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Every Camaro model year from 1967 to 2002 has a Vehicle Information Kit in GM's Heritage Archive: the factory's own brochures, ordering guides, specifications and VIN coding, scanned as printed. All 36 are below.

These are GM's own documents: factory brochures, dealer ordering guides, specification sheets, VIN and model coding, and engineering data. They are linked directly so you can read the original rather than a paraphrase.

A kit preserves material as of its revision date, so a brochure in an early kit can be superseded by a later dealer order guide. Treat a kit as authoritative for what it shows, not as the last word on the whole model year.

Vehicle Information Kits by model year

Links go directly to GM's archive. There are no kits for 2003–2009 because no Camaro was built for those model years. GM's archive has no kits for 2010–2024 either; those year pages draw on Chevrolet press material and period brochures instead.

Did you know

  • Many of the option-count, color and VIN pages in the kits aren't GM documents. They come from The Genuine Camaro White Book 1967-1993 by Michael Antonick's Michael Bruce Associates. Eight kits (1971, 1972, 1975, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) carry its front-matter page, and the publisher's notice there says the book isn't associated with or sponsored by General Motors; at least twelve kits hold its NUMBERS, FACTS and FACTORY OPTIONS pages.
  • The 1969 kit isn't only GM paper. PDF pages 115-119 reprint Jerry Heasley's August 1988 Popular Hot Rodding article on decoding data plates, cowl tags and VINs, and page 121 is a 1988 ad for reproduction window stickers, sitting beside genuine GM material such as the February 4, 1969 Z11 product bulletin marked 'GM Confidential'. CRG says of the kits that some pages are missing and some non-GM material may be included.
  • The 1969 kit carries a 1967-77 model-year production table (PDF p.123, scanned sideways) splitting each year into domestic and export and counting Rally Sport, SS, Z-28, engines, transmissions, air conditioning and power options. A footnote gives convertibles as 25,141 (1967), 20,440 (1968) and 17,573 (1969-70), plus about 100 Indianapolis pace car replicas in 1967. Its totals run 4 to 11 above CRG's 220,906, 235,147 and 243,085.
  • All 36 kits are picture-only scans with no text layer, so their pages cannot be searched or copied, and several were scanned turned 90 degrees. In the 1968 kit the brochure fold-out charts (roughly PDF pages 45-59) and the White Book pages at 129-131 are sideways, as are the production table in the 1969 kit and the White Book pages in the 1978 and 1988 kits. Rotate the view before reading a number.
  • The identification pages in most 1967-80 kits are captioned 'ONLY BASIC DESIGNATIONS SHOWN', and some are visibly unfinished. The 1969 page's rear axle box reads 'TO BE PROVIDED' and its 327 engine lines print no suffix letters; the 1970 page's engine-stamp example (F1210BD) still shows a two-letter suffix beside a list of three-letter codes. The caption itself warns the lists are partial.
  • The 2000, 2001 and 2002 kits look different from the rest. Each is titled a 'Restoration Kit' and pairs a GM product-information text (the 2001 one says the Camaro was 'Introduced September 26, 1966, as a 1967 model') with service-manual pages: Vehicle Identification, VIN Derivative, SPID label, anti-theft labels, RPO code list and torque specifications. The 2001 kit's Appendix C pages still carry a '2000 Chevrolet Camaro Restoration Kit' header.
  • Kits sometimes hold another year's paper. The 1971 kit's White Book pages are the 1972 ones (PDF p.109-110 read '1972 NUMBERS' and '1972 FACTORY OPTIONS'); the 1981 kit includes an engine-identification page dated August 1985 and another carrying a 1987 GM Service Parts Operations copyright; and the 1975 kit repeats its White Book pages twice (PDF p.65-67 and 77-79).
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