1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode
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- 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode #119
The Camaro was all-new for 1970, and the Z28 is loaded with the also-new LT1 350. The LT1 350 had a higher horsepower rating than the big block, and the Z28's performance tuned suspension was one of the best you could get in '70. This Forrest Green Z is a low-mile car from the Brothers Collection.
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This is my favorite Camaro out of all of them, every year every model. Absolutely perfect!!
doctor zaius me too, 2nd gen Camaros are the prettiest I want a 427 with an L88 hood
I agree.
i concur, doctor.
Why didn't they make a new one with this style. I had a 1973 still one of my favorite cars in my life. Rusted out in 3 years though.
1970 was the best looking Camaro ever. The Z28 is the best trim for 1970. I like the SS too.
I owned a 1970 Camaro. 250 hp stock. We put mild cam, 373 gear in the rear end, Muncie 4 speed. What a blast I had. 20 years old, beautiful, very quick '70 Camaro. Quick silver with black racing stripes. I was young and enjoyed that car. Unfortunately due to marriage, was forced to sell it. Should have kept the car and got rid of the now EX wife. I still have dreams about her....THE CAR THAT IS!
360hp stock
😂😂
8369, I had a 1975 my ex-wife Totaled it
Didnt even get marrtied and lost my cars due to that. They dont pay bills no matter what they promise.
Desperately hanging onto my last one. Any time I heard sell the car or were done...they hit the road car stayed
Ya I was already fixed to say yep I bet you wished you had a kept the truck in the barn lol hey man I know where an old it came green with the white stripes over the top of it 70 or 71z actually two sitting in my buddy's dairy farm cow field
Thank you for sharing. My Dad had a 1971 Z/28 w/posi rear end. Great memories
Awesome video!! However the 1970 Camaro's also had a 375HP 396 option which was in 1970 was actually a 402CID the same engine in the 1965 corvette in 396CID was rated and dyno'd out at 425HP. The had 11 to 1 compression square port heads solid lift cam's. I have had both.
They did, but not the Z28.
@@MuscleCarOfTheWeek Of course, but in the video you claimed the 396/actually 1970 and later 402 was only good for 350hp which is not true, you could order two types of 396's one rated 375 horse per my detailed comments. Of course you couldn't get it in a Z28. I had 396/350HP SS/RS 4sp with every option except PW back in the day, even a vinyl top Ugg. Great Vid and car, I'm 61 and this dark green color looks much better as I get older! Mine was burn't copper white vinyl top green cloth interior, crazy cooler combo, the local dealer ordered at least two in that combo with the 396 4sp. I always wondered whether it was a disgruntled sales manager on his last day trying to stick the dealer with weird stuff that wouldn't sell? LOL
Had the 67 Camaro SS/ 4 speed muncie manual/ 350 V-8 with all the features I could handle... My Dad was a speed shop owner and built race cars ground up oval modifieds to gassers and rails per ordered... He was a Mil Wright and also machined and built engines for whatever specific racing you required or hot rods just to cruise...
I drag raced my Camaro and my 56 Belair, at 14 of age I built my own 327 ci. for my 56, from 67 to 70 and military service duty enjoying each day of ownership...
Note: Cutting others grass from age 11, a 6 days a week thrown paper route from 12 to 16, working for local cotton and soybean farmers in the summers all paid for my cars... Yes my Mom and Dad helped me plus using Dads speed shop tools helped... But my lessons learned were be there for your children but let them earn their own way...
still have both at 67 yrs. old now plus a second 56 Chevy Belair just for Drags...
Thanks Mom and Dad...
I want a race ! I have a 70' Pontiac formula 400 and seeing both together would be a thrill
I used to have a 70,s with 307 engine when I was teen ager , I really enjoy it very much
I owned the exact model and same color etc. Got it for $1800 in the mid-70s. Probably my favorite car ever. I owned about 12 to 15 cars from the 60s- mostly muscle cars.Chevys Fords ,a Buick GS and my only Dodge. 69 to the mid 70s were the best years of my single life ! Also- music from the mid 60s to mid 70s was the best
Got mine for$3300 in 1989, and that sucker was fast!
@@aarongarcia1101 Frame off resto paid 8500 late 80s sold for the same thousands of miles later for the same
Got in so much trouble wiht that thing...lol took me 9 yrs to get a valid license and out of the court system...st racing.
Brings back so many memories
My dad had this car and tuned it to the max could hear him coming and going
I’m torn between the 69 and 70 Camaro as my favorite classic Camaro.
When I was a young lad in the late 80s I purchased a rusty 76 camaro for 750 dollars. And the reason was it was so fast. Well running the numbers it was a 1970 LT1 engine. The rest is history. Had lots of fun beating up 5.0 mustangs left and right with it.
This is a great channel, so informative, I am a big fan of these muscle cars. Wished I owned one of them.
