No more Camaro

[CB750F]

No link cuz some of you are paranoid.
I don't like the new gen but sad it's going away.
I'd like a 67-69 Camaro, or 77-78 Firebird.
I really liked the Cobra II when it came out, until I realized what it really was.

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[Bob902]

I still want an old Trans Am

 

[GitRDone]

My brother still has his Hugger Orange SS 396 Camaro from high school in semi-mint condition, and along with his Sunbeam Tiger, he'll probably never sell it. But as he will say, it's more fun reliving the memories than actually driving the car.

 

[OFC Ranger]

Its fun watching modern mini-vans out perform classic muscle cars at the the local dragstrip. I suspect if I attended some auto-cross events the results would likely be the same.

 

[rydfree]

Its fun watching modern mini-vans out perform classic muscle cars at the the local dragstrip. I suspect if I attended some auto-cross events the results would likely be the same.

A lot of cool looking dudes in mini vans no doubt.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

My brother still has his Hugger Orange SS 396 Camaro from high school in semi-mint condition, and along with his Sunbeam Tiger, he'll probably never sell it. But as he will say, it's more fun reliving the memories than actually driving the car.

Nice! Did the Tiger have “all” the options?

 

[Todd Chapin]

I traded a very nice performance pack 5.0 for my current truck. The last days of the gas muscle car resurgence are approaching. Fortunantly electric cars offer a high level of performance albiet silently.

 

[kpgreenwell]

Modern Muscle

 

[Dgc333]

Its fun watching modern mini-vans out perform classic muscle cars at the the local dragstrip. I suspect if I attended some auto-cross events the results would likely be the same.

Funny you mention autocross. Few years back I was at the Syracuse Nationals Car Show. Jet Hot was sponsoring an autocross.

There were a bunch of 60s muscle cars entered and a bunch of turbo imports. The import guys were all talking smack about how they were going to embarrass the muscle cars.

Well it turned out that the fastest muscle cars were about 3 seconds faster than the fastest imports around that course. There was even a young lady driving an early 60s Nova station wagon that put the hurt on the imports. Now the muscle cars were far from stock but most all the imports were modified to. The import folks weren't talking smack the next day.

A similar thing happened to a friend of mine. He races his 67 Barracuda in SCCA competition. He was at an open track day and a guy with a Miata was being very vocal at the drivers meeting that the old "sh#$" boxes should not be allowed on the track, they will just hold everyone else up. He decided to teach him a lesson and followed the guy out onto the track and blew by him going into the first corner and proceeded to lap him about 3 times in that session.

Old muscle in stock form is not as powerful, doesn't handle or stop as well as modern muscle but it is not hard to make them run, handle and stop as well.

 

[Doc]

“Two major versions of the Tiger were built: the Series I (1964–67) was fitted with the 260 cu in (4.3 L) Ford V8; the Series II, of which only 633 were built in the final year of Tiger production, was fitted with the larger Ford 289 cubic-inch engine” ……Badazz !

 

[OFC Ranger]

A lot of cool looking dudes in mini vans no doubt.

I'm sure dudes who drive them care about looking cool cause they are already getting laid daily, they own a mini-van for a reason, thus the great irony.

On the flip side we have some of the coolest muscle car dudes to grace this green earth...

(Its a joke people before someone gets all butt-sore, if you ever seen the movie you'd get it)

 

[GitRDone]

“Two major versions of the Tiger were built: the Series I (1964–67) was fitted with the 260 cu in (4.3 L) Ford V8; the Series II, of which only 633 were built in the final year of Tiger production, was fitted with the larger Ford 289 cubic-inch engine” ……Badazz !

My brother has the 260, and left it pretty much stock, so it's no speed demon (and neither was the 289), but it's still torquey and sounds good. His car is no shop queen, which is a good thing and he takes it to local shows. And the convertible top is permanently in the dropped position, also a good thing. Actually, I've never seen it up.

 

[Doc]

My brother has the 260, and left it pretty much stock, so it's no speed demon (and neither was the 289), but it's still torquey and sounds good. His car is no shop queen, which is a good thing and he takes it to local shows. And the convertible top is permanently in the dropped position, also a good thing. Actually, I've never seen it up.

Very Cool, I’ve only seen one in my Life !l

 

[Dr_Strangelove]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafag...es-end-of-production-for-now/?sh=74af6b1c3640


FOR NOW.

Boy I'm sure excited for the electric CamEro, aren't you all?

 

[MXGOLF]

I had an 87 Camaro. That was a fun car. T Top V8! No more Ford GT now either.

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