Buying a 90's magazine cover car ICON (1995 Callaway C8 Supernatural Camaro) for way too CHEAP!
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Reeves Callaway was obsessed with building the fastest cars in the world that were totally street-able (and reliable as possible) at the same time. Hopefully you agree with me on how under-appreciated these old Callaway cars are, and if you have time after this video, check out my new channel, where I NAME AND SHAME the most UNRELIABLE cars of 2024: czcams.com/video/iMD2S_klKHA/video.html
That Callaway intro was so sick!!!!
Mr Callaway would be proud you are the owner of this car. Your understanding of his creations and video about himand this car is a celebration of his contributions to the world of car enthusiasts.
Your sunfire is gay.
This is why every single car I've owned and made modifications to, I've used the Callaway mantra.
@BigYellowFont So’s yer face.
Always happy to see something thats not "look, I got another Ferrari", but seeing something unique like this is even more appreciated.
I would take this over 10 Ferrari’s
Yeah, anything that's not a boring German silver car, of either brand, is interesting
@@sscamaro9144 I doubt you would take it over an F40 lol.
Again this annoying as kinda comment
@@basshead. I would. I wouldn't feel bad at all about piling on the miles in a weird Camaro and it's easier to fix than an F40. This is usable every day.
When Reeves Callaway was much younger, I lived about mile away from one of his early shops, in Deerfield Mass, I was privileged to sweep his shop floors,and empty trash cans,
He was an early mentor and hero to me.
And I hung out and received a first class intro to the automotive world.
Inspired me to attend college and receive a degree in mechanical engineering, which has served me well for over fifty years in the automotive world.
Ran into Reeves at
Lime Rock many years later,we reminisced for a bit,Still one of my heroes.
Hoovie thanks for the reminder of an incredible time in my life.
Was that back in his Volkswagen days?
Very cool.
He was partnered up with a fellow whose last name was Gray, the name of of the shop was Callaway -Gray And they had some vw’s but they were working on some early Cobras also, mostly they were into building “ Stroker” motors for racing, the shop was a small three bay .
@@Novaman66did you see the exotic VW stuff there? The Oettinger 16v’s and The super rare Graff 16v? Tim Hildibrad bought the VW Calloway rights (New Dimensions) and saw all the parts he got with buying all the Calloway VW stuff. I heard Calloway experimented with several Oettinger 16v’s.
The best story! Thanks for reminiscing
THIS. This is proper old school hoovies garage content. As much as I like the fancier stuff, I have missed the odd ball and weird land yacht content.
Speaking of weird land yachts, what is that in the background at 10:39? Haha
R.I.P. Reeves Callaway
This guy made the Camaro and the 'Vette really shine, and it's great for us all to know that the legend continues to this day.
and Impalas
@@aps454Dang, I don't remember that! I need to look it up now... 👍
I appreciate the engineering. I really don’t like the body style. Far too much front overhang and too much 90s round-over everything style.
I'm so glad this unique car made the channel. I love seeing the rare cars that average Joe's could potentially afford. Thanks for sharing this gem.
You haven't seen a rare car here. All you see is a piece of shit Camaro with a body kit. It's almost as pointless as the worthless ElDoRODo.
Yeh? Where do I buy one?
@@Kremithefrog1Well you could have bought this one if you weren't so slow....
@@borismcfinnigan3430 true. And my name isn't Joe. :(
Problem is the callaway online guys overvalue these cars big time .
Id never pay 30k plus for an old C4 thats sat in a garage all its life
Callaway ZR1s different story those are collectible
Love how your back to buying interesting cars again. Those supercars are cool but hoopties is where its at.
I like both, i find it interesting when he buys supercars that end up being hoopties cause he rarely buys the best one on the market..
that vintage video was awesome. loved seeing the little red Mk2 Golf sitting there with Calloway trimmings on it! i remember reading the Motor Trend issue with that car in it. i was stuck on Camaros back when i was a kid in the 80s and 90s, so this one was always on my list of "badass"
I didn’t have a chance to meet Reeves in person unfortunately. However, I did get a call out of the blue from him one day. I own #37 of the Alfa Romeo’s and he was compiling a database and writing a book on his early years. We talked for over an hour about growing up in CT as it turned out we had similar roots. Fabulous man and I’m happy to know you’ve discovered just how special Callaway cars are! Congratulations and I hope it becomes a permanent part of your garage.