Robert Smith you best get one for yourself... You'll be pissed later in life if you don't...
I'm pulling for you.....
Love the '70 and a half
Z/28. Probably my favorite car. The Forest Green paint of the featured car is spectacular and really accentuates the lines of the intended design.
Had citrus...in the sun that paint popped big time.
@@gordocarbo For sure! Citrus is a great colour, especially if the car has the black stripes, nice contrast.
In the 90s had a frame off Z people thought I was nuts using it as a daily .Yrs later not a nick on it at least I got my fun...sitting in a garage is a joke.
Best driving musclecar I ever owned...love the looks of my 67 rs and 69 SS better but no comparison as far as a road car
Hours at a time on the fwy 3200 rpm with that solid cam humming away. Yes!!
The 70 1/2 is the best Z28 there ever was. But my favorite Camaro ever is a 69 ZL1 COPO
My all time favorite Camaro.
My very first car right after getting my drivers license. I was 17 years old. Given to me by my brother inlaw. It was a 1970 but it was only a 6 cylinder regular Camaro. He used it as a salesman car. But I didn't care, like I said I was only 17 yeara old and totally thrilled by it! So much so 4 years later a bought the real deal Z28. And i had so much fun with it! Good memories indeed!
I love 2nd Gen's they are so sweet
I like this video, My best friend has a Factory Red 70-1/2 RS-SS Factory 4spd Camaro.
Beautiful Camaro I own a 1984 Z /28 it is not to bad but it is not nearly as beautiful as that Camaro. I do get a lot of good comments about it. I am running a 383 small block Chevy with the 7R400 it has a little less than 54.000 miles on the body. I just love the way it drives and handles. I like the looks of the older ones but I just cannot afford one. The one I own I have had for twenty one years now.
Love the first gen styling more, though. This one's sweet, too. And Lord help me, I love the 80s IROC too, one of the only cool cars of that decade.
This guy is an excellent presenter. Super job!
Second favorite model Camaro,right behind the 69 Z28 w/the RS option,those hideaway headlamps made for one wicked looking frontend
If any channel should be in 4k, it's this one. Good stuff.
This gen Z28 is one my favorites of all time.
These were a leap ahead of Chrysler in suspension. Anyway I can't believe this channel doesn't have 100k subscribers yet. Maybe word is slow to get out but come on the cars are some of the rarest and top quality conditioned cars around.
+orange70383 same. i always wondered why the low number of subscribers for this beautiful channel.
Plain and simple. The best looking car ever made, even to this day. The real RS is beautiful
Oh yes! I wish my dad's 71 z28 looked as good as this. Even though we have the full bumper on ours, you still can't argue with the beauty of a split bumper. Keep them coming Muscle Car Of The Week!
I have a 71 Z28 full bumper. But just put a split bumper on it.
@@George-on3zm that’s awesome. My dad has the full bumper
My 1971 Camaro gets my blood pumping like crazy!
One of my favorite cars of all time.
I am 58 years old. My whole life I say a 1960's Jaguar XKE with a V-12, but NO , a 1970 Camaro is the most sexy car of all time. It really is !
They gave it a split bumper to help reduce front end weight.
Great looking example of a really cool and fast vintage car.
I have a 70 LT1. It's from a Corvette, it has the Vette Valve covers. It was in an 80 cutlass my ex had bought back around 91. It was spark knocking, so I pulled it to do a build. I didn't think it was anything special at first. Then when I started disassembly, it had guideplates, screw In studs. Then a windage tray, 4 bolt, forged steel crank. The part store ran the numbers on the Pistons. GM part number for LT-1. It was either 10:1 or 11:1.
I like the 70-73 Trans Am better. Thanks for sharing.
I remember back in the mid 70s when I first became aware of cool cars .a neighbor had a 70 that was white with blue stripes and the first time I saw it fell in love with it! obviously many others did too,i can't even count how many friends and people i knew had one . forget about getting anyone over 3 foot tall in the back seat either. lol! ☆☆☆
I have had 2 70s and a 72 ,great cars sure miss them
You failed to mention in regard to handling and road feel is that the 70 Z went from front steer steering gear in 1st gen Camaro to a rear steer steering gear in the 2nd gen Camaro.
Sweet ride guys! Although it would have been nice to hear the engine idle when you mentioned the cam lift and duration.
I had one back in the late seventies. The cam wasn't very rough but the solid lifters were magical to listen to. You couldn't start it without realizing it was something exotic for the time. They reved forever. Second gear was enough to get you up near 90, if I remember right. There was an edge to everything about it. Suspension, engine, transmission, even the view looking over the stripes on the hood.
Always my favorite year😊
This "sharp" edge at the front and the amazing lines of this car!... It's so beautiful!
