Meet the Fleet – Muscle Cars: ’67 Camaro RS – featuring BONUS “Art Haus” video!

• BODY: Aurora Model Motoring
• WHEELS: Vincent
• TIRES: Road Race Replicas

Pretty much everyone knows 1967 was the premiere year for the Camaro, and so much has been said and written about these cars that I probably don’t have a lot to contribute. The Aurora Model Motoring version of this car is one of the nicest of all the Model Motoring bodies, even if the proportions are not completely right. They are very close though, considering the limited wheelbase options (this one rides on the short wheelbase) and the B-pillars forming the wing vents clearly mark this car as a ’67 and not a ’68. Rest assured I worked for this: this body is very difficult to fit on the Auto World Ultra G chassis, and involves a lot of time consuming and delicate modification to make it work…but as you can see, the results were well worth it! I’ve always thought the first-gen Camaros look particularly good painted white, and the black vertical nose stripe and the hooded headlights that were part of the RS package make this a very sharp looking ride.

Finished off with the classic Chevy Rallye wheels by Vincent and riding on meaty Goodyear “Polyglas GT” tires by Road Race Replicas, this small block-powered menace is raced by a driver who remains something of an enigma; Bram “BLACKJACK” Brodie is a dark, aloof character who does not talk to the press. While his background remains murky, he is believed to be the notorious street racer from Michigan who terrorized the streets of suburban Detroit for years in a nearly unbeatable ’67 Camaro RS that was painted black with a white nose stripe; he may have polarized his car’s look for a new beginning in California. If that’s right, he’s working his way up to that new beginning at Drag City!

Now for a bonus!

Just out of production is Drag City’s first ever “Art House” race flick, produced by Subversive City Media and made for this very car! Scored to a very appropriate-and very mysterious-classic track spawned in the primordial stew of CBGB’s New York in the mid 1970’s, here’s a look at several days-and a few nights!-of “Blackjack” dispatching numerous competitors at the track with “GHOST RIDER.”

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Now tell me folks, is it just me, or does a part of that song remind you of this?

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Do ya think maybe an “Art House” racing film makes no sense? Think that’s a contradiction? If so, you must not have seen the indescribably bizarre, indescribably awesome 1969 movie “Pit Stop!” And I think you should! And luckily for all of us, here it is!