New hope for GM: The Camaro?

Buying a Camaro was never practical, but Smith, who is now 53 and designs commercial signs for a living, couldn’t resist; he ordered a Camaro in February and picked it up last week in Maryland.

His new car is jet black; creased metal rises over the back wheels like big shoulders. Its headlights, shaped like sunglasses, stare out from the long hood.

“I love the way it looks; it’s all angles,” he says. “It has almost a Battlestar Galactica, Darth Vader look to the grill in the front. There aren’t going to be any cars out there that look like this car for a long time.”