Couple of automobiles throughout the muscular tissue automobile period supplied the mechanical visibility of the Camaro Z/28. Starting as an purpose-built Trans-Am performance bundle as choice code Z28, the bundle earned a correct identity mid-year 1968 when Chevrolet began constructing them with Z/28 badges instead of the 302 badges, as shown by this ’68 Camaro Z/28 in the below video clip.
The Z/28 is unique in that it’s one of two vehicles during the period (the other is Oldsmobile’s W-Machines) where a name was derived from its UPC code. Chevrolet ran out auto racing considering that 1963, yet that didn’t indicate Chevrolets were lacking from competing– on the contrary, Chevrolets were racing successfully in numerous kinds of competition, though not with manufacturing facility sponsorship. With the Z/28, it was a race car developed for the road, so all that was required to race one competitively was to prepare it per the regulations of the circuit.
Joel Newberg got a 1968 Camaro Z/28 brand-new and, over time, sold it. He had a need to locate another one in the same color combination yet was not successful, so he opted for this red-on-red 1968 Z/28. It doesn’t have several alternatives– not even power guiding– however he added the center console due to the incorporated gauges.
Join Muscle Car Campy as he and Joel opt for a wonderful tour via western Florida, that wonderful sound of high-revving small-block goodness emanating from under the hood and via the tailpipes.
