Although this isn’t as special as cars like the Stirling Moss Mustang, Michael Schumacher’s Ferraris or the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car that have come under the hammer in recent times, this is a unique racing car that could fetch a few hundred thousand dollars at the upcoming Mecum Auctions during Monterey Car Week in August.
This Camaro was commissioned by GM’s High Performance Vehicle Operations for the 2008 SEMA show. It was built by Riley Technologies to show customer racing teams what to expect from the Grand-Am KONI Challenge GS Class spec Chevrolet Camaro for the 2009 race season and is painted in the colours Mark Donahue used in the 1969 Trans-Am championship, the spiritual successor to the current Grand-Am GS class.
To keep the cost of competition to a minimum Grand-Am rules stipulate that the cars are as close to stock as possible given the conditions they’ll face over 24 hours at Daytona, so Riley’s engineers took the production Camaro and replaced its bonnet, boot and doors with carbon fibre pieces. Aftermarket exhaust silencers and engine, oil and transmission coolers were added to cope with the additional heat generated by the uprated LS3 V-8 under the bonnet.
The auction house expect the prototype to go for anywhere between $100,000 and $200,000 when the auction takes place at the Hyatt Regency Resort during the internationally famedMonterey Car Week.
from EUROCARBLOG
