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The Chevrolet Camaro first came into being in the USA in 1966. General Motors, Chevrolet's parent company, had to develop a car to give much needed competition to the market dominating Ford Mustang. The 1967 Camaro shared a chassis and many main components with the Pontiac Firebird (one more General Motors company), and so the speed and finances needed to make the Camaro were massively reduced.

Often called a a muscle car, or 'Pony' car, a term that back then referred to compact cars that were affordable and had a sports feel about their looks (a style initiated by the Ford Mustang in 1964), the Camaro joined an ever increasing selection of vehicles that were pushing for an ever growing demand. US buyers loved the engine, the look and the low cost of such vehicles and the growing sales guaranteed that plenty of manufacturers made their own variations out as rapidly as possible.

The 1970's and 80's saw the Camaro's heyday, when the car was sought after by millions of car enthusiasts, not only in the States but across the globe. The balance of looks, performance and various TV shows romanticizing muscle cars contributed to a massive demand, and the desire for enthusiasts to own one never disappeared.

Five distinct generations of the car have been built. Generations one to four were produced between 1966 and 2002 (when producing of the Camaro and Firebird both ceased), and production of the fifth generation Camaro started again in 2009 and even with opposition to such environmentally unfriendly muscle cars from environmental campaigners, the Camaro has been shown to once again be a big success with the North American public.

The Camaro was at times available in a hardtop and a convertible, the convertible was hugely popular with buyers from sea bordering areas who loved the thought of driving along the beach side streets with the roof down, the stereo up and the baseball caps on. A variety of Camaro's have appeared on screen, most notably a Camaro was the vehicle mode car for the Bumblebee character from the 2007 feature film Transformers, being both a 1976 second generation model, and later in the movie moving to a fifth generation version. The Camaro has a huge number of enthusiasts with some owners having owned every version of the car at one time or another and others holding on to 1960's variations and maintaining them in pristine condition.

The car has been a very popular car for modification during the cars lifetime, with many buyers spending time and cash adding aftermarket additions to improve their car's looks and power. Camaro's have also been hugely strong in racing winning many Trans-Am series titles and any number of other races and championships through its lifetime. Plenty of racers still use old generation Camaro's even now and are still very successful, winning against much more modern cars.

The Camaro is still with us today, and with its history, performance and eye catching looks from the latest incarnation, the car is sure to be around for years to come.

This piece was written by Jake Dean from Next Concept Cars. The greatest website for upto date news, the greatest reviews and details on the latest concept cars, muscle cars and the latest on the Camaro Z28.

The Chevrolet Camaro Was Almost Done In - What Saved The Camaro From Oblivion ?

The Chevrolet Camaro classic "Pony Car" was almost done in by its own popularity, good fortunes and signs of the times - that was in the early 1970's. The Camaro - even the "Pony Car" fad had begun to wane - as the decade and allure of the 1960's ended.

Indeed by the early 70's the allure of the fantastic 60's - "If you can remember the 60's you weren't there" had all but begun to wane. What then saved the Chevy Camaro Pony Sports car from oblivion?

Indeed by the early 1970's with the Pony Car popularity on the wane, when all new 1970's emerged on the scene the manufacturer and maker General Motors (G.M.) had begun to consider whether it should continue the Camaro product line beyond what was then a standard and normal 3 year production run for any new vehicle. Thus the end of the classic Camaro would have been in the 1972 model year. True you might have seen some minor rebadged products with the Camaro badge - but they would have been most poor substitutes, riding on the muscle name, prestige and legend. The Norwood California plant's production run was even considered to be only traditional Chevrolet Nova automobile products.

To top it off the situation even reached a crisis point when as a result of a strike at the Camaro production factory. The strike lasted six months. When it was all over the result was that years end the production and sales results were at a record low for sales of the Camaro car product. What saved the Camaro from its death roll and demise?

What then saved the Camaro and Firebird from an early death that luckily was averted? Basically the GM executives - of the Chevrolet and Pontiac divisions came to conclusion that these two products - the Camaro and its Pontiac sister, the Firebird, were just too good to lose. Thus from the top down the top brass initiated a major in house publicity "public relations " campaign . The basis of their understanding and resulting decision that the Camano's and Firebird were a prestige unique product, who were a major draw of customers of all their product lines into Pontiac and Chevrolet dealerships. The cars were so nice, unique and different from other car companies staid products that people who might never of stepped foot into their dealerships did arrive - if nothing else drawn to see the fancy new Pony Car products. Since a lot of end result of sales of marketing of automobile products is all based on percentages and getting people into dealerships to buy cars it all made valid sense. It all makes valid sense. If only 1 % of the volume of people who came into dealerships to see the new Camaro or Firebird cars actually bought product - that translates into a lot of profitable sales - that were in essence found money and profit.

Like many of General Motor's decisions of the time, this proved to be more than an excellent decision. For one thing the Ponycar ranks were shrinking were shrinking. The competitors had disappeared or shrunk in stature. The Ford Mustang had shrunk in size with the Mercury Cougar becoming a specialty product, entirely different than before and not servicing a wider market segment. By 1974 the Chrysler Barracuda/Challenger line had vanished from production. Even the AMC Javelin seemed on its way out with a radical departure in styling. Its life was ended by 1975.

In the end the Camaro / Firebird product line was the only Ponycar product left standing. What a wise decision. Thus the Camaro Ponycar line was saved from its own oblivion.

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Is there a difference? Which is better?

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there is a difference between Chilton and Haynes repair manuals, and which of the two is better. I bought the Haynes Repair Manual for 1993-2002 Chevrolet Camaro / Pontiac Firebird because it was a couple dollars less. I have been considering picking up the Chilton Book Company Repair Manual: Total Car Care for 1993-1998 Chevrolet / Pontiac Camaro & Firebird as an extra resource in an attempt to get more information. I guess what I'm asking is if anyone knows if there is any more info in the Chilton that is not in the Haynes. Or if they're pretty much identical, making it a waste of money to also pick up the Chilton.

Personally I think that you are going to find most of what you'll likely need, info-wise, in the Haynes manual. For the most part the Chilton is redundant. If you were going to get another manual I'd get the actual Chevy manual specific to your vehicle...I'm sure a dealer has or could get one, but if you do a search on eBay, etc. you might find one at a reasonable price. There are also specialty shops that sell model-specific repair manuals. Hope this info helped.

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