When I started with GM engineering at the Chevy PowerGlide factory in Toledo, Ohio in August 1966, I stumbled across one of these gold color 1967 pre-release Camaros on the factory floor one day... didn't realize it was there... prolly wasn't this one... it had 2 bbl. 210 HP 327" V8 3 on the floor... back then, it was like no car I had ever seen before...
Buy the winter of 86 I had been to countless car shows and swap meets. I had never heard of or saw a 1st gen Camaro with a shifter on the column or bench seat. 87 I'm on a job and a painter shows up with this ratty 67 Camaro. Painted white with what was probably latex house paint, black steelies with no hub caps/wheel covers. Having a few friends with Camaros, we get to talking and he says its a three on the tree. I was like GTFO, I didn't believe it. Then he says it has a bench seat. I'm thinking someone through this car together from junk! It looked bad and I had never heard of this. Well, I went out and looked at it and sure enough bench seat and three on the the tree. It was gold interior and you could see the gold in the door jambs. 87, having no interest in a 6cyl, 3sp or bench seat car just thought it was an odd build who would want that. Along comes the internet and this shows up. Who knew, but there was one floating around in NJ. Whatever happened to it I have no idea but it looked pretty bad then.
My pappy one aunt and uncles all retired from the Norwood Ohio planet. Their employment perdated the Camro and some stayed till the bitter end of the closing of the plant. All that's left of the plant is the elavated parking garage. I'm nearly 60yrs old myself but I still remember going to the plant for open house summer tours hosted by the UAW. 😎😎
I have a 1969 rs z/28 camaro that was number 29 off the line late Dec of 1968 in norwood their is no coding on the cowl tag under the hood because that early of a 1969 camaro was not coded at norwood the only way you could tell if rs or z/28 or ss was by options put on chrome rear end engine inteary and so on. I found this out when I called gm to find out way their was no code on the tag I am putting the car back the way it was when new I got the car back in feb of 1983 from the late Virgil Cates of mansfield ohio cates speed shop type in on enternet Virgil Cates 33 willys and that is who had the car. The car is almost done it is ready for paint she will look great when done a long time dream come true thanks for reading little camaro note Bob.
+Cosmic Cloud yea I don't like the new ones either they don't have that unique american muscle car character and the ones are just lame everyone has one .the 69 is my favorite one
+Cosmic Cloud yea I don't like the new ones either they don't have that unique american muscle car character and the ones are just lame everyone has one .the 69 is my favorite one
Robert G - Thank you for doing the restoration! It's fantastic to see someone who doesn't immediately "wanna drop an LS in there," and beat the hell out of it. There are any number of ratty ones out there for those who want to do that.
You just cleared up some questions I have on a 69 Z/28 that I recently bought to restrore . I was wondering if it was an actual Z due to the lack of Code on the Trim Tag .
Not having watched this video yet...the first TWO body Camero/ Firebirds with matching and consecutive build numbers ending in 1 & 2 were discovered, bought, restored to factory spec., judged & certified on the Gas Monkey Garage program (being found as barn finds). The first build is (was) the firebird.. These same two cars were donated to a museum as such to this date.
kramden they didn't crush a lot of them back then. I've also seen a fully documented 1970 LS6 Chevelle pilot car built in Baltimore at a show. Part of the show display was the "build sheet" with a hand written note on it. The note said "It's going to need wings!". The manufacturers started crushing pilot vehicles when people started filing frivolous lawsuits for any and every reason they could come up with.
In 1966 that was 45 years ago that was a year I was born back then that's what you called real American muscle Chevrolet Camaros were built tough I love them cars I have a 1983 Camaro z28
If had known how this car would become such a legend in automotive history in 78 i would have never sold mine and id have a gold mine setting in storage! Because i had 69 z28 that had a color combo ive never another like it!!! Just like you never see the white with black rally stripes as there was only 2 made like that!!!!
Those were great engines. They would last forever and silky smooth. Glad the car has been saved. I remember this era of cars when I was ten years of age as the pinnacle of the American car as an artistic expression.
