The fact that the Chevrolet Camaro made it to twenty-five years was surprising…the car quite nearly got the ax in the early 1970s, and if it wasn’t for pony car competition drying up by 1974 (the Mustang II ditching the style to become a compact “little jewel”) and allowing GM to gain a 100% market share of the class, it just might have slipped under the waves. But by 1992, Camaro was doing quite well and was gearing up for the change into the fourth-generation form. Problem was, the third-gen car was ten years old and the styling hadn’t changed enough to make a difference. What to do?

History shows that basically, some body trim and a new spoiler, along with 25th Anniversary badges took care of any celebration Chevrolet had planned. But in a shop somewhere in GM-land, there was an attempt to put something meatier out for a final farewell to the third-gen shell. This product, dubbed the “Heritage Edition”, blended a worked-over L98 350ci small-block, the six speed, 3.42 gears from the upcoming fourth-gen F-car, and the suspension from the Camaro B4C (cop car) into a handful of cars, maybe 600 or so. The plan didn’t make it, but MotorWeek somehow got to spend some time with one of the 1992 Camaro Heritage Edition cars, and from what we learn from this film, whoever made the call to cancel the Heritage Edition program missed the boat.