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Old 03-10-2008, 02:01 PM
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At first I thought it was the new Challenger, until I got closer. I attempted to use my camera phone, and narrowly missed side swiping it.

They pulled into an office complex to turn around, I decided to follow, and in the process got the horn/middle finger combo from the guy behind me. :oops: I had to talk my way past the security guard to get in, but it seemed to work. The drivers allowed me to take pictures as long as I didn’t take any of the interior. They also would not talk about the motor, but said I will not be disappointed.

The car has a very aggressive look to it, and it was rolling on 20 inch rollers.(275 rear 245 front) The brakes looked a dwarfed behind the wheels. I don’t know if that was because of a smaller wheel on the v6 or if big brakes are an upgrade.

My memory card got full when taking the front nose pic. It had the z06 scoop on the hood. Use your imagination on this one.

The engineers told me they had shipped the car down here from Detroit to test it out in the humid weather we have here. The passenger had a laptop with some type of monitoring software.

I wanted to talk to them more about the car, but the security guard was yelling at me for blocking traffic. He seemed pretty upset for a guy making $9 an hour.

The car sounded good as they throttled it out of the parking lot!








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Awesome sighting man! interesting
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Trailer hitch woo-hoo!!!

Good job man, very cool looking ride!!
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I hear some black Suburbans rolling down the road now....looks good.

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Those are probably the best pictures of a no camo-pretty damn close to production-Camaro!!!

Love it...

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Updated!
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Very nice.
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Great shots!
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Nice encounter! You got really up close and personal with it.
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Holy crap those are amazing shots! This is some good stuff! Trailer hitch ftl, but chrome tail light trim, three bulb individually housed headlights, and a newer "Sleeker" OnStar\XM antennae.
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The rear end reminds me of:

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Johnny 5...that's some funny ****

It really does look like that. Great job on getting those pics up.
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did it sound badass? or quiet like i'm sure it was?

did you attempt to instigate a race, lol?
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damn, i cant tell whether i love or hate it tbh
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I know a lot of people have been bashing this car but I really like it.
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omg, i'm in love.
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I don't like where the reverse lights are located. They look tacked on as an afterthought.


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