The Chevrolet Camaro official went on sale on September 29th, 1966 – 50 years ago today. This means that right now, 50 years ago, someone watching television might have seen the first ever Camaro commercial. This first Camaro commercial showed the groundbreaking muscle car rising from a Volcano as the narrator ran through all of […] More »
This week’s Throwback Thursday video takes us back to August, when we got our first look at the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 flexing its muscles at General Motors’ Milford Proving Grounds. This video is captured from the Performance Data Recorder system, so in addition to watching the front view of the monster muscle car while […] More »
Sure, it’s not Thursday, but this throwback video is too Americana to not talk about right now. Taking us back to 1966, is this television commercial for the high performance Oldsmobile 442. Although the Oldsmobile brand is long gone and the final vehicles under that moniker were anything but performance vehicles, Olds once offered similar performance […] More »
The Pontiac Fiero was introduced for the 1984 model year and while this may not have been the first Fiero commercial – this spot was created for 1984, so it was one of the first. I bring that up because by today’s standards, this commercial is fairly odd. I guess that when you consider the […] More »
This week’s Throwback Thursday video features a commercial for the 1986 Chevrolet Camaro IROC Z. With the then-new “Heartbeat of America” jingle playing in the background, this bright red Camaro IROC Z appears to be locked in a pretty casual game of cat and mouse with a police helicopter. As the two rush along the […] More »