The Camaro was one of the thier best concepts ever. The first model had the best looking lines of any Camaro since. They could have continued to seel that model year after year for decades had they not kept changing it. A nwer modle does not neccesarily have ot have a new look. It just needs newr technology in it. Better brakes More fule efficient engine. Maybe change th einterior a little add or remove some guages. There's plenty of wys to change a car without mutilating it's beiutiful lines. That's like having your girlfriend get a new body after a few years. Usually it's not as good as the body she had when you met her. On an unrelated note; "The faster you live your life the sooner you reach the end."
No historic value here. But I own a 1988 iroc z28 5.7 liter. 16 inch gold rims. Second owner car had 5,000 org miles when I got it back in 2006. The owner built a garage for the car before he bought it. He passed in 2005 and son wanted to sell the car to pay for his new truck. Car came with a lot of options. It now has 7,330 miles. Has been setting since 2010. I had back surgery that year and again in 2013. Car has not been started since 2010. Owners son said the car had never been out in the snow or rain. Maybe one day it might be worth something lol.
I have an '87 GTA built Jan. 1987, the first month the 350" engines were allowed full production back in F-bodies. It has the TPI 350, but it's not low mileage, it has been driven and had the hell enjoyed out of it! i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/6e/92/0a6e925d76ea7b8a50b40ef04eb7a4b5.jpg
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this race car driver that chopped his car up knowing well that it was the first one built. unbelievable what people will do
Not so much the guy who built a race car out of it but all of the subsequent owners who were probably on a budget ,and couldn't afford a better chassis to race. All without realising the 5 or 6 figure car they had in their possession.
That's a nice story...the sad thing is, even after a meticulous restoration, cars can still end up junked again after they've been sold to a succession of owners afterwards. Even beautiful cars get purchased and then abandoned in collapsing buildings or even just parked outdoors.
Interestingly, the last car my grandmother ever bought was a '67 Camaro, new. I have no idea why she chose it. She was so short at that point that she kind of looked through the steering wheel instead of over it. On Christmas Eve 1968 she rammed it into a parked car and broke her nose but did all the usual holiday stuff the next day regardless. She was forced to stop driving not long after this, but the car was around till she died in 1974.
They made 220k of these. By 1970 you could buy one for a few hundred bucks in perfect shape they were worthless. Now everyone is acting like they’re priceless......
first car I ever owned, used 67 Camaro 327 2v Powerglide in Granada Gold. Monoleaf rear springs and drum brakes. Had the motor mount recall fix which was nothing more than a chain looped around one of the suspension arms. Rusted out around the rear window. Typical 1960s american.
I've been a GM guy all my life (for the most part even though I admit to owning 2 V8 powered Ford Rangers). However I've never been a big fan of the 1st generation F bodies. I don't hate them, just never really wanted one. For some reason, I've always liked the big aluminum logs at both ends of the 74-77 Camaros and especially the small back window on the 74s which was carried over from the 70-73 models. I own, drive and race a 74. With all that said, I find it interesting that the first of what would become one of the most popular performance cars in history was built with a straight 6. I'm not surprised by this though since many Camaros through all generations were purchased by women. No offense ladies...you obviously like style but most also value economy more than us gearheads. Not all of you though and my 24 year old daughter is the latter type. She's got a need for speed and is working on her own hot rod in my shop right now while I'm sitting at my desk reading my new Super Chevy to my twin 2 year old grandsons lol!
ray carter I love the old straight 6s. Years ago there was a 6 cylinder sportsman class at area circle tracks. We'd bore em out and run small block pistons along with a hot Clifford or Isky cam, an Offy intake and Holley 4 barrel. I actually have a 73 GMC short bed in my shop that I'm building a "buzzin half dozen" for right now. The parts aren't cheap (except the pistons) but I've wanted to build another 6 for years and this truck came with one. Here we go lol!