These cars un-smogged, when tuned and geared right , would be very hard to beat in the stock wars of the early 70's on the street ..I had tuned one that used a 7 in slicks and Hooker headers thru the real dual mufflers .. ran 12.5's all day long and drive to and from the track.
Absolutely it did. Great car.
a 1969 Z is my favorite but this is a second choice for sure.
Actually, the second gen's wheelbase was slightly shorter than the first gen: 108 inches for gen 2 vs 108.1 for gen 1.
I had a 70 rs Z28. Turbo 400 trans. Added GM angle plug heads. What a bullet proof screamer. Kept for 7 yrs. Wish I kept.
I hope to someday get a muscle car, and that is at the top of my list!
I wish my 71 Camaro looked that good
I think its very beautiful and i really like the eagle beek front end.my best friend at the time had one and he traded it with his freshly built 454 in it for 2 1967 camaros and he sold me my 1967 camaro back then when i was 21 for 1000 dollars.and it cost me everything i had at the time to own it and i have never regreted owning that car except one thing? Selling it after i wrecked it for 1400 dollars because my son was on the way.i look back and wish i would have kept it amd given it to.my son Lance. I know he loved every vehicle i ever had. I live in regret not giving my son a nice ride because now hes died and hed be 21 today december 4th 1997- 2017 one year ago i lost him.and it messed wirh me veey much.selah
Wow, so the power & torque is comparable to my 2022 Cadillac CT5 V Series with 3.0 TT V6. My car weighs in at 4,000 lbs & is actually much quicker off the line to 60 mph. My guess is the lightning fast shifting 10 speed auto with performance gearing in the lower ranges.
I used to own a Z28 like this in Citrus Green w/black stripes. The 4 speed was fun & I loved the aggressive sound!
A white one was my nemesis, when I was street racing my ‘69 Nova SS 350 4spd 4:10 posi
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WHAT STATE YOU LIVED WHAT YEAR
Perfect combo! Z28 and 350!
awesome car, great video... thanks guys
Best looking Camaro of all time.
No doubt 70 RS
Classic Muscle Car 🥇🇺🇸
No front spoilers on 70 Z28's in 71 it was an option when ordering spoiler package
A huge mistake here is that the speaker is not familiar with Big Block Chevys. There were rectangular port and oval port. Rectangular port were much higher performance with 4 bolt mains, forged crank, forged rods and pistons. rectangular intake ports, larger valves, solid lifter camshaft, aluminum intake and Holley 780. He quoted a 396-350 hp as the highest hp engine. That is wrong. Chevy had the L-78, which was 396/402-375 hp. I was at a huge Muscle Car show and there was someone with a '70 1/2 L-78. It was brown and pretty basic, but it had that very special engine.
Z22 code car (RS) for the Z28 which I believe the Z28 is the code for what was supposed to be called the "Camaro Cheetah" Chevy loved the cool sounding code hence the famous Z28 was born.., great video!
Thought it may have been Zorkov Duntov. The old Chevy performance guy from the era.
One of my favourite muscle cars. How would it go if turbocharged?
Too bad I'll never have enough money to admire one of these beauties.
I know a Vietnam vet that bought one after returning home. I don't know what he had against that car but he tortured it mercilessly until it burst into flames and burned to the ground a few years later.
I had a 1971 RS 350 automatic. I loved the car.
I swear though my current 2013 Mazda 6 with a 4 cylinder engine is faster and handles way better. Everything about new cars is way better and way higher quality, but those old American muscle cars were fun.
I love the attentive stance
Yeah they r nice carsmy buddy has one of the RS Z28 70 auto TH400 and with the color is Cortez silver black SS stripes and black interior and 456 in the rear plus a little more that makes it that much of a nice car still mint and dry garage kept .
i bought one new from the factory back in 1970 it came with the 4 speed with a 4 speed council on the floor
This Car is my dream.
Getting this car in yellow, just like Bumblebee in Transformers.
Really nice Camaro. But I like the 1970 SS 396 Camaro's better. I used to own a numbers matching 1970 SS 396 L-78 from 1988-2001. It was featured in Muscle car review back in 1992, I still have mint copies of the Magazine. My present Camaro is the other BB 1970 SS 396 (402 CID) L-34 also numbers matching. Both had headers. The L-78's real HP was 425 HP and my L-34 is 400 hp. With the headers It probably is 430 Hp. Both my BB would beat the Z-28 Camaro.
I'd love to see that race - L78 vs LT1. I think that race would be close with the BB having the HP and TQ advantage while the SB having the weight advantage.
Beautiful design
The 70 TA was such a better looking F body!
Such a sexy car!!
SHE IS GORGEOUS AND HOT CAMARO!!😯😯😍😍😍😍😍
69 70 71 2018 19 20 are the best for me
My dream car.
