The first Chevy Camaro television commercial can still be seen on YouTube. It features a white Camaro RS/SS with the distinct bumble-bee nose band emerging from a volcano. The voice over happily presents “The intense brand-new Camaro from Chevrolet … something you’ve never ever seen before.”

While engineers and designers feverishly worked overtime on the advancement of a four-passenger sports car they code-named the F-car, the Chevy public relations, marketing and advertising team prepared the world for the intro of a car they called the Panther.

All through the summer of 1965 practically every aspect of the automobile’s design and advancement, from preliminary design sketches to clay models, was photographed and thoroughly documented. Chevy utilized the possessions to create a 30 -minute movie The Camaro for sale in Washougal WA , which was later revealed on TELEVISION and in cinema. They likewise presented ladies’s clothing called the Camaro Collection as well as a Camaro roadway race online game.

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In November, Chevy sales executives and creative people previewed prototype designs at the GM Tech Center. Campbell-Ewald, Chevy’s venerable ad agency, immediately started work on catalogs, direct mail and sales promo materials, together with print, outside and TV/radio marketing. In April 1966, at the New York Automobile Program Press Conference, Chevrolet sales executives admitted no name had actually been selected for the brand-new car, however did reveal that rates of 1967 Chevy Camaro for sale in  Washougal WA design will remain in the Corvair-Chevy II range.

Throughout early 1966 Chevy struggled over a name for its Mustang-killer. GM’s upper management fidgeted about the aggressive connotations of the Panther name. A similar bout of cold feet would later on trigger the Pontiac version, code word the Banshee, to be relabelled Firebird. Over its short lifetime, the F-car had been called by many names consisting of Wildcat, Chaparral, Leader and Nova. It’s also reported that Chevy considered utilizing the letters “GM” in the name, and came up with G-Mini, which developed into GeMini and finally Gemini. Nevertheless, GM’s upper management banned the idea, fearing the automobile might be a failure.

Automotive legend has it that somebody at Chevrolet finally proposed the name Camaro and upper management quickly agreed. Although the name has no real meaning, GM scientists reportedly found the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for “pal” or “buddy.” It’s rumored that Ford Motor Business scientists also discovered other definitions, consisting of “a shrimp-like creature” and an arcane term for “loose bowels.”

Since a number or pre-launch products had actually already been launched utilizing the Panther name, Chevy’s most pressing challenge was to now rename their new Mustang killer, the Camaro. Camaros are found in Washougal WA  by looking for classic car dealers.