Call it a pre-release.
This beautiful 1969 Camaro RS, built by Extreme Auto Restoration, officially debuted this week at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. But before making its journey to the desert, it made an unofficial debut at the Summit Racing Retail Super Store in McDonough, Georgia last week.
Both debuts were two years in the making.
That’s how much time was spent building the Camaro, including a total of 1,671 physical labor hours and 297 hours put into the paint process.
The body was painted with Sherwin Williams Ultra 7000 line Torch Red with a carbon fiber accent hockey stick stripe and re-stacked clear. All of its trim was powdercoated black. The Camaro’s front and rear spoilers, along with the inner fenders, are pure carbon fiber. The body’s rear frame rails were replaced and moved in a total of eight inches to allow for the wider rear wheels.
Under the hood lurks a supercharged LSA crate engine hooked to a 4L80E transmission. The supercharger is cooled by a custom supercharger core cooling system. A custom-built stainless three-inch oval exhaust system with Magnaflow mufflers and electrical exhaust cutouts gets rid of the LSA’s spent gasses.
The Camaro sits on Speedtech Performance front sub-frame with frame connectors. It also features a Speedtech front tubular system with custom in-house built billet spindles and rear four-link set up with a nine-inch rear end.
Extreme Auto Restoration opted for Vellano three-piece carbon fiber wheels with a machine brushed face—20″ x 9″ in front, 21″ x 15″ at the rear. A Brembo GT brake system provides the stopping power. The interior was done by Pro-Auto Custom Interiors in Tennessee and includes a Vintage Air A/C system and Dakota Digital dash with carbon fiber housing.
This shop is nothing but a bunch of lying, thieving, con artists! They may do ok work for their own cars but what they gave me as a customer was subpar and on the level of the worst MAACO you can find! They ruined one of my show cars and now it needs a complete re paint! They syphoned all my gas out while it was there four months for a 4 day job and they put 10 miles on my 700hp supercharged Camaro Ss … they covered my car in fine scratches and deep scratches through the clear, burnt my paint everywhere , overspray, took all my clear off and left my whole car covered in burn rash….there’s a lot more negative things that happened but I’ll not say anything else I could go on and on…
Update….on further inspection….they re-cleared my whole car, painted the top half of my front bumper and poorly tried to “burn it in” and did paint work all over for god knows why??? The clear is full of trash/contamination and looks my car went in for a simple 5” scratch on the quarter pane…was getting reatv bumper painted as well for two small scrapes that has been touched up no one would notic…was supposed to take a week..3 trips to pick up and four months later I got it back…first two attempts to pick it up it was worse than MAACO they had trash all in the paint (still does) tape lines on all my rubber trim and jamb, paint flaking off from no prep work, etc—was supposed to correct it, 2nd trip to pick up everything was the same, I left again they were supposed to do it “right” per their initial quote HAHAHA!!! Nope!! They destroyed my whole car…drove it 10 miles and drained my full gas tank, painted parts of my front bumper, cleared over the entire car with trash/moisture/contamination and whole car looks like it has excema! they scraped paint off my door edges, they scratched it deeply in numerous places, and on top of that they charged 3xs the initial estimate…the shop lied time after time and could never keep their lies straight, basicalay stole my car and extorted me to get it back…they will not respond to my messages and I am going to hire an attorney. This car was immaculate prior to them getting their hands on it and has $90k in the build and under 6k miles…do not trust these people! they build some show cars for advertising but do the worst work I’ve ever seen and I’ve been painting and building cars for 35yrs!!! Also damaged the interior and delete negative reviews on Facebook! Don’t trust the reviews!! These people are shady and shade tree as they come! like the car has “excema” every square inch is covered in “specs under the clear” as well as fresh scratches everywhere from god knows what, fingerprints in clear, paint knocked off the edge of my door, interior damage, sanding marks, swirls, buffer scratches from attempting to burn in paint work they did for god knows why??? They won’t respond or tell me what happened but I’ve been painting 35yrs and the more I look the more I see…I knew every inch of this car as it was one of my babies ….they ruined my car that was as close to perfect as you could get a 5800 mile Camaro…don’t trust the positive reviews they deleted mine from Facebook and looks like most are family members!
Update***this shop intentionally sprayed overspray on my entire car and then clear coated over it…over hair over black overspray multi colored overspray, destroyed my paint job! Put bondo on my front bumper that was perfect, sprayed more overspray on top of the clear…put scratches in it…it’s a mess! Do not use this shop
They even carved the owner’s initials in my roof!!!