Distant Replay: Chevy Revives the Z/28 Camaro Introduced on Wednesday, March 27: 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 The ultimate throwback, a double-throwdown junkyard-dog of a Camaro that summons the spirit of the first-generation original - right down to the Z-slash-28 logo. For the Camaro faithful, it's more than real - it's a dream realized. What they said: "We wanted to do a hardcore Camaro track car, and the engineering team came through with a winner," said Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America. If you want a street-legal track car, this is the real deal. What they didn't say: While Chevy has now exhumed just about every nameplate from its past (except for easy-to-eliminate nightmares like Chevette and Vega), the Z/28 is really meant to stand for something worthy of its name. The original Z/28 never met a red light it didn't take as challenge, and insurance companies, police departments and mechanics made a bundle off of them. The 2014 edition, nominally street-legal (wink, wink), will come right from the showroom with handling that's equal to the engine's might. A 500-horsepower 7-liter (that's 427 cubic inches to you traditionalists) LS7 V-8 with 470 pound-feet of torque. Harnessing this monster and putting its power to the 19-wheels and tires is the assignment of a racing-bred Tremec 6-speed manual. Although 0-60 times are currently an unlisted number, something in the 3-second range - roughly half as long as it took the original Z/28 - should be achievable. About 300 pounds of extraneous weight (i.e., radio, air-conditioning, sound insulation) was cast aside. Coming, in limited qualities, starting in mid-2014 with a window sticker somewhere north of the ZL1 model's $55,000 price tag. In just-for-an-auto-show matte pearl paint, the model shown in New York emphasized the enhanced curvaceousness of the most recent Camaro facelift. Had Chevy revived the blindingly popular Hugger Orange scheme of 1969, however, it would have brought tears to the eyes of men of a certain age.