The Camaro that is the vehicle mode for Bumbleebee is the cover car for the November 2006 issue of Hot Rod Magazine. Almost no spoiler movie wise, but decent info about the car itself as provided from "rtype" on the Shoot for the Edit site and provided by tformers.com.
It's not really a camaro but a pontiac gto with fiberglass molds from the concept. Built by Saleen, it has faux wheel covers/rotors and anything else that is "billet aluminum" is also made of fiberglass. pretty cool stuff. they have pics of the chassis, camaro - fresh out of the paintbooth masking paper still on it, and prelim test fits of the white fiberglass molds.(image source)
The dash, and outer body panels are from the concept. the chassis, LS-2 V-8 engine, and suspension are GTO.
- Barricade (still referred to as Brawl in this article) is considered a Saleen, not Mustang, Ford not wanting the Pony touted as a villain. They alluded that this will make it easier for Hasbro to license it as a toy.
- Bumblebee's side windows are plexiglass and won't roll down.
-Even though Saleen modifies Mustangs, it was tapped due to it's expertise in building show vehicles.
- GM, not Saleen applied the final racing stripes, to closely resemble the '69 camaro stripes.
- "Old" Bumblebee was originally gonna be a '69, but ended up being 3 1976 camaros. the team was going for believability in terms of spike finding a crappier camaro as opposed to the more sought after '69.
- new movie camaro is automatic (Heard this is quite common for stunt driving purposes. -bwbm)
- the new camaro trunk fills up with smoke when doing burn outs, it's bare bones hollow and houses the fuel filler cap.
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