They made it look like a Mitsubishi 3000GT.
Definitely looks like one from the side
Wow.. it's not actually a 3000GT
They had me fooled there for a sec 🤣🤣
I was going to say the same thing
Yes, they were aiming upwards. 😂
The front looks like the Pontiac Sunfire.
Callaway Tuning and Callaway Golf are related. The golf company belongs to the father and came well after the tuning company was established. It’s been a long time since I heard the story but supposedly the father asked if the machine shop could mill him a metal driver out of aluminum and from there the Big Bertha Driver was born. Drivers were still made out of wood at that time so it was a revolutionary idea.
Wow
Other thing they have in common is that they are both good at driving!
Callaway gardens , near Columbus GA is also theirs and predated (and likely funded) the other ventures. It all started with a textile mill that they built up over a century.
Not at all accurate, aside from the relation. Ely Callaway was fairly wealthy and bought half of Hickory Sticks. Eventually Ely bought out the other half and renamed the golf club company to Callaway. Ely hired out a club designer that came up with the Big Bertha, made of steel, not aluminum. Also, metal woods were already a thing. Callaway really revolutionized it with the "oversized" metal wood.
@@The_CZcams_Critic This is why I read the comments!
One of my favorite Hoovie video's of all time. Makes me think back on my 94 Camaro. Love the 80's video and music interspliced throughout. The research for this video was just spot on as well. Great video and thank you for the content.
His father did the golf stuff. I got a tour with the NCRS around 1995 at the Old Lyme facility. I want to say they had a Twin Turbo LT5 on the dyno ready to go. It was a fun day meeting Mr.Callaway and his team.
This is what i love! don't get me wrong the super Car stuff is cool and all but nothing goes over a wierd rare car keep it up hoovie love from Germany
nothing goes over ... naja kollege
@@xzhendso5736hehe
@@xzhendso5736 "nothing goes over ... naja kollege"
I guess it doesn't translate that well directly. xD
Nooothing compares…nothing compares…2UUUU!
@@xzhendso5736 grammar bullying... Almanism in a nutshell. Not a good style
Having Jake come onto the channel fulltime was such a good idea Hoovie!
Admittedly, I watched this one drunk, but this video was fantastic. Beautifully edited. I recognize that you are pumping up a car you got a deal on, but still awesome. I am happy about how well your life is going. I hope you do the Christmas special again where you over pay and give the ml back. [Long time viewer, first time commenter]
That’s awesome! A friend of mine had 3 Callaway Corvettes….a green sledgehammer speedster, another speedster and an all blue carbon fiber Callaway hardtop. They are awesome cars but very few people seem to know about them
I’m so glad you picked this car up from Gary. I’m a collector of these cars, and have 5 C8s and 3 stock bodied SuperNaturals. The C8s look exotic but make great drivers, due to their Chevy architecture.
I agree they are still undervalued, but I believe that they will appreciate in the next decade.
Great score
This guy's hogging all of the C8s for himself
As collector do you run or drive them? I'm into the syclone models made in 1991.
Do you own the silver one that sold on BaT?
I drive them all. I used to daily drive several of them
No, I have not purchased either of the three silver cars that have sold in the past months.
Callaway is a legend. They always make killer modified cars
The sledgehammer!!! Vette went 250mph
@Hoovies Garage As an owner of two very low milage manual six speed, LT1 Camaro Z28's it is a delight to see this car on your channel!
My buddy’s uncle Rob had one of these as a daily driver back when they came out. Then he had them make a new one for him at the end of the Camaro run. It was in Autoweek. Rob had some awesome cars back in the day.
I’ve admired Callaway cars since I was a kid who used to devour every car magazine I could get my hands on. And growing up in CT I thought it was pretty awesome that they came from my neck of the woods.
Really bummed to learn that Reeves is no longer with us; I hadn’t heard until just now. RIP
In my life, I've only seen One Callaway Twin Turbo Corvette. It was on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Beach Haven, to exact, around 1987 or 1988. And I freaked out and ran around to the driver's side, and lo and behold there was one, Joe Piscopo at the wheel.. lol... So on that day I got to see a rare car and a celebrity from Saturday night live Fame.. nice!
