A 43-year-old Chevy Camaro demo vehicle built to advertise the 1969 model year coupe will go on sale in early January 2022. If you think it looks sawn apart with its internals exposed, well, that’s the whole point of the ‘demo’ part.
No one can say for sure how much it might fetch at the auction, because the car had been kept in private hands its entire life and never been sold at an open auction.
Chevrolet made this one-off for the 1969 Motorama Expo. It cut out certain bodywork fragments to expose the underlying structures, and even went through the pain of color-coding the various layers for a clearer view. The doors were dismantled to provide a free overview of the cabin.
Based on the photos, the engine housing is also partly transparent for the same reasons. The seller claims the original demo car had electric motors that simulated pistons moving inside cylinders, but this is, unfortunately, no longer the case.
Perhaps the most bizarre thing of all is that the dissected Camaro has not one, but two noses that could be readily swapped around at the show. One has a standard six-pot installed and the other one rocks the 5.7-liter V8 from the SS lineup.
The auction holder reports that the six-cylinder nose had been lost at a certain time in history and had to be recreated anew using OEM parts. Elsewhere, the body is full of minor defects, which the seller dismisses as inevitable for such an old car, but is largely original.