1969 COPO 9560 ZL1
69 built
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1969 Camaro
COPO ZL1 and L72 big blocks, all-new sheet metal and a second Indy pace car.
2017 Camaro
The 650 hp supercharged ZL1 lands with a ten-speed automatic, fifty years after the first Camaro.
2018 Camaro
The ZL1 1LE brings Multimatic dampers, serious aero and 650 horsepower.
2012 Camaro
The ZL1 and COPO names come back in the same year.
Fred Gibb
Dealer behind the COPO 9560 ZL1 order
Road racing: the Camaro GT4.R
2017–present
2014 Camaro
A naturally aspirated 505 hp LS7 track car that out-laps the more powerful ZL1.
NASCAR: Cup, Xfinity and Le Mans
2013–present
NHRA drag racing and COPO
1969–present
Al Oppenheiser
Modern Camaro chief engineer, “Mr. Camaro”
2022 Camaro
New colors, fewer 1LE versions and parts shortages in a late-run model year.
The modern COPO Camaro (revived for 2012)
2012 run: 69 cars; 2022 quota statements conflict
2015 Camaro
A Commemorative Edition sends off the fifth generation.
Sixth Generation (2016–2024)
The one that nailed it, and the one that said goodbye.
2024 Camaro
Production ends, and the Collector's Edition borrows the car's own 1966 code name.
2021 Camaro
A light running-change year: new paint, standard wireless CarPlay, no anniversary edition.
2023 Camaro
GM confirms 2024 will be the Camaro's last model year; 2023 is a carryover.
Fifth Generation (2010–2015)
The comeback, with a movie star's head start.
2019 Camaro
A polarizing new face, and a 1LE for the four-cylinder.
1969 COPO 9561 (L72 427)
997 cars (per CRG)
2010 Camaro
On sale in April 2009: a retro concept made real, with a movie-star head start.
2011 Camaro
A folding roof comes back to the Camaro for the first time since 2002.
2013 Camaro
The 1LE track package comes back on the SS, and Hot Wheels gets a full-size Camaro.
2016 Camaro
Lighter and sharper, with a turbo four and the most powerful SS yet.
2020 Camaro
The new LT1 trim puts the SS's V8 in a cheaper body, just as the pandemic cuts sales roughly in half.
A story that looks fabricated, and how to tell
Community & lore
Baldwin-Motion Phase III
Single digits to low double digits
Berger Chevrolet and the GMMG cars
Dealer-built continuation specials, produced in small documented batches
Corvette and Camaro were never really separate
The same people, and the same engines, moved between them for sixty years.
Dick Harrell
Drag racer and engine builder, “Mr. Chevrolet”
First Generation (1967–1969)
"A small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs."
Mr. Chevrolet
When GM quit racing, one man became the brand's unofficial presence, and built the cars the dealers put their names on.
The 1968 Z/28 convertible
One of one
The 1969 Yenko COPO prototype
One car
The Camaro that has not been announced
GM is reported to have approved a successor. It has never said so publicly, and that gap is the story.
The car that almost wasn't approved
GM said no before the Mustang made it say yes.
The dealer who out-engineered Chevrolet
A small-town Pennsylvania Chevy dealer talked the factory into building his cars for him, and a prototype from that deal just became the most expensive Camaro ever sold.
The dealer-tuners
Dana, Nickey, Baldwin-Motion, Berger, Yenko
VIN decoder
Did you know
Vince Piggins
Chevrolet product performance chief, “father of the Z/28”
What is a Camaro?
A disputed French-slang story, a 14-city press conference, and a line that stuck.