The car was also fitted with an OBP hydraulic e-brake to help in the drift department. With the extra clearance, Øyvind was able to tweak the ‘Vette’s steering setup for more angle. One thing that Øyvind wanted was to add steering angle and that meant replacing the Corvette’s leaf spring and shock set up with a more traditional set of coilovers. For starters Corvette’s wheelbase is 5cm longer than the Camaro and that meant new suspension mounting points had to be fabricated up all around.Īfter some old school fab work, the Camaro and the Corvette were successfully mated – retaining the C5’s rear mounted gearbox and most of its suspension. Now this wasn’t as simple as just dropping the Camaro body over the Corvette chassis, but Øyvind and his father welcomed to the challenge. Plans continued to grow more ambitious and eventually it was decided to actually mate the entire Z06 chassis with the ’85 Camaro body. But as Øyvind began to do research he realized it might be cheaper to find a complete donor car and start from there.Īnd what better starting point than a wrecked 2003 Corvette Z06? The guys quickly swooped in on the totaled ‘Vette knowing that it would provide many of the parts they were looking for. Initially the plan called for a basic rebuild – swapping in small block V8 and upgrading the suspension. So with dad’s approval the Eiksås rolled the Camaro into the garage and began the transformation. Right there he started scheming about how cool it would be to transform the dilapidated Camaro into a drift car, and the only thing left to do was convince his father that it would be a worthwhile project.įortunately this didn’t take a whole lot of work as Øyvind’s father is also a gearhead with a love for American muscle cars. The Camaro was in rough shape and came with a boat anchor of 2.8-liter V6, but Øyvind saw the potential. The story begins when Øyvind came across a 1985 Chevrolet Camaro Sport Coupe for sale at the reasonable sum of 10,000 NOK (about US$1,600). The biggest problem today is finding an example that hasn’t been beaten within an inch of its life.Įven outside the US there are those who have a thing for third gen F-Bodies and one of those people is Norway’s Øyvind Eikså, a young man who drives one of the most radical third-gen Camaros we’ve ever seen. The angular styling is typical of 1980s sports cars and while they didn’t leave the showroom with a ton of power, aftermarket upgrades are plentiful and cheap. Sure the build quality was far from great and the cheesy ’80s image is hard to ignore – but there’s always been something cool about them. Just like there are those bands we like to listen to when no one’s around, there are cars we love even if many might look down on them.įor me the third generation GM F-Body is absolutely one of those guilty pleasures. Are there such things as automotive guilty pleasures? Absolutely.
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