Vehicle Description
The Best Muscle Cars is Proud to offer this rare L30 68 Camaro
California Car !Powered by the original 327 /275 hp with an M20 4
speed transmission and factory 12 bolt rear. Custom ordered in
Verduro green the Pontiac color famous on GTO's this Camaro runs
and drives as it should. The 1967 RPO (regular production option)
combination of the L30 327ci-275HP V8 engine with the M20 4-speed
manual transmission created a true high-performance automobile, in
part due to additional components automatically installed by the
factory when the 4-speed was paired with the L30 engine. The
details of this package were poorly documented and essentially
unadvertised; probably only the most discerning people of the era
realized the implications. The writers and editors of period car
enthusiast magazines rarely delved deeper into available options
than the basic promotional literature supplied by Chevrolet, and
the Chevrolet marketers preferred to emphasize the SS models, or
later, the Z28. Serious racers considered the SS and Z28 to be only
starting points, with further modifications required to meet their
needs. So it was not well-known (and still isn't3) that the L30/M20
Camaro was the only regular production 1967-68 Camaro outside of
the SS/Z28 models to receive the heavy-duty "12-bolt" rear-end,
right-side radius rod (in 1967), and multi-leaf rear springs (in
1968), as well as additional performance equipment otherwise
exclusive to the SS or Z28 lines. The potential for model confusion
is understandable since, without this knowledge, a L30/M20 could
easily be mistaken for a SS-350 stripped of ornamentation (if the
327 was mistaken for a 350), or, if the 327ci engine was recognized
as such, the L30/M20 could be considered evidence of a factory
SS-327.