Posted on 02/17/2024 6:44:38 PM PST by Red Badger
What a beauty!
Rode too rough for the era. overheated to easy, and ate up starters like potato chips. They had some design issues that made them unreliable.
yes
“Now, a new car is in the 60K+ range”
You can get a fully loaded Sport Touring new CRV hybrid for less than 50k. MSRP is 41k. The top of the line non hybrid is 37k MSRP. Good Sedans like the Camery or Accord go for less.
My first car was a 1967, powder blue Camaro, every month it took half my paycheck. My first name is Sally and no one could understand why I didn’t buy a MUSTANG
The insurance rates on the Camaro are also quite daunting. Especially for the young people whose insurance payments on such cars can easily match or exceed their car payments.
I recently began dating a nice lady (Sally) who, in her younger daze, had a Mustang w/stick shift.
My first car was a ‘67 Mustang Fastback 289 in Candy Apple red.
I think I’m in love...
Those were great years. I remember vividly the day my parents took me to pick up my new Camaro, down to what I wore. A brown mini dress with powder blue polka dots (matched the car) and bell sleeves. I can see my dad sitting there going over the paperwork, my mom nervous about me driving it home and killing myself. LOL
I never liked the new Hawaii 5-0. Woke+kool.
I always thought that “pony car” referred only to Fords with horse names: Mustang, Maverick, Pinto.
‘Pony Car’ simply means an inexpensive sporty small car...............
I watched the SCCA races where the Shelby Cobras ate the pitiful Chevy Corvettes alive.
The Corvettes were fast on the straights but the pitiful handling killed them in the curves
Rented one fairly recently.
Powerful, to be sure, but not especially sporty in any ordinary use case. You can feel how heavy the car is. Might perform well in tight curves at 90+mph but I’m not taking my life into my hands that way.
Low outward visibility. Had to pull over in what wasn’t a very hard rain because I just couldn’t see well enough.
Oddly proportioned interior and needlessly tight for anyone big or tall (which is a high proportion of people willing to buy these kind of cars).
Bottom line -
* You get the same useful muscle in a two row car with much more luxury, comfort and interior functionality in the performance trim packages of any number of German and Japanese models.
* If you want a real sports car, get one - this ain’t it.
Seen the same with Corvette...
The Chevy Camaro, especially in its classic form, is easily associated with the fun of driving down wide open roads. It would have been easy for Chevy to capitalize on the Nürburgring lap record.
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I have not found any ‘wide open road’ anywhere where I can drive like Nurburgring.
Explore going to Germany and driving on the autobahn. It is a lot cheaper than getting busted doing 30 to 40 over the speed limit in the US.
Like the vast majority of GM automobile products, poor quality and stupid management along with lazy UAW workers killed the Camaro. They are not skilled workers just bolt tighteners and floor sweepers.
I have been buying Honda and Toyota for a decade, and I will never go back to GM.
My first car was an 80s Berlinetta Camaro. Six cylinders that barely made it to 70 mph, so no speeding tickets.
I know you can find less expensive cars than 60K, but not one that fits my lifestyle. I was going off the cost of a Camaro, which is the car being phased out. My wife wanted the Honda, I wanted a Toyota tacoma, she got what she wanted, I got the divorce. I rode for 2-3 hours one time, and it killed my back. So she traded it in with 7,000 miles on it for a Pilot. I loved that car, but the woman was nuts.
Bill Clinton did the horizontal bop in his el Camino and that wrecked sales.
Don’t ask me how I know this fact.
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