Show/Strip Z/28
Chevy High Performance|April 2017

This first-gen Camaro gets work done on the dragstrip and on the show scene

Taylor Kempkes
Show/Strip Z/28

PHOTOS: Robert McGaffin

You’ve probably heard of muscle cars referred to as Pro Street, Street/Strip, Pro Touring, and Street Machines, but we bet you’ve never heard of Show/Strip. What is Show/Strip? Glad you asked. If you looked it up in your handy-dandy muscle car dictionary you would find a picture of Kathy Hoover’s 1969 Camaro Z/28. Her Chevy was built to handle a lot more than just the local car show—it was also built to race.

Each person builds their muscle car with varying degrees of versatility, but typically they only have one purpose in mind, whether that’s going fast in a straight line, cruising the boulevard on a Friday night, or wowing the crowds at a show. Inevitably, muscle cars of the late ’60s check at least a couple of those boxes, but they really don’t excel in more than one area. Kathy’s car, on the other hand, placed First in the Pro Street category at both the Detroit Autorama and the World of Wheels car shows while also competing in the grueling Hot Rod Drag Week all within the first year after the car was built. The fact that her Camaro is so capable in the car show arena and at the dragstrip means we saw no other option than to create a new category in which to place it. Hence, Show/Strip.

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