The Camaro has spent most of its life as the Mustang’s scrappier rival, and for decades its auction record trailed Ford’s. That gap is closing fast. Three of the ten most expensive Camaros ever sold crossed the block in 2026 alone, and the top price has jumped by more than $700,000 in a single year. Almost every car here comes from 1967 to 1969, the era of COPO back-door orders, dealer-built supercars, and Trans-Am racing.
Prices include buyer’s premium where applicable and reflect public auction results through early October 2026. Two of the ten were charity sales, and we’ve flagged both.
10. 1967 Yenko Super Camaro 427 — $632,500
- Sold: $632,500
- Auction: Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale, January 2022
Before Chevrolet would install a 427 in a Camaro at the factory, Pennsylvania dealer Don Yenko did it himself. He swapped the 396 out of a Camaro SS for an L72 427 rated at 450 hp, plus a heavy-duty suspension and other upgrades. Roughly 54 were converted for 1967, and only a fraction are believed to survive. View the Barrett-Jackson listing.
9. 2014 Camaro Z/28 #001 — $650,000
- Sold: $650,000 (charity sale)
- Auction: Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale, January 2014
The track-focused fifth-gen Z/28 revived one of Chevrolet’s most famous nameplates with a 505-hp 7.0-liter V8 and serious road-course hardware. The first production car sold for charity at the same Scottsdale auction as the first new COPO, one spot up the list. Read more on Hagerty.
8. 2014 COPO Camaro #001 — $700,000
- Sold: $700,000 (charity sale)
- Auction: Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale, January 2014
Chevrolet’s modern COPO Camaro is a factory-built drag racer that isn’t street legal and pays tribute to the 1969 COPO cars further up this list. Production was limited to 69 cars a year in a nod to the original ZL1 run. The first of the 2014 batch sold for many times its sticker price, which started under $100,000. Read more about the sale.
7. 1969 Camaro ZL1 (Automatic) — $715,000
- Sold: $715,000
- Auction: Worldwide Auctioneers, Houston, 2015
Most ZL1 buyers chose the four-speed manual, so an automatic-equipped car is a rarity within a rarity. This one beat its pre-sale estimate at a time when much of the muscle car market was still soft. Read more about the sale.
6. 1969 Camaro ZL1 (Unrestored) — $848,000
- Sold: $848,000
- Auction: Mecum, Indianapolis, 2008
Just 69 Camaros were built with the ZL1’s all-aluminum 427, ordered through Chevrolet’s Central Office Production Order system to qualify the engine for drag racing. This unrestored example showed about 7,700 original miles, and its price stood as a Camaro benchmark for years. Read more on Hagerty.
5. 1968 Camaro Z/28 Penske Sunoco Trans-Am Racer — $990,000
- Sold: $990,000
- Auction: RM Sotheby’s, Amelia Island, March 2016
Roger Penske’s blue-and-yellow Sunoco Camaros, driven by Mark Donohue, turned the Z/28 into a Trans-Am legend. This car finished second in class at the 1968 24 Hours of Daytona with Donohue at the wheel. Read more about the sale.
4. 1969 Camaro ZL1, #59 of 69 — $1,094,500
- Sold: $1,094,500
- Auction: Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale, January 2020
This Hugger Orange ZL1 is the only one of the 69 ordered with an NC8 chambered exhaust. It sold for $770,000 in 2017. Then its owner tracked down and reinstalled the car’s original, long-separated aluminum 427 and three years later it set a new Camaro auction record. Read more about the sale.
3. 1969 Camaro SS Baldwin-Motion LS7 — $1,100,000
- Sold: $1,100,000
- Auction: Mecum, Kissimmee, January 2026
- Mileage: 1,841 miles
Baldwin Chevrolet and Joel Rosen’s Motion Performance built some of the wildest dealer supercars of the era on Long Island. This Daytona Yellow car was special-ordered in 1969, then converted in 1970 to a 454-cubic-inch LS7 big-block rated at 525 hp, backed by an M22 “Rock Crusher” four-speed and 4.88 gears. It has covered fewer than 1,900 miles. Read more about the sale.
2. 1969 Camaro ZL1, the Second Built — $1,430,000
- Sold: $1,430,000
- Auction: Mecum, Indianapolis, May 2026
Illinois dealer Fred Gibb was the driving force behind the ZL1 program, and he ordered the first two cars off the line. Gibb kept the first for racing. This Dusk Blue car, the second, went on to dealer-racing duty before ending up in Oklahoma. It now carries a correct replacement engine rather than its original, which likely cost it a premium, and it’s still the most expensive ZL1 ever sold. Read more about the sale.
1. 1969 Yenko Camaro Prototype — $1,815,000
- Sold: $1,815,000
- Auction: Mecum, Kissimmee, January 2026
Before Yenko Chevrolet ordered 201 COPO 9561 Camaros for 1969, it built this Olympic Gold pilot car to prove the concept. It carries the L72 427 rated at 425 hp and a four-speed, and it ran an 11.94-second quarter mile in a 1969 magazine test. Production Yenkos typically sell for $250,000 to $450,000. The car that started the program sold for more than four times that, setting a new record for any Camaro. Read more about the sale.
Just Missed the Cut
A 1967 Penske Sunoco Camaro Z/28 Trans-Am car, the first Z/28 to wear Sunoco colors, was bid to $950,000 at Gooding’s 2021 Pebble Beach auction but didn’t meet its reserve. Had it sold, it would have ranked No. 6.
What the List Tells Collectors
The Camaro’s top tier is all about how a car was ordered and who built it. COPO paperwork, Yenko and Baldwin-Motion conversions, and Penske race history account for eight of the ten spots. Provenance details matter enormously here: one ZL1 gained more than $300,000 by being reunited with its original engine. With two first-gen Camaros clearing $1.4 million in 2026, the old ceiling is gone.
Is $1.8 million for the Yenko pilot car the Camaro finally getting its due, or one very motivated bidder?
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