Well my dad surprised me yesterday by making a 1 hour one way trip to boston to pick up this for 800 bucks. Its got a v6 the rims and tires are brand new as well as a custom magnaflow exaust. The hood is going for something a bit smaller, but have made some diagnosis today and what I'm going to do, the hpaint is peeling like crazy so I have to strip it to get it painted as well as remove some of the rust on the rear fenders. I took off the stickers today and some of the other stuff.











I have fulfilled my "musclecar" name even though it is a v6 and automatic. The exaust sounds like a v8 so to the novice eye it would look like a v8.

Looks nice, although the paint makes me a little ill. lol

Lol yea the paint is well, gonna need to be all stripped off new front fenders and doors and I'll sand and bondo everything and send it to Maaco to have it painted for a few hundred bucks. It's deff not bad for 800 bucks theres a few things that HAve to be fixed but they can wait as I don't get my permit till february.

That's a sweet first set of wheels!

At least you not gonna be asking a cheerleader if she wants a ride home in a Gremlin X - if I recall...the answer was "I think I'll just walk".

Is that a NOS bottle near the glove box!?

You and your Dad will have fun working on that all spring - oh to be young again!

MM

Hey, welcome to the "my first car was a Camaro club."

My first three cars were Camaros and I loved them all, it looks like a great first car and a good summer project. Of course it needs to be painted Hugger Orange with white deck stripes, or Olive green with black deck stripes. Avoid red like the plague, they whole the get ticketed more thing is true...trust me, I found out the hard way.


Mark, I almost had a Gremlin for my first car, it had the 304CI pulled and a 401CI stuffed in (barely), I would have jumped on it in a second but my dad insisted on test driving it...he passed a slower car, and when the thing turned sideways spinning the tires at about 60mph he threw a fit. I still remember him saying if I got that car I'd be "dead within a week." So I convinced him I'd go for the more social responsible Chevy Camaro with the Z28 "touring option."

$300 in 1982 (a whole summers worth of lawn mowing and working on the negibors farm):

I sort of a Mustang freak but the 70 1/2 Camaro body style with the split bumper is one of my all time favorites! I'm always looking at the Z28's on eBay! I bet it was a real sweet heart you lucky dog

Your Dad was spot on about the Gremlin - mine came from the factory with the 304 and a three speed and it WAS a death machine! It had horrible under-steer, especially in gravel and it went thru front brake pads and warped rotors every 6 months.

It also had horrible rear wheel hop; I put traction bars on it and did a burn-out and almost ripped the rear end off it....I'm lucky to have made it past my late teens. Actually I'm lucky to have made past 30 thinking back about some of the motorcycles I had.

Thank God my wife came along and made a decent man of me ;-)

I think she gets box seats in Heaven for that :-)

Hope you have fun with your Camaro lugnut - I'm sure you will!

I wish it was NOS but no...its not, its a fire extenguisher. Sorry no hugger orange sidewinder, I pretty much have my heart set on dark metallic blue with silver pinstripes. This should probably be one of the nicest cars at my school, I've seen waht they do, the put a fart can on a honda and they thinkt ehy are cool.

OK, here's where the responsible adult part of me kicks in and makes me say, have fun with the car, but remember be safe...racing is for the track, even if you could completely humiliate the fart canned little ricer morons...er, I mean your fellow classmates.


OK, imature adult taking back over...you should really, really be saving for your first real race car...it is the biggest rush you could ever want, the girls will think your cool, and it makes a lot of noise and goes fast. Just never, never on the street, trust me on this one...bad things can happen very quickly.


Mark, sounds like you have a smart wife. The motorcycle thing made me really reminisce but instead of hijacking this thread when I have time I'll start a what vehicles have you had thread, most of the members here will be a little young to have had much of a list but they could list cool cars and bikes their parents,siblings, or friends have had.

Looks sweet man, my jelousy nerves are tingling...

Check the rear subframe, clean it up and get some naval jelly to prevent any further rust. The Camaros (all years) have a rust problem when it comes to frames, if you have to you can replace the section pretty easily, but why not prevent it if you can?

Next time I have it on the stands I'll take a look under it and put some kind of lubricant to something up there. I want to get it on stands so I can take a hose to the bottom and clean it up a bit.

Don't worry MTM your time will come.