General Motors introduced the Chevrolet Camaro in September 1966, labeled as a 1967 model, to combat the loss of sales suffered from the Ford Motor Company's new line of vehicles, the pony class, embodied by the Mustang, which debuted in 1964. The Ford Mustang proved such a hit that it took the Camaro until 1977, eleven years, to overtake the Mustang in annual sales.
GM produced 220,906 Camaros in 1967 and over a million by 1969. With the large number of vehicles on the market, it's quite amazing that these first generation Camaros have become so collectible. The highly prized, high performance Z28 debuted midway through the model year.
The car featured in this article is a 1967 Camaro hard top coupe and owned by a collector in Florida. Sporting the original butternut yellow paint with bumblebee hood stripe, the vehicle has aged well. Under the hood we find the dependable GM 327 c.i. motor controlled by an optional automatic transmission. This 5 passenger car contains bucket seats up front and a vinyl covered bench in the rear.
Being an early autumn, low humididty, beautifully sunny southwest Florida day, I believe It's time to quit blogging and time to take this beautiful piece of machinery for a spin around town.
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