1967 Camaro Design and Testing video

[Tuske427]

pretty cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFcvOqoMb8

[Vince@Meanstreets]

pretty cool....I thought for sure they were gonna jump up and do a Bob Fosse choreographed go go dance routine.

Do you wish you could be there to provide some input like, wider front & rear tubs, link suspension and anti water collecting body design changes.

[Spiffav8]

"Truly a product of the space age" Gotta laugh at marketing back then....not that it's much better these days.

Cool video!

[dhutton]

I was surprised to see the NC machining on the head. I had no idea they had that sort of technology back then.

Don

[syborg tt]

Pretty cool to see these videos resurfacing.

[Tuske427]

"Truly a product of the space age" Gotta laugh at marketing back then....not that it's much better these days.

Cool video!

Thanks! Marketing was already on roll a good decade before this video came along. I have some 1950's car ads up in my home office, one of them is for a 1956 Plymouth. Their tagline: " Aerodynamic Plymouth '56. Driving takes wings" whatever that is supposed to mean... It tells me nothing about the car, their quality/ performance, etc. I can't even see much of the car in the ad. The image is of the rear of the car slightly foreshortened to enhance the fins. There is also a tiny pic of a jet at the top. Harley Earl's "jet age" definitely had a hold over other auto makers of the day.

Here's a link to a pic of this ad if you're interested in a laugh

http://www.thejumpingfrog.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=1008530

[Tuske427]

pretty cool....I thought for sure they were gonna jump up and do a Bob Fosse choreographed go go dance routine.

Do you wish you could be there to provide some input like, wider front & rear tubs, link suspension and anti water collecting body design changes.

For sure, along with recommendations of painting inner surfaces of sheet metal, the "Guildstrand" mod for the factory front suspension upper control arm mounting, etc.

It cracked me up that their computers calculated that a mono leaf rear suspension would be good, because by the time the car came out both Chevy and Pontiac offered factory traction bars. Someone apparently knew this set up wasn't sufficient back then. As we all know not only did they add multi leafs the very next year they staggered the shocks, too.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

For sure, along with recommendations of painting inner surfaces of sheet metal, the "Guildstrand" mod for the factory front suspension upper control arm mounting, etc.

It cracked me up that their computers calculated that a mono leaf rear suspension would be good, because by the time the car came out both Chevy and Pontiac offered factory traction bars. Someone apparently knew this set up wasn't sufficient back then. As we all know not only did they add multi leafs the very next year they staggered the shocks, too.

same time you could ride a bike with no helmet, pregnent mothers could drink alcohol and smoking was safe. The computer in my back pocket has more power than what they had "designing" things.

its funny how fast things changed after the 60's

[Che70velle]

Vince, the computer in your back pocket has more "power" than the Apollo space capsules did...

[Damn True]

The Camaro advertising campaign was a cool story arc on Mad Men. I wonder how much of the audience knew what car they were talking about?

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Vince, the computer in your back pocket has more "power" than the Apollo space capsules did...
that blows my mind!!

The Camaro advertising campaign was a cool story arc on Mad Men. I wonder how much of the audience knew what car they were talking about?
or if the designers could imagine the car would still be popular 46 years later and some exceeded the 200,000 mile mark.