Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:57
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In the summer of 1966, Chevrolet General Manager “Pete” E.M. Estes hosted a 14-city conference call (an impressive feat at the time arranged by the Bell system) to discuss the so-called Chevy Panther. It was the car that was to take a stand against the rabid stampede of the Ford Mustang and to everyone’s delight, he announced that GM would begin production of the Panther soon.
Except there was no Panther. The car Estes was there to announce was the Chevy Camaro.
Working names are frequently forgotten, relegated to the dusty corners of old car guys’ brains to be waved about when some young whippersnapper tries to pull rank. SLP (Street Legal Performance) has not forgotten. As it did with the Camaro ZL1 previously, SLP has sifted through the waste bin of GM’s intellectual property to rouse the excitement of muscle-car guys who have been paying attention for 50 years. For good measure, it’s gone ahead and given this “Panther” 600 horsepower to wake up those who haven’t.
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2012 Chevy Camaro SLP Panther 600 Full Test.
Here’s a European take on the Transformers Camaro, based on the Euro-spec version of the car. And while it might not look all that fancy, what O.CT Tuning has done to the engine is nothing short of brilliant. That’s the way things are; Americans are good at aesthetics, Europeans are better at engineering. O.CT has tuned this Camaro to 630 hp.
It was the first 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 to break the 11-second mark in the quarter mile. Now it’s the first 2012 Camaro ZL1 to crack 200 mph, 202.67 mph to be precise. It might have been touched up by Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome.
The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is considered the most powerful Camaro in the world, one that comes packed with a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine that produces 580 horsepower. On its own, the Camaro ZL1 is already a pretty impressive piece of muscle.
When you get an email asking if you can be at the track tomorrow to photograph the first 2012 ZL1 Camaro breaking into the 10s, you don’t ask too many questions. When we rolled into Milan Dragway in Milan, Michigan, and met up with Mike Copeland of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering LPE, the questions we figured you would want to ask started flowing.
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