Apollo

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1968 Chevy Camaro

If you have even the most passing interest in motorsports, you know the name Pratt & Miller (P&M), or at the very least you know their infamous yellow C6R Corvettes that have dominated the sport. The Pratt & Miller team has captured eight consecutive GT1 manufacturer and team championships for Chevrolet and Corvette Racing in the American Le Mans Series and scored 72 victories in 102 races, including an overall win in the 2001 Daytona 24-hour race and five GT titles in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They were also behind Cadillac's factory race program in the SCCA World Challenge GT that delivered manufacturers' and drivers' championships and their Pontiacs earned team, manufacturer, and drivers' championships in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. That's why we were stopped in our tracks when we saw their name listed as the builder of this '68 Camaro.

Only very recently branching out into the hot rod and restoration market, P&M wants to bring their philosophy of precise engineering and balanced handling and horsepower to the street. This particular car, dubbed Apollo, was built as a surprise for John Hendricks, founder and chairman of Discovery Communications. Hendricks is a notorious space race enthusiast and you might assume the project name comes from the moondust color, but it's actually named for the shifter, which is a joystick from an Apollo mission. There's only two of them in existence, and the other one is on the moon.