Virgil Coffman is 101 years old, but you can’t tell him how to live out the rest of his life because he seems to be making the most out of it already. After taking the delivery of a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody as old as Coffman that can drive the wheels of a Camaro.
Nevermind the fact that he owns one, what’s even more remarkable is the fact that he can still drive, and he seems to do so with the vision of a man half his age. But those who know Coffman know just how much of a car nut he is. According to them, he’s owned around 40 cars in his lifetime and his latest ride, a 2010 Bumblebee Edition Camaro was acquired after he traded in a red Monte Carlo SS.
Not bad at all for a 101-year old, huh? Although his driving skills remain sharp up to this day, Coffman does have to take a driving exam every year to make sure that he doesn’t become a liability on the road. And surprisingly for someone of his age, he passes all of them with flying colors.
Check out the video and be introduced to quite possibly, the oldest Camaro owner in the world today.
For all you Batman-loving car nuts out there, we’re now telling you to turn away and not even bother to look at this.
But if you can’t resist, then we won’t blame you either.
This car is not the Batmobile. No. No. No.
What it is is a 2001 Chevrolet Camaro that has been face-lifted to make it look – at the very least – like the Dark Knight’s ride. While his expectations of what a Batmobile looks like differs greatly from the entire human population, we can’t help but appreciate the effort.
That is, until, we scoured the car and found a few minor mishaps said owner has done with his re-styling. First of all, he needs to work on his spelling as evidenced by the tag line ‘King of Gothem City’ emblazoned on right rear side of the car. Second of all, we understand the whole concept of posting stickers on the rear window, provided it doesn’t impede the driver’s vision when he checks out his rear-view mirror, but this guy decided that small stickers have no place in his ‘Batmobile’ so he went with a sticker that almost covers the entire rear window.
Hennessey Performance Engineering seems to have made a habit of turning fast and powerful cars into speed demons on the road. The performance tuners latest project, the 2010 HPE700 Camaro is no different from the rest.
Loaded with a supercharged LS9 V8 engine – the same engine that can be found under the hood of the Corvette ZR1 – the HPE700 Camaro produces around 717 ft-lb of torque and a horsepower of well over 700 hp. If you know your Camaros, that’s 300+ ft-lb of torque and 250+ horsepower more than the standard Camaros. For lack of a better term, the HPE700 is a Camaro on steroids.
It sounds appropriate too once you listen to the added power the HPE700 produces. Of course, Hennessey made all of that possible by tinkering with the car’s specifications including the addition of 15-inch carbon brakes and a customized suspension to make the car sturdier as it picks up speed. In addition to that, Hennessey also outfitted the HPE700 with a number of carbon fiber body panels to make it relatively lighter than standard Camaros.
From what we’ve heard, only 24 of these cars have been made retooled by Hennessey and 13 have already placed in their orders. The car, which will be on-hand at SEMA, costs around $120,000 so if you’re interested in purchasing one, we must warn you that only 11 cars remain up for sale.
Should you need more convincing, we invite you to check out the video of the car and listen to he rip-roaring power of the engine. Frankly, that’s all the convincing you’ll need.
To be clear, the original Bumblebee was a Volkswagen Beetle so we’ll get that matter-of-fact statement out of the way.
What we are talking about of course was the first incarnation of Bumblebee in the movie Transformers and if you’ve seen the movie, you know it’s not the 2010 Chevy Camaro but rather a dilapidated looking 1977 Camaro. We’re saying all of this because it’s been brought to our attention that the said car – yes the one that chased Sam Witwicky while he was riding his mother’s pink bicycle – is now up for sale.
The car, naturally, is far from peak condition, but it does have all the necessary equipment to make it functional. Plus, it also comes with a certificate of authenticity from Bay Films, which means that this specific car was, in fact, the one that was used in the first movie and the very same one Mikaela (Megan Fox) called a ‘piece of crap Camaro’forcing Bumblebee to upgrade his model.
We don’t have a price on the car yet, but we’re hearing that it’s being sold for around $12,000 – to $15,000. Considering the world-wide fame – or notoriety – this car was able to garner from being in the movie, we think that it’s a bargain worth looking into.
If you ever find yourself arriving out of the Los Angeles International Airport – or LAX, as its more affectionately called – in the coming days and you’re in need of a rental car to take you around the City of Angels, it’s better to do it in style, don’t you think?
Budget happens to have a location just outside the airport and while they do have a roster of reliable rides to choose from, what got our attention was those glistening 2010 Camaros waiting patiently for renters to take them out of the lot.
The Camaros for rent come in either the V6 version or the V8 SS and Budget has priced their Camaro rentals at $139.99 for the V6 and $149.99 for the SS.
We figure that the popularity of the Camaro these days, mixed with the thrill-seeking allure of Los Angeles, would be enough reason for people in need of a rental car to pick those brand-new and beautiful Camaros out from the rest.
But we don’t need to tell you that. We’re confident you already know what awaits you when you’re seen around Hollywood in a 2010 Camaro.