This is a crazy memory for me. When I was a young man I had a job as a mechanic for Avis rent a car. One of the owners came to our store in his Camaro Callaway. He said he did not drive it much and it would not start once he stopped it. I got to drive his car from the employee lot to the mechanics shop to change the battery. This was one of the coolest cars I ever drove and a memory I will not forget
I do remember how Callaway Corvettes were the top performance cars in the late 80's into the mid 90's. I couldn't afford them at the time. Had a base 86 5.0 LX with Nitrous. A Camaro like this is not only rare, but a great performance car. For the cost of this Camaro you can hardly find any decent performance car. I have seen stock Cobra Mustangs of this era go for 30K. This would run rings around that car. Never thought one of these would go for so little money. Even a basic Saleen is more than this and they made a lot of them...Great buy! I would love this car!
The drag co-efficient is strong with this one.
sean3823 So is IMO being just butt ugly.
Uglier than stock. That’s a problem for me. I know beauty is subjective…
It seems like sean is talking about aero and these replies are about a drag show.
On a serious note, its almost impossible to tell if a cars aerodynamics are low drag just by looking at it. The shape of the outside skin is just a small part of the total.
@@TonyBasuro No. I'm saying that this thing is Butt Ugly.
Here in Europe Callaway is unknown. I discovered them when they went to Le Mans in 94 and 95 with modified Corvettes C4. They did quite well. One of their race car is for sale in Germany...
Thank you tyler for exhuming these old stories!
I had the pleasure of seeing this car up close a few months back. Nice to see someone get it who understands what it is. And 430 HP while not tremendous by today's standards was an absolute hammer blow in the time is was made.
What a befitting tribute to a legend. Way to go hoovies.
Shout out to Hoovie for the edited in footage of CNC Machinist working on car parts. Driving my modified Lesabre T type is great fun but making parts out of a chunk of metal is more rewarding. Thanks Hoovie for the recognition of the workers behind the scenes. And for sharing another unique car with us...
The 1987 Buick LeSabre T-Type in black is one of my all time favorite Buicks. I remember seeing it in the showroom alongside the Grand National, Reatta, and the Skyhawk.
@@RedLP5000S Mine too. Black is the only color I like for that model. I'll never be able to afford much more than that as my weekend car, but I'm not complaining. Between local car rallies and Tavaris Hernandez, Hoovie and Wizard I enjoy much more than my humble T type ...
The prices on all the Callaway cars just went up 100%. Thanks Hoovie.
I love that exhaust note. Not sure I'd ever turn the stereo on, because I'd prefer to listen to the engine.
17:36 before the Car Wizard diagnoses the issue, I can tell you that it’s a front wheel speed sensor. My 1996 Camaro had the same issue.
Yoo i have had this problem for years on my 96 Z. I will try to change the speed sensors out. I cleaned them a while back but that didnt do anything. Thank you!!
I had a friend with a Callaway Corvette, but somehow the Callaway Camaro slipped under my radar, surprising to me because I've owned many Camaros including my present 67 RS/SS convertible. Thanks for the history lesson on these.
There was only one Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette.
As the guy above me said, your buddy had the twin turbo variant, which had like 380-400 horsepower or so from factory depending on modelyear from what I remember.
The record-breaking "sledgehammer" was a 1 of 1 prototype with totally different engine etc. Dont remember the horsepower but upwards of 1000, most likely.
The normal one was still a really nice car, and I like the look of them when they had the optional sledgehammer-look aerokit mounted much more than the facelift GM did to the C4.
A friend of mine from high school days mid nineties had either his grandfather or father who sold cars in the 60s and 70s. Anyways, he told me his dad or grandad sold an RS/SS to a gentleman years earlier. Fast forward to the 90s and they discovered a barn find of an RS/SS on blocks, covered with blankets with less than 20k miles on it. It was that particular gentleman's car that his granddad or dad sold. The guy had passed away years earlier but put the car away for the winter. I swear it was an RS/SS. You are the first person I have ever heard comment on that car.
@@GoldenCroc somewhat correct yes, the Sledgehammer was 898bhp, the B2K twin turbos were 345bhp in 87, then 382bhp, and in 91 eventually made it to 403bhp. They were replaced by the Supernatural in 92, which started at 400bhp and went up from there.
