1980 CHEVROLET CAMARO HUGGER
RUBBER BUMPER F-BODIES, like their C3 Corvette and MGB contemporaries, took a long time in getting the respect they deserve. Like many things automotive in the 1970s, they came from the engineering of the free-for-all 1960s, but found themselves having to cope with new realities where safety, emissions, and fuel economy were priorities instead of pure aesthetics and an exciting driving experience.
Automotive engineers are a clever bunch, though, and they rapidly figured out how to rework the aging platforms they’d been given into something good looking and fun to drive, at least relative to what was being offered as new vehicles. As old-car enthusiasts look with fresh eyes at the cars of the 1970s and ’80s,
