[roadracetransam]

I was driving down to Target today and I saw a Black '11 HPE600 Camaro. The dealer was closed so I do not know about the Price or Milage. From what I saw thru the window it is a 6 speed, serial #35 with 602hp accoring to the decal on the dash.
How much do these things worth?
I have a thing for black f-bodies....

[Chris Ronson Jr]

Cool car. Saw one here driving around a parking lot and then parked..sounded great.

But yea...it's a Hennessy. Lot's of people are not big fans of the man, myself included. He screwed a lot of people over and never had to make things right (therefore never did) with many people. In my opinion, he should have been banned from the automotive community. Sadly this happens a lot. Out here in So Cal there was a shop called Strictly Performance (which was a Car craft, Hot Rod, CHP, Camaro Performers, etc favorite) he basically did the same thing but to Corvette and F-bodies and taking it one step further even commit VIN fraud on cars...he too got away with it and re-opened a shop (which I believe is either barely getting by, or failed). Funny because he used to work for Morgan Motorsports (another failed shop due to fraud) which was also a magazine favorite...

you would think the magazines would listen to its readers and fan base and not want to promote a guy (any guy) who does shady business.

Funny that you bring up Strictly Performance. I had "hired" that guy to be my sponsor way back in the day. Basicaly he did some free computer tuning and I stuck his stickers on the TA. Even though it was "free" it was too much of a hasle to deal with him. We had an appointment set, I get the car, put it on a trailer, tow it over ect. and he tells me that he does not have time to do the job. We set up a new appointment, brought the car over again, and he had me wait around for 2 hours, while he was playing video games with his staff, before he got strated on the car.
About a week later I found out that a friend of mine had him convert his automatic to a stick. He had all kinds of issues with him and with the pedals. He welded the pedals into his car. I took a look at the work he did, it was scarry... He does not know how to weld and he did no prep, he didn't even take out or fold back the carpet far enough, burning a holes in it. The weld itself was sloppy, with a half a dozen welding wires dangelling from a spot weld.

Was that Zoltan by chance?

Update on the Car. I called up Hennessey with the VIN and the car number. They told me that it was a mailed out package, supercharger+exhaust, and they did not work on this car themself. I guess that would be a good thing.
I called up the dealer, they told me that car has 1000 miles on it and they are asking $39,900.
I am out of town till Thursday, so if it is still there on Friday, and they give me $10K for my '04 GTO, I will buy it $34K.

That sounds like a pretty good deal. Thats essentially 1.5 x's the stock performance at the stock SS price tag..only thing that worries me is who installed and tuned it?

This post has been edited by Chris Ronson Jr: Jul 25 2011, 05:53 PM

[roadracetransam]

Yes, Zoltan's car. Small world. I gave up on tuners very early on, bought HP tuners software and taught myself how to do it.