The twin turbo outputs could be changed with various Callaway options, there were a few fitted with the 100+ package.
@@CaseTheCorvetteMan From your post, I am satisfied with the qualified figures I gave considering I went from memory of a car magazine I read as a kid, 30-odd years ago. Of course I could have looked it up easy enough these days, but where is the fun in that 😀
Pure gold. This is why I enjoy your videos so much, you find great cars nobody else can be bothered with and have fun with them. Your enthusiasm is infectious thanks for sharing this.
I used to own a magazine cover pickup truck. It was a Dodge Dakota that was a precursor to the SS models. They only built three of them and I'm sorry I ever let it go. It was the old 90's boxy style but had every performance option they could bolt to the 318 engine. It looked totally stock except for the decals saying "Mopar Performance" on the sides. Unfortunately it was made more for a 1/4 mile than the long distances I was driving it. Traded it back into the dealer for a car and have regretted it ever since.
I had a 1983 Rabbit GTI with a Callaway turbo. 0-60 in 6 seconds. That was a rocket back in the day coming out of the malaise era.
I also had an '83 rabbit cabriolet with the Callaway turbo kit, micro fueler, and fifth Injector. I sold it back in 2016/17. I completely regret it was so much fun to drive and a cool conversation piece. It had some rust to deal with and I ended up getting rid of it.
RELEVANT! Just purchased a 1996 6spd LT1 Camaro. Had to have it at $2k all beat up. I've fixed almost every issue with it so far including a new set of not destroyed charcoal leather seats. All in with doing the repairs myself I'm at about $3300 for a near mint Z28 blk/blk with T-tops/6spd
When I was just a young boy I lived next to Reeves and family. He was a busy man as you could imagine and I was just a young lad next door so I didn't get to know him well. When I would be outside playing he would drive by coming to or from wherever.....he would always wave to me and smile and rev the engine of whatever cool car he was driving at the time. It really started my passion for cars at a young age and now I am a very successful mechanic and product developer for one of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world. I give Reeves a lot of the credit.
Only negative that I noticed was the lack of any upgraded exhaust tips! I love this addition to your colection.
What an amazing piece of automotive history. I remember the Callaway Corvette from back in the day but I don’t recall seeing this beauty! Stunning. Such impressive performance numbers for its day. It still holds up today. Congratulations on your latest find. Very cool indeed!
I had that issue of R&T. This is awesome. My mom had a 1995 red RS that was nothing like this performance-wise, but I feel like it at least had a similar vibe. The RS also had a pretty premium interior, even for a Camaro. And that was a nice place to sit in 1995.
You had? What happened to it? I still have my copy.
@@coletrickle-km7clpages got stuck together
Great video, and an excellent tribute to Reeves Callaway. Now that he's passed, I predict those twin turbo vettes will begin to command a premium, once people our age talk them up into relevance again. My dream Callaway is a speedster! No top, Sledgehammer style and exotic livery, with wild colours over supple, rich leather. I'm sure those are tucked away by discerning collectors. I'd love the bright green one over bright blue original show car, or dark blue over saddle.
Cars like this and the EldoRODo are why I watch the channel, always cool to see coverage of these rare and unique cars
Ah the memories....I was a R&T subscriber throughout most of the 90's and it would consist of the bulk of my in-class reading material throughout high school (92-96). So I'm sure I had this magazine in my backpack at the time...
You're correct, Reeves Callaway wasn't the Callaway golf guy. That was his dad, Ely Reeves Callaway.
Just watching…Late to the 90’s party! Soooo “jelly” Mr. Hoover! Fantastic buy…and nice tribute to Callaway👊
Living vicariously through you 😂
This kinda buy is what got me watching your channel and I’m glad to finally see a car/vehicle like this on the channel again. The odd and different versions of basic cars just like the typhoon you bought to drive home or car week years ago that got me into your channel. Please keep it up.
Technically Callaway is not a tuner but a manufacturer. This is why they had to EPA certify cars.
As a young 80's Turbo-era kid frm the U.K.. Seeing what Callaway was doing was mind-blowing.
The stats on their car were bonkers. Iconic company for sure
Hoovie scooping up all the 1990s and early 2000s cool concept cars. That Camaro has a 3000GT / Jaguar look going on.
