The winner of the Best of Show prize for the ninth annual Gran Turismo Awards went to Mary Pozzi and her 1971 Chevrolet Camaro that’s been heavily customized.
Pozzi’s Camaro touts an LS2 engine that’s been modified to produce 620 bhp. Bolted up to a beefy 6-speed Tremec T-56 Magnum transmission, the engine sends power to the Falken-shod Forgeline wheels and a Currie-built Ford 9-inch rear end. To ensure more than straight-line performance, the suspension has been upgraded with Hotchkis parts. Anvil carbon-fiber panels replace the heavy sheetmetal hood, front bumper, trunk, and the center piece of the rear spoiler. The back seats have been removed in the cabin to make way for a 4-point rollcage. Corbeau seats and AutoMeter gauges replace the factory units and the door paneling iscustom.
Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Gran Turismo, personally picked Pozzi’s Camaro as Best of Showout of a field of other GT Awards category winners. Her prize—besides meeting Yamauchi on stage as well as Bryan Heitkotter, inaugural winner of the GT Academy—is having her Camaro modeled by the Gran Turismo team, Polyphony Digital, and made as a playable car in the game. How cool is that?
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