Every year at the Rolex24 at Daytona, major race involved manufacturers show up to give all of us fans a look-see at their newest wares.  Chevy has been there for years and this year brought along a trio of Camaros that lit up the track prerace along with some BMW’s and those Audis and R8’s this olelongrooffan spotted in the pits that I shared with my fellow Hoons the other day. There was even a rental CTS in the fleet parked out back.

This is one of the Stevenson Motorsports Rolex showcars they had displayed out in front of those transporters. Those computers in the background are where fans can register their email addresses and receive a Chevrolet Motorsports t-shirt as a prize. For three or four years this olelongrooffan as been signing up and getting two or three shirts per race. And I have yet to receive any solicitations from Chevrolet. This olelongrooffan must have made a mistake or two when entering my email address.

Until Wednesday of the week prior to the Rolex24, the number 9 Stevenson Continental GT showcar was parked under that Chevrolet awning next to its number 57 sibling. And why was that showcar no longer there when this olelongrooffan strolled by a couple days later? Well, my fellow Hoons, on Wednesday during practice for the Continental GT race, that #9 race car caught on fire and it destroyed the entire front end of that Camaro. They drug that showcar from the Chevy booth to the garages and stripped it of all of its front sheet metal and installed it on the burnt out racecar which, incidentally, finished sixth in that race. I mean it. This olelongrooffan just can’t make this shit up.

 Over at the BMW booth, they had this sweet BMW McLaren F1 GTR on display. I shot an image of that display placard to preserve some idea of what it accomplished but my elcheapoebay camera decided this olelongrooffan really didn’t need to know that information as that image is blurry as my eyesight about midnight on Friday nite. 

Now this olelongrooffan could probably google the hell out of this racecar but then I would deprive my fellow Hoons from the privilege of doing so and sharing that information with us in the comments.

Although I am equally certain there is a Hoon or two who know this racecar and its accomplishments off the top of his or her head.

Located next to the Bimmer booth were the offering by Mazda. I gathered up this image of the ass end of this CX5 for reasons now unknown to this olelongrooffan. Maybe just because it is a longroof.

And here is another view of the “red show car” mule that has been making the rounds this season. Hell, the Chief Blooger saw it out in Austin, Texas just this past week.

And the dashboard in this showcar sure showed me a whole helluva lot fewer wires in the dashboard areas than did the racecars this olelongrooffan had spotted down in the yellow garages just a short while ago.

This Mazda RX7 was also there on display. As an aside, that Grand Am souvenir trailer visits the place where I schlep trailers for servicing twice a year. The first time I saw it, this olelongrooffan was giddy as all hell. Now? I don’t even give it a second thought.

I have shared with my fellow Hoons how the sighting of a particular car will remind me of a fellow Hoon (muthalovin’: NSX, the Chief Blooger: Datsun Z car, $kaycog: GT40). Well spotting this MX5 reminded me of the one and only Blake Z. Rong.

Stevenson #9 image courtesy of Grand Am Racing.

All other images Copyright Hooniverse 2013/longrooffan