i didnt drive, but thats what my inline 6 was in. 57 chevy,then camero at our local short track. i started out running schooler cams , a good cam maker from jacksonville,fla.i believe he started out with crane then went his own way. call him up.you told him the specs and he would put it on next greyhound leaving.at the time i was getting little help from bobby and donnie allison who we took fishing at lake okeechobee (730 square miles of fresh water fishing)bobby would say, you got a bad ass moter,but your handling is awful. i need a cornfield to turn this thing in,lol
Schoenfeld (?) used to grind cams for them too. Not sure if they're even around now. I didn't drive the roundy round cars either but my uncle taught me how to build engines for his back in the day. I'm a drag racer @ heart when I'm not running my Freightliner down the road. I used to race a 74 Camaro w/a 427 small block in the outlaw 10.5 class but can't afford it anymore. I still do still raise a lil hell on "main" street with it on Sunday afternoons but it stays in the shop on Friday n Saturday nights. Too many kids w/so called hot rods (Hondas etc. w/fart can mufflers) try to test me if I take it out @ night!
never had a big block. hit 10.98 quarter mile in modified production with a 350,blew 2 rods out the side at the finish line. low 11s with 327. things went to 1/8 mile and i lost interest. took all my left overs from the past. build 350 for my 78 truck.it was a sleeper look with cast iron intake,no headers,but was pushing close to 400hp. marriage,kids, and a long layoff from railroad ended my hotrod days
cmscms123456 he saved the original parts for the car in his garage and back then they where street/strip cars so it wasnt stupid they even made yenko and copo camaros back then and the copo was a factory drag car and that is why we have paint codes so it can go back to its original glory.
my dad worked at Norwood and built that car also came up with sway bar for the big block cars and got a award for it!! I have my 87 irock built Aug 10,1987 the plant closed Aug 27,1987 G.M. never should have closed Norwood assembly could build any of them other models including the new ones!! to put 70 Millon dollars in the state of the world paint system at that time to allow vannuys to build the F car with shitty labor force and sub par paint it's no wonder G.M. is where there at today.
nick longstaffe it's a carnivore that feeds off of Mustangs they made a book on GM and 66 and 67 still was not the first year of the Camaro brought out they're going to bring it out 1964 and unfortunately the car was too powerful for its time. And this is what they discussed in 2 GM book
In the GM book they got produced by GM the name Camaro is a carnivore that feeds off of Mustangs. Now also as stipulated that 1966 will not the first Camaro actually built was 1964 they built a concept car and they called it Camaro but it was too powerful for its time so they scrubbed it and it wasn't re evaluated in 66
Actually the Chevrolet Camaro was started production in 1966 the name is 54 years old but correct me if I'm wrong that Camaro is over 50 years old and counting
may be like the 64 1/2 mustang but sold as a 65.the year after chevy came out with camaro to compete with mustang.being built in fall of 66 with register 66 but title as a 67.even the dealership arent always right. you would have to have VIN number and talk direct to general motors.
built in May 1966, did not receive an engine until August 1-9 1966 but was shown to different reps, conventions and executives in the mean time........don't think so.......
my 67 mustang,70 dodge challenger rt,( with 383 and 440) 63 dodge dart with 413 cross ram( push button on dash trans) 67-69 camaro ss and z28 with 302 and 350s. i had several m22 and t-10.
those are rare. mine went to junk yard,lol. i could make the 409 and 413 scream,but they were both good at rod busting the block. thats when i went small block chevy. inline 6 with 327 pistons,327,302,350.never messed with the 283 much
Had one of the very early 1967 Z-28 with the 302 emblem on the fenders. Added the racing cam, installed cold air box and immediately hit 135 mph on the Mass Turnpike extension. That short stroke engine could really wind up.
When I started with GM engineering at the Chevy PowerGlide factory in Toledo, Ohio in August 1966, I stumbled across one of these gold color 1967 pre-release Camaros on the factory floor one day... didn't realize it was there... prolly wasn't this one... it had 2 bbl. 210 HP 327" V8 3 on the floor... back then, it was like no car I had ever seen before...
not all of them were gold colored...no 10 was light blue and resided with the original owner in New Richmond Ohio at least in 1984.
Buy the winter of 86 I had been to countless car shows and swap meets. I had never heard of or saw a 1st gen Camaro with a shifter on the column or bench seat.