Have you always wondered what it would be like to own a Camaro but budget constraints have forced you to just think of it as nothing more than just a dream?
Now – thanks to Sports Radio 850 WEEI, a Boston radio station and New England Chevrolet Dealers – you can own, not just a 2010 Camaro, but a Camaro that is owned by no less than Dustin Pedroia.
If you don’t know who Pedroia is, he’s pretty much a deity in the Boston-area, thanks in large part to being the starting shortstop of the Boston Red Sox.
All you need to do is go sign up at WEEI.com/camaro through September 27 and, provided you get an official Dustin Pedroia Camaro poster from any participating New England Chevy Dealers, you’ll name is going to be entered in the raffle for the celebrity Camaro.
To make it more enticing, Pedroia will be signing-off on the new car, giving its future, new owner the official stamp that the car was once Pedroias.
The winner will be chosen on September 28, at which time, the lucky bloke who wins it will not just have a Camaro, but a Camaro that was owned by a local sports hero.
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We here at Top Speed recently had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of an Imperial Blue Metallic 2010 Chevrolet Camaro RS for an extended period of time and we have to say that we enjoyed every minute of the modern day muscle car experience. The Camaro RS combines the fuel efficient 300 HP direct injected V6 that gets as much as 29 MPG with the aggressive styling as the powerful Chevrolet Camaro SS with its 20 inch wheels wrapped in high performance rubber, high intensity discharge headlamps, rear spoiler and polished taillight bezels as well as unique RS badges all for only $31,530.
Back when we spoke with the car’s lead Exterior Designer Luciano Nakamura, he assured us that the 2010 model is not a retro Camaro, but instead a 21st century muscle car inspired by the classic bow tie wearing pony car with its strong shoulders and classic Coke bottle shaped waistline while the interior is quite a different story, including touches like a flat rimmed steering wheel and a four pack of accessory gauges to give the new Camaro a 1960s Americana feel.
The 2010 Camaro comes complete with all the amenities we have come to expect from a modern car like dual stage frontal and side curtain airbags as well as Stabilitrak traction control, four wheel disc brakes with ABS, tire pressure monitoring system and of course, General Motor’s fabulous OnStar system complete with convenience features like turn by turn navigation and a very peace of mind granting automatic crash response.
If you live somewhere around Zavala County, Texas, we advise you to be on your best behavior should you happen upon a black 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS. Chances are, that car is one mean unmarked police cruiser.
The car was modified by Southwest Public Safety and they have a video to show just how they were able to do it. In the vid, you’ll be able to see the boys from SPS install police strobes behind the Camaro’s front grille, inside the rear window, and in the rear bumper just outside the car’s license plate. In addition to that, the car was also outfitted with a radar detector into its A-pillar, plus a speed monitor placed just above the car’s rear view mirror.
It’s a cool video to watch to see how you turn an already fierce Camaro into an even more intimidating police vehicle.
John Schnatter’s long lost love has finally returned. Thanks to a few helpful souls, Schnatter, the founder of the pizza chain Papa John, was reunited with his 1971 ½ Chevrolet Camaro Z28, a car he sold 26 years ago to help his father save the family business and also allowed him to start his pizza chain.
After turning Papa Johns into one of the biggest pizza chains in the world, it seemed that Schnatter had everything he wanted at the palm of his hands, except for his long-lost Camaro.
After decades of tiring searches – which included Schatter hiring an ex- FBI agent to search for the car and launching a promotion to search for the car with a reward of $250,000 - the car was eventually found somewhere in Flatwoods, Kentucky and was now owned by Jeffrey Robinson.
Fortunately for the Schnatter’s beloved Z28, Robinson took great care of the car - even fine-tuning the car’s engine that now pumps out 825 horsepower –but also kept most of the original details intact. As you can expect, Schnatter willingly paid Robinson the promised $250,000 just so he could be reunited with the car he last saw drove off on his father’s driveway 26 years ago.
If that isn’t enough, Schnatter has also promised that all Camaro owners will receive a free pizza on August 26. So might we suggest that if you have a Camaro sitting in your garage right now, make sure to drop by a Papa Johns pizza chain on the 26th to claim your free pizza.
We travel down under for this latest set of spyshots about what looks to be a batch of freshly rolled out 2010 convertible Camaros.
The photos, which were photographed by a Camaro5 forum member, show a number of soft-top silver Camaros in all their undisguised glory at the GHM Holden’s e Fisherman’s Bend production facility in Melbourne, Australia.
GM has been on thrown on the hot seat by a lot of anxious customers regarding the scheduled release date of the convertible Camaros, a date General Motors has pushed back repeatedly over the past. The Camaro Convertible comes with either a V6 or V8 engine has been one of the most eagerly-anticipated cars in America, so you can imagine the general public’s growing aggravation over the continuous delays GM has been making on the release of these cars.
But we’re confident that whatever frustrations people may have over GM, the mere sight of these mouth-watering Camaros should all appease their anxieties - even for just a bit.
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