The reaction is the same whether you see Bob Owen's '69 Camaro for the first time on the internet, the street or on the race track: complete awe. Even in the paddock area at Laguna Seca Raceway, the normally insular clique of Porsche and Ferrari racers is dumbfounded. A car which they had earlier written off as a cute oddity now has a growing crowd gathered around it. The Zinfandel and Camembert crowd has ― on track ― been unsuccessful in chasing the Camaro's taillights all day. Now, they take the opportunity to examine it up close, and they are begrudgingly impressed. We know how they feel. We've been chasing Bob Owen's Camaro since last September, when we first stumbled upon it online. An unattributed photo of Bob's Camaro chewing up a highspeed sweeper made us as giddy as a 12-year-old with a stack of Playboys. We wanted this car ― no, we had to have this car for PHR. Our persistence paid off handsomely, to the extent that the author even managed to cajole a 20-minute ride-along during a recent time-trial session at Laguna Seca Raceway.
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