87 I'm on a job and a painter shows up with this ratty 67 Camaro. Painted white with what was probably latex house paint, black steelies with no hub caps/wheel covers. Having a few friends with Camaros, we get to talking and he says its a three on the tree. I was like GTFO, I didn't believe it. Then he says it has a bench seat. I'm thinking someone through this car together from junk! It looked bad and I had never heard of this.
Well, I went out and looked at it and sure enough bench seat and three on the the tree. It was gold interior and you could see the gold in the door jambs.
87, having no interest in a 6cyl, 3sp or bench seat car just thought it was an odd build who would want that.
Along comes the internet and this shows up.
Who knew, but there was one floating around in NJ. Whatever happened to it I have no idea but it looked pretty bad then.
My pappy one aunt and uncles all retired from the Norwood Ohio planet. Their employment perdated the Camro and some stayed till the bitter end of the closing of the plant. All that's left of the plant is the elavated parking garage. I'm nearly 60yrs old myself but I still remember going to the plant for open house summer tours hosted by the UAW. 😎😎
The only thing that keeps the guy who turned this car into a race car from being a total moron is the fact he saved the parts.
he's still a total moron
Yes, that was a dipshit move!!
camaro,nova,chevelle all perfect body styles back then.
DANTHETUBEMAN you got that right! Don't forget the 67 corvette! Most beautiful car ever in my opinion!
AND CORVETTE!! how could i forget corvette?? hahaha some day il have one 3-d printed up out of unobtainium with a warp drive v-8 :)
Don't forget the Corvair, which had the same Coke bottle styling as the Camaro and Corvette and handled among the best Chevy had to offer in 1967...
my aunt had one,, my grandpa put 50 lbs of lead shot in bags in the front, that kept the front end from getting light, and it was a great driving car.
Yep! GM's glory days!
What a fascinating story. Thanks for posting.
Very cool history, I'm glad someone found and restored it properly...
kramden - it's a miracle they were able to do it...
I'll pay full original asking price of 2,500 bucks , just to keep the tradition going.
Can't believe that Chevy even sold #1 Camaro. It should have gone straight into a corporate collection 😢
Great story love it I was one year old then I have a 67 RS convert bone stock 67k original miles one paint job car
I have a 1969 rs z/28 camaro that was number 29 off the line late Dec of 1968 in norwood their is no coding on the cowl tag under the hood because that early of a 1969 camaro was not coded at norwood the only way you could tell if rs or z/28 or ss was by options put on chrome rear end engine inteary and so on. I found this out when I called gm to find out way their was no code on the tag I am putting the car back the way it was when new I got the car back in feb of 1983 from the late Virgil Cates of mansfield ohio cates speed shop type in on enternet Virgil Cates 33 willys and that is who had the car. The car is almost done it is ready for paint she will look great when done a long time dream come true thanks for reading little camaro note Bob.
Cool! Can I buy it off you? The new camaros are way too fat and bulky, I like the older slimmer ones :)
+Cosmic Cloud yea I don't like the new ones either they don't have that unique american muscle car character and the ones are just lame everyone has one .the 69 is my favorite one
+Cosmic Cloud yea I don't like the new ones either they don't have that unique american muscle car character and the ones are just lame everyone has one .the 69 is my favorite one
Robert G - Thank you for doing the restoration! It's fantastic to see someone who doesn't immediately "wanna drop an LS in there," and beat the hell out of it. There are any number of ratty ones out there for those who want to do that.
You just cleared up some questions I have on a 69 Z/28 that I recently bought to restrore .
I was wondering if it was an actual Z due to the lack of Code on the Trim Tag .
Amazing documentary! Well done.
Wow, great info. Thanks!
The finest restoration of an original american sports car that chinese restoration sheet metal can offer.
Not having watched this video yet...the first TWO body Camero/ Firebirds with matching and consecutive build numbers ending in 1 & 2 were discovered, bought, restored to factory spec., judged & certified on the Gas Monkey Garage program (being found as barn finds). The first build is (was) the firebird.. These same two cars were donated to a museum as such to this date.
