Vehicle Description
1978 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 - Pro Street (Please note: If you happen
to be viewing this 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 on a website other
than our Garage Kept Motors site, it's possible that you've only
seen some of our many photographs of the car due to third-party
website limitations. To be sure you access all the more than 155
photographs, as well as a short start-up and walk-around video,
please go to our main website: Garage Kept Motors.) David
Freiburger, the Editor In Chief of HOT ROD and HOT ROD Deluxe, on
the definition of Pro Street: A Pro Street car must be drag-racing
oriented and have wheel tubs under the back end that allow for
oversized, very wide tires to be fit under the stock body. That's
fact. As for my opinion, a Pro Street car is typically also stock
bodied and ostensibly street driven. When the style originated in
the mid to late '70s, it was inspired by the NHRA drag racing Pro
Stock class of the mid '70s, hence where the 'Pro' in Pro Street
came from. Scott Sullivan's Nova that debuted at the 1979 Car Craft
Street Machine Nationals is often cited as the first Pro Street
car, but the look was used earlier on street-driven cars that used
actual Pro Stock suspension setups.... Offered here is a 1978
Camaro Z28 Pro Street build in brown over black. Showing 72,623
miles on its odometer, or fewer than 1,700 miles per-year since
new, it's been a lightly used Camaro. Of course, the most exciting
of those miles were accumulated in quarter-mile increments since
the Pro Street build was completed. The Z28's copper-brown-metallic
custom exterior paint is the work of professionals. The color
flashes hints of bronze in different lighting situations. The
finish is evenly glossy across the car, including the high-rise,
cowl-induction hood, with some light patina on the front bumper.
Wide, Z28-style, hood- and rear-deck stripes in a ghosted execution
are a subtle highlight. There is no damage to any sheet metal. (To
best assess the quality of the paint and trim finishes, be sure to
view the close-up photographs of the car in the accompanying
gallery.) Matte-black front grilles, headlight trim, and rear
valance inset add a purposeful look. Cabin glass and all stock
lighting lenses are clear and free of cracks. A sole Z28 emblem is
present on the rear (so competing cars will know for sure what car
they just lost to). Weld Racing® 8-hole, chrome, dish-style wheels
are mounted with Kelly® all-season radials 165/R15 86S in front
with Mickey Thompson ET Street P275/60 racing slicks in the rear.
CalTracs® traction bars are mounted on the rear axle. Inside, the
stock Z28 look in black has been largely maintained with the
addition of performance equipment, instrumentation, and controls.
Seat upholstery in vertically pleated black vinyl is in very good,
damage-free condition with some looseness from age. Black door trim
echoes the seat-upholstery design, and black carpeting (with rubber
floor mats in front) covers the cabin floors. A reduced-size,
4-spoke, wood-rim Grant® GT steering wheel frames the stock
instrument cluster with 130-mph speedometer augmented by an
AutoMeter® SportComp 8,000-rpm tachometer (showing a 5,000-rpm
redline) mounted on the steering column in front of the stock tach.
Toggle-switch NOS system controls and indicator lights are mounted
on the center dash, and a JVC® audio head unit replaces the factory
radio. SunPro® monitoring gauges for coolant temperature, voltage
output, and oil pressure are mounted forward on the console ahead
of the drag-shift lever for the automatic transmission. Under the
hood is the all-business, 355 sbc V8. Low-restriction, racing
exhaust headers, Dart®-branded, black-finish valve covers, and
steel-braided fuel lines with fuel-pressure gauge all combine to
reinforce the performance potential. (Be sure to sample the engine
music in the linked walk-around video.) Viewed from below, the
chassis is complete and undamaged. The high-performance
dual-exhaust system
