1967 Camaro Pace Car

[indycamaro]

Pretty sure it's a clone, here is another add for the same car stating "Complete decal pkg ...", its listed about 20 or so down. 67IPC

[Speedrx]

I was wondering if anyone in the area had looked at the car and verified the numbers either way since it has been for sale for a long time. I am with you - looks like it is probably a replica.

[matt murphy]

This car has to be a put together look-a-like. The VIN is about 70,000 cars earlier than the first recorded 1967 pace car which is 191XXX. The first '67 pace cars were built the 3rd week of March. None built the 4th week for some reason, but the majority of the dealer and festival Pace Cars were built during the 4 weeks of April. There were Camaros built during the months of May, June and July, but they did not receive the pace car package, even though they were White RS/SS convertibles with deluxe blue interior. Those cars came with black pin stripes and a black bumble bee stripe. There were Canadian Pace Cars built and they were all built during the 3rd week of June. Those cars came with the blue striping like the 300 or so US built pace cars. Roughly 110 were used at the track during the month of May and some 200 or so were ordered by dealers. The dealer cars had the C-1 paint code and the Festival track cars all had the 0-1 paint code. The Canadian cars had the 0-1 paint code as well. The Los Angeles, CA built pace cars were all built during the 4 weeks of April. No festival cars were built in the CA plant.

Charlie, if you were wondering, your car had at least 14 other pace cars built before yours and the backup car. The first dealer built Pace car was in the 1st week of April and the last festival built pace car was also in the 4th week of April.

[Speedrx]

Matt,

Good information, thanks for the response.

Gary

[JoeC]

Matt, do you know anything about the dash on the trim tag on some 67 pace cars? I was told it is on some trim tags but not others?

[427TJ]

Could those last '67 Camaro convertibles (and coupes) built with blue interiors and black nose and pinstripes have been part of the "Pacesetter" sale? I've seen a few Pacesetter cars and they are usually plain-Jane 6-cylinders with a bumblebee stripe. No doubt a few of them got converted into Pace Car look-alikes.

[matt murphy]

JoeC,

Yes, the dash ( - ) is found in the 4th or 5th group depending on if there is a 5th group on the trim tag. It is ironically on all Pace cars built in March and April and only on the Canadian cars in June. I have seen quite a few '67 Camaros built in May, June, and July that were identical to the Pace Cars but none of them had the ( - ). I have researched these pace cars for years and I never say never, but I still have not seen any later than April with the dash. I believe that the dash is a special Paint code for the Blue striping. I saw a white ext. on red int. '67 SS conv. with a dash in the fifth group and the car was original paint and it had a red bumble bee stripe and pin stripe. Weird why they would put that dash on the trim plate, but it is there as well as some festival and dealer cars with the fleet codes (050A, 061A, 062A, and 070A), also no cars had the fleet codes after April and the Canadian cars had no fleet codes.

As far as the pacesetter sale cars, I am not sure, but bet a lot of them were. I had a dealer tell me that his rep asked him in Dec or Jan if he wanted to get a Pace Car, and he said no. When he saw the photos of one, he called his rep and said order me one. He was told that it was too late. He told me that he ordered a White RS/SS with deluxe blue interior. Figuring it would be a pace car he said that it came in with a black nose and pin stripe and no decals. I have a picture of me next to a Pace setter sale Camaro, V-6 conv with a blue top that my dad had in '67. I was a year old and it had a black nose and pin stripe. I bet a lot of dealers ordered that color combination late after Chevy released the photos of the car. Sears did a Pace Car give away and it was a v-6 pace setter car with the 500 decals on it. The dealer told me that he ordered a set of the pace car decals for his car and sold it as one. He said he told another dealer friend of his to order one with the stripe delete and he did and he painted a blue stripe on it and ordered the decals through parts and also sold it as a pace car. It would be hard to explain that one today if that car turned up by the original owner. The dealer did say that it was last known to be in TX.

[olredalert]

Matt,

------Pretty sure its just a minor brain fart,but I dont think there were any V-6s put in any 67 Camaros.......Bill S

[matt murphy]

Bill,

There were some 60,000 V-6 Camaros built in 1967 . . . I guess that most of the Pace Setter cars were V-6's, but then again, I'm sure they were V-8's as well. Must have been a bad brain fart . . .

[Mark_C]

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There were Canadian Pace Cars built and they were all built during the 3rd week of June. Those cars came with the blue striping like the 300 or so US built pace cars. Roughly 110 were used at the track during the month of May and some 200 or so were ordered by dealers. The dealer cars had the C-1 paint code and the Festival track cars all had the 0-1 paint code. The Canadian cars had the 0-1 paint code as well.

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The 11 small block Canadian pacecars (out of 22 built, plus the AJ Foyt replacement Pacecar with A/C) weren't even SS'es. They were all LF7 327/210HP Rally sports. Just a little tidbit of little known info.

Don't qoute me the old USCC article that says they were L48 RS/SS'es, because its wrong, I've seen the GM of Canada paperwork on these. None of the SB cars are SS'es.