Most of the time we, the general public, tend to give credit for the success of this or that four-wheeled vehicle to the company that gave birth to it. B.
Introduced in 1953 with a rather mundane six-cylinder engine, the Chevrolet Corvette received a V8 in 1955. It was an important shift for the nameplate, .
Pro-Street 1968 Chevrolet Camaro Combines 383 Muscle With B&M Mega Blower 16 Feb 2021, 14:30 UTC ·
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For the 1968 model year, regular people like you and me couldn’t get a more potent Camaro than the-block 396 and race-bred 302 small-block V8. The 427 wasn’t available as a regular production option, which is why the likes of Don Yenko and Dana Chevrolet came to prominence. 25 photos
The muscled-up pony featured before your eyes isn’t one of those prized collectibles, but a one-off restomod with pro-street modifications and strip-slaying credentials. Reconditioned only recently, according to the selling vendor, this one-off Camaro was built with no expense spared.
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During a time when Chevrolet refused to offer the 427 big-block V8 in the Camaro, dealership owner and racer Donald Frank Yenko created the 450-horsepower Super Camaro by swapping the factory-supplied L78 with the L72 from the ‘Vette. But Don Yenko wasn’t alone in this business. 32 photos
Dana Chevrolet was the first dealership on the West Coast to offer a 427-engined Camaro, and the car we’ll talk about on this occasion is a very faithful replica of the Dana Super Camaro. Built with the help of former Dana Chevrolet employees, this bruiser features the correct mechanical components, exterior trim, and interior touches as per Mecum.