About Us
Our Mission
Our mission is to celebrate and preserve the history of the Chevrolet Camaro as well as provide opportunities for its members to meet, socialize, participate in fun activities and maintain a spirit of friendship and camaraderie.
Our History
Villages Camaro Club was founded in June of 2014 by Ray Shaffer. We currently have 80 members with 47 Camaros.
Chevrolet Introduced the Camaro…
…on June 28, 1966 and began making them in August. By September, the first cars were delivered to the public. Ever since then, every Camaro ever built has had a singular goal: beat Mustang. It’s the most intense and enduring rivalry in America, and arguably the world.
Once the word “Camaro” was out there, no one really knew what it meant.
The official company line in 1966 was that it’s an old French slang term for camaraderie and friendship, though some GM brass told the press it’s “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.” Later, legends grew to include a rare disease that kills horses (ie., Mustangs). In reality, it’s a unique name that met Chevrolet’s main requirement of starting with the letter C (think Corvette, Chevelle, Corvair, etc.).
Taken from Eckler’s Rick’s Camaro catalogue
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