Musclecar Attraction

[Steve Shauger]

Keith cars are in your DNA, handed down by your father, and very much appreciate you sharing your father racing history and how you've kept his and yours going.

My father was an electrical engineer for Boeing and had zero appreciation for performance cars to the point of disdain. When he would see me working in the garage with the engine apart he would just shake his head. He would always say they were only meant to go from point A to B.

It started in the spring of 1967 while on my way to elementary school. There I would first hear this car tearing down the back roads of suburban Philadelphia. The tone of that exhaust, the lope and sound of the solid lifter camshaft left quite an impression. Then I saw a white with black stripe 1967 Camaro. In following years, it turned out to be a schoolmate’s brother’s 1967 Z28 Camaro, one of 602 built to homologate for the Trans Am racing series.

To me it's still amazing how the Z28 has captured the hearts and mind of so many collectors. Between the look, sound and performance it's amazing how they are so coveted even 50 years later.