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700 Mile Pace Car Replica: 1993 Chevrolet Camaro

For more than 110 years, a specially selected car has paced the field at the Indianapolis 500. And nine times the Chevy Camaro was picked for that occasion. The Camaro Z/28 was chosen for the 1993 running of the race and – as a marketing tie-in – Chevrolet produced 645 copies for sale to the public. This is one of those cars and has been carefully preserved over the years with just 700 miles on the odometer. It was identified for us here on craigslist, but the actual auction is with guyswithrides where the bidding on this Naples, Florida car has reached $7,600 but the reserve has room to go.

The 1993 pace car was from the first year of the fourth generation of the Camaro, which was produced from 1993-02. Total Camaro production was under 40,000 units that year, with nearly half or under 18,000 being Z/28s. Borrowing from Saturn and Pontiac production techniques, the new design utilized Sheet Moulding Compound (aka plastic) for the roof, rear hatch, door panels, and rear spoiler. For performance, the Camaro Z/28 used a 5.7-liter LT1 V-8 engine rated at 275 hp and 325 lb-ft of torque that debuted in the Corvette the year before. The Z/28 came standard with a 4L60 automatic transmission, but you could get a six-speed manual at no extra cost.

A pace car replica of the Z/28 cost the original buyer $995 extra, according to the window sticker on the seller’s car. Much of that was for the graphics associated with the track automobile along with the black and white body color scheme, multicolored pinstriping, and white painted wheels. The seller of this ’93 Camaro is its fifth owner and he’s had it for about a year. He bought the car with the intent of taking it to the 2021 edition of the Pace Car Reunion Invitational held at the Indianapolis Speedway. However, he was unable to attend after all and has a 2022 C8 Corvette “on order” that he needs to make room for, so this car must go.

According to the seller, each of the owners of this Camaro has treated it as a limited use show car, hence the reason so few miles have been racked up in 28 years. Every title-holder has kept it stored in a climate-controlled garage, enabling the car to retain its time-capsule qualities. We’re told the Chevy is completely original except for a firmware update to the factory-installed radio that provides it with Bluetooth capability.

When they do come up for sale, these Camaro pace car replicas seem to go for $25-30,000, which is about 20% higher than regular Z/28’s. Considering the original sticker of $22,880, these cars haven’t proved to offer huge amounts of upside potential for investors. If the reserve isn’t too high on this car, perhaps the opportunity will now arise.

Comments

  1. Avatar jwzg

    A 1993 radio with Bluetooth capability? I call BS.

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    • Avatar Emmet

      jwzg, I think you missed this part, ” We’re told the Chevy is completely original except for a firmware update to the factory-installed radio that provides it with Bluetooth capability.” Looks like a cool car, not for me, but someone else.

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      • Avatar jwzg

        The factory installed radio is from 1993. The Bluetooth standard wasn’t even invented until 1994, so that receiver doesn’t have the hardware for Bluetooth unless the radio came out of a much later model.

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    • Avatar qmmq

      I had a 1995 acura legend coupe. That car had blue tooth, hands free capability and remote garage door. Of course I had neither that worked with it, or the pocket to purchase said products. That kinda stuff was really expensive back then.

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    • Avatar Tom B.

      I suspected a problem when the ad said the seller’s “intent was to take the car to this year’s invitational Pace Car Reunion held earlier this year at the Motor Speedway.”
      There was never a plan to have a pace car reunion at the Speedway this year. I should know – I’m on the IMSM’s reunion volunteer committee.
      So no “invitation” to attend was possible.
      And c’mon – FIVE owners?

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  2. Avatar Novaman

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say. I have a forth gen camaro so I love this style . This pace car to me with color combo , to the stripes to the ugly interior doesn’t tickle my fancy . Low mileage means nothing to me since living in Pittsburgh my cars get driven 600 miles a year

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