The Indianapolis Motor Speedway this week pulled the cover off of the 2022 Chevy Camaro SS Festival Event Cars, which will be used to promote the Indy 500 throughout April and May.
The Indy 500 Festival Event Car is a long-time tradition of the Great American Race. Roughly 50 identical vehicles are dressed up in Indy 500 decals and are lent to central Indiana business leaders and dignitaries, who drive them around the Indianapolis area during the lead-up to the race in April and May to promote the event.
This year’s Indy 500 Festival Event Car is based on the 2022 model year Chevy Camaro SS Convertible. All 50 cars are finished in the Wild Cherry Tintcoat exterior color and feature special decals, which were designed by the Chevrolet Performance Design Studio in Michigan, promoting the 106th Running of the Indy 500. Other features of the car include a Ceramic White interior, Brembo front and rear performance brakes with red calipers and 20-inch black-painted aluminum wheels. Each of these cars also carries a unique GM option code, further differentiating them from a regular, run-of-the-mill Camaro SS Convertible.
Dean Stramer, Chevrolet Camaro marketing and advertising manager, congratulated the Chevy design team for their work on this year’s Indy 500 Festival Event Cars.
“We’re glad to continue the tradition of providing Festival Event Cars to build excitement for the Indianapolis 500,” said Stramer. “Our Chevrolet Design team did a great job making this year’s Camaro a stand-out.”
The 50 festival event cars were lined up on the front straight of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday for the debut event and a celebratory group photo. Allison Melangton, the senior VP for IndyCar series owner Penske Entertainment, was present at this week’s debut event, along with 500 Festival vice president Pat Merna and Chevy Motorsports marketing boss Todd Christensen, among others.
“The ‘Festival Event Cars’ have reminded Indianapolis-area residents of the upcoming Indianapolis 500 since the 1960s, and this year’s fleet of unique Camaros again will turn heads as they are driven around Central Indiana,” the Indy 500 organizing group said in a prepared statement.
The 106th Indy 500 will go green on Sunday, May 29th, 2022.
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So they built these in a color they are no longer producing??? Dumb.
So fans are the Pace Car and want one the same color only it got cancelled. Great marketing.
Limiting the color will just make these cars worth more down the road.
They can build all these cars but not my camaro for three months.
Or mine after 9 months!
I order a 2ss oct.16th in the same color it still has not been pick up yet nice going chevy!!!!
I ordered a shadow gray metallic 2SS convertible in August. Two weeks ago, the order was finally accepted, then last week, it was back to "your order has been entered, but not accepted by Chevrolet." No explanation, no guess as to when or if the car will be built. Have an appointment with the dealer on the 18th to figure out what i want to do.
Very good from GM to build so many of the same Camaro for fast-paced customers! Since all Camaro were painted in the same exterior color and have the same interior, this special series will have been produced inexpensively.
The suppliers were finally able to deliver identical parts to GM again - in other words real cost down at GM for the customer!
Looks good. I like it.
Whats going on with 6th Gen Convertible Top Glass. GM doesn't tell customers anything.
GM doesn't tell customers anything, period!
The car I ordered has been built, dealer said should be 3 - 4 weeks tops for shipping. It's been 8. I've reached out to GM, crickets. All I get is "congratulations on your new car." When I ask where it is, they tell me to talk to the dealer. I explain to them, dealer doesn't know; they tell me they can't give me any further information.
Absolutely ridiculous. 10 months to get it built, 8 weeks, rapidly approaching the one year mark (next week), and they still can't deliver. Just don't understand why they have a hard time selling Camaros!
Can’t build my 2ss 1le not enough parts GM says camaro sales are down, can’t buy one if they don’t build them .
Never a truer statement made!
WOW! They can make 50 in this color but they couldn't build mine this week in this color!!
Maybe you should buy one of these. I have a 2000 Camaro Brickyard 400 pace car replica, and am considering one of these. At that time GM took 15% off of the sticker price, the car had almost 5,000 miles. In today's market, hard to say what the cost might be.
GM discontinued wild cherry tint coat for model year 2022. Replaced with an awful Mazda like radiant red. Look for the wild cherry tint coat cars to rise in value due to rarity. And the fact that it’s the best color GM has ever produced.