Camaro Day!!

A couple of weeks ago, Payne Chevrolet hosted a Camaro Day. This is the second time they've done it - both were very successful.

Last year, I heard that they got a radio station up here broadcasting - of course they were mentioning the free hamburgers we were serving, so we were swamped with people.

This year was a lighter affair, because since we (wisely) didn't include the radio station this time, we got people coming over who were just interested in the Camaros we had on display.

And they were beautiful. We had really old ones that had been souped up and tickered with over years. We had a Camaro convertible from the 90s that was impeccably cared for. And we also had a couple of our most memorable sales from this year's new, 2010 Camaro.

One of those sales was the Bumblebee Camaro - a new coupe designed to resemble Bumblebee from the "Transformers" series (most of the "Transformers" characters are "played" by GM vehicles in the recent film series). The owner of this Bumblebee Camaro had the most adorable grandson who came with him, who told me how much he loved Bumblebee and how it was his favorite car. His grandfather even told me that the kid would sneak into the garage at night and tell his family, "Shhhh! Bumblebee is sleeping."

Just adorable. They were very nice to talk to and had a lot of fun.

Another new Camaro we had was one purchased by a young local girl, who had us paint the hood, roof, and trunk of her black SS Camaro completely pink. At first, many here were skeptical about the procedure, but since the customer is always right (and hey, she was paying for it!), we sent it to the body shop to get done. And let me tell you, we were all completely wrong, because this Camaro looks AWESOME. If she had gotten it painted completely pink, it would have looked silly, but since she mixed the pink with the black, it ended up looking really cool. My favorite part was where the body shop painted the Chevy bowtie logo in the front pink, too! It tied the whole thing together.

It is wonderful that we have the opportunity to gather the local community and have events like these. Everyone involved had a lot of fun, and it was a great experience altogether, especially for me, since this was the first major event I've been involved with since I started here at Payne.

Hope to see you next year!!

**I'll be posting pictures and video of the event as they are available**