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Originally Posted by Steve1969LS1
Just send me stuff.. I will condense it 
Nice car, bring it to Vegas this weekend and I will shoot it for the magazine..  |
You know, it is fast car...but I don't think it is fast enough to pull that off from sunny Central Florida!
I played around with condensing the story of the car down a bit and emailed the same thing. The word count is way down, but the Characters is too high. It gets closer though to what you would need.
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After an intense father and son restoration of this Camaro in the mid '80s, Chris traded it off to move on with his education and career. It always held a special place in his heart and he and his dad often talked about the car over the years during holidays and family get togethers. When Chris lost his dad in late 2003 he decided to go looking for the old camaro. He found the car about 200 miles away on its 3rd owner in the middle of a grade B restoration. With a real story stranger than fiction and some haggling and trading (of a car Chris initially traded the Camaro for in 1989) He struck a deal and brought the old heap home in early 2004. He and his wife set out with lofty goals to do the car Pro-Touring style while retaining the look and feel of the old hot rod he had once driven to prom as a teenager.
Doing all the work himself with the help of his wife and the curious eye of his son Garrett the car was set on a rotisserie and all essential metal was replaced. He shaved the sub frame, slicked the firewall and rounded out the suspension with VB&P springs, C5 13" front brakes, F body LS1 rear brakes on a Ford 9". Steering through a Corvette tilt/tele column into a Steeroids rack rolling on a set of 2004 Vette wheels and tires. Power comes from a 2000 LS1 with a Stage III SLP LS6 head/cam package, 36# injectors, custom headers, 2,800 stall through a 4L60E. Fuel is fed via Walbro 255 pump housed in a trick install of a 1996 plastic 22-gallon Caprice fuel tank. He keeps an eye on the engine stats via Autometer pro-com gauges. The family cruiser stays comfortable thanks to Vintage Air. Some amazing trick items on the car include totally hidden wipers, brakes, cruise control, wire harness, and a/c lines. The racing stripes continue right into the engine bay over the slicked firewall. Working on a tight budget Chris modified many donor car parts to trick out his Camaro including grafting power windows from a 1996 Caprice, late model Malibu electric fan assembly, and a host of other details.
The exterior of the car remains as it was the first time he and his dad rolled it out of the paint booth in 1985 sporting PPG mica-metallic red (Renault Alliance) and Cadillac black cherry stripes. The interior is stock black less the addition of the Autometer gauges, power windows, and steering Corvette steering column. He completed the car just in time to make a maiden voyage from Florida to Columbus, Ohio for the 2005 Goodguys event.
The Camaro serves as a connection to Chris' past and hope for the future as he intends to hand the keys over to his son some fine day. Chris tells us that every time he catches a glance of the car in the garage he gets a smile remembering his dad and all the love that went into building and sharing the car. He knows that his dad is looking down today and sharing that same smile.
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