I'm surprised chevy GM actually sold this pilot car...Most manufacturers crush up cool stuff...
kramden they didn't crush a lot of them back then. I've also seen a fully documented 1970 LS6 Chevelle pilot car built in Baltimore at a show. Part of the show display was the "build sheet" with a hand written note on it. The note said "It's going to need wings!". The manufacturers started crushing pilot vehicles when people started filing frivolous lawsuits for any and every reason they could come up with.
In 1966 that was 45 years ago that was a year I was born back then that's what you called real American muscle Chevrolet Camaros were built tough I love them cars I have a 1983 Camaro z28
If had known how this car would become such a legend in automotive history in 78 i would have never sold mine and id have a gold mine setting in storage! Because i had 69 z28 that had a color combo ive never another like it!!! Just like you never see the white with black rally stripes as there was only 2 made like that!!!!
Very cool, I have an August 66 built 67 that I recently picked up thats only 35xx units into the 67 production.
Rarerat I have the #24?? built from the van nuys plant.not sure of actual build date but know one of the first 2500 Cali camaros
Those were great engines. They would last forever and silky smooth. Glad the car has been saved. I remember this era of cars when I was ten years of age as the pinnacle of the American car as an artistic expression.
Amazing how they Found it :)
My first car was a 67 Camaro .Drove it for a year and then traded it in for a 70 Mustang Mach ! . Still have the Mustang .
The Camaro was one of the thier best concepts ever. The first model had the best looking lines of any Camaro since. They could have continued to seel that model year after year for decades had they not kept changing it. A nwer modle does not neccesarily have ot have a new look. It just needs newr technology in it. Better brakes More fule efficient engine. Maybe change th einterior a little add or remove some guages. There's plenty of wys to change a car without mutilating it's beiutiful lines. That's like having your girlfriend get a new body after a few years. Usually it's not as good as the body she had when you met her.
On an unrelated note; "The faster you live your life the sooner you reach the end."
Absolutely awesome story!
Cool Video. Cheers for posting it mate.
Glad to see that beautiful beast has been done right...very cool history.
No historic value here. But I own a 1988 iroc z28 5.7 liter. 16 inch gold rims. Second owner car had 5,000 org miles when I got it back in 2006. The owner built a garage for the car before he bought it. He passed in 2005 and son wanted to sell the car to pay for his new truck. Car came with a lot of options. It now has 7,330 miles. Has been setting since 2010. I had back surgery that year and again in 2013. Car has not been started since 2010. Owners son said the car had never been out in the snow or rain. Maybe one day it might be worth something lol.
I have an '87 GTA built Jan. 1987, the first month the 350" engines were allowed full production back in F-bodies. It has the TPI 350, but it's not low mileage, it has been driven and had the hell enjoyed out of it!
i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/6e/92/0a6e925d76ea7b8a50b40ef04eb7a4b5.jpg
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this race car driver that chopped his car up knowing well that it was the first one built. unbelievable what people will do
Not so much the guy who built a race car out of it but all of the subsequent owners who were probably on a budget ,and couldn't afford a better chassis to race. All without realising the 5 or 6 figure car they had in their possession.
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing the vid!
I got to see this car at Carlisle in PA a few years ago, a little straight in it again, and just a plain Jane camaro. Still a sexy car though
I'm still trying to wrap my head around that race car driver didn't knew what this car was and and chopped it up anyway. mind-boggling right
That's a nice story...the sad thing is, even after a meticulous restoration, cars can still end up junked again after they've been sold to a succession of owners afterwards. Even beautiful cars get purchased and then abandoned in collapsing buildings or even just parked outdoors.
Today's cars have no soul.
Kia sorrento
WOW!!! Another Great One Of A Kind BARN FIND!!!!! Wooopeee!!!!
This is a pretty cool story.
my grandmother owned a 1968 Camaro, which my dad added a wolf whistle for her to hoot at the old men at the retirment community.
i want to buy one for me too went i ts time move to a retirment community too
Interestingly, the last car my grandmother ever bought was a '67 Camaro, new. I have no idea why she chose it. She was so short at that point that she kind of looked through the steering wheel instead of over it. On Christmas Eve 1968 she rammed it into a parked car and broke her nose but did all the usual holiday stuff the next day regardless. She was forced to stop driving not long after this, but the car was around till she died in 1974.
