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Originally Posted by SexyLxy
Welcome Dave! I have a quick question for you, where did you find the graffiti wall. That is awesome and I would love to take some pics in front of a wall similar to that one.
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The Graffiti wall is off the 5 fwy by the Citadel. Sorry i cant help more with any info, i saw it off the freeway one day and had to backtrack one day in my Camaro. i probably couldnt find it again if i had to. lol
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Originally Posted by Vettezuki
Welcome aboard Dave  Several of us will be seeing you on the 14th at Mickey D's.
I am curious to know more of what constitutes a Granatelli signature series. |
cool, cant wait to meet you guys.
Ok so heres what the GSS cars are.
In 1994, JR Granatelli, at the time, was the CEO of Paxton Superchargers and the CEO of Granatelli Motor Sports. He offered 3 packages as a Granatelli Signature series.
1) Full Suspension upgrade
2) Full suspension, plus some engine upgrades
3) Full suspension, some engine upgrades, and a paxton supercharger
This package was available through the dealership and with the stage 3, almost doubled the price of the car. In total, about 250 total GSS camaros were sold with the LT1. Few to none have popped up lately, but the prototype sold at barrett-Jackson a few months ago.
When the LS1 came out, he didnt offer any package, you could just order the individual parts. He had sold Paxton, and no supercharger was available for the LS1 at the time.
The following is now compiled from emails from JR Granatelli himself and executives at Matco tools.
In mid 2000 Matco tools contacted JR Granatelli about making 5 GSS Camaros for them as a special promotional offer. Matco was to award them to their top 5 franchisee owners at a presentation in Las Vegas.
Well, once they announced the winners, 2 of them didnt want a Camaro. 1 wanted a truck, and the other wanted a Matco toolbox full of tools. So the order was down to 3 cars.
The first one, mine (and i believe the only red one) was built by JR himself at his facility in oxnard, CA. The reason he did it was because the winner lived in Arizona, so it was easy to have the car shipped from GMs Build location in Canada directly to Granatelli Motor Sports, have him do his work, then use a car carrier to bring it to the new owner.
The other two cars were shipped from GM to their new owners, likely on the east coast. The parts were then shipped from Granatelli to the owners, and instructions were sent to have a local dealership install the parts.
The best way to distinguish my car from others are two signatures from JR Granatelli. The first, and most obvious is on the air lid, the second is on the inside door jam of the drivers door. I was stupid and it took me up until 2 weeks ago to cover that one with clear vinyl. every tie a washed the car, the signature came off a little, so now you can see its there still, but its not as nice as the one under the hood.