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As any muscle car enthusiast can tell you, the Chevrolet Camaro story dates back to the years before man stepped foot on the Moon. The first generation was designed to compete with the original Ford Mustang, and it went on sale in 1966.
Classified as a pony car, the first Camaro shared many nuts and bolts with the era's Pontiac Firebird that came out as a 1967 model. It was made on four continents, including at two factories in the United States, and besides the straight-six and small-block V8 lumps, it was also offered with several big-displacement units.
General Motors launched the second generation in early 1970, building it on the same platform as the Firebird, and kept it until 1981, when the third-gen was introduced. The fourth-gen Camaro was made from 1992 to 2002, and until 2009, the nameplate was discontinued. That's when the North American automotive giant launched the fifth-gen, and its successor came out six years later.
The latest Camaro will bite the dust at the end of the 2024 model year, but as Chevy announced, "this is not the end of Camaro's story." This statement has given birth to all sorts of rumors claiming that its successor will be anything from a battery-electric muscle car to a sub-brand consisting of multiple models. The truth is that no one with no direct ties to the bowtie brand knows anything about it.
Now that we've briefly revisited the six generations of the Camaro, it's time to concentrate on the pictured copy, which is simply drop-dead gorgeous. It is a 1969 model, which places it in the first generation of the pony car, and pictured may be too big a word for it because it is as fake as it is sexy. Signed by personalizatuauto, these renderings imagine the muscle car with an alternative design language, sprinkled by a few things that would make a restomod.
The digital artist retained the hidden headlamp signature of the vehicle, albeit with a cleaner-looking grille that sports an LED surround. The chromed bumper was removed, and it features a larger apron and a pair of fog lamps with an LED touch. The fenders were made wider, the door handles were shaved, and it was given a new lighting signature at the rear, as well as a diffuser and fresh tailpipe trim. The tracks were widened for quicker cornering, and we can see uprated brakes behind the new wheels that were wrapped in far grippier tires.
Overall, this rendering take on the '69 Camaro is a dream car to us, and we hope the right person (or shop) sees the CGIs and decides to build one that looks exactly like this, giving it a modern powertrain, perhaps the C8 Corvette Z06's flat-plane crank V8. Hey, one can only dream, right?
General Motors launched the second generation in early 1970, building it on the same platform as the Firebird, and kept it until 1981, when the third-gen was introduced. The fourth-gen Camaro was made from 1992 to 2002, and until 2009, the nameplate was discontinued. That's when the North American automotive giant launched the fifth-gen, and its successor came out six years later.
The latest Camaro will bite the dust at the end of the 2024 model year, but as Chevy announced, "this is not the end of Camaro's story." This statement has given birth to all sorts of rumors claiming that its successor will be anything from a battery-electric muscle car to a sub-brand consisting of multiple models. The truth is that no one with no direct ties to the bowtie brand knows anything about it.
Now that we've briefly revisited the six generations of the Camaro, it's time to concentrate on the pictured copy, which is simply drop-dead gorgeous. It is a 1969 model, which places it in the first generation of the pony car, and pictured may be too big a word for it because it is as fake as it is sexy. Signed by personalizatuauto, these renderings imagine the muscle car with an alternative design language, sprinkled by a few things that would make a restomod.
The digital artist retained the hidden headlamp signature of the vehicle, albeit with a cleaner-looking grille that sports an LED surround. The chromed bumper was removed, and it features a larger apron and a pair of fog lamps with an LED touch. The fenders were made wider, the door handles were shaved, and it was given a new lighting signature at the rear, as well as a diffuser and fresh tailpipe trim. The tracks were widened for quicker cornering, and we can see uprated brakes behind the new wheels that were wrapped in far grippier tires.
Overall, this rendering take on the '69 Camaro is a dream car to us, and we hope the right person (or shop) sees the CGIs and decides to build one that looks exactly like this, giving it a modern powertrain, perhaps the C8 Corvette Z06's flat-plane crank V8. Hey, one can only dream, right?
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