Two years after the Ford Mustang kick-started the pony-car segment in the US, the first of the Chevrolet Camaro Coupe generations went on sale in 1966, gunning for the same market segment.
If it was the original 1967 to 1969 Camaro (the 1st generation Camaro) that got the ponycar ball rolling for Chevy, then it was the 1970 to 1981 Camaro—the 2nd gen Camaro—that cranked it up to eleven.