Archive for Category: "Camaro"

Full-Scale Fun: The Camaro Hot Wheels® Concept at SEMA Show

Full-Scale Fun: The Camaro Hot Wheels® Concept at SEMA Show

Fulfilling the wish of every adult child who has ever played with one, Chevrolet and Hot Wheels®have created a life-size Hot Wheels Camaro Concept. The car debuted here at the 2011 SEMA Show – the aftermarket industry’s premier display of automotive toys. The Camaro Hot Wheels concept is inspired by the “Custom Camaro” – the [...]

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Chevy Camaro Invades UK Dealerships

Chevy Camaro Invades UK Dealerships

In the 1960′s the Beatles lead the pop British Invasion,45 years later the legendary 1960′s ear muscle car launches its own invasion. There ain’t no muscle like Motor City Muscle, and British fans of the iconic cars that ruled American roads throughout the 1960s can now place orders for the modern incarnation of one of [...]

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Artist Chris Dunlop’s Sharpie Camaro

Artist Chris Dunlop’s Sharpie Camaro

  Pinstriping is a dying art. The masters of the golden age of hotrodding are getting older. Their hands are aren’t quite as steady as the once were. Years of squinting has finally taken its’ toll on their eyesight. Unfortunately, far too artisans have taken their time to pass of their knowledge to the next generation. So, when we see young [...]

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Greatest Moments in Chevrolet Racing History

  The legacy of racing competition runs deep in Chevrolet’s 100-year history, dating back to co-founder Louis Chevrolet’s passion for racing automobiles. A singularly iconic brand in American motorsports, Chevrolet has won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Manufacturers’ Championship 35 times, and is the most successful name in that series’ history. Chevrolet Corvette Racing has [...]

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Camaro ZL1 Laps Nurburgring in 7:41.27

The 2012 Camaro ZL1 recently recorded a 7:41.27 lap at the Nurburgring. That is nearly 40 seconds quicker than a Camaro SS tested at the legendary German track in 2009. Measuring 12.9 miles (20.8 km) and including some 154 turns, the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife (“north loop”) is widely considered the world’s most-demanding course. The Camaro ZL1 used for [...]

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Chevy Camaro Celebrates 45th Anniversary

Motor City Chronicles.. On this date in Automotive History: GM debuted the Chevrolet Camaro on September 29, 1966 as a 1967 model. Code name “Panther”, the Camaro went from concept to production in just eighteen months in order to compete with the wildly successful Ford Mustang. THE HISTORY OF THE CAMARO: The base $2,466 ’67 [...]

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First 2012 Camaro ZL1 Sold for $250,000 to Rick Hendrick

The first 2012 Camaro ZL1 offered to the public sold for $250,000 at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Las Vegas on Saturday evening. The car was offered by Fairway Chevrolet-Buick-GMC in Las Vegas, with 100 percent of the auction proceeds benefitting the YMCA of Southern Nevada. Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports and chairman of Hendrick Automotive Group, [...]

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1969 Camaro Named Best Chevy of All Time

Nearly 125,000 Chevrolet fans have spoken, naming the 1969 Camaro the “Best Chevy of All Time.” As part of Chevrolet’s Centennial celebration, fans were asked to vote for their favorite vehicle from Chevrolet’s 100-year history. During the four-round, elimination bracket, the 1969 Camaro garnered 25,058 of the 124,368 votes cast, edging out the 1970 Chevelle [...]

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Pink Camaro SS Laps Speedway Against Breast Cancer

Pink Camaro SS Laps Speedway Against Breast Cancer

Sixty-four caution laps in Tuesday’s rain-postponed AdvoCare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway means a donation of $12,800 to the American Cancer Society, courtesy of Chevrolet. Chevrolet pledged to make a donation to the American Cancer Society in the amount of $200 for each caution lap that a specially-themed pink Camaro [...]

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Facebook Helps Camaro Become the Best Selling Sports Car in America

The Chevrolet Camaro continues to be the best-selling sports car in the United States, and now is the most-popular vehicle on Facebook. The official Camaro page has 1.8 million fans – and counting – more than any other official vehicle page on the social media platform. Nearly 60 percent of these fans are between the [...]

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