The Chevrolet Camaro is in its sixth generation now, with a storied reputation and nearly 6 million built since the first one came off the line in Ohio (or maybe it was California, depending on your definition of “first”) in the fall of 1966. Sadly, American car shoppers no longer love the Camaro as they
Volkswagen’s small Type 2 Transporter vans and pickups sold surprisingly well in the United States during the late 1950s; Detroit took note and began working on its own competing designs. The Transporter had a usefully flat floor, achieved by putting a boxer engine in the rear, and General Motors copied this layout with the Chevrolet
Triumph was best-known in the United States for selling rakish sports cars, from the TR2s of the middle 1950s through the very last TR7s and TR8s of the early 1980s. Back in its home country, though, Triumph offered a much broader range of vehicles, including quasi-sensible family sedans such as the Herald. From 1961 through
During the middle 1960s, the affordable full-size car was king of Detroit. Chevrolet alone moved well past a million Biscaynes, Bel Airs and Impalas every year then, while Ford wasn’t far behind in sales from its line of big, comfortable rides. In 1966, the full-sized Ford line in the United States had the stripped-down Custom
