LABOR OF LOVE
Hot Rod|March 2021
This 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Gets Show-Winning Restoration
Jerry Heasley
LABOR OF LOVE

Frank Arone’s 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 is the latest in a group of nearly two dozen muscle car restorations that he has done. He owns a restoration shop that, while it is a business, “is not highly profitable for me,” he admits. “It’s a labor of love.”

Frank restored many of these muscle cars prior to opening this restoration facility, which goes back to the year 2000. He was a muscle car enthusiast first.

Frank has been painting cars since he was 12 years old. His interests have covered Corvettes to sport trucks, four-wheel-drives to SUVs, and now at 62, his interests have circled back to muscle cars, which are what he really likes. Over the years, he’s amassed some noteworthy models, including a 1969 COPO Camaro, a 1969 Z/28, and a 1967 Yenko Camaro, among others.

When describing the restoration of this 1970 Z28, Frank says he wanted to go over the top. “Not a lot of people have really done the second-generation Camaro to this level. There’s a few out there, but we just set out to try to make the car as good as we could,” he says.

This story is from the March 2021 edition of Hot Rod.

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