Everyone loves a good engine swap. They are an endless source of amusement online and can breathe new life into a car. Even the most straightforward examples where you simply take an old engine out and put a new identical one in its place can make the car drive like it's fresh out of the factory. Then there are the craziest ones, like dropping a Hellcat engine into a Prius or a Corvette powerplant into a Tesla. Plus, with the rise of the incredibly sophisticated SEMA-style builds, we occasionally see complete overhauls of cars from the ground up. This 3rd-gen Camaro may not win awards at SEMA since it is just an amalgamation of factory GM parts, but it certainly attracts attention. In terms of the engine swap, all we know is that out is the old 5.0-liter V-8 that originally lived under the hood, and in its place is an LS V-8 of some kind. Great, but in the grand scheme of things, not all that wild. The interior, on the other hand, is something of a different nature.

So what is so crazy about this thing?

What is wild is the interior, specifically the seemingly perfect factory-fresh C8 Corvette interior that makes up this 3rd-gen greenhouse. The original standard interior in the gen-3 Camaro is extremely blocky with a large flat slab of plastic making up the dashboard with an equally geometric center console housing the radio and climate control completed by large gauges laid seemingly haphazardly behind the steering wheel.

However, this example, nicknamed Hillary Banks, has a fully functioning light blue C8 Corvette interior. Including the massive spine that splits the cabin in two completed with a working infotainment system that even has an image of the car itself.

The seats are from the Competition spec C8, and it functions as a proper car, almost like it was meant to be there from the start. The push start button works, at least it does in the video, as does the digital display for the gauges and other driving information behind the steering wheel.

The interior was done by Stitched by Slick Upholstery, based in Seagoville, Texas, which posted a series of videos regarding the build on their YouTube page. In those videos, you get a sense of the amount of wiring, electric work, and custom fabrication needed to bring arguably the worst version of the Camaro up to par with the 2020s.

The blue of the interior works well with the exterior, which has a coat of white paint with rose gold accents. The 22-inch Forgiato wheels have a matching color scheme. The only reference to the color of the interior is the blue LED headlights. On the surface, the sheer quality of the build is impressive, but when you consider the amount of work that went into this build and that the bones are from a base model 3rd-gen Camaro, you begin to get a whole new respect for it.