1967 Cheetah Camaro

**ssl78** · #1 09-23-2006, 07:08 PM

I know the 1967 Camaro originally was to be called a Cheetah but was changed to Camaro before being produced. My question is was there ever a 1967 Cheetah released I was talking to someone who claims 5 were sold to the public and he owns one of them. Is this possible some made it to the public as Cheetahs

**427TJ** · #2 09-23-2006, 07:18 PM

I thought it was going to be called the Panther?

67L78conv · #3 09-23-2006, 08:21 PM

Artists concept of the "Panther" soon to be the Camaro from Mechanix Illustrated June 1966.

70CitrusZ · #4 09-23-2006, 08:36 PM

I know a part number was issued for the "Panther" emblems, and an initial run of the emblems were made when at the final moment the emblems were redesigned to say Camaro.
The concept cars had "panther" emblems on them to start with.
Maybe some emblems got out instead of destroyed, or maybe a pre production car exists. I know of at least one pre-production gen 2 Camaro that still exists..vin 500001. This car exibits some minor diferences from production.

**ssl78** · #5 09-23-2006, 08:47 PM

The car I am talking about is called a Cheetah its supposed to be a very early almost proto type 67 Z28 called a Cheetah. The part which is confusing is he said it at one time had a 3x2 setup never thought they put that on a Z28

bertfam · #6 09-23-2006, 09:01 PM

John,

I think you're friend is getting them confused. HERE'S A GOOD LINK regarding the Cheetah. Like Bill stated above, the Camaro started out as the Panther.

Ed