A beater creating buzz at the Chicago Auto Show?

Volo Museum’s Bumblebee to be part of Illinois Camaro display

“It’s going to be super exciting,” said Becky Rhoads, founder and CEO of Illinois Camaro, a club with about 2,000 online members who have formed a community around their shared love of the iconic car. “Having Volo’s Bumblebee in the mix at our display will be so much fun!”

This won’t be the first collaboration between Illinois Camaro and the Volo Museum, said Rhoads and Jim Wojdyla, the museum’s marketing director. During a car show on the museum grounds last fall, Illinois Camaro members raised $4,000 for The 100 Club of Illinois, an organization that supports first responders, as well as families of first responders killed in the line of duty.

Along with Bumblebee, those stopping by Illinois Camaro’s booth at the Chicago Auto Show will encounter a 1967 Camaro that in 2020 won the Presidential Award at the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan, 1992 and 2002 B4C highway patrol models, a 2011 SS that pushes out 1,100 horsepower tuned by Speed Inc. of Schaumburg,