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Tr6 · 11-09-2015, 11:39 AM

Hello all,

I figured I would do my due diligence and post up the story of this whole event, from start to finish, answer questions and post up pictures later on and press keeps popping pictures and articles up left and right!

To begin... WHAT A WEEKEND! Even without my camaro being delivered to me and turning me into a media monkey and being everywhere... It was a FANTASTIC, ONCE IN A LIFETIME weekend! I was told by my dealership (whom also flew us down) that Chevy has invited us to have a VIP experience on Nov 7th during the XFINITY race day and we would be meeting with AO, Tom P and other GM execs then have lunch with them. We landed at Dallas Love Field Airport about 30 minutes later than we were suppose to but were picked up by the fleet manager, Michael (the guy I ordered my car from) in a brand new Suburban. We drove over to the Texas Motor Speedway where the FindNewRoads team had setup their demo cars, little did I know that we drove by the truck that actually had MY car in the trailer at the time! Which later on I will post up the pictures of the truck that personally picked up my vehicle from the plant parking lot and drove all the way down to the Huffiness Chevy @ Lewisville to get inspected.

After we got there around 1030am, met up with my friend Hughes and his girlfriend Julie there as they were there also. We walked around a little bit and checked out the gen 6 Camaros, they also had 2 Vettes, a Volt, Silverado, Malibu and a Diesel Colorado. After checking them out for a little bit, my wife and I were golf carted to get our full "HOT" pass which apparently was a FULL pass to anywhere we wanted to go during the event as well as ALL events in November (a monthly pass). Right before we got our passes, we met and were joined with Chevy ZONE manager, Chevy NASCAR Marketing manager as well as the Chevy Regional director for Texas area.

After we got our passes, they took us to the test drive area where they let us drive the 2015 C7 2LT as well as the Colorado. Which we were really glad that we could because, I was interested in trading in my 09 F150 that my wife drives for the Colorado as I love the design of it but realized it is way too small as we have a 92 pound female German Shepherd and will be adopting a male German Shepherd soon, and yall seen the pictures, I gotta hit the gym LOL... So I guess we will be upgrading to a Silverado now haha.

After the test driving, we all went back to the Gen6 staging area where my wife and I got to meet Tom P first and a minute later AO. This is when it truly started becoming a DREAM, it was just surreal... I've only ever heard of them, hear them in interviews that was recorded and put up on YouTube but here I am meeting them and talking to them face to face AND they also did know my name... So it was just unbelievable.

All 8 of us, after a meet and greet and talking, started walking over to the NASCAR Xfinity as well as the real big boys NASCAR garages and talking together all the way there, taking pictures and listening to stories, ideas and what the future holds for the Camaro. I did ask a few questions like if there were any Z cars or upgraded SS was going to be released, both AO and Tom at THE same time firmly said NO COMMENT! Then we just laughed a little and then AO said, don't worry. This is just the beginning of the new Camaro platform and no one will be disappointed. AO did tell me that this time around the extra options team and them started working together from the beginning unlike the gen5s which is why we are seeing all the extra parts being announced by Chevy. He also did say they are working on a lowering spring for MRC. Since MRC is already GODLY, they didn't prioritize MRC springs over the non-MRC. So we should be getting those soon as well which honestly... Is MEH. The car is fantastic lol.

After talking just 10 minutes talking with both AO and Tom.. I started getting a glimpse of how amazing Chevy truly is after their renewal (post bankruptcy). They TRULY do care for the enthusiasts and do listen to them, also do their best to make sure they get EXACTLY what they want! As some know that I have always been an import guy as it just seemed better for me and more suited for my driving tastes till the renewal which I did tell them that also went into detail to exactly why. They understood and were even happier with their creation.

