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1,040-HP 1969 Chevy Camaro Build For Sale For $237,500

These days, the line between street-legal / street-driven and full-blown race car is getting murkier by the minute. This fully built 1969 Chevy Camaro is a prime example of that, throwing down with more than 1,000 horsepower, all while sporting a full interior and and show-worthy exterior. Now, this wild machine is up for sale. The price tag – well on the way to a cool quarter million bucks.

The front end of a fully built Chevy Camaro race / street car.

Recently posted by the folks at Proline Racing, this 1969 Chevy Camaro was apparently owned by a Proline Racing customer, and now, it’s ready to find a new home. Let’s start under the hood, where we find a 746-cubic-inch Big Block built by Proline Racing and NRC. Highlights include a CN billet block with water cooling (you know, because “street car”), plus Slick Rick RS-1 Billet heads and a Sheet Metal intake with twin Accufab 4500 Series throttle bodies. The engine is stuffed with Manley I Beam steel connecting rods and Wiesco pistons, a Militia PLR Grind camshaft, Trend pushrods, NRC rockers, and Victory 1 titanium intake / inconel exhaust valves.

The flood of go juice is provided by Deka fuel injectors and ignited by a FuelTech Spark-8 box and coils. FT600 data logging and engine management keeps it running smoothly, with Homier Fabrications competing the the custom wiring. Output is sent rearwards through a Century Transmission 4L80E.

Output was measured at 1,040 ponies on FuelTech’s hub dyno – without the spray. The onboard nitrous system will obviously up the ante even further, although it isn’t clear by how much. Putting it all to the pavement are 315/60/15 MT Street Drag Radials wrapped around 15-inch by 14-inch Sanders wheels, paired with 17-inch Weld V-Series wheels up front.

The rear end is a Mark Williams Modular Floater 10-inch housing, connecting to a PST carbon driveshaft. The chassis was built by Rick Stevens Race Cars, and includes Menscer Motorsports suspension setup front and rear, with a Smith Race Craft front subframe.

Serious stuff, no doubt about it. However, the exterior matches the pavement-scorching hardware with a GM Cyber Gray Metallic paint job, completed by Keziah’s Collision Center in Georgia. It looks fantastic, as well it should considering it took 18 months to complete. The interior is relatively streetable as well, and includes carpeting, a dash, door cards, and the like. Because, you know, “street car.”

Now, this monster is listed for sale at $237,500. Is that a fair asking price? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, and be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevy Camaro news, Chevy news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.

Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. Incredible car for the person with more money than brains. The engine is alll kinds of spectacular but could get the same HP from a crate 632. And the only time a car takes 18 months to paint is when you never work on it. Remember this is still a street/show car. And yes I can’t afford it. At that price no one would drive it and that’s a shame. Cool cars are made too DRIVE

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    1. “more money than brains.”

      You beat me to it.

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  2. Compare this to the 4 bespoke Rolls Royce’s for $30 million each. I’ll go with this reasonably priced Hot Rod.

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  3. I hope they didn’t build this just to sell it, because a profit may not be in the cards. Nice build for sure, but not sure they will get the asking price.

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  4. “this monster is listed for sale at $237,500. Is that a fair asking price? ”

    Dumb question. No one is forcing anyone to pay that price.

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  5. Only the rich can afford these expensive play toys and I’m not one of them.

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  6. Incredible car, but houses sell for less in this neighborhood! I don’t know if that’s a fair price, but it doesn’t matter because I don’t know anyone who can afford a car in this price range. If I could afford a beast like this, I would probably just buy a new Corvette and invest the rest.

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  7. This cars value is based on effort in construction and the will to build such a nice machine. As a custom fabricator, I can tell you, if you are trying to build yourself a car, it’s worth putting a 1000 hours of personal time into your creation. What someone is willing to pay is what they feel it’s worth to them. Remember someone had to put the hours into this beast. Must respect to it’s owner I work for Alimenti Auto Sales and Salvage as the Body Shop Manager.

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    1. Exactly. 99% of the commenters have no clue. Like I said in my previous comment, look at what people paid Rolls to build a one-off bespoke custom…$30 million each and they have even more to build at that price or more. People who never built something like this have no clue of how many hours are involved in crafting these cars. The Hartman family goes way back to the 1800s building unique vehicles and there have always been smart people with huge money willing to have an uncommon vehicle built. Another thing is this: I tell my custom shop owner clientele to research how these mid-7 figure cars are developed, built, and marketed for a willing buyer. You could learn how to do the same in your business.

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    2. I agree, but there are so many 1969 Camaros out there that this is just one that will get overlooked much more than it should. A Chevelle or Nova would be a better choice now days. Better yet, a GTO or Buick GS.

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