having to buy one at the yearly peak of value. That's not a great situation to be in, but other options look thin.

Where did you find this, Ocn?

This fixes one thing I've always hated about the CDV - the "formal" roofline. This is nice and sleek.

Double. It's out of the question right now.

I'm just going to have to try a different tack on all of this. Maybe buy something cool that I can drive now while I sell the Tahoe, and maybe flip later. I don't know, but something has to start happening, I hate inertia.