After touring the garages, looking at the cars, taking pictures plus people watching we all headed to Fuzzy Taco's right there in the middle of the track for a fantastic lunch. Looking back at our lunch time, I had to apologize extremely sincerely to everyone at lunch after they surprised me with my vehicle because I really did complain to them about how the companies they are using for logistics are just horrible! I told them in 2 days my vehicle would have been built for a MONTH and still did not ship and how we had couple people on this very forum had their vehicles shipped that live in Texas whom's vehicles are going to Mesquite, TX just like MINE but mine hasn't shipped!!!!! I told them GM needs to forfeit the contract they have with their current logistic companies and get new ones!! So as you can see after how the events folded, I felt absolutely TERRIBLE but they all were actually even more happier than I bitched and moan about it because it made the whole event even more sweeter for them!

After lunch, we all walked over to the actually track as the drivers were being paraded in the back of Chevy Colorados and then proceeded to stand in front of the podium and listed to the God awful singing version of our amazing National Anthem. Just standing @ the finish line, you realize how actually steep the straight aways are let alone the banks... 1 of my legs was a good half a feet above my other leg! Right after the National Anthem, AO and Tom P were taken back to the FindNewRoads staging area to talk with the local gen5 camaro club and spend some time with them and apparently unannounced to me to prep for my surprise.

My wife, I, Michael@Huff and Chevy Zone + Regional managers all hung out at the pit for about 30 minutes or so after AO and Tom left and we were told to go back to the FindNewRoads staging area. After being there for about 15 minutes or so and just checking the other vehicles there AO came up to me and told me to follow him as he wanted to show me a new performance feature they added for the SS. As I started following him and as I cornered the semi trailer... There she was. At first, my wife started hitting me a little bit all shocked as she saw the garnet red with black wheels, for me I saw that and the quad tip exhaust as well and that's when it hit me saying Na uh, nope, no way, impossible... No way in hell. AO told me that is MY car and to go take a look at it, as I am walking to the driver side the driver door opens up and BAM, Danica Patrick comes out asking if that it is MY car and she is handing the keys over to me! I told her that is NOT possible, my car is still 3800!!!! Here is a video that GM did about it and you CAN hear me say it! I wouldn't try to open the video on your phone but on PC you can make it full screen. Michael @ Huff had ordered me a key chain had
"FIRST 2016 CAMARO
ALICAN "TURK" BOYACIOGLU
TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
HUFFINES CHEVROLET" inscribed to it.

VIDEO

After a gagilian pictures with Danica, my wife, AO, Tom and all, my wife and I did separate interviews in front of a camera as well which I have no idea how terrible THAT interview is as I was having an "out of body" experience. I was not able to use my brain at ALL. I was SHAKING, my hands, my knees... Had absolutely no train of thought, my freaking jaw was hurting from being open and smiling. After the interviews and pictures, I had to run away from the car to smoke so it would at least stop the shacking a little bit which help just a little bit I was still shacking like crazy!!!!

What a crazy event! It truly was surreal... Not only did we get treated like VIPs but the delivery of the car made it jump even higher than VIPs to something that doesn't even exist! I do not have any words to explain how amazing this whole weekend was... Once in a lifetime experience, surreal, godly... Nothing comes even close to it!

I cannot hate nor love enough all whom were involved in this suprise, including a few of our forum members because they knew too and didn't say anything!

After the event was over for us, they asked us if we wanted to watch some of the race and chill behind the pit stop just to watch it but of course I did haha. Drove the car straight to the dealership from the Texas Motor Speedway also did impeded traffic quite a few times because people at stop lights were taking pictures and talking to us, a whole other experience! When we got to the dealership, we finished the paperwork, onstar/xm and while finishing those up; Huffines added a extra paint protection package (fancy wax basically), extra exterior and interior detailing free of charge as well as.

I will reserve a couple posts below this to add my "report" to include my DRIVING experience. I did finish 1/3 of the break in already in a day haha. I have some catching up to real life sadly right now and won't be able to write MY whole review and experience about the car itself!

