I know it’s a sign of when I came of age, but I didn’t care for the body style changes after 1970 in the Camaro, or many of the muscle cars.
Got a Pontiac Firebird afterwards and although it was a more attractive car it just didn’t have the get up and go the Camero did. The former got totalled when a kid pulled out in front of me from a stop sign and I was disappointed with the pay-out considering the money we had put into the car. A few years later we discovered the vin number was still valid, the car had been restored. Didn’t even know that’d be legal to do. Tell someone their car can’t be fixed, give them a few thousand, then fix it up and sell for more money. Was never given the option of having it fixed.