THE BEAST

Jerry Jenkins' 1969 Camaro

- WORDS BY CHRIS HAMILTON PHOTOS BY JOSUE GARCIA

Jerry Jenkins calls it “The Beast,” and the name is not bravado. It’s recognition. Since the day he earned his driver’s license at fifteen, Jenkins had carried a single image in his mind: a 1969 Camaro finished in Laguna Blue. Forty-five years in telecommunications kept the lights on, but retirement finally gave him the time, and the budget, to turn that teenage vision into steel and horsepower.

Two intense years and north of eighty thousand dollars later, The Beast emerged.