All Adam Prante wanted to do was to come down to Bowling Green and have a good time at the 2016 LS Fest with his late-model fifth-gen Camaro SS. Entered into the Grand Champion set of events, he had a full weekend of fun ahead of him: Track-X at the National Corvette Museum, autocrossing and the 3S challenge at Beech Bend’s circle track and a run down the quarter-mile. For 2016, the Show-n-Shine section of the competition had been eliminated, and that probably worked into Prante’s favor, because on Friday night he was rear-ended at a stoplight hard enough to push the Camaro into the back of another car. Check out the damage below:
Luckily, instead of packing up the wounded Camaro and calling it a bad weekend, he persevered: He tie-wired the license plate onto the back of the car, removed the mangled exhaust, and after making sure that the subframes were ok, kept on running. He will get the Camaro put back together when he returns to Ohio. Having your ride hit sucks, but if it’s not out of commission, there’s no real reason why you can’t have fun with it! Race cars are functional, not pretty…and besides, ’tis just flesh wounds!
