# Bringing the Camaro back to life... **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [October 17, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bringing-the-camaro-back-to-life/260903 "2011-10-17T15:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![TurboTravis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/turbotravis/32/6406_2.png) [@TurboTravis](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurboTravis)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bringing-the-camaro-back-to-life/260903/13 "2011-10-17T18:27:52Z")
> [@Good day for the market](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-day-for-the-market/46028/31): > > My dad bounced on me and my mom when I was like 8. He left behind (car was in my mom’s name due to DWI’s) a 79 (or maybe an 80) camaro with a 396 painted red white and blue. The car was pretty beat, floor boards were rusted out, but the engine would still kick over. I always planned on getting that thing fixed up and it being my car. > > When I was like 13, she gave it away to a customer she dealt with at work who turned it into a pure stock racer out at the valley. Just GAVE it to him. He gave us a few years worth of free passes to the valley, so that was cool none the less. The more I look back on it, if I had a car like that in my teenage years, i’d probably be dead. > > I can completely understand the family thing. It really hit’s close to home that in the past few months i’ve been told my mom was pretty much dead (while I was almost 1000 miles away). Priorities first man, and Im sure you will get that thing to where the old man can have a grin on his face you will remember for years to come – even after its his time Asshole. You’re going to make me get drunk tonight and purchase parts for the car:rofl Thanks for all the help/convo as of late --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bringing-the-camaro-back-to-life/260903)._