javier romagosa
General Motors is celebrating thanks to 50th anniversary of the Chevrolet Camaro, the rival par excellence of Ford Mustangs. And within the schedule of planned activities is the woodward dream cruise a kind of festival that will take over Woodward Avenue in and around Detroit this weekend.
Precisely in this location is exposed el first prototype of the pony from Chevrolet -VIN identification number # 100001-, which is part of a run of approximately 50 units that were handcrafted to test and tune the car before launching it on the market.
The first Chevrolet Camaro has lived its own
Assembled in Noorwood, Ohio, this brown beauty was first displayed at an Oklahoma dealership, where an attempt was made to gauge public reaction. Next, and although one would hope that General Motors would have had an interest in keeping it, the truth is that it was sold to an individual. And then to another and to another ...
Until the first Camaro, which originally featured a quiet inline 6-cylinder engine, was transformed into a drag car (!). Fortunately, after the years of purgatory it was rescued by Logan Lawson -a teenager of only 13 years old- and his father, who, after certifying the authenticity of his classic, got down to work with the restoration.
The first Chevrolet Camaro It will be on display until Saturday on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, inside a glass urn that is illuminated at night. You probably won't go there, but we loved the idea and the poetic nature of the photos; so much as to show them to you. A real recognition to one of the forerunners of Chevrolet's pony cars, nowadays a legend.
