As I told you before, the Camaro is not produced anymore after GM pulled the plug on its muscle cars – the Camaro and its ageing Pontiac twins, the Trans-Am and the Firebird – in an attempt to get more modern. In the minds of pure American car enthusiasts, the brawny V6s and V8s powering back-to-basic sports cars which cost a fraction of Italian exotica will live forever. And, oh boy, weren’t they dressed to kill! Those body styles and variations couldn’t have come from any other part of the world.
Like any automobile with original drawings dating back a few decades, the Camaro has its limitations. Space is always at a premium and the car never really has the handling prowess to match its prodigious performance. And that meant having gutsy people to drive it at its limit. Though, as we found out, driving this machine in cruise mode is a tough job indeed, especially if your car has been force-fed with a Vortec blower. Taking off without enough wheelspin in a Camaro Z28 is like going to a nude beach wearing a three-piece suit. This, certainly is a product of an era when car makers battled between themselves to offer chest hair as standard equipment.
This Camaro was meant to light up tarmac and the faces of people who drove it. It fulfils the performance promise and then overshoots it. You could order it with the bells and whistles that make sure it goes right side up all the time. And it has a big engine and an appetite so huge that their owners wouldn’t mind being fed directly from an oil well. Did you mention, fuel consumption? Then you can go in for the tame V6 version of the Camaro, as long as you can suffer dismissive Type 1 grins from some people. Enjoy the pics!
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