The Chevrolet Camaro is in its sixth generation now, with a storied reputation and nearly 6 million built since the first one came off the line in Ohio (or maybe it was California, depending on your definition of “first”) in the fall of 1966. Sadly, American car shoppers no longer love the Camaro as they once did; sales are so weak that GM has announced that production will cease after 2024. Today’s Junkyard find is a car seldom found in car graveyards these days: an example of the very first model year of the Camaro.
Ford scored a tremendous sales hit in 1964 by basing a sporty-looking small car on the Falcon’s platform. The Mustang printed bales of money for Dearborn, and the Chevy Corvair Monza just wasn’t able to lure away many potential Mustang customers. Something had to be done, and so The General followed the Mustang’s playbook by taking the Falcon’s GM rival (the Chevy Nova) and using its chassis as the starting point for a new sporty-looking small car. The Camaro and its Pontiac sibling, FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS