When baseball season ends and the weather starts to turn, David Carpenter returns home to West Virginia, where a partially-rebuilt 1979 Camaro Z/28 sits in the garage.
Carpenter loves Camaros. He has two of his own. But this particular car has a special meaning for he and his parents, Darrell and Barbara. It was their first car, the car they’ve had since the day they were married.
Now, Carpenter and his father, a recently retired mechanical engineer at an aluminum plant, spend their winter hours together rebuilding it.
“They’ve had it forever, and I finally talked them into, ‘Hey, let’s do this thing right.