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I have a long, and somewhat checkered history with the Chevrolet Camaro.Back in 1974 my older brother came home with a 1967 Camaro RS. It was midnight blue with a black interior, and had a 290 horsepower, 327 cubic inch V8 engine. We bolted a Hurst manual transmission to the block?s backside, replaced the standard carburetor with a Holley 4-barrel and added a couple of free-breathing side pipes to make it spit fire and wail like a demon when we hit the throttle hard. We drove that car for a couple of years, going through a set or two of Uniroyal Tiger Paws and enough oil to make us honorary members of OPEC on the backroads of our hometown in Northern Michigan. And, while that Camaro was not the best handling car ever made, it was a hell of a lot of fun.Then in the mid to late 1980s I was a copywriter at Chevrolet?s advertising agency, penning ads for the underpowered, ill-handling coupe that, truth be told, was a Camaro in name only. During that era the most powerful Camaro Chevrolet produced was the 1989 Z28 which made only 240 horsepower. And they were not very well built, squeaking and rattling as they made their way down the road. If any of you bought a Camaro of that era as a result of my work, I?m sorry. I am not so sorry, however, th...