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RIP Mr McFarland
What a guy :
McFarland (as editor for Hot Rod in 1966) :
"We got an early release '67 Camaro from Chevrolet after Motor Trend had done its story," McFarland later recalled. "We did our tests too, but I suggested that we
could help Chevrolet cement a relationship with the high-performance community by circulating it around the performance parts tooling manufacturers to use as
a test mule for making hard parts.
This gave the manufacturers a 10-month jump, so when the car was released, a dozen manufacturers had performance parts ready to go for the new car."
Jim McFarland with the 1967 Camaro SS "Red Car." HOT ROD's famous project car was the first Camaro shipped to California and the first to run
11-second elapsed times on a quarter-mile dragstrip.
McFarland (as editor for Hot Rod in 1966) :
"We got an early release '67 Camaro from Chevrolet after Motor Trend had done its story," McFarland later recalled. "We did our tests too, but I suggested that we
could help Chevrolet cement a relationship with the high-performance community by circulating it around the performance parts tooling manufacturers to use as
a test mule for making hard parts.
This gave the manufacturers a 10-month jump, so when the car was released, a dozen manufacturers had performance parts ready to go for the new car."
Jim McFarland with the 1967 Camaro SS "Red Car." HOT ROD's famous project car was the first Camaro shipped to California and the first to run
11-second elapsed times on a quarter-mile dragstrip.
RIP Mr McFarland
