The first generation camaros may look a bit different, but as far as the tear down for a restoration on the car things are pretty much the same, in this article I will write about the second step in the process, the tear down of the car.

Obviously you’ll need to keep your list that you created during the inspection of the car handy, because you will be adding more parts to it, it will probably grow at a quick rate, depending on what condition that camaro is in.

First we need to be sure that you have the tools that you’ll need to preform the tear down of the front sheet metal on the camaro, below I will add a short list of just the essential tools, nothing fancy, or specialized it’s all just simple hand tools.

List Of Tools:
1.Full Set Of End Wrenches
2.A 3/8 Drive ratchet & Full Set Of American Standard Sockets
3.Floor Jack
4.Full Set Of Screw Drivers
5.Pliers & Vicegrips
6.An Electric Drill With A Full Set Of Bits

This should be a good enough tool list to get you through the removing of the front sheet metal on your first generation camaro, it really is a pretty basic step in the restoration process, but the better you do this step, the better your car will look in the end.

First of all we’re going to remove the hood from the camaro, this is vary easy to do, at the back of the hood on each side are two bolts that hold the hood to the hinges, we’ll be removing those bolts, starting first with the one at the front on each side.

These should be either ½ or 9/16 inch bolt heads, it’s been a while so I don’t remember which for sure, now that you have removed the front bolt on each side, be sure that you have a friend there to help with this, and remove the two back bolt on each side, and the hood will slide right off.

The next thing we’ll do is remove the hinges that held the hood on thee car, these are held in by two bolts that go through the side of the hinge at the bottom, they usually have 9/16 bolt heads on them, you need to determine if you need to replace them now.

We’ll move on to the front bumper next, the bumpers are usually bolted to the frame rails in the center of the car, I usually unbolt them from the frame rail rather then the bumper, they’ll have a bolt at each end of the bumper also, and this is up to you on the way you unbolt it.

Next we’ll remove the grille, and please don’t get in a hurry here it’s easy to break a perfectly good grille, the grille is held in place with Philips screws, make sure that you remove the head lights first, I get a head of myself sometimes.

Once you have removed the head lights, and all the little Philips crews from the grille, it should just pull right out with ease, if it seems to be stuck, it usually means that you have missed a screw somewhere along the way, take a second look at it.

In my next article I will discuss the removal of the header panel, and the valence panel, from there we’ll move on to the radiator support, then the front fenders, and the rest of the front sheet metal on the car, after I get done you should be able to do this tear down.

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