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August 25, 2009

Jalopnik Reader Finds Papa John's Long Lost Camaro

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This is the kind of story that warms the grease-stained hearts of gearheads everywhere. For over 25 years, Papa John Schnatter had searched for the 1971 1/2 Camaro he’d sold to save his dad’s business—and found the multi-million dollar pizza pizza chain that bears his name. But after a Jalopnik reader decided to help, the long search is finally over. The owner of the car—which has been turned into 800HP drag car—is now a whopping $250,000 richer, and tomorrow, Camaro owners are going to be able to get free pizza from Papa John’s. How cool is that? Head over to Jalopnik for all the details on this awesome reunion.

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Comments

leojmcca
Aug 28, 2009 at 1:58 pm

Great gearhead story.

Any millionaire’s lose a blue 68 Charger :)

ILL-Virtue
Aug 28, 2009 at 11:06 am

TOPlamborghini
Aug 26, 2009 at 6:41 pm

I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It’s just common sense.

???????????? WTF does this mean this doesnt even sound like common sense. I think this dude had too manydrugs in his body when he typed this.

kpgarfield
Aug 28, 2009 at 10:44 am

Awesome. That’s dedication.

GoudyStyle
Aug 28, 2009 at 7:05 am

GREAT STORY

XTZTwinTurbo
Aug 27, 2009 at 11:49 pm

HA! Maybe that will make up for the hundreds of free pizzas I got from 2000 to 2006 from all the people I know, who worked there over the years! Wow. how these companies loose money in one way, and make still make a profit!

GTguy155
Aug 27, 2009 at 11:29 pm

lol iv seen it in the commercials. didn’t know it had that much of a story behind it

insane73
Aug 27, 2009 at 5:27 pm

nice to see he can spend $275.000 to buy his old car back but he can’t pay his drivers that bust there asses making him rich min. wage…….really nice.

lukesimianer
Aug 27, 2009 at 2:32 pm

can ANYONE understand wtf “TOPlamborghini” is saying??

leojmcca
Aug 27, 2009 at 11:43 am

That is a lot to pay for his old Camaro, but when you think about all the free publicity, he made out like a bandit.

SipesRacing
Aug 27, 2009 at 6:20 am

Thats wild, wish my Camaro was street legal I would have teken them up on the free pizza yesterday! lol but that is bad ass that he found his car.

TOPlamborghini
Aug 26, 2009 at 6:41 pm

I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It’s just common sense.

pttransamdriver
Aug 26, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Now that I know Pop’s a Gearhead I will be getting pizza from there more often.

PsychoVolvo
Aug 26, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Hah! I wanted to see what would happen. The phrase “has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?” has been passed around the internet a lot. In fact, if you type has with a space after it in google, your first suggestion is “has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?”

sarahsmile90
Aug 26, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Nice story…I had just read about this the other day.
But WTF PsychoVolvo?

___nes___
Aug 26, 2009 at 11:58 am

Glad to see he finally found his Camaro!

Looks PsychoVolvo had one too many! haha

PureBusiness
Aug 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Thats so cool,but i don’t know of anyone that has a Camaro to get the pizza.I tried to click on the rules.

JoeCool97Formula
Aug 25, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Wow, that’s a cool story. No wonder Papa John has been using that car in the commercials.

TOPlamborghini
Aug 25, 2009 at 6:30 pm

@ PsychoVolvo: What?

PsychoVolvo
Aug 25, 2009 at 4:54 pm

has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

TOPlamborghini
Aug 25, 2009 at 3:41 pm

This story is almost as good as that guy whose dad Wrecked a new 1970 Pontiac GTO like almost 40 years ago, and he just recently found the wreck.

Fordguy66
Aug 25, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Thats awesome, I love stories like this. Really makes me wish I could find my dad’s 1971 Grabber Blue Mustang Mach 1. Thats the first thing im going to do when I win the lottery lol; I’ll offer $250,000 for it too. That car not only means alot to my dad, but the rest of my family as well. It was practically a hand me down car until my dad got rid of it in the late 80′s in running but not so great condition. :( I hope someone took care of it after that.

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