1967 Chevrolet Camaro - Original Color Promo Film
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2015
- This is the year of the Camaro - the car of today! - Fascinating original promo film for the new Camaro in 1967.
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I have a 1967 Camaro, and have had it for 40 years. Best looking car ever built in my mind.
Congrats! But my personal preference is the 1968 RS/SS.
I had a 67' Rally Sport - hideaway headlights - 327 - 3 speed on the tree - bench seats! 327 was a badass very dependable engine!
@@penboyasgod6103 I agree, but love the '67 almost as much. The '68 was a nice facelift that to me also gives it an edge. Hopefully we can all agree the '67 & '68 are much more preferable to the '69. I get so tired of everyone fawning over that one.
The first two models were a little smaller and more sports car like and had stronger styling ties to Corvette the '69 didn't. The first two were also better quality cars, especially on the dash & interior. I had a '69 Camaro when I was 21/22 in 1979 and the dash (top) was cracked and curling. The lower dash was all plastic. The 21 year old me didn't mind. The 63 year old me wants a '67 or 8. If I can't have one of those, I'll take an '87 or '88 3rd generation which large part recaptured the '67 & 8.
You are one lucky man. I wish I had one I swear. My favorite is a Camaro Z28 1980.
'67 Camaro screamed for the L79 350 HP 327" V8 and 4 speed manual !!!
Just imagine to have that car now
Many people do...
A girl friend of my mother had a new 67' Camaro 6 Cyl. I was 10 or 11 when we all piled in the car one day to go to the beach. 3 people in the back 2 in the front. She ran a light or something and we almost got hit. LOL...those were the days.
Cartoonists newspaper cartoonist could become well to do celebrities back in the day. Proven by the spokesman for the ad. Pretty cool
Got my 68 SS 396 in 1974. Still have it. Those "computer designed" mono leafsprings were replaced in 68 with multi leafsprings and staggered shocks to remedy the excessive wheel hop the 67's had.
Reminds me of the year I got my draft notice.
Rip
I bought a 1968 Camero in 1979/80 it had a brand new 6 cylinder engine from a Monte Carlo. That car was my all time favorite car. I loved the power glide floor shift and the 68 model had a lot more chrome on the doors and sides it was red with black racing stripes and a black hardtop so Cool!
Uh... nobody loves PowerSlides...
@Coogan - So was I...
@Coogan - Inefficient two speeds of slippage...
@Coogan - LOL !!! That was hilarious how totally WRONG that was! In 1960's I was a GM Engineer at the factory making PowerGlides. I know a 1,000 times more about them than you guys will ever know... BTW, Ford, Chrysler, and AMC also had inefficient slug 2 speed automatics... Plus, just before my time there, Chevy briefly had a 3 speed TurboGlide but they screwed that design up... it can be spotted by the 'Gr'... Grade Retard... on the shifter quadrant...
In 1950's, for their big luxurious expensive cars, other automakers bought and installed GM/Olds/Cadillacs' 4 speed Hydramatic invented way back in 1939 and way advanced to what anybody else offered...
The '68 was a gentle refinement of the '67, which I also love. The '69, not nearly as much. It wasn't as sports-car like as the first 2 years. I had a '69 between 1978-'80. It had a lot more plastic on the interior; particularly the dashboard, which was curling up at the top. BUT, I was 21 when I got it, and just thrilled to have a Camaro. It was a 250 straight 6 which some people looked down upon. Well, it still had plenty of "go" and was economical when the price of gas got so high starting in 1979. Chiding about it not being a 350 or higher stopped completely. What a coincidence!
Man, it must have been a great time to be an engineer. The government was leaving the car companies alone and all the public wanted was fast and reliable cars. Enginners were hard at work making that dream come true. I have to go back
I was there, it wasn't what you're imagining. LA's smog was like present day China, Insurance companies killed the "fast" part of the equation, and quality control/reliability was horrendous. Hitting 100k miles was a very rare accomplishment. All that said, I'd still love to have Leno's garage!
@Zachariah Tony trying what out???
@@John-gq7vt those cars are easy to work on compared to modern cars
Nope, I went from high school to GM Engineering/Co-op in August 1966...
Back then GM had 52% of the market, all the other car companies together split up the remaining 48%... Govt told GM to sell fewer cars or get broken up as a monopoly like they did to AT&T !!!
I was walking across the factory floor and stumbled onto a gold '67 Camaro before they had come out... loved it! 327 V8 & 3 on the floor...
@@John-gq7vtYes! Oh, and fatalities per 100,000 passenger miles were more than 4 times higher than today. The good old days weren’t so good.
I think the 1967 models! Not just chevy but all the brands! Look at ford, Chrysler. And the other gm divisions? The 1967 models from all those brands had their most beautiful line up of car? Have always been a fan of the 1st year camaros 68 and 69! My mom had a 76 camaro but at that time the horse power was down! But, it still handled and drove vey nice? More importantly see love it! Great video thanks
18:46 Love that clutch dump!
