What’s more interesting is that no one at GM really liked the Panther name or wanted to use it on the car. (All Chevys at the time needed to have a name starting with a “C.”)
Interestingly, the Camaro with its new name was introduced at a press conference during the first and last meeting of SEPAW - the "Society for the Eradication of Panthers from the Automotive World.” Clearly, GM did not want to perpetuate the Panther name, and the smarter ones among us have done our best to follow GM’s lead and forget it.
The even smarter ones among us remember that from the 1990s to 2011, Ford used the Panther designation to describe its V8-powered body-on-frame full-sized sedans from Ford, Mercury and Lincoln - including the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, which too many of us have spotted in our rearview mirrors.
