©1998-2023, Camaro Research Group
Edited by Kurt Sonen.
Version: Friday, 24-Mar-2023 13:11:48 EDT
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A debt of gratitude is owed to Rich Fields, the CRG coordinator for over 10 years, for guiding the CRG through those early years and his work on establishing the initial website content. The CRG also owes a debt of gratitude to, and our works stand on the shoulders of, those Camaro enthusiasts whose previous and ongoing documentation efforts we now attempt to extend with our research projects. We encourage you to investigate these resources that can provide you with specific additional help.
The first-generation Camaro is a complex topic to research - which is why we are intrigued by it. There have been few other models in the course of automotive history that have been produced in such numbers, with such an incredible, even unbelievable, variety of options, and with so proportionally little remaining factory documentation available on many of the details. Anyone that might mistakenly believe that everything is known about the first-gen Camaro simply hasn’t looked into it very deeply!
The CRG long-term goal is to be able to describe the production configuration of every major first-generation Camaro model and option, including mid-year changes. To this end we have amassed an extensive CRG resource library that includes all the major pieces of original GM documentation and virtually every secondary reference that has ever been written about the first-generation Camaro. We continue to acquire additional documentation as we find it (donations are welcome, by the way!).
Most of the research projects we start are very difficult and this means that they usually take a long time to complete (of course if they were simple they would already have been completed and documented by someone else). We have started many more projects than we have completed; our incomplete research "works-in-progress" are numerous - but hopefully each will eventually come to a conclusion and see the light of day on this web site. While we frankly don’t ever expect to finish our long-term goal - we enjoy the challenge. It is our interest in the research itself - the journey, and not the destination - that causes us to persist in this thing.
Best Wishes and Happy Restoring!
The Camaro Research Group
Nevertheless, after this brief attempt to discourage those of only casual interest, if any think they still might be interested in joining the CRG, send us a "resume" of your relevant experience (Camaro restoration, GM or GM division/supplier employment, software development, technical writing, graphical arts, database development, general automotive knowledge, etc.) and we’ll give your qualifications and interest fair consideration.
While CRG membership changes with time, the CRG currently is composed of (in chronological order of membership) the following:
Name | Rich Fields | Martin Foltz | Greg Davies | Wayne Guinn | Kurt Sonen | Jon Mello |
CRG co-founder, Coordinator Emeritus, and core member | CRG co-founder and associate member | CRG co-founder and associate member | CRG co-founder and liasion member to CUS web site | CRG Coordinator, Webmaster, database maintainer, and core member | CRG core member | |
Current 1st Gen Camaro | 1968 L30/M20 RallySport coupe | 1968 L35/M20 SS396 | 1968 L35/M20 SS396 convertible | no current Camaros | 1969 RS/Z28 1969 SS396 |
1967 Z28 (two) |
Occupation | Engineer at a US aerospace organization | Engineer at a US electronics organization | VP Operations for a Canadian financial center | Writer, Chevrolet historian, and WW Quality Systems Analyst, JNJ | Former automotive engineer | Engineer at a US aerospace organization |
Name | Bill Glowacki | Mark Canning | Doug DePew | Alan Colvin | Jerry MacNeish | John Hinckley |
CRG core member | CRG associate member | CRG liaison member for Site Server | CRG liaison member to CBTN | CRG core member | CRG core member - deceased | |
Current 1st Gen Camaro | (none - prior owner of several) | 69 Pace car | (none - prior owner of several) | (none - prior owner of several) | 1967 Z28 1968 Z28 (two) "OLD RELIABLE" NHRA 1968 Z28 race car |
1969 Z28 |
Occupation | Industrial engineer, former professional restorer | Electrical engineer | Computer consultant and sponsor of the CRG website. | Consultant, automotive author of CBTN, & former Corvette Fever Magazine editor | Automotive author, professional restorer, certified appraiser for first-generation Camaros | Retired automotive assembly plant manager and former automotive engineer |
Name | Troy Criscillis | Daniel Coffman | Ed Bertrand | Warren Leunig | Steve Wright | Bryon Miller |
CRG associate member | CRG core member | CRG core member | CRG liaison member to FCRG | CRG associate member | CRG core member | |
Current 1st Gen Camaro | 1968 SS396 | 1967 RS/SS 350 | 1968 RS/SS L89 Convertible | (1967 Impala SS396) | 1968 RS/SS396 | 1968 SS396 |
Occupation | Car restoration | Electronics engineer | Network engineer for a major medical company | Teacher | Scientist | Meteorologist |
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