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Chevrolet handed its brand new Camaro one of the biggest stages in American motorsport in 1967, and a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner drove it around the Brickyard in front of a packed house. Then the man who actually won the race that day refused to go anywhere near it. This 1967 Camaro SS convertible is one of the small fleet Chevrolet built for that month of May, and its story is stranger than the badge suggests.
Jeff Stolowski bought this 1970 Oldsmobile 442 convertible sight unseen, based on nothing more than a friend’s description of an estate sale find. Only after it arrived did he start noticing options that did not belong on an ordinary 442 — clues that led him to discover he had actually purchased Official Pace Car Number 1. He brought the car to the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, to share its story with the community that appreciates it most. Watch to find out what tipped him off.