One of few 'movie cars' with posi... other one's were the Bandit's Pontiac TransAm... '63 Tempest in Cousin Vinny...
Same music was used in GTO ads,,,
The current Camaro's styling reminds me of that 1967 original. And like the original, a convertible is also available.
GM realized what a winner of a body style those first generation Camaros were.....
Too bad the pricing is horrendous compared to '67...
I was one years old when my RS convert was built
Great video!!!!!
One thing people never understand is that these tires are thin. All or most stock makes had thin tires on their vehicles till sometime around 2000.
Naw, Wide Ovals were coming out in 1967 !
Damn, car designers were so on point in the late 60's
1967 camero 1965 corvair corvette 63-67
What a great video!
That guy Don Macpherson... the Macpherson front suspension that was so heavily promoted in the 80’s and 90’s front drivers... named after him.
Actually it was named after Earle S. MacPherson. He was chief engineer for the Chevy Cadet, which never saw production. It was during his days at Ford that he developed the famous strut suspension that was first used on the British Consul and Zephyr.
Yeah, crap McPherson Struts... glad Camaros got back away from them again...
Reminds Me Of 1st Grade at Berryhill Elementary in Charlotte age 7
Thanks to these guys for making the coolest car
Those clay mock ups still amaze.
Hand crafting of all things, and being a machinist, I still don’t get the reason why.
As a basis for the sheet metal or fiberglass molds.
Clay is easy to mold and fix... and then show the 'look' to the Big Boss...
Pleasurable to watch. Great promo. And women were women back then. I wish we could go back.
Paul Gary had two cars just like this car
They sure do their best to hide the fact that the GM was the last in this market.
that was very interesting
I have a 67 soft top in my garage. I do not have any of those 60's fine looking ladies however..LOL
Year I was born lol. I did like these as a kid, but prefer the Firebird.
7:31 --- notice the slide rule? The predecessor to the personal computer.
9:30 the paper tape computer program. In the Air Force, our simulation exercises were on long looped strips like that in the early 70's.
In the 80's an export office I worked in was still using that method for teletypes.
@@markdraper3469 I was being more tongue-in-cheek.
Really fun video to watch. I laughed at how the beginning had a defensive feel, trying to pretend that they weren’t just making a copy of the mustang! It was a better car than the mustang.
Being a teenager in California in the 80s my dad had 10 SS camaros at any given time. They were cheap and easy to find he used to buy none SS ones and chop them up for parts then we'd go to the pamona swap meet and make a bunch of money.
6:45...that's the problem today...its all GingerBread. The only Gingerbread I want is in my GingerBread cookies.
Those youngsters in this commercial are great grand parents now.
the trouble with roll under styling is that it get;s and shows stone chips .
And cars without gutters flood you when opening the door on rainy days... LOOKS are most important...
Reminds me of the year I was born into this god forsaken world.
Sounds like you may have evil foreign psychotic mass murderous religion addiction mental illness !!!
I'll keep my 65 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa 180 Turbo.
Test drive at 17:00.
Personal preference is SUCH a big factor. I felt more comfortable in a Chevelle than the Camero... then and to this day, with contemporary models.
Hell, I felt better driving my Vega Kammback.
If fact you're so uncomfortable with Camaro, you spelled it wrong.
Still have my '77 Pontiac Astre FORMULA (Kammback) Safari Station Wagon! Iron Duke 4 and 5 speed manual... posi...
Mid size '64 A-bodies like Chevelle with body on frame construction rode exceptionally smooth and quiet like full size cars in a handier, less expensive size...
Why did they drop the mono-leaf rear suspension after one year?
MerleOberon hit the brakes suddenly or floor it, you’ll know why the dumped it as you watch and feel and hear your rear axle tromp away
Because of what's known as "wheel hop" --- Chevy tried to "fix" some of it for the 1968 Camaro by installing the rear shock absorbers opposite each other on each wheel (rear axle).
@@johnhall8364 traction bars fixed it...
The basic idea to build this car came in early 1964. I wonder why? Umm... Mustang maybe since it was unveiled at the 1964 World's Fair and there was no other car like it. Kudos to GM, they made a decent competitor. 4:15
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MY DREAMCAR IS SS 390 CAMARO
SS 396
......you gunna put a 390 ford in it huh!!
I'd much rather have the Z28.....with that bad ass 289! 😂
Really
@@fishgeralding9224 Uhhhhh, *it was a 302 --- before Ford had their 302.*
I guess women weren't permitted to buy cars back then?!?!
That's a whole new topic.
Mustang Sally! LoL!
MMMMM, guess they must have FORGOTTEN to give the hideaway lights an extensive test along with the motor mounts--hehe.
I had 3 1st gen. Camaro's miss #2 the most, Yenko clone, 427/425 with 456 12 bolt and a 4 speed, hideaways, L-88 hood, etc
The motor mounts design had been around for 70 years, but was then made safer/heavier/bulkier by adding an interlock for when the rubber failed...
