i know this might be a stupid qestion. but i was siting there watching a video clip of the concept release and i thought to my self what will happen to it after camaro are all produced and every one happens to forget about the car that brought back the camaro in a maner of speeking. i have read in other places about many concept cars being destoried. i dont think this would be a very fiting end to it.

 

As important as this car is, it will probably go into the Chevrolet Heritage Collection and be a very nice museum piece.

 

were most of the concept cars from GM end up. The ones that get destroyed are the ones used for testing before the car goes into actual production... right?

 

I dont think the concept would be destroyed except through a shipping accident or a building fire. Like Jason said,it's too important. GM used to chuck their concept cars in dusty warehouses, and even chop them up, but they have come to realize the historical significance of their concept cars.

However, JCamere you are right, the pre-production test mules are usually destroyed once GM is done with them. I've seen them when I was an instrumentation engineer at Milford. Those cars were rough, really rough. Drill holes and mounting brackets all over the place, old duct tape, dents and minor scratches. GM uses those mules for all kinds of tests, and when they are done with them, the remaining vehicle is more beat up than a cop car. Eventually GM will scrap them out and crush them. This will be the eventual fate of the first set of pre-production test cars.

 

Let's not give the ford/mopar guys any ideas

 

hahahaha

 

is this the same for the red one since it is clay?

 

I don't think it's clay, it just has no functioning parts...basically just a shell. Don't think it'd be going to shows if it was clay.

 

The silver car will be sent to the GM collection and the the red may be scrapped since it is nothing but a shell.

The silver car is a important foot note in history and is not a test mule or even a prototype per say since it does not have a production drivetrain. It is a show car that made a big splash that will be remembred for years regardless of the production Camaro's fait.

This is exactly the kind of car GM keeps anymore for the Collection. Too bad they did not think that way in the 50's. But thank God some of the designers and engineers hid away much of their herritage so we can see it today.

Oh and thanks to Joe Bortz who has saved many of the Motorama cars that were left at Warhoops salvage to be forgotten.

 

very true.........the Silver car is just too important ......

 

thanks for the answers guys. i read an artical a few years back about some c1 corvettes concepts that were destroyed

 

I believe it was fiberglass.

 

I read some where it was fiberglass over clay. but I may be wrong

 

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