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What a time to be alive for car enthusiasts. Never before has it been easier to build lightning-fast yet reliable street machines that handle as if they are on rails, can stop on a dime, and have more tyre under them than a modern supercar.

It’s a far cry from what it was like building cars in the ’80s, although it was that era, and one particular car from it, that can be credited with laying the foundation for the likes of Rod Dixon’s pro-touring Camaro that you see here — a modern street machine that wisely takes advantage of all the modern advancements that have happened in the past four decades. So, while Rod might look back now and harshly judge the oxide-primered first-gen Camaro in the ’85 classic , with its Center Lines stuck way out of the guards and a stance that personifies ’80s