More than three years ago, while straining to absorb the Detroit area’s mammoth Woodward Dream Cruise, we spied something familiar: a blown 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 with a serious ’70s rake and multicolor graphics that were as period-correct as a satin baseball jacket with a fondue stain on the sleeve. There was a time, of course, when a 6-71 GMC blower poking through the hood of a first-gen Camaro was as common as today’s LS swaps, but this one stood out for more than its classic street-machine stance. It’s because we’d seen it before.
We saw it in November 1979, to be exact. That was the issue of HOT ROD on which it graced the cover. It looked identical, four decades later, to the vision Tim Marshall and the godfather Gray Baskerville shot at the
