I Searched For Crime 101’s Camaro To See How Much It Cost To Buy
A 1969 Chevy Camaro I found on Autotrader
This isn't a review of Crime 101 starring Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry. I've already written about why I think it's secretly a car movie disguised as a heist thriller — you can read that here.
This is about the 1968 Camaro that was essentially the second star of the film.
If you watched Crime 101 and you're into cars, you know exactly the moment I'm talking about. That racing green '68 Camaro shows up on screen and everything stops. For a JDM guy like me — whose mental map of American muscle cars starts and ends with Mustangs and Chargers — this was a genuine revelation. I immediately had to look it up. I suspect most car people did the same.
And then I did what any car enthusiast would inevitably do next.
I went to AutoTrader.
What a '67–'69 Camaro Actually Costs in Canada Right Now
I ran a 250km radius search from the Greater Toronto Area — which covers most of southern Ontario — for any '67 to '69 Camaro currently listed for sale.
Four results came up.
Three of the four were listed with manual transmission. That detail alone says everything about the era these cars came from. Try finding that ratio on any modern car search.
Asking prices ranged from $80,000 to $165,000 CAD. These are not impulse purchases.
The one pictured above is listed at $92,500 — a serious amount of money, but when you see the restoration quality, it's hard to argue with. It's been fitted with a GM crate engine producing 435 horsepower, mated to a 4-speed Muncie manual transmission. That combination in a car this age is something special.
But There's Something Specific About the Crime 101 Camaro
Crime 101 ‘68 Camaro in Racing Green
Look at the movie car again.
What the production team got exactly right was restraint. They modified it just enough to make it feel distinct and cinematic — but never so much that it stopped being recognizably a '68 Camaro.
The front grille is clean with no badge. The car sits lower than stock — just enough to give it an aggressive stance without going full show car. The wheels are period-correct in the best way, the kind of OG fitment that looks right rather than trying too hard. And the racing green colour is perfectly calibrated — not too dark to lose its depth on screen, not too light to look washed out. It reads as intentional and confident in every frame.
That's harder to get right than it looks. A lot of movie builds either over-modify a car into something unrecognizable, or leave it so stock it lacks presence. The Crime 101 Camaro threads that needle perfectly.
Final Thought
I'd be genuinely curious whether '67–'69 Camaro prices have moved since Crime 101 came out. My instinct says yes — at least modestly. Some films have a proven ability to shift the classic car market.
The prime example is the VeilSide Fortune FD RX-7 from Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift — which I wrote about in my Sung Kang post. That car's appearance in the film turned it into one of the most sought-after JDM builds in the world almost overnight. Prices and demand for clean FD RX-7s climbed significantly in the years that followed.
The '68 Camaro was already a desirable classic before Crime 101. Whether the film pushes it further into the mainstream conversation — and into higher asking prices — will be interesting to watch.
