If you’re a regular reader, you may recall I am the announcer at the Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race. After spending more than two decades up in a booth, I have seen folks come and go, but there are some that choose to linger—both racers and spectators. I’ve made many friends over the years.
Plenty of them are from Canada, which is a reasonable distance from Mid-Michigan Motorplex. In fact, metro Toronto is closer to the drag strip than the homes of many American participants. One of those Canadians is Bruno Beltrame, who’s been racing at PSMCDR for the better part of 20 years. His trusty Ram Air IV GTO would often upstage cars with more cubes, and eventually he roped in his son and daughter to race their RAIV Firebird and Camaro SS/RS.
Bruno now can consider himself a snowbird, spending the winter months in Florida while enjoying the solid-lifter tapping of this 1969 Camaro SS. Solid lifters, you ask? That means it’s an L78 rated at 375 horsepower, the top Super Sport engine. Additionally, owner number two added L89 aluminum heads—a nice bonus. This Camaro features most of its original paint plus the interior. Factory gears are 4.56 too, helping this Hugger dip into the low-12s on street tires thanks to maxing out many of the stock components.
Join Muscle Car Campy as he meets my Canadian friend at Hemmings’ Musclepalooza Southeast last week in Orlando. And if you dig this video, you’re really gonna dig Campy’s others.
