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According to multiple industry sources and trade reports, General Motors has stopped production of its Chevrolet Camaro this week.
GM Authority, citing an unnamed source, reported that Dec. 14 was the last day of production. Road and Track reports that a GM representative confirmed the end of production. More
Keith Urban hardest hit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X-_jjdfEdY
…for the 473rd time.
It’s too bad they didn’t come out with a stripped-down performance model without all the “content” (crap) added on. Oh well.
Meh.
I could never afford one anyway.
Not even back when they were good.
Me too, my first car and first backseat romance.
First car stereo install, first beer behind the wheel, first ticket, first fender bender, first oil change, first carb rebuild…
Sigh* to be young again
@Tony R:
They did. It was the Z/28 from 1967 and on for a few years. There was a “trim package” that Chevy would pay you to select, and it meant not only no normal equipment like an AM radio, but also no sound insulation, no back seat, no spare tire/jack, etc. Stripped for racing, it was.
Uncle Al, a friend of mine had an SYC, Yenko Camaro he bought in 82.
A 69 I believe.
Damn I would have treated her good…
Only 50 years after they stopped quality control on Camaros.
I drove a rented 2014 and the damn side windows were so short it was unnerving.
Bad design.
Used to see Camaro and Trans Am crossbreeds in the trailerparks, we called ’em Trans Camaros. Usually seen up on blocks.
The only way it’s coming back is if it’s electric. Internal combustion engines are over with.
Unless a certain someone puts his hand on the bible early in 2025.
Electric Mustangs, electric Corvettes, electric pickup-cars (surely not trucks)! End times indeed.
It’s how they expect to get you to go electric, if you long for a muscle car they’ll only let you have an EV.
You know, Dylan went electric in the 60s, look what it did to him. Turned him into a mumbling screechy indecipherable mess.
Could never sit in the front seat of a camero, knees kept hitting bottom of dash.
Could never sit in the back of a Mustang, there was no room for my knees at all.
I stuck with the MG, Triumphs and British two seaters, could barely reach the pedals.
Time to go Cuban + off grid survival fuel and keep things runnin’ for decades by your own shop skills and making alcohol from your crops.
Yeah, they’ll come for you anyway. They ain’t leaving anyone alone without them losing a monumental fight
Learned to drive on a 69 Camaro Rally Sport, 327 CID.
I tried to rent a Camaro or Mustang. No dice. They gave me a Corvette. Hated it. Some passing car threw up a pebble which cracked the windshield.
Cost of a rental and big bucks for a windshield.
A suck ass experience. I was excited at first. Turned into a nightmare.
Early days cruised from Carson City to Reno at 100 mph in a Plymouth Barracuds and hit a hawk on windshield. No damage.
Barracuda. But you knew that.
Isn’t autocorrect supposed to correct , not fuck
Stuff up?
PHenry
Hit an Owl doing about 120 on I 280. Same thing. No damage except for that awful smell. I believe at the time Suicidal Blonde was blasting on the Craig track.
Dadof4 – I want one of these:
https://youtu.be/mV54uNlK9sA?t=305
Watch while it finally gets going.
Enjoyed our Firebird. Became disillusioned after seeing too many Camaro-Firebird owners who did not take care of their cars. Depreciation was scandalous. Before long they became easily affordable to people who were never going anywhere in life. Too often they were on the news, smashed up in the background, at crime scenes. Sorry to see her go but a naive sucker begged us to sell.
I had a 79 Firebird with a Pontiac 400 CI that put out a whopping 220 HP. A 79 Z28 with a 350 would be 2 or 3 car lengths quicker in the quarter mile until I added headers, a Holly 700 carb, and dumped the emissions. My guess is that it picked up 60 to 70 HP.
I hated to see the Camaro/Firebird go the first time. This last generation Camaro was over equipped and over-priced. It should have been more basic with the options and more liberal with the engines, A base model with AC, manual 5 speed trans, base AM/FM/CD stereo with a V-6 or turbo 4 for low to mid $20k with a $1.8k 10 speed auto tranny upgrade would have stolen an unknown amount of Mustang sales. Add the option to put an LS3 in for $4k and the inexpensive hot rod would have been born again.
Loved my 1984 triple black V8. Cops hated it and stopped me all the time because of the dark windows. Miss that car. Wish I still had it. I sold it in 1994 for $1200 to a 17-year-old kid. It had only 60,000 miles at the time. I hope he enjoyed it.
So what now… a Camaro EV? Never…
Phil had a 69 Camaro that was absolutely beautiful. Scott had a 69 Nova that was horrible to look at, but it was a beast. It had dual carbs and open headers and was a true 100-dollar-bill car.
It had milk crates for seats (except the pilot) and no door panels. Scott wasn’t a car guy, but he could drive that Nova quite well. This was back when you could get a piece of shit like that for 500 dollars and we had no inspections for “classic” cars.
I designed the Camaro.
Is GM still in business? Hasn’t the UAW scorpion killed that frog yet?
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