Awesome as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
What a find !!!! Congrats, Hoovie !!!! So glad you are the owner of this unique vehicle !!!! 😃👍
awesome car man, i had an abs inop light randomly come on on my 94 trans am to find out that the rear 3rd brake light bulb was working intermittently. once i replaced the bulbs the abs inop light stayed off. such a weird issue, had to google it lol. that seems to be a common issue for this, try replacing the bulbs and they have to be factory style not LED. might work for you. something with the resistance of that 3rd brake light tied into abs
Same findings here; I wanted to replace all the bulbs with LED in my '96 WS6 & the ABS light went on. Put in new filament bulbs in the 3rd brake light ABS light turned off. Agreed, weird.
Just add a resistor after the bulb.
This channel is getting better and better ❤❤❤
Dang I loved the editing at the beginning with the old Callaway footage! What a cool car!
I love this. Reminds me of my old ‘94 Z28 with an LT4, Comp Cams street cam, Hooker header back exhaust, classic K&N intake and Flowmaster mufflers with cutouts riding on Mickey Thompson streets. 30 years ago that was a pretty sweet setup believe it or not.
You swapped a 96 LT4 in your Camaro?
Didnt take much to make those run hard
My friend you never disappoint...Awesome Camaro such a cool piece of automotive Radness.keep up the the good work,your time and effort is appreciated and well noticed.Rock on...
I ended up parked next to one at local Pittsburgh car cruise in the mid-90s. I talked to the guy that had it and I remember him telling me it was one of the first testing cars that they did. Looks like the same car but the one I was parked next to was silver.
I still have a picture of it on my phone
I love seeing clapped out hooptie ferrari's and lambo's like any other car lover but seeing rare cars like this is also awesome. keep it up hoovie
Such a shame that he's gone but these great cars will surely keep his memory alive, quite possibly because of your fine video. I do expect the prices to skyrocket.
Now that's a financial mistake I would love to make.
I grew up nearby Callaway Cars, seeing them driving on the highway was always so exciting as well as seeing their cars at almost every Chevy dealer. Growing up in a Suburban family meant I got to drool over these things my entire childhood.
Super sweet find! I grew up 10 miles from the Callaway factory in CT, so very thrilling to see Callaway getting some much deserved attention again
Loving these everyday buyer priced gems that you have been buying and featuring. I like your Lambo and Ferrari videos as well, but these every man cars are more in line with Hoovies Hooptie Garage
This was my favorite car when I was younger, and this was my favorite generation of this car. The styling of this particular specimen hasn't really aged well, but there will always be a very, very soft spot in my heart for fourth-gen Camaros. Star Trek: The Next Generation was all the rage in the early-/mid-90's, and this car epitomized the styling revolution away from the angular slopes and simple curves of the Coutachs, and Testarossas, but hadn't quite yet transitioned to the melted-candle/jelly-bean style of the late 90's like the (like the '96 Taurus). The first-gen Ford Probe was another of this breed, sporting the same speeding-bullet styling with horizontal laser-line body accents and an enormous, helipad-sized rear windshield.
35th Anniversary edition is still #1 In my books! Such a beauty.
Love it. It's also very special and a real treat to learn about. I knew nothing, so thanks for sharing. Keen to see what the Wizard will make of this, too!!
Well done man… well done! Glad to see it on the channel! Glad to see it appreciated.
The headlights are killing me.. the blackedout borders remind me of someone with way too much eye liner.
This - the other detail work on the body is fantastic in my book - but the front shnozz they sure messed up on. Shame, the Corvette of the era they nailed all the details of.
Magazine cars had much thinner black boarders, not sure why this car has those super wide ones.
I remember this car, and knew exactly what it was before clicking. I'm a big fan of all of Callaway's cars. I don't usually like any American cars, but this is an exception. Thank you.
The amount of cool cars I've learned about just from this channel is crazy!! Love it!!!!
Great job on this video Hoovie. So glad you featured a Callaway. I remember the Corvette Callaways as a kid in the 80s. I had no idea he did a Camaro.
Hey!!! Are we just going to ignore the Torino sitting on the grass along the taxi way?
