First-Year Chevy Camaro Coupe Is Today’s Bring a Trailer Find!

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• The Camaro nameplate is on hiatus right now, but the classic market offers plenty of possibilities.
  
• This first-year example shows how the original Camaro delivered an authoritative rebuttal to the Ford Mustang.
• This SS/RS model looks great and packs a big-block V-8 under the hood.

What’s the origin of the word Camaro? Well, according to a quick-witted Chevrolet rep at the reveal of GM’s pony car in 1966, it’s a “small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.” At the dawn of 2025, it’s more than a bit of a letdown that there’s no modern Camaro in showrooms or even on the horizon, to take the fight to Ford. But look back, and there are plenty of great Camaros to choose from. This 1967 Camaro RS/SS, from the debut model year, is a prime example, and it’s up for sale on Bring a Trailer.

That’s some serious muscle, and you may develop muscles of your own driving it, what with its unassisted steering and four-wheel drum brakes. A four-speed manual transmission handles shifting duties, while redline Firestone Super Sport Wide Oval tires wrap 14-inch Rally wheels. Try not to turn the rears into smoke.

A a collectible, this first-of-breed Camaro ticks all the boxes. Refinished in 2016, it’s all correct to how it came from the factory. The Ermine White paint and blue vinyl interior are pure 1960s, and the car is accompanied by a report by well-respected Certified Appraiser Jerry MacNeish.

Furthermore, those Firestones are fresh, the fuel system has been overhauled, the fluids changed, and the engine’s been tuned, all within the last year. This little Mustang-eater is ready to run. If you were in short pants when this Camaro was new, you might well have had a Hot Wheels model of it, as those toy cars launched in 1968 with a tiny Camaro in the production run.

If so, maybe it’s time to step up from 1/64th scale to the real thing. There may not be a 2025 model year Camaro on your local Chevy lot, but this could still be the year you finally put a Camaro in your garage.

The auction ends on January 9.