Don Baskin's car collection

The crown jewel is a red 1969 Camaro ZL1 with the all-aluminum 427, heater delete and factory radio delete. It is one of the rarest Camaros ever built, and ThrottleXtreme reports that other collectors have offered him seven figures for it. His answer: not for sale.

Baskin bought his first 1969 COPO Camaro when he was 21, after years of racing his Nova. COPO cars were special orders that let dealers build big-block race cars Chevrolet didn't officially sell. Today he has three unrestored 1969 COPO Camaros.

This is where it started. Baskin picked up a 1968 COPO Nova at just 17, one of about 50 built with the L78 396 and a TH400 automatic, according to ThrottleXtreme. He raced it on weekends for years.

His favorite car is a 1968 Camaro Z/28 he bought in 1993. It still wears its original paint, original interior and even its original brake shoes, and it has only about 20,000 miles because it spent its early life on the drag strip, says ThrottleXtreme.

This one is family. His father bought this 1967 Impala SS427 convertible new, with the 425-horsepower L72 engine and the M22 Rock Crusher four-speed. Baskin told Street Muscle it's one of only two ordered that way.

A genuine 1969 Camaro Pace Car sits in the collection too, wearing the white-and-orange look Chevy made famous at the Indy 500. It's one of roughly 80 first-gen Camaros he owns, according to Street Muscle.

Not every Camaro here is a fire-breather. One of the most interesting is the third 1967 Camaro ever built, a humble six-cylinder car with a three-speed column shifter, as Street Muscle points out. It's a piece of Camaro history all the same.

Baskin still has the pair of 1970 Chevelle SS models he drove in high school, says Street Muscle. For a lot of collectors, getting back the car from your youth is the dream. He kept his.

He doesn't only collect Chevys. There are two unrestored 1969 Pontiac GTO Judges in the warehouse, and one is a rare convertible, according to Street Muscle.

One of the cars he cherishes most is a silver 440-powered 1969 Plymouth GTX that belonged to a friend who has since passed away. Street Muscle says it lives in his dedicated race shop.

For fun right now, one of his favorite drivers is a four-eyed Fox Body Mustang with a twin-turbo Coyote V8 swap, according to Street Muscle. It's proof that a Chevy fanatic can still enjoy a fast Ford.

Late-model muscle has a place too. Street Muscle spotted a Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk in the collection, the supercharged Hellcat-powered SUV that can embarrass plenty of sports cars.

Baskin has around 25 Hellcats, which tells you how much he likes modern horsepower too. The Challenger SRT Hellcat launched with a 707-horsepower supercharged HEMI and was the most powerful muscle car ever sold at the time.