who likes the new camaro as much as the BBC powered 1969?

grumpyvette

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honestly, if they were both new and cost the same would anyone sellect the newer version over a 1969 with a 375hp big block, ......NOT THIS GUY!
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ORIGINAL 1969 camaro

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NEW 2012 VERSION



IM TALKING APPEARANCE and the sound of the engine, IVE got zero doubt the top of the line performance option on the new camaro is faster due to both a better suspension and a better more efficient engine, ......but its still looks like #@$%$%^ in my opinion compared to the older cars, now the newer cars have better suspensions and probably will eventually have better engines and transmissions
 
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I have to agree, I think they are trading on a name for a group of ppl that, for the most part, dont even know what a BB camaro is all about. Yea, I like the nice features in the new cars, but they are not FUN. Not like a BB car sliding sideways at 60mph going into 4th gear, the roar of the engine, he smell...just not the same.
 
Re: who likes the new camaro as much as the BBC powered 1969

I like long leggy brunets and red heads with that barbie doll look, but theres lots of guys who like a different look,If theres a market, I hope they sell the new camaros by the train loads, but I don,t like the looks, much at all!

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Well to help keep GM going I too hope they sell like hotcakes. And............well us 3rd genners consider 4th gens great parts cars to update our cars with. They have great front seats and seat belts, nice front and rear brakes, 6 speed transmisisons, and even LS1 motors. Hopefully the "5th" gens will be a good supply of updated used parts for all of us :lol:
 
My last new car was 16 years ago, a '93 Z28 LT1 six speed, I managed to get one of the first ones off the assembly line, it was all black and was ok, but I never did get in love with the looks. What I wanted was the technical improvements of the new LT1, with the six speed, and the ABS braking system, and the improved syspension, I was certainly in love with all that. I kept improving the motor, put 4.56 rear gears in, and unfortunatley I totaled it a couple of years later. I kept the wreck, and parted it out, keeping the LT1, the computer system, and the T56 to rebuild for my '55 Chevy.

I was at SEMA last year and saw the "unveiling" of the new Camaro, was not impressed. The advances of the new LS motors is pretty darn impressive, I would love to have one of the new mega-displacement LS motors to play around with, but NO, the new Camaro does not impress me.

The word I have is that it weighs 900 pounds more than a '69 big block Camaro? If I couldn't engineer it any better than that, I'd have to go find another job! I will tell you though, that when I cut apart the wreckage of my '93, I was most impressed in the crash absorbing materials they had built into that car. I spun out in a wet curve at about 85, went through a fence and took out a couple of trees, and walked away from it! Black and blue for a couple of weeks afterward, but if it had been my 500 hp '55 hardtop, I doubt I would have walked away from it like that! So maybe the 900 lbs is justified? Nawww, they could still make it just as crash proof and still get the weight down....

Aloha,
Willy
 
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