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Wakefield vintage car owner raises money to repair vandalized 1980s Camaro


A Wakefield vintage car owner's Camaro was vandalized last year. Now, he and his wife are raising money to help repaint the vehicle. (WJAR){ }
A Wakefield vintage car owner's Camaro was vandalized last year. Now, he and his wife are raising money to help repaint the vehicle. (WJAR)
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Scott Joyal's 1980 Chevy Camaro Berlinetta is a showstopper on the road.

"I have a shelf full of trophies for it," he said. "It's a really nice car for the year."

It's more than a car to Joyal. It's a physical reminder of his best friend, Ray.

"[Ray] ended up dying of brain cancer and his wife had the car in her possession," said Joyal in an exclusive interview with NBC 10 News. "She couldn't take care of the car and decided to sell it so I bought it."

That was eight years ago. Since then, Joyal has upgraded the ins and outs of the beloved Camaro.

"Just keeping the car up to what he was doing and trying to make it to what he was looking for," he said.

Joyal has been showing off the new upgrades at car shows across the country. But that all stopped after his car, which he has in honor of his best friend, was vandalized on Labor Day weekend.

"The car was just completely painted," he said. "Every panel was touched. Every panel had paint on it. The headlights, the doors, the windows, everything was painted."

Joyal found the car in his shop spray painted with profane language and graphic images.

The people responsible were arrested, charged and convicted with vandalizing the car.

"They caught them, but I'm left with repairing all the damage," he said.

Insurance covered the cost to clean the car's interior and remove most of the paint. However, Joyal says his insurance company declined to pay for a repaint.

"It damaged a lot of the original paint on the product," said Joyal. "So, we have a GoFundMe to get the car repainted."

As of Jan. 17, they've raised $145. Their goal is $10,000.

"Once I found out that the insurance company wasn't going to do anything, I decided that I was going to do something and get some help," said Dorothy Joyal, Scott’s wife. "To get his car back to where he needs it to be, so he won't be looking at it and seeing all the paint on it."

The couple hopes the community can understand that this is more than just a car.

"It's more sentimental and that's what it means to have that car," said Scott. "When you have the chance to be with a friend, that's what the car means to me."

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