Chevrolet Camaro

The Chevrolet Camaro is a pony car first marketed by Chevrolet in 1967. It was intended to compete against the Ford Mustang.This new model came in a Super Sport performance package and a Rally Sport appearance package, the latter having retractable headlights.The Camaro competed against the Mustang in the popular Trans Am Series, one team using the now-famous Sunoco Camaro livery. Like the Mustang the Camaro competed in IMSA GTO after the Oil Crisis of 1973 hurt muscle cars. This generation had to be downtuned. The third generation brought the power back as the Crisis ended. It also introduced the IROC-Z edition, after the International Race of Champions. This new generation introduced recessed headlights. This design would last until the new millennium when the headlights would return to the exterior. The Camaro would be discontinued after this generation and be on hiatus for awhile before being resurrected as a sixties-based model. One team in the Michelin Challenge used the sixties-based model one year with Trans Am tribute Sunoco Camaro livery. GM introduced the Pontiac Firebird as the companion model to the Camaro. It did not return from the hiatus as the Pontiac brand was discontinued. For awhile the Camaro and Firebird were used in dirt track racing. When the Transformers action franchise was revived, the character Bumblebee was made to transform first into a third-generation Camaro and then into a modern Camaro. People were disappointed because Bumblebee had been a Volkswagen Beetle in the original series.