IROC: Camaro as rented equality
1975–1980, 1984–1989
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1985 Camaro
Chevrolet licenses the IROC name and puts Tuned Port Injection in the showroom.
1991 Camaro
The Z28 name returns, a facelift lands, and the police Camaro arrives.
1990 Camaro
Production stopped on the last day of 1989, and the IROC name went with it.
Third Generation (1982–1992)
The IROC-Z decade, from the Iron Duke to the 1LE.
1989 Camaro
RS replaces the Sport Coupe, and 1LE orders reach three figures.
1987 Camaro
After an 18-year absence, the drop-top comes back as an ASC-built option, badged for the Camaro's 20th anniversary.
1988 Camaro
A track package with no order box, built in single digits its first year.
1984 Camaro
The Berlinetta gets its digital “Graphic Control Center,” and the third generation has its best sales year.
1986 Camaro
The oddball luxury Berlinetta bows out after 1986.
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Roger Penske
Team owner of the championship Trans-Am Camaros
Second Generation (1970–1981)
Through the fuel crises on one body, and out the other side with a sales record.
The 1LE homologation package (1988–1992)
Fewer than ~1,500 built across five years
The year the line stopped
A 174-day strike shut the only Camaro plant. A retrospective reprinted in GM's archive says about 1,100 unfinished cars were scrapped over the cost of meeting the next model year's requirements, and production hit its lowest figure for eighteen years.
The Z/28 convertible that wasn't supposed to exist
Chevrolet never offered a Z/28 convertible in 1968. It built one anyway, for the man it needed to convince.