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LOT #1369 - 1969 CHEVROLET CAMARO RS/SS "CUTAWAY" COUPE – NO RESERVE
TWO FOR THE SHOW!

GM “DOUBLE HEADER” ’69 CAMARO CUTAWAY DISPLAY

Long before General Motors’ lavish Motorama One outstanding case in point from General Motors
traveling roadshows were established in 1949, the is this fascinating 1969 Chevrolet Camaro “cutaway”
giant corporation gave visitors to its displays a glimpse display car – one of just two known to have been
into a wide array of futuristic design and technical used by Chevrolet in late 1968 and early 1969 on
advancements under development at its studios and the auto-show circuit to promote the upcoming and
laboratories. While the famed Motorama concept handsomely updated 1969 Camaro. Best known as
was a thing of the past by 1961, GM continued to the “Double Header Car,” and available with No
consistently dazzle auto-show visitors throughout Reserve at Barrett-Jackson’s 2022 Scottsdale Auction,
America with fresh automobile designs and a tidal this unforgettable display piece includes a Camaro
wave of engineering breakthroughs – a tradition of body shell, complete with optional black and white
industry leadership that continues today. In the never- houndstooth upholstery, plus a 6-cylinder base
ending quest for buyer attention, showroom sales and model front end and an RS/SS 350 version. All three
market share, GM’s glitzy auto-show displays were, pieces were placed onto individual turntables that
and continue to be, far more than “build it and they could be interchanged to display either the standard
will come” affairs. In fact, while the cars have always or RS/SS versions of the car with just the push of a
been the stars, sometimes the displays themselves were button. A symphony of electric motors and controls
so innovative and interesting, they upstaged the actual raised the Camaro body and the turntables with each
products on display. frontal arrangement rotated, giving showgoers the

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