On A Rampage

Roadster Shop Points the Way Down the Road Less Traveled With Their Race-inspired 1970 Camaro

- Jason Reiss

Through the years, the second-generation Chevrolet Camaro has often been overlooked as a performer mainly due to the popularity of the first-gen Camaro. But when your business is building showstopping, track-stomping machines like the folks at Roadster Shop, the desire to be different pushes you to conjure up an insane, one-of-a-kind Camaro—and then take the brash step of naming it Rampage. A fitting name for a car designed to cause destruction among the competition. “I always thought that the second-generation Camaro had a little bit more of an exotic look to it, more so than an American muscle look. We happened to have a great customer who shared the vision, so we twisted his arm a little,” recalled Roadster Shop co-owner Jeremy Gerber.

Their in-house designer, Chris Gray, put the rendering together and the company presented it to car owner Alex Covington, who then made the decision to get the project underway. The Camaro, which was plucked from the desert, was super clean and straight, although covered in patina from sitting. It wore all original sheet metal right down to the floors—a real rarity in this day and age—but was ripe for blasting to clean up the surfaces.

Once the car was back in the shop and ready to be worked out, they braced the shell and cut the floors completely out to make room for the Roadster Shop chassis underneath. Roadster Shop’s Fast Track full chassis is loaded up with all of the custom options they offer to underpin this beast. In addition, the chassis has been configured to fit the wide body perfectly.