~Turk

11-09-2015, 11:39 AM	#1
Tr6 The Dogfather Drives: #1 off the line for a customer. '16 Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Andover, KS Posts: 2,621	My #1 produced order weekend fun times report! Hello all, I figured I would do my due diligence and post up the story of this whole event, from start to finish, answer questions and post up pictures later on and press keeps popping pictures and articles up left and right! To begin... WHAT A WEEKEND! Even without my camaro being delivered to me and turning me into a media monkey and being everywhere... It was a FANTASTIC, ONCE IN A LIFETIME weekend! I was told by my dealership (whom also flew us down) that Chevy has invited us to have a VIP experience on Nov 7th during the XFINITY race day and we would be meeting with AO, Tom P and other GM execs then have lunch with them. We landed at Dallas Love Field Airport about 30 minutes later than we were suppose to but were picked up by the fleet manager, Michael (the guy I ordered my car from) in a brand new Suburban. We drove over to the Texas Motor Speedway where the FindNewRoads team had setup their demo cars, little did I know that we drove by the truck that actually had MY car in the trailer at the time! Which later on I will post up the pictures of the truck that personally picked up my vehicle from the plant parking lot and drove all the way down to the Huffiness Chevy @ Lewisville to get inspected. After we got there around 1030am, met up with my friend Hughes and his girlfriend Julie there as they were there also. We walked around a little bit and checked out the gen 6 Camaros, they also had 2 Vettes, a Volt, Silverado, Malibu and a Diesel Colorado. After checking them out for a little bit, my wife and I were golf carted to get our full "HOT" pass which apparently was a FULL pass to anywhere we wanted to go during the event as well as ALL events in November (a monthly pass). Right before we got our passes, we met and were joined with Chevy ZONE manager, Chevy NASCAR Marketing manager as well as the Chevy Regional director for Texas area. After we got our passes, they took us to the test drive area where they let us drive the 2015 C7 2LT as well as the Colorado. Which we were really glad that we could because, I was interested in trading in my 09 F150 that my wife drives for the Colorado as I love the design of it but realized it is way too small as we have a 92 pound female German Shepherd and will be adopting a male German Shepherd soon, and yall seen the pictures, I gotta hit the gym LOL... So I guess we will be upgrading to a Silverado now haha. After the test driving, we all went back to the Gen6 staging area where my wife and I got to meet Tom P first and a minute later AO. This is when it truly started becoming a DREAM, it was just surreal... I've only ever heard of them, hear them in interviews that was recorded and put up on YouTube but here I am meeting them and talking to them face to face AND they also did know my name... So it was just unbelievable. All 8 of us, after a meet and greet and talking, started walking over to the NASCAR Xfinity as well as the real big boys NASCAR garages and talking together all the way there, taking pictures and listening to stories, ideas and what the future holds for the Camaro. I did ask a few questions like if there were any Z cars or upgraded SS was going to be released, both AO and Tom at THE same time firmly said NO COMMENT! Then we just laughed a little and then AO said, don't worry. This is just the beginning of the new Camaro platform and no one will be disappointed. AO did tell me that this time around the extra options team and them started working together from the beginning unlike the gen5s which is why we are seeing all the extra parts being announced by Chevy. He also did say they are working on a lowering spring for MRC. Since MRC is already GODLY, they didn't prioritize MRC springs over the non-MRC. So we should be getting those soon as well which honestly... Is MEH. The car is fantastic lol. After talking just 10 minutes talking with both AO and Tom.. I started getting a glimpse of how amazing Chevy truly is after their renewal (post bankruptcy). They TRULY do care for the enthusiasts and do listen to them, also do their best to make sure they get EXACTLY what they want! As some know that I have always been an import guy as it just seemed better for me and more suited for my driving tastes till the renewal which I did tell them that also went into detail to exactly why. They understood and were even happier with their creation. After touring the garages, looking at the cars, taking pictures plus people watching we all headed to Fuzzy Taco's right there in the middle of the track for a fantastic lunch. Looking back at our lunch time, I had to apologize extremely sincerely to everyone at lunch after they