Third Time's The Charm
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INSIDE

The beauty of Saviano’s Camaro is its simplicity. There’s very little inside today that wasn’t there 35 years ago. Every panel and stitch of upholstery is GM resto fare as applied by S/P Classics in Amity Village, NY, and the seats are stock but refurbished. To suppress the debilitating effects of noise and heat, S/P swathed the floor with Dynamat. MI Mike installed the Auto Meter gauges and rewired the car. There is no audio or air conditioning; steering and brakes are manual.   

PERFORMANCE

This is what the blue car is all about, of course, and Saviano stapled a time slip to the tech sheet to prove it. He put a half-tank of 93 in it, drove to the track on street radials and ran a 1.49-second 60-foot and the quarter-mile in 10.72 at 124.60 through the mufflers. To tell it another way, the 406 makes 525hp at 6,700rpm and 500 lb-ft of torque at 5,800rpm right there at the tarmac.

ROLLERS & BRAKES

Saviano’s car doesn’t need monster brakes, a full-on handling suspension, or shiny dubba-dub hoops. The disc/drum binders are stock and the Cragar S/S rims ply more than a little nostalgia, at least to this writer. In the fabled day, they were the wheels to spin. On the glide side, it’s a 15x6 with a 215/60 BFG Touring T/A. On the punishment end, Vinnie put M/T 275/60 Drag Radials on 8-inch rims.

BODY

It got the full slam. In preparation for the GM Code 71 Lemans Blue paint, Gene in Oceanside, NY, stripped-down, sand blasted, blocked-off, and wet sanded Vinnie’s racer. The hockey stick stripe is absolutely essential to the whole. 

CHASSIS