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CLASSIC CARS


DAVE WOOLLEY


The Camaro, past and present


Many of today’s auto makers have decided


to pay homage to the 1960s by trying to replicate some of the most popular cars of that era: Dodge building the 2011 Challenger, Ford with Mustangs, and GM with the new Camaro. Oh, how they tried to replicate the cars of the


60s in appearance, but they were so different in so many ways. Here’s a comparison of the 1968 Chevy


Camaro to the 2011 Chevy Camaro. The 1968 Chevy Camaro was available in


many different configurations, from a plain-Jane sports coupe to the asphalt-eating Super Sport. There was something for everyone. The 1968 Chevy Camaro had several options, including the 427 cu. in. 435 horsepower V-8.The Camaro SS Coupe sold for $3,755. In 1968 all we cared about was how fast we


could do the quarter-mile or how much rubber we could lay. It was all about the performance of the car on the road. Now in 2011 with our green society and all the controls we have on the engines, it seems everything is focused on what comes out of the car in emissions and gas mileage rather than the performance of the car. Who really cared about gas mileage in 1968


when gas was .07cents per litre? There was many an evening of cruising on Carling Ave., between Jack’s Fina (near the Britannia Drive-in) to The Royal Burger on Carling and down to the A & W on Richmond Rd. near Woodroffe. Usually with four people in the car we would


throw in a buck each for gas and cruise for hours. The pony cars were so special, but as gas prices rose, their popularity faded in the mid1970s. Nowadays, with one of the new Camaros, gas


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