This Hugger Camaro began life as a way to fund a racing team. This one is #32 of 90 produced and has obviously been loved since its creation, having only covered 29,807 miles since new. It’s listed here on eBay and is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

These Camaros have an interesting background. Tom Nehl was a racer who was trying to find a way to pay for his race team to compete in the 1980 24 hour race at Daytona. He proposed something called a “Twenty-Four Hours Of Daytona Dealer Driveaway” program to the Jacksonville, Florida zone of Chevrolet dealers. He would get funding for the race team, and they would get a special edition Camaro to sell. Nehl contracted with Special Vehicle Development (SVD) and Bill Mitchell (NOT the famous GM designer) to modify approximately 90 new 1980 Camaros and make them look like his race car. There were some performance modifications as well.

Decals were produced for each car and they were numbered consecutively. The idea was that the dealers would send someone to pick up the cars at the race, and they would all perform a pace lap prior to that.

This particular car has low mileage, all documentation, and is being offered by a Chevrolet dealer. I’m thinking the buy-it-now price of $339,000 is either a typo or is to gather publicity, as I think that would be an insane amount to pay for this car . (The buy-it-now price was a typo and has been corrected to $33,900) However, I can easily see a collector being interested (for a lot less than that!) in a car with such a detailed history and with all the “Hugger” features still present.

The interior looks every bit as nice as the exterior, It’s a shame about the automatic transmission, but apparently only one had a four speed. If you want to read more about Huggers, try here and here.