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on Buss has a relationship with Camaros that goes back a long way. Several years and, indeed, several Camaros. is first e am le of this articular form of all merican icon was a third generation ersion, with the uni uely free of soft edges styling of the s. efinitely not a look for e eryone, though a amaro s a amaro for all that. nyway,
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Which is what you see here. amaro may indeed be a amaro for all that, but this one s a amaro so it s a amaro and then some. Jon had always wanted one of these so, ha ing trousered a wad of the folding for his , he took out a small loan to bridge the ga and made tracks to ewcas tle to make it his own. Jon lives in Devon, so the journey home was always going to be, let s say, an edu
The engine rebuild was a chance to stuff it full of cool bits he swa ed it for a which he went on to restore, gi ing him a toe on the first rung of serial ownershi and utting him in the mood for more.
cation. But you know what? The lesson he learned was that he’d bought a pretty good one. e remembers it as ha ing taken ‘fi e and a bit’ hours, which is pretty impressive
as shakedown runs go, but as well as being a test of his faith it demonstrated that the Camaro wasn’t a basket case. It did still need a lot of work but it wasn t a shed, which you’ve got to see as a win.
Cool bits
hat was in the summer of and since then a lot of work has indeed been done. ot all of it was scheduled – most notably, the engine let go last s ring, rom t ing a to end rebuild which on took as an o ortunity to stuff it full of cool bits – but in the main it s been a case of getting the the way he wants it. In particular, when he bought it the amaro was brown. nd on the inside it was beige. Just what you want when you’ve landed an , with its cooler than cool long
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