surprised me with my vehicle because I really did complain to them about how the companies they are using for logistics are just horrible! I told them in 2 days my vehicle would have been built for a MONTH and still did not ship and how we had couple people on this very forum had their vehicles shipped that live in Texas whom's vehicles are going to Mesquite, TX just like MINE but mine hasn't shipped!!!!! I told them GM needs to forfeit the contract they have with their current logistic companies and get new ones!! So as you can see after how the events folded, I felt absolutely TERRIBLE but they all were actually even more happier than I bitched and moan about it because it made the whole event even more sweeter for them! After lunch, we all walked over to the actually track as the drivers were being paraded in the back of Chevy Colorados and then proceeded to stand in front of the podium and listed to the God awful singing version of our amazing National Anthem. Just standing @ the finish line, you realize how actually steep the straight aways are let alone the banks... 1 of my legs was a good half a feet above my other leg! Right after the National Anthem, AO and Tom P were taken back to the FindNewRoads staging area to talk with the local gen5 camaro club and spend some time with them and apparently unannounced to me to prep for my surprise. My wife, I, Michael@Huff and Chevy Zone + Regional managers all hung out at the pit for about 30 minutes or so after AO and Tom left and we were told to go back to the FindNewRoads staging area. After being there for about 15 minutes or so and just checking the other vehicles there AO came up to me and told me to follow him as he wanted to show me a new performance feature they added for the SS. As I started following him and as I cornered the semi trailer... There she was. At first, my wife started hitting me a little bit all shocked as she saw the garnet red with black wheels, for me I saw that and the quad tip exhaust as well and that's when it hit me saying Na uh, nope, no way, impossible... No way in hell. AO told me that is MY car and to go take a look at it, as I am walking to the driver side the driver door opens up and BAM, Danica Patrick comes out asking if that it is MY car and she is handing the keys over to me! I told her that is NOT possible, my car is still 3800!!!! Here is a video that GM did about it and you CAN hear me say it! I wouldn't try to open the video on your phone but on PC you can make it full screen. Michael @ Huff had ordered me a key chain had "FIRST 2016 CAMARO ALICAN "TURK" BOYACIOGLU TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY HUFFINES CHEVROLET" inscribed to it. VIDEO After a gagilian pictures with Danica, my wife, AO, Tom and all, my wife and I did separate interviews in front of a camera as well which I have no idea how terrible THAT interview is as I was having an "out of body" experience. I was not able to use my brain at ALL. I was SHAKING, my hands, my knees... Had absolutely no train of thought, my freaking jaw was hurting from being open and smiling. After the interviews and pictures, I had to run away from the car to smoke so it would at least stop the shacking a little bit which help just a little bit I was still shacking like crazy!!!! What a crazy event! It truly was surreal... Not only did we get treated like VIPs but the delivery of the car made it jump even higher than VIPs to something that doesn't even exist! I do not have any words to explain how amazing this whole weekend was... Once in a lifetime experience, surreal, godly... Nothing comes even close to it! I cannot hate nor love enough all whom were involved in this suprise, including a few of our forum members because they knew too and didn't say anything! After the event was over for us, they asked us if we wanted to watch some of the race and chill behind the pit stop just to watch it but of course I did haha. Drove the car straight to the dealership from the Texas Motor Speedway also did impeded traffic quite a few times because people at stop lights were taking pictures and talking to us, a whole other experience! When we got to the dealership, we finished the paperwork, onstar/xm and while finishing those up; Huffines added a extra paint protection package (fancy wax basically), extra exterior and interior detailing free of charge as well as. I will reserve a couple posts below this to add my "report" to include my DRIVING experience. I did finish 1/3 of the break in already in a day haha. I have some catching up to real life sadly right now and won't be able to write MY whole review and experience about the car itself! ~Turk __________________ 2SS, Garnet Red with Adrenalin red, NPP, MRC M6 coupe #33 off the line #1 order for Customer. Build thread HERE! Story of my delivery HERE! Last edited by Tr6; 11-09-2015 at 12:17 PM.