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		<title>Kinda Miss My Camaro</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[About 10 years ago I had a dark purple 1986 Camaro Berlinetta with a 305 and the digital &#8216;knight rider&#8217; instrumentation panel.  I bought it for $775 (only 83k miles!) from an old lady who grumbled, &#8220;don&#8217;t kill yourself Don Johnson&#8221; as she handed me the keys.  Except for one odd incident in which the [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CamaroFuzzTopCC-copy.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7984" alt="CamaroFuzzTopCC copy" src="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CamaroFuzzTopCC-copy.jpg" width="1531" height="1422" srcset="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CamaroFuzzTopCC-copy.jpg 1531w, https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CamaroFuzzTopCC-copy-300x278.jpg 300w, https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CamaroFuzzTopCC-copy-1024x951.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px" /></a>About 10 years ago I had a <a href="http://media.caranddriver.com/ez/images/reviews/comparisons/archive/1985_chevrolet_camaro_berlinetta_vs._ford_mustang_svo-archived_comparison/gallery/1985_chevrolet_camaro_berlinetta_photo_22/3548395-1-eng-US/1985_chevrolet_camaro_berlinetta_4_cd_gallery_zoomed.jpg" target="_blank">dark purple 1986 Camaro Berlinetta</a> with a 305 and the <a href="http://www.zorly.com/images_camaro/09-10-08/1984%20Berlinetta%20Starship%20Console%20-%20berlinetta.jpg" target="_blank">digital &#8216;knight rider&#8217; instrumentation pane</a>l.  I bought it for $775 (only 83k miles!) from an old lady who grumbled, &#8220;don&#8217;t kill yourself Don Johnson&#8221; as she handed me the keys.  Except for one odd incident in which the car <em>would simply not turn off, </em> it was 100% reliable and I loved driving it.  I sadly had to sell it because I lost the parking space it slept in.  I was poking around the ole MacBook today trying to find some pics of it, and there ain&#8217;t even one!  I guess that 2005 was maybe riiiiiiiight before the era of ubiquitous photography of every single fkkn facet our goddamn lives, and maybe I&#8217;m better off for it.  Maybe Camaro is just better off living in my midnight-blue tinted memories.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Camro_Fuzz_inside.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7985" alt="Camro_Fuzz_inside" src="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Camro_Fuzz_inside.jpg" width="1621" height="1233" srcset="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Camro_Fuzz_inside.jpg 1621w, https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Camro_Fuzz_inside-300x228.jpg 300w, https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Camro_Fuzz_inside-1024x778.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1621px) 100vw, 1621px" /></a>While I couldn&#8217;t find any Camaro car pics on the laptop, I did stumble on the above-depicted germanium Fuzz Face &#8216;clone&#8217; that I decorated with a mid-seventies Camaro badge.  I buy these old chrome auto badges in lots at the flea market; if yr patient, you can get em for a buck or two each.  Anyhow, this is one of the only guitar pedals that I ever built and it turned out great, despite the fact that I simply used whatever old NOS RCA germanium PNP transistors I had around, without so much as even looking at the data sheets.  I just tried a few different types until the thing sounded like a Fuzz Face, and voila.  One cool detail: in the image above, check out the massive mil-type chassis-mount oil cap (far left) that I used as the output coupling cap.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fuzzfacepnpschematic-copy.gif"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7986" alt="fuzzfacepnpschematic copy" src="https://www.preservationsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fuzzfacepnpschematic-copy.gif" width="353" height="271" /></a><br />
Above is the very simple schematic that I apparently pulled from <a href="http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/" target="_blank">FuzzCentral</a>.  Much like my Camaro (the car), my Camaro (the fuzz) was sold off many years back, and yeah I kinda miss it.  Can&#8217;t keep em all&#8230;</p>
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