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Don Yenko found three different ways around GM’s rule capping Camaro engines at 400 cubic inches, hand-swapping in 427s for 1967 and 1968 before finally getting Chevrolet to build the combination on the factory line for 1969. With production numbers as low as 104 cars in the first year, these remain some of the rarest true muscle cars ever built. Read on for the year-by-year breakdown of exactly how each version came together.
Chevrolet’s Camaro ZL1 and Dodge’s Challenger Hellcat both pushed past 650 horsepower using completely different engineering paths, an Eaton-blown LT4 versus a larger IHI-blown Hemi, and ran almost identical quarter-mile times despite a 566-pound weight gap between them. Both nameplates are now discontinued within a year of each other. Read on to find out which factory 700-horsepower icon actually deserved the crown.
A father’s driveway trick turned a loose tooth and a Chevy Camaro into one of the most-replayed home videos on YouTube, racking up nearly 3 million views and a comment section that has been arguing about it for a decade. The method is simple — a length of string, a slow reverse, and a kid who barely has time to react — but the family behind it insists it was never as risky as it looks. Watch to see just how fast it really happens.
This 1954 Chevy 3100 debuted the first one-piece windshield in the Advanced Design pickup’s history — a genuine milestone year for the truck. But everything mechanical under this particular example has been swapped out for a 305 V8, a Camaro front clip, and modern radials. Here’s what Chevrolet actually built versus what’s driving today.
The fourth-generation Camaro spent a full decade fending off the Mustang, and it did so by repeatedly borrowing engines straight from the Corvette — the LT1, the rare LT4-powered SS, and finally the all-aluminum LS1 in 1998. From a new six-speed manual to a 35th anniversary send-off in 2002, this generation quietly punched above its reputation. Read on for the full engine-by-engine breakdown of how GM kept the Camaro competitive for ten straight years.
Gabriel Henaut grew up the son of a mechanic in France, cutting his teeth on Mk1 Volkswagen Golfs before deciding an American V8 was worth chasing down despite feeling like pure fantasy. Petrolicious follows his search across the Atlantic and the 1973 Chevrolet Camaro that ended up living permanently in the French countryside. Watch the full story to see why more than one viewer said it brought them to tears.
Chevrolet built three very different Camaros under one badge in the late 1960s, one dressed to be noticed, one built to go fast, and one so quietly race-bred that Chevy barely admitted it existed. The RS brought hideaway headlights and showroom flash, the SS brought big-block muscle, and the unadvertised Z28 brought a 302 small-block engineered specifically to win Trans-Am races. Read on to find out how rare that racing option really was, and why so few dealers even knew to offer it.
There is a very specific sound that still turns heads on quiet streets more than sixty years after Detroit built the cars that made it, and an entire American car culture grew up around chasing that exact reaction. From the quarter-mile drag strip to Woodward Avenue’s nightly cruising ritual, the appeal was never really about spec sheets alone. Read on to find out how insurance surcharges, oil shortages, and shifting regulations nearly ended the era entirely, and why it came roaring back anyway.
A vintage 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T commercial has quietly become a cult favorite for reasons that have little to do with horsepower: a blustering, law-enforcement bit built around a Southern sheriff that viewers now recognize as an eerie preview of Buford T. Justice, seven years before Smokey and the Bandit made the archetype famous. Behind the joke sits a genuinely serious muscle car, available with everything from a 383 Magnum up to the 426 Hemi. Watch the full spot to see where the joke started.
This head-to-head lineup pits vintage muscle — a numbers-matching Cobra Jet, a classic Hemi Charger, an old-school Camaro — against Dodge’s Hellcat, Demon, and Chevy’s ZL1 in a series of quarter-mile drag races. One matchup even needed a handicap start just to keep things fair. Which era actually wins when the light drops green? Watch the full lineup to find out.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang refresh did more than reshuffle the sheet metal in response to a sharpened new Camaro. The GT quietly inherited a twin-disc clutch, suspension hardware, and Magnetic Ride Control straight off the Shelby GT350’s parts shelf, turning what looked like a mid-cycle facelift into a genuinely better driver’s car. Read on to see exactly what Ford borrowed from its own halo model.
Most Camaro buyers care about straight-line speed, but the ZL1 1LE was engineered for something different — carving corners on a road course, using suspension technology borrowed from actual race cars. Reviewer Brian Makse takes it through a full test with input from the Multimatic engineer behind its spool valve dampers. Watch to find out whether GM’s most track-focused Camaro trim lives up to the hardware underneath it.
Former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz publicly said the Ford Mustang beats the Chevrolet Camaro on packaging and visibility, an unusually blunt admission from someone who once helped run Camaro’s own manufacturer. His criticism centered on the Camaro’s narrow greenhouse and awkward driving position rather than its performance credentials. Read on for why an industry veteran’s unfiltered opinion still carries weight in the pony car debate.
Chevrolet’s 2018 NASCAR Cup Series entry borrowed its ZL1-inspired styling from the street car but almost nothing else, running a purpose-built racing V8 instead of the supercharged engine buyers could actually order. The switch came after the Chevrolet SS, its predecessor, was discontinued with little warning. Read on to find out what makes the Cup car’s engine so different from anything on a showroom floor.
A certified auto appraiser has inspected hundreds of classic cars professionally — so when he calls a 1967 Camaro RS/SS ‘the most loaded Camaro I’ve ever inspected,’ that is not a casual compliment. This California-history coupe pairs a rare factory color with an unusually complete options list, backed by a full third-party inspection report. Watch to find out exactly what convinced an expert this was something special.