When Ford alien the Mustang in 1964 General Motors paid little attention, but aural just a few months afterwards the Mustang's introduction, GM accomplished the address of a four bench sports car. Especially afterwards Mustang sales accomplished the 100,000 mark in in the aboriginal six months, and about bisected a actor by the end of its aboriginal year. This is ironic, back Ford created the Mustang in acknowledgment to the Corvair Monza which was unfairly dead my Ralph Nader. In any case, the chase was on.

The architecture aggregation that produced the Corvette, Corvair, and Nova were accustomed the assignment of bearing an acknowledgment to the Mustang. Mock-ups angry out by the architecture aggregation included a two-seat roadster, a fastback and even a base wagon. But in the end they acclimatized on a four-seat action auto (also accessible as a convertible) to accumulate costs down. By the "big" car standards of the day, the Camaro was advised a "compact".

A altered affection of the Camaro was the use of a foreground sub-frame abandoned with elastic 'biscuits" in aggregate with the uni-body architecture of the blow of the car. This address had been acclimated on several European designs, including several Mercedes-Benz models. This gave drivers a beyond autogenous with added baggage amplitude than a acceptable frame, while accouterment a quieter, smoother ride than a abounding uni-body.

The Camaro was to be offered with a advanced array of powerplants, alignment from a 230 cubic-inch six-cylinder, to a 327ci V8. Chevy aswell created a new engine just for the Camaro, the 295 horsepower, 350 cubic-inch, V8. The 350 small-block was born!

As the car neared it's absolution date it still did not accept a name. Among those advised were "GM", "Panther", "Chaparral", "Wildcat" and even "Nova". Buick concluded up authoritative use of the Wildcat name while Nova went on to become addition muscle-car of note. The GM abstraction was ditched because the accumulated admiral did not wish the belletrist associated with the car in case it was a bazaar abortion (you can bet they're blame themselves for that decision). Finally they came up with a chat that they anticipation had no acceptation and articulate sporty… Camaro. If asked what it meant, Chevrolet artefact managers told the columnist that it was, "a baby abandoned beastly that eats Mustangs."

Not to be outdone, the nice humans at Ford begin a altered acceptation in an old Spanish concordance that authentic the Camaro as "a small, shrimp-like creature". Taking the antic even further, some announcer begin addition alternating analogue that meant "loose bowels." In acknowledgment the association at Chevrolet begin an old French concordance assuming that the chat meant "Friend" or "Companion".

All the bedlam chock-full if the aboriginal '67 Camaro's hit the streets. The rest, as they say, is history. Camaros and Mustangs akin anon became accepted as "Pony Cars".