Please can you guys do a review on a 1974 or 1977 Camaro Z28?!!! You just don’t see those years! Don’t get me wrong I love the 1970 Z28 it would be nice to see those reviewed too! Please and thank you! Great videos!
Paint jobs on cars today were truly authentic! (No peeling plastic coatings)
I doubt you'll see such a review. By those years the HP had plummeted due to reduced compression, emission controls, etc. It's hard to justify reviewing a 16 or 17 second car that ran high 13s just 4 years prior.
Cool car! What's the black box thingy hanging out from the front on the right side?
License plate mount
Sweet!😄
Only 6years ago. Doesn’t take long for hopes and dreams to be crushed 😢
Cool car in its own right, though personally, I always thought the second-gen Firebirds were far prettier.
highwaystar1009
I have to agree but i do love the look of the split bumper camaro's just as much. Didnt care for full bumpers though
Wasn't there something special about the rear spoiler being shorter for the beginning of the 70 run and got taller later in the 70 model year?
+Jeff House -RS used this
Jeff House yes i believe there was a 3 piece spoiler and a solid spoiler. Not sure what the original story is but 1 had problems so they switched to the other
My dream car
Beautiful Kevo
Some had solid lifters some didn’t . The solid lifter cars were incredibly savage and pulled hard into the red. One of the best muscle cars of all time . The big sway bar helped . I will never forget the summer spent tearing down and rebuilding my uncles 70.5 . It was kept as close to original as possible . I think the only thing we changed was adding a msd distributor. Between 3500 and red it was one of the most intense machines I’ve ever been in . Get the feeler gauges out time to do a valve lash .
All the Z28's with the LT1 had solid lifters
@@bluesky-ud9wg not in Canada
@@williamwinslowhansen The actual Z28 with the LT1 were all solid lifter engines. The SS trim was a 300 horse 350 with hydraulic lifters
@@bluesky-ud9wg not in Canada . The hydraulic lifter cars had ten less HP.here.
I owned a 70 camaro , a 70 Z28 and a 70 Z28 RS . All 70 Z28s had solid cam/lifters . My Z28 RS was the same 48 code "forrest green" But had been repainted with black stripes (this was not an option for dark green in 1970 except for citrus green) Mine was a van nuys car , no rust . Automatic T400 , 3.73 , There is nothing that sounds better than a solid lifter motor NOTHING !!
Awesome car. Hideous color interior and exterior.
The LT1 WAS a great motor. But it's lack of torque made it feel like a slug compared to other muscle cars of the day. However, that same lack of torque and the f60 tires and the fact that stock, it could rev to 7000 RPMS, made it very easy to launch even with the 4.10 gears. Thus is was a killer on the street light drags. It just didn't feel very quick.
Badass
SO WHICH WAS FASTER THIS 1970 Z/28 OR THE 70 TRANS-AM 400 OR THE 71 TRANS AM 455 HO?
Nice
My old man had one the same color as this one but his was RS /SS with the LT1 i wish he could have kept it
Worked for me!
Hey your wearing shorts thats new. sweet camaro i really liked this generation
I would like to see a dyno in today’s form of what the horsepower really is. Most likely, it’s less than what was originally advertised.
Churchill, sorry to disappoint, but the HP rating was pretty accurate if you used the old gross HP rating process:
czcams.com/video/AjJSK5sLOeE/video.html
Nice Car
Underrated for insurance purposes, more like 400 HP LT1
Without a doubt they made 400 hp
NICE CAR!!!
Yes the LT1 was rated at 360hp but it actually dynoed at 425hp
Can you quote a source for the 425 HP? I know GM was known to fudge numbers, but 65 HP underrating seems a bit extreme. 360 HP for the 350 seems pretty accurate as compared to 290 for the 302 for example.
Cool car
I love the Gen 2 Camaros I had one high school but sadly it was a 72 and it didn't have any real power I've always been upset that the 70 Camaro never gets the credit that it's due I think that's mainly because of the one-off Year 69 that everybody loves well most people anyway but in my opinion the handling and yes even the looks are better in a 1970
Plus Gm had big problems with mfg. the sheet metal they had to retool because of cracks in the body so they extended production of the 69' Camaro , hence the 70 1/2 Camaro and that hurt sales but they were soo much better than the first gen because they were built on their own platform with better steering and suspension whereas the first gen used the Nova platform , beautiful cars in both looks and performance
My neighbor traded his 66 Chevelle 396 for a new 70 Camaro, 350, 3 on the floor. Go figure.
Bob Bob I too am guilty of changing cars frequently when I was young. I love Chevelles but the chance to trade up to a newer year back then did have its pluses. That 3 speed would have been gone quick though.
The 1970 Camaro SS 396 (L-34 and L-78) were not 4,000 pounds they were about 3,750 pounds with no AC. I owned both of them.
The wheel base is the same as 1st gen 108inch my super sport book says they were on the show room February 15th of 1970