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1947 FORD COUPE DELUXE STREET ROD
BY LAURA ROESCH PHOTOGRAPHY BY BONNIE BRANT
ONE OF CAM STEWART’S FONDEST MEMORIES DATES BACK TO THE EARLY 1970S, DRAG-RACING HER DAILY DRIVER AT THE TIME, A 1968 DODGE SUPER BEE. THE BEE SPORTED A FACTORY EXPERIMENTAL ENGINE, A GREAT PREREQUISITE FOR ONE OF CAM’S FAVORITE PASTIMES, RACING “LEAD-FOOTED” AROUND THE TRACKS NEAR ATLANTA.
"I have always been impatient at the starting line,” she says with a chuckle. “It’s a waste of time and material to be smoking the tires.” She settled for revving the Bee’s engine while waiting on the countdown. Barely five feet tall, Cam is imposing in her presence, so when she expresses her lifelong love of speed and driving fast, she leaves no doubt
that she knows what she is talking about. She once was a passenger in a ride-along at Road Atlanta in a car owned by NASCAR race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. She suited up, giddy with excitement, but with her small stature, she needed help to get into the race car. She swears Earnhardt reached speeds up to 165 miles an hour.
