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Goodbye, Camaro
Eric Peters Autos ^ | May 14, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 05/14/2024 7:07:35 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: z3n

Yeah, I’m speaking out asking a victim myself.😎


21 posted on 05/14/2024 7:25:55 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: z3n

I believe Pontiac ran into too many problems with their 400 once they added all the pollution controls onto it. They switched to the Olds 403 which didn’t have the same issues.


22 posted on 05/14/2024 7:27:21 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Love’d ‘em

Same with the Mustang, Trans-Am, all the 1960s-70s-even some 80s - many brands

Those were truly great days


23 posted on 05/14/2024 7:29:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Obadiah

“Huge doors that sagged.”

Watching Rockford File, it crossed my mind how long those doors are, how close together those hinges are. Also the wheels and tires were big. Lotta unsprung weight.


24 posted on 05/14/2024 7:36:59 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: Red Badger

Camaros still exist? I can’t remember the last time I saw one.


25 posted on 05/14/2024 7:40:00 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: dfwgator

I am amazed they still make the Corvette. They made a global warming true believer the head of a car company.. idiots.


26 posted on 05/14/2024 7:40:31 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Red Badger

A few people I know that have had the latest generation of the camaro state they are so wide they’re difficult to drive and even parking can be a problem.


27 posted on 05/14/2024 7:41:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: discostu

They are big down here in The South............


28 posted on 05/14/2024 7:42:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN
...they are so wide they’re difficult to drive and even parking can be a problem.

The cars or the drivers?................

29 posted on 05/14/2024 7:43:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: discostu

” I can’t remember the last time I saw one.”

Start looking.....the new ones are everywhere.


30 posted on 05/14/2024 7:43:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

The car


31 posted on 05/14/2024 7:44:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger
And now the time has come for Camaro, which at least retires from the field with dignity, a casualty of changed times – and changed management. That leaves the field to Mustang, the last of the Mohicans. And for similar reasons.

People seem to still like the new mustangs. We had an early 70's camaro, really nice little sports car.

32 posted on 05/14/2024 7:46:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: cymbeline

Yes, very long - sorta like my 72 Mach 1 - had a Trans Am too


33 posted on 05/14/2024 7:48:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: V_TWIN

😁...........................


34 posted on 05/14/2024 7:49:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: gibsonguy

The C8 version(rear/mid engine) of the Corvette is IMHO the best version they have ever made. Or at least since 1968.
It has the same performance as cars twice as expensive.

I think the issue with the latest edition of the Camaro is that it was not as good of a car as the Mustang. Which is just the opposite of the Camaro vs the Mustang back in the 1960s and 70s. The Camaro/Firebird/Trans Am was a better car with a few exceptions.
This current Camaro just did not sell well in comparison to the Mustang and the Challenger.


35 posted on 05/14/2024 7:49:58 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

Sad day for America.


36 posted on 05/14/2024 7:52:26 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

They were running out of 400 Pontiacs as I recall

When I ordered my 1978 Trans Am, you couldn’t get the Pontiac 400 T/A 6.6 unless with the 4-speed. Mine still came with a Pontiac 400 which had no problems at all.

I was going with the automatic for convience.

1979 Trans Am received the Olds 403 while I think a few were still able to get the T/A 6.6 with a 4-speed.

Ah......the good old days - I miss them - terribly

Mine was one of the last 1978s off the line - Van Nuys assembly I think

If I had waited 2 months I would have gotten a 1979


37 posted on 05/14/2024 7:52:26 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

Goodbye Camaro, R.I.P. You were a good deal, a big bang for the buck, and won an amazing amount of trophies, made many records. Saw “Grumpy” Bill Jenkins with a white Camaro run in Englishtown, N.J. I think it was ‘68 or ‘69. And so long to Olds and Pontiac I loved them too. Ahh, the good ole days.


38 posted on 05/14/2024 7:54:44 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: Red Badger

1976 I had the choice between a 76 mustang and a 76 Nova Coucours. I chose the Nova because the Mustang was a stick shift and I had never driven a stick.

I…chose… poorly. The carburetor crapped out on the Nova at about 56,000 miles. Piece of crap car.

Not the first life mistake and there were many more to follow.

BTW, ended up learning a stick later for Hondas and Toyotas…


39 posted on 05/14/2024 8:01:38 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: Omnivore-Dan; libertylover

And it’s all totally unnecessary!

We are not running out of petroleum.

The global warming hoaxers are responsible for this.

The is absolutely no reason to do any of these things.

It’s all a sham and a fraud.

This makes me so angry.....................


40 posted on 05/14/2024 8:01:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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