The Thrasher Camaro
Built in 95 , by a GM suspension engineer named Mark Stielow.
The car was using a 406CI chevy small block with a early DFI fuel injection. The front spindles were hand made, and the car had global west tubular control arms (at the time, i believe they were custom made) The transmission was a Viper transmission with a custom input shaft to work with the chevy running gear (nowadays the swap is easy) This car competed in the One Lap twice I think , first time in 98 or 99. The car was eventually sold to a nice guy named Charlie Lillard, and then went to my customer at the time, Dave Christenholz who had assembled a "Dream Collection" of american muscle cars, including the only unrestored RS package 69 Canaro ZL1, as well as 1 of 2 ever produced Coronet Hemi Convertibles. Dave also had a unrestored low mile 69 Boss 429, and a unrestored chevelle ss 454 LS6 convertible. Dave sold all his cars to fund some investments a couple years ago, and kept three. One of the three, was the Thrasher.
Here are the pics!
In this pic there is the thrasher, a one of two ever produced hemi coronet convertible, a original GT500KR, and real GT500, the survivor Boss 429, and a yenko chevelle. And of course all the vintage (not reproduction) neon signs.
In the back of this pic you can see a rare real 67 yenko camaro.
The blue car next to the thrasher in this pic is a 66 GT350 shelby that i done a "frame on" resto .
I have some engine shots somewhere, and some undercarriage shots from when I was working on it, I just have to find them.
Out of the several hundred 1st gen camaros I have driven/worked on, this is in the top 3, it was a beast!