The dealer-built F-bodies that shouldn't have existed.
GMMG turned the last Camaros and Firebirds off GM's line into limited-run, phased-performance builds sold through a handful of hand-picked dealers — Berger, Tom Henry, Carl Black. The 2002 ZL-1 Super Car. The Dick Harrell wide-bodies. The Blackbird Trans Am. This is the archive, the ledger, the story.
— Matt Murphy, GMMG
The 2002 ZL-1 Super Car
Sixty-nine cars, one story.
In March 2002, GMMG built sixty-nine 2002 Camaro SS coupes into homage to the 1969 COPO ZL-1 Camaro of Fred Gibb and Dick Harrell — right down to the numbering. Car #1 wore Candy Apple Red. Car #69 honored Grumpy Jenkins. The top phase — the SR427 — used a GM Racing–derived 427ci all-aluminum LS crate motor and put down 627 horsepower.
Every model, every count.
Twenty model lines across the Camaro SS and Trans Am WS6 platforms, plus the trucks and one-offs GMMG built outside them. Production numbers, phase levels, and provenance for each one.
A modern dealer-tuner, on purpose.
Matt Murphy started GMMG — originally George-Murphy Motor Group — with one idea: bring back the model that built Yenko, Nickey, Berger, and Baldwin-Motion in the late 1960s. Buy production F-bodies. Partner with a few brave dealers. Build them fast, build them limited, put a numbered plaque on the dash, and send them out into the world.
By the time the 4th-gen Camaro was retired in 2002, GMMG had turned that idea into roughly six hundred cars — a modern parallel to the COPO era.