Camaro5 was invited down to Indy’s Opening day, last Saturday – May 12, 2012. Four of our moderators had a great time driving around the track in their Camaros and walking down Gasoline Alley. The experience reaffirmed to us that Indy truly is the “Racing Capital of the World.” Check out the photos from the [...]
The production Camaro ZL1 Convertible for customers do not begin production until this summer (August), but it appears that Capture Test Fleet (CTF) evaluation ZL1 convertibles have already been produced and are being distributed to the lucky GM employees. We’ve had a couple of sightings just in the last few days, with a truckload of [...]
16 May, 2012
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Forum member mattyb65 and his Camaro (a 2012 2LT/RS) will be featured on HGTV’s House Hunters on May 24, 2012 (10PM ET), so set your DVRs. The episode follows Matt on his search for his first home. At the top of his wishlist is a garage that he can keep his new Camaro in. Here’s [...]
15 May, 2012
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A huge congratulations to site member davista04 for being the lucky winner of a 2012 Camaro Synergy Edition! He won the car despite having some long odds – out of 280,000 entries in all for the grand prize. The grand prize was a 2012 Camaro Synergy Edition, together with a trip for two to Talladega [...]
14 May, 2012
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Watch as the Livernois ZL1 hits 9.8@142.4 MPH in the quarter mile! [VIDEO] Here’s the full specs on this beast: Delivered by Rodger’s Chevrolet 4-27-12 (yes, we’ve only had it 2 weeks!) 2012 ZL1 Auto trans – Full weight with exception of wheels/tires 100% stock suspension Stock trans w/ Livernois specific trans calibration Stock catback [...]
Rest In Peace Carroll Shelby. Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing as well as high-performance versions of production cars like the Ford Mustang, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 89. The automotive world has [...]
11 May, 2012
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OMG. Barely a month after the very first Camaro ZL1 deliveries, the ZL1 has already broken into the 9 second range in the quarter mile! LIvernois is at the Milan Dragway today with their ZL1 and became the first to crack into the 9′s, with a 9.8@142.4 MPH run [view time slip]. Just crazy. They [...]
Cool video showing how the ZL1 engine block is honed using deck plates to simulate cylinder heads being torqued on the block. Why go through this process? As forum member Lonny Doyle explains: When you torque the cylinder heads and main caps onto the engine block it causes the cylinders to distort, so if you [...]
You all heard the news from late last week about the first Camaro ZL1 (by Lingenfelter) to top 200 MPH (202.67), now watch footage of it doing so at the Continental/General Tire Proving Grounds at Uvalde, TX! 200+ MPH sounds impressive when you read about it, but when you see how fast a car is [...]
Camaro ZL1 Joins the 11-second Club DETROIT – The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is officially in the “11-second” club, as engineers recently turned an 11.93-second/116-mph quarter-mile elapsed time run in a showroom-stock Camaro ZL1 automatic. A Camaro ZL1 manual ran an 11.96-second ET at 117 mph. Only a few other production vehicles can run the [...]
Per fbodfather: Much has been written about what is, without question, the best Camaro ever – the new ZL1. The new ZL1 delivers supercar levels of performance while providing the best handling – most advanced – best riding and most refined Camaro ever. However, you don’t have to take our word for it – simply [...]
The 2nd Annual Texas Wide Camaro Meet took place this past Saturday at the Oasis in Austin, TX. As you can see from the cover photo, this was a mega turnout, with more Camaros not pictured in the photo. Check out the nice photo coverage from the event INSIDE. Read more on this story at [...]
