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Man is this sad....

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#1 ·
I think this is the Camaro that was at the ACA's in Fredrick, MD....very sad.
And so ironic it happened on September 11, 2016 :( and now it's gone.





It’s hard to believe that it has been more than 15 years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 shook America to its core. It’s a day that none of us will forget and many will likely tell children and children’s children about in the future. 9/11, and the events that followed it, are what inspired Kelly Fromm to create Veteran 1, a military tribute themed fifth-gen Camaro that he then toured the country with. But fifteen years to the day after that tragic event, Kelly would have another event happen that he will never forget as he looked on as his beloved patriotic emblazoned fifth-gen burned to the ground inside its trailer.
You may have seen Kelly’s first car, Veteran 1, on these very pages and on just about every LS-themed page and publication around. That car was eventually raffled off to help fund Kelly’s main reason for building the car, promoting veteran’s rights and funding the Active Dogs Academy Service Dog Foundation (ADASDF)—an organization that donates it’s time and efforts to provide service animals for the disabled.

A Little History
Kelly himself is a veteran, having served as a Staff Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division. He retired in 2001, just as the war in Afghanistan was ramping up. A friend of Kelly’s, Sargent Joseph Tutten, was subsequently killed while serving in Iraq in 2007. Fromm says this was the impetus to build Veteran 1.
Tutten was killed on Christmas day of 2007 and Kelly says that Veteran 1 became a way to honor his friend and get the word out about veteran’s rights. The fifth-gen was then airbrushed in a myriad of patriotic and military-themed iconography and shown at automotive gatherings of all kinds around the country. It immediately became a sensation across the nation.
 
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#9 ·
Very sad. Hopefully he had very good insurance and can get another one built. That was some intense heat - looked like it melted the engine right down to the crank and rods.
 
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