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• Frank Gardner raced a 2nd Generation Camaro to success in 1973 British Touring Car Championship The car is possibly a 1972 model and had a big block in it. See interesting discussion here about the history of this car and also Gardner's earlier, First Generation Camaro. This is referred to (with pictures) in his Gardner's book Racing Drivers' Manual (ISBN: 085059135X), and also on a...
• The first generation Camaro was raced by Frank Gardner (among) others in the British Touring Car Championship There's some debate about which car, or cars he drove, and it wasn't until the second generation model was introduced that he won the championship, in 1973. Officially, I think it was a Z28, but the discussion here seems to indicate it might have been a 1967 RS. The first...

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Castrol ad (from August 72 Custom Car mag) featuring Frank Gardner's Camaro. Despite the text, this was not an off-the-shelf Z28, and possibly wasn't a Z28 at all (see contributions elsewhere on this site)