@@BuzzLOLOL I knew a racer that used the SOLID mounts but not good for street use, i used a turnbuckle on the drivers side of the block to the hole in the crossmember, was CHEAP and effective
@@zxtenn - On a recall, GM added a cable for free... because at WOT the engine could rock up off the rotted rubber and jam the throttle at WOT...
@@BuzzLOLOL When i was about 15-16 i had an older friend who was a Marine and he bought a new SS 396 Camaro with the standard 325 and a 4 speed, he had the cable so i think failure happened or could happen when new not just upon rubber deterioration, regardless proper updates took care of it.
@@zxtenn - We had '67 Impala 283 2 bbl. carb. powerglide, when preventative recall letter came, we thought we were getting the new safety mounts, were pissed to find the hokey cable!
It's seriously too bad we have to rely on such crappy quality video-tapes of these classic commercials (and others.) GM/[all their divisions] should release videos like this one into the public domain (it's been *way over 28 years for copyright* ) so we can have much better quality to enjoy.
Would be used as evidence in lawsuits!
10:51 Prototypes that do run are next...
No. All prototypes run. The fiberglass car that won't run from earlier isn't a prototype.
Mockup - A realistic simulation that doesn't operate.
Prototype - An early version of the vehicle that does operate.
And in the end....Ford went to LeMans....Chevrolet didn’t....
Junior got his feels hurt by Ferrari and spend MILLIONS to compensate for his embarrassment. The GT40 wasn't even available commercially for nearly 40 years and was an enormous financial loss to Ford. But, you know, Ford II got his sweet, sweet small man's syndrome revenge.
The second gen corvair inspired the camaro to me they look a bit similar in m y oppinion. Too bad they did not do the spyder style dash for the camaro with the gauges etc etc. It would have been a lot cooler
The Camaro would have much better if they had used the same dash layout the Firebird used.
Actually the Coke bottle shape was starting to show up in the 1950's... especially on sports cars... most Chevy's got it in 1965...
Good times! but id tale the same year Corvair w turbo over the Camaro.
GM'S Unibody construction would Flex terrible on these cars especially the convertibles
It did on all unibody cars starting in 1950's... especially after a little rust...
🤔 🇺🇸 That's when car's looked like REAL car's that really was a beautiful car and still is a beautiful car .cars NOW DAYS REALLY are so ugly I would NEVER buy a new car now DAYS car's NOW DAYS REALLY are way too ugly for me and lots of other folks I know said NOW DAYS car's REALLY are way too ugly for any of them NOW DAYS ALSO car's NOW DAYS you got to drop almost all car's engine's to change any spark plugs way too many electronics on any automobiles NOW DAYS the old cars work just as good if NOT much better then any car's NOW DAYS yes I REALLY DO KNOW I am a real ASE certified master Auto technician with over 60 year's of real experience or a real ASE certified Master Auto Mechanic old car's were much better car's and just as cheap on any ⛽ GAS if NOT cheaper on any ⛽ GAS and a lot less problems for any customer ALSO for any auto mechanic car's NOW DAYS are computers to KEEP up with every human being on this Earth to track of ALL of them wherever they go and everything they really DO that's what real automobiles REALLY DO these DAY'S
around 1964 they started noticing ford had the mustang. in true Chevy fashion they reacted to the market instead of creating the market this is why I'm no longer a big fan of GM anymore
Actually, they: GM, specifically Pontiac, *did create a market* --- when they created the *GTO* --- it was putting a large block engine into a mid-size model. The original "ban" was overcome in the *1964* model year by inserting a *389 cu. in. into the Pontiac Tempest LeMans.* Before this the largest in all GM was 330 cu. in. [for mid-size]. The *GTO was the "first" true [mid-size] muscle car* --- big engine in a smaller car. And they allowed either *4-bbl or 3x2-bbl* carburators for this 389.
Auto makers will always respond to the market and because of competition they are never really happy.
I’m a Ford guy, but Chevy came up with a winner in the Camaro.
It’s obvious the design team worked their asses off to come up with a completely different animal than the Mustang.
I respect the fact that they didn’t just rush something out there not properly thought out to compete with the Mustang or the Barracuda, lol, which still looked like a modified Valiant in those days.
@@Johnnycdrums
lol! It [Barracuda] "still looks like a modified Valiant" *because that's exactly what it was.* All they did to the Valiant's body was to give it a [nearly-all] glass fastback.
If you like the 65 Barracuda, you should look up: *Car Craft's **_Hemi Under Glass_* -- it's that gorgeous light brown [whatever Plymouth called that color] with a 426 Hemi directly under that glass fastback. You'll recognize it immediately --- the photo shows it doing a near vertical wheelie on a drag strip. This was one of the most famous mods sponsored by a national Magazine.
@@Johnnycdrums The Mustang and Camaro were my favorite cars.🇺🇲
@@penboyasgod6103 ; Hemi under class was rolled by the owner, with Jay Leno the passenger seat .
That car is not stable.