Several years ago when I stilled worked at the St.Catharines engine plant we made the corvette motor. 2 members of upper management though it would be great to have a Camaro with a vette engine built and documented at the factory. Kind of a modern day copo. They spent months having 3 motors built to very tight specs. Since the vette motor was stored in a separate area it was easy for them to have these motors set aside for special attention. Hours were spent weighing the pistons to get all the same weights and so on. One saturday the motors were loaded on a small van and sent to Oshawa to be installed in the Camaros they had ordered. The 2 St. Catharines management went down the line as the motors were getting installed and got any documentation that they could get. To make a long story short they were caught when the motors would not fit because they never changed out the vette motor mounts. Both were fired but the one got back. Not sure what he did to get back. Anyway the point of this story was 3 complete documented motors were sent to be installed but only 2 came back. Rumour has it the guys on the line changed the mounts on one of the motors and it was installed before the crap hit the fan. Might be one special Camaro out there still. They said the 2 management guys were going to try and sell these cars as modern day copos. with factory documentation in a hand .Too bad they got caught. Would have liked to see what they were worth.
If I remember right this would be in the 2000s. I can remember a few "special order" engines we built and were shipped to places other than Bowling Green so yours might just be one of these special cars. When we were still a foundry late 70s I can remember melting down several skids of big block "hi performance" heads that were stored in one of the sub basements. These were machined bare castings. Almost made you cry.
I worked in Oshawa Car Assembly for 30 years, I have seen and built some pretty rare cars there that were not "officially built" or "you didn't see that engine go in that car did you" Nope! It was pretty cool to see some older impalas that were not to see the road. I am sworn to secrecy :)
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I worked in Oshawa Car Assembly for 30 years, I have seen and built some pretty rare cars there that were not "officially built" or "you didn't see that engine go in that car did you" Nope! It was pretty cool to see some older impalas that were not to see the road. I am sworn to secrecy :)
But if these cars were documented as built by and at a G.M. plant im sure they would be worth a chunk of change....
I worked in Oshawa Car Assembly for 30 years, I have seen and built some pretty rare cars there that were not "officially built" or "you didn't see that engine go in that car did you" Nope! It was pretty cool to see some older impalas that were not to see the road. I am sworn to secrecy :)
I started my apprenticeship at the North plant, and remember about a dozen 350 engines coming into the docks. These were to be used for the prototype IROC cars that were all built there in the experimental building. This was around 1985 if I recall.
"my" 87 IROC T TOP had a L98 Corvette engine could that have been the one?? 