Restoration of a 'Unicorn' Third-Gen Camaro Chassis

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Ray introduces a third-generation Camaro chassis, which he calls a 'unicorn' because it's one of only three known original IROC Generation 3 Camaros that were not converted into Dodge Avengers. He believes this particular chassis was wrecked during a tire test at Michigan and then sold off, sitting in a chicken coop for years. He partnered with Aaron Brown of The Garage Shop to duplicate and restore the bent chassis pieces using a 3D scanner, aiming to bring this historically significant car back to life. Ray highlights that these cars often used Ford floor pan stampings, even in Chevy bodies, a fun fact about NASCAR chassis of that era.

Goal: Detail the acquisition and restoration process of a rare IROC Generation 3 Camaro chassis

Tools and materials

3D Scanner — Duplicating bent chassis pieces for restoration
Aaron Brown — Expert in fabrication and duplication of car parts
Ford Floor Pan Stampings Ford — Historical component used in NASCAR spec chassis of the era, including these IROC cars
Third-Gen Camaro Chassis — The core of the 'unicorn' IROC restoration

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Dodges Richard chers has one and Dell arhart Enterprises has one this car we're trying to find out how it got out of Ira we bought it as a wreck we we believe we wrecked this car at Michigan tire testing and it got trashed at that time it wasn't worth fixing so I think that that it somehow got sold it sat in an old again you I can't hate to keep saying Barn Barn Barn but this was literally in like a chicken coup it was full of chicken poop and it was just a mess it was still still had the red you can see the red in the thing it had red number 19 and I 100% remember this car I worked on it um Daryl walri drove it at Michigan I know that for fact uh you know no book no paperwork with it but I looked at it and like this is a car that I built we bought it from the guy came with some body panels because again I feel like there aren't that many original Camaros out there and may this may be the only the third third one everything else has been changed back to a Camaro Roger Pensky may have one I don't know but you know I I can't believe anybody else would have one have a good friend Aaron Brown over at the garage shop who does incredible work uh too by the way got a scanner he duplicated the pieces we took him the bent chassis and he duplicated other pieces you know off of his scanner and then and did an incredible job bringing this thing back to life so we got the chassis back we're Gathering parts for it right now um we've got enough body panels to make the Camaro we've got an original floor plan uh floor pan but again Gathering 1980s vintage banjo Matthews parts so if somebody knows hey if you got some trail arms out there some some old banjo lowers uppers things like that we need those for this car but this have been the one of the banjo chassis that has a Torino floor pan oh yeah yeah absolutely we actually had to get a Ford floor pan for it the floor pan was a little bit rotted out this is how the cars came from banjo Matthews to irck and then we put all the brackets on you know the seat seat mounts window net mounts Dash all of that stuff but this is basically what you would call a surface plate car it would come with a roof and windshield bed and nothing else what color and Driver name are you going to restore this one to oh this one was the red 19 so it will be red 19 and as I said I'll have to do the research to find out who drove it um but but I I know that uh one of the drivers definitely drove it was Daryl Walter how long does it typically take to…

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