Thats cool, I was born in May 1966
They made 220k of these. By 1970 you could buy one for a few hundred bucks in perfect shape they were worthless. Now everyone is acting like they’re priceless......
first car I ever owned, used 67 Camaro 327 2v Powerglide in Granada Gold. Monoleaf rear springs and drum brakes. Had the motor mount recall fix which was nothing more than a chain looped around one of the suspension arms. Rusted out around the rear window. Typical 1960s american.
I've been a GM guy all my life (for the most part even though I admit to owning 2 V8 powered Ford Rangers). However I've never been a big fan of the 1st generation F bodies. I don't hate them, just never really wanted one. For some reason, I've always liked the big aluminum logs at both ends of the 74-77 Camaros and especially the small back window on the 74s which was carried over from the 70-73 models. I own, drive and race a 74. With all that said, I find it interesting that the first of what would become one of the most popular performance cars in history was built with a straight 6. I'm not surprised by this though since many Camaros through all generations were purchased by women. No offense ladies...you obviously like style but most also value economy more than us gearheads. Not all of you though and my 24 year old daughter is the latter type. She's got a need for speed and is working on her own hot rod in my shop right now while I'm sitting at my desk reading my new Super Chevy to my twin 2 year old grandsons lol!
i tried a 413,383,440 dodge.289 ford. went to chevys. everything from putting 327 pistons in inline 6,327,350s..those were the days
ray carter I love the old straight 6s. Years ago there was a 6 cylinder sportsman class at area circle tracks. We'd bore em out and run small block pistons along with a hot Clifford or Isky cam, an Offy intake and Holley 4 barrel. I actually have a 73 GMC short bed in my shop that I'm building a "buzzin half dozen" for right now. The parts aren't cheap (except the pistons) but I've wanted to build another 6 for years and this truck came with one. Here we go lol!
i didnt drive, but thats what my inline 6 was in. 57 chevy,then camero at our local short track. i started out running schooler cams , a good cam maker from jacksonville,fla.i believe he started out with crane then went his own way. call him up.you told him the specs and he would put it on next greyhound leaving.at the time i was getting little help from bobby and donnie allison who we took fishing at lake okeechobee (730 square miles of fresh water fishing)bobby would say, you got a bad ass moter,but your handling is awful. i need a cornfield to turn this thing in,lol
Schoenfeld (?) used to grind cams for them too. Not sure if they're even around now. I didn't drive the roundy round cars either but my uncle taught me how to build engines for his back in the day. I'm a drag racer @ heart when I'm not running my Freightliner down the road. I used to race a 74 Camaro w/a 427 small block in the outlaw 10.5 class but can't afford it anymore. I still do still raise a lil hell on "main" street with it on Sunday afternoons but it stays in the shop on Friday n Saturday nights. Too many kids w/so called hot rods (Hondas etc. w/fart can mufflers) try to test me if I take it out @ night!
never had a big block. hit 10.98 quarter mile in modified production with a 350,blew 2 rods out the side at the finish line. low 11s with 327. things went to 1/8 mile and i lost interest. took all my left overs from the past. build 350 for my 78 truck.it was a sleeper look with cast iron intake,no headers,but was pushing close to 400hp. marriage,kids, and a long layoff from railroad ended my hotrod days
So, GM released the FIRST EVER 1967 Camaro to some 'Bill-bob' Okie in Oklahoma, and it was eventually taken apart to be used as a drag car... STUPID.
cmscms123456 he saved the original parts for the car in his garage and back then they where street/strip cars so it wasnt stupid they even made yenko and copo camaros back then and the copo was a factory drag car and that is why we have paint codes so it can go back to its original glory.
LikeA C10 j
my dad worked at Norwood and built that car also came up with sway bar for the big block cars and got a award for it!! I have my 87 irock built Aug 10,1987 the plant closed Aug 27,1987 G.M. never should have closed Norwood assembly could build any of them other models including the new ones!! to put 70 Millon dollars in the state of the world paint system at that time to allow vannuys to build the F car with shitty labor force and sub par paint it's no wonder G.M. is where there at today.