Need more Hoovies Garage videos instead of more Good morning CZcams videos a good channel but not as good as the original Hoovies channel
FAX
That because he lost his asian wife he lost his moxy
whatever
This is awesome. Really appreciate your increase in production quality!
Loving this era of hoovies garage
Next up Lingenfelter!!
Great video man, love the car!!!
Great video? It just started and you haven't watched it yet, how do you know it's great?
its the same reason why 25 people already saying dumb sh** on here just want to be seen. Like u. like me lol @@JSFGuy
@@nickjames6813some yes, this is just flat wrong not having watched the video.
@@JSFGuy I'm fast boy
@@JSFGuy Ok ur right but who cares you and I are just another part of the same problem 😂
Brilliant video, synthwave music and use of Callaway clips are spot-on!
Wow man, I remember the cover of that R&T magazine. Awesome that these cars still live on somewhere...
Hey now! nothing ugly about the WS6!
You sure about that? The Camaro hasn't looked good since the 60s 😂
Edited because Samsung doesn't know what a camaro is 😂
It looked like a melted jelly bean with warts. But that powerplant though... Edit: Ok, the mid-generation refresh looked like a melted jelly bean with warts. The early-90's pre-refresh WS6's were actually sexy. And the post-refresh "Catfish" Camaros weren't all that great looking either... could have been mistaken for a late 90's Malibu or *blech* a NUMMI Corolla.
“Welcome to Hoovie’s Garage, the *coolest* automotive channel in all of CZcams…” 😎
hoovie is a lot of things, and has cool cars. but that man is like the opposite of cool hahahahaha.
I remember buying that issue of Road and Track when I was a teenager. It’s so weird, I was just talking about it a week ago. The C12 from Callaway that was around that in that era was sweet too.
No friggin way... a Calloway C8!!! I had that same issue of Road and Track. I dreamed of owning one of these when I was teenager. I can't believe you got one. What a find! Hope we get to see more of this beauty.
That engine bay is so clean you could eat a steak dinner off of it
After cooking said steak in engine bay.
@@JSFGuy oh yeah. Put it on that big ass alternator after letting it run for 30 minutes idle. Flip at 3 minutes for the most perfect engine bay steak you can make. If the intake manifold gets hot enough, you can cook it on there for the grill marks!!
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@@JSFGuyAzzhole.
I remember reading about those cars in magazines. It was fun to dream as you read the articles.
Thank you for a solid tribute to a legend. Hello from Butte Montana.
This is by far my favorite car,s I'm a oldie almost 80 yrs old, one of my favorites in my younger days was a 67 Camaro until I seen this beauty on your vid. way to go.
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That car is awesome! I would totally make that a sunny day and a few car shows car. Great find!
I read the entire front page of that warranty and that was probably the best thing I’ve read in the last few days
Big fan of Hoovie buying these unique, collectable, quirky cars. Keep it up
Love the concept magazine cars! Glad ur doing well!
I think this is your best video mate. Tv production quality with the intro and history. Amazing.
Hoovster you’re a cool dude man, you have great taste for genuinely cool stuff.
My dream Callaway is the C12. I've never heard of this Camaro, but it is now in my top five Callaways.
Fun fact having grown up near them i use to use their unofficial test track, it was called the hammonasset connector. It connected i-95 to a state park, Up until the early 2000s absolutely nothing and no one was on the road after the park closed, it’s about maybe 3 miles long and pretty much perfectly straight and smooth, And no cross roads during that length until you cross rt 1 into the park gate.
You would do a test run to make sure no cops are on the road, do a u turn and drive till the interstate again and do a final u turn before you gun it. A truly fast car had the space to hit 200 in relatively safety.
Then in the l 2000s the town decided to put the police station and town hall there.
😄👍🏾
That car is just a piece of art, loved it! Thanks for sharing!
I loved the cinematography and cut scenes. Very on brand for the car in particular and Hoovie in general.
Tyler that is one hell of a find! Like I said on your IG I saw one of those Camaro's on I95 North in Bridgeport CT about 10 or so years ago. and I was blown away never knew they made a Camaro. I do believe it was Red but I could be wrong. I had the honor to get to visit Callaway in Old Lime CT when I was in GM tech school in the early 2000's Was really neat since they did not give out tours. Also I have seen a late model camaro on the streets of New Haven CT that was a Callaway car.