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1969 Camaro

“It all started when my son, Rick, and I got inspired after visiting Muscle Express in Jupiter, Florida,” Richard Johnson recalls. “My longtime friend Danny was building Camaros, Chevelles, and other vintage Chevys and stuffing them with LS engines. He asked when I was going to build one for myself. I thought about it for a bit and knew my son was good at LS wiring and ECUs, and with Danny’s connections it made sense, so I said ‘Let’s do it!”

ichard, a machinist from New Fairfield, Connecticut, knows his way around vintage muscle. His forte is restoring numbers-matching cars with traditional small- and big-block engines and stock suspension bits, so this project

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