Well done
Ralph Nader didn't kill the Corvair, the Camaro did.
Dan R yes, the Camaro, the Mustang and GM executives who failed to realize the Corvair's potential as a limited edition Porsche fighter...
@ 13:50 LMAO You mean it was stripped, ran hard and put up wet from the drag strip.
Press: "what's a camaro"
Chevy: "it's a beast that eats horses (mustangs)"
nick longstaffe it's a carnivore that feeds off of Mustangs they made a book on GM and 66 and 67 still was not the first year of the Camaro brought out they're going to bring it out 1964 and unfortunately the car was too powerful for its time. And this is what they discussed in 2 GM book
In the GM book they got produced by GM the name Camaro is a carnivore that feeds off of Mustangs. Now also as stipulated that 1966 will not the first Camaro actually built was 1964 they built a concept car and they called it Camaro but it was too powerful for its time so they scrubbed it and it wasn't re evaluated in 66
yeah,yeah. i pit my 67 mustang up against 67 camaro won and i switch to small block chevys.
Right... As they had inline 6 cylinders. Hell mine had a 2 speed power glide as well. It was a rat motor. But was no match for a V8 on the highway....
Now, it's a 7 figure $$$ 💰 💰 💰 car 🚗 🚗 🚗
Actually the Chevrolet Camaro was started production in 1966 the name is 54 years old but correct me if I'm wrong that Camaro is over 50 years old and counting
1966 Camaro R My Favorite!
There was no"66" Camaro, they were marketed in the 1967 model year as the 67 Camaro.
may be like the 64 1/2 mustang but sold as a 65.the year after chevy came out with camaro to compete with mustang.being built in fall of 66 with register 66 but title as a 67.even the dealership arent always right. you would have to have VIN number and talk direct to general motors.
Now this is the best story ever
That is a awesome story got to love a Camaro
I'd die for it! Im a 67 baby so we're same age.lol
Had a 68 camaro for 18 years ,it was crashed 2 times ,while i was parked
During its development, what eventually became the Camaro was 'code named' "Panther ".
built in May 1966, did not receive an engine until August 1-9 1966 but was shown to different reps, conventions and executives in the mean time........don't think so.......
awesome story
0:59 how low and tough is this thing looking ...
A sleeper in its infancy.
Don't wake the baby! LOL
What a beauty
I don't get how anybody would turn the first camaro into a drag car????
we were just 18 and younger 20s. had we known we would kept all our sports car
I had a lot of cars that should have been saved but we did not know what they would be today
my 67 mustang,70 dodge challenger rt,( with 383 and 440) 63 dodge dart with 413 cross ram( push button on dash trans) 67-69 camaro ss and z28 with 302 and 350s. i had several m22 and t-10.
had a 348 and 409. couldnt keep a 409 together long nor the 413 dodge dart
those are rare. mine went to junk yard,lol. i could make the 409 and 413 scream,but they were both good at rod busting the block. thats when i went small block chevy. inline 6 with 327 pistons,327,302,350.never messed with the 283 much
Great story we are starting ours now. Check out our 67
So First Camaro had Six cylinder 3 speed cool
John Cafaro is were it gets its name . I think he was the chief designer or something like that but I could be wrong
Thirty years later (after 1966) John was a Chevy designer; probably was only a glint in his father's eyes in '66...
good story.
Awesome!
Gas monkey garage owns ,hey moe!!!
Had one of the very early 1967 Z-28 with the 302 emblem on the fenders. Added the racing cam, installed cold air box and immediately hit 135 mph on the Mass Turnpike extension. That short stroke engine could really wind up.
Norwood Pilot Program eh!
I don't like the "grandpa" hubcaps
The legend that started it all the mustang killer .This chevy may be hazardes to ur ,💩 Ford's health😱☠u can't loose if u drive a chevy
pronounced Noodsen
Camaro forever! Watch it race here:
th-cam.com/video/WCtwa7-ZFAA/w-d-xo.html
too bad the first camaro had a 6 cyl and a super ugly paint color and horrid wheels... jesus that is such an ugly car.