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#25 ·
Aml383 said:
No I never listened to it but I'd bet the guy who bought a brand new iroc in 87 most certainly did 🤣
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Maybe the guy who bought this one and didn't drive it.
The guys who bought them and drove them were listening to Motley Crue or Whitesnake.
 
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Hate to break the news to everyone, but the performance cars in 1987 were butt azz slow except for maybe the GN cars. It was not until 1987 when I worked at Pontiac we got our 1st TTA with the 3.8 turbo engine that I did a PDI on this car, to say the least it was impressive for it's time. When I worked for Hyundai on 2010 I bought a used 94 Z/28 that a sales guy traded in 6 speed car bone stock. The sales guy bought a 1989 T/A with a stock tuned port 350 and asked if he could race me against his old car, "sure" I said. It was ugly as that worn out LT1 lambasted the tuned port car pretty bad and I never thought this LT1 car was very fast either.
 
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The Buick GN and the Corvette were pretty much it in 1987 or so.
Stock Mustangs and Camaros were often 16 second cars, especially with an automatic.
The music was good then, the World may have been a better place, but most new cars....sucked.
 
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An 87 camaro is 34 years old. A 1970 chevelle in 2004 was 34 years old. Just depends on how you frame it. Detroit speed built an awesome iroc camaro. Makes me want one.

There were 70 chevelles for sale for 56k in 2004. Just sayin.
 
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68Chevele said:
Hate to break the news to everyone, but the performance cars in 1987 were butt azz slow except for maybe the GN cars. It was not until 1987 when I worked at Pontiac we got our 1st TTA with the 3.8 turbo engine that I did a PDI on this car, to say the least it was impressive for it's time. When I worked for Hyundai on 2010 I bought a used 94 Z/28 that a sales guy traded in 6 speed car bone stock. The sales guy bought a 1989 T/A with a stock tuned port 350 and asked if he could race me against his old car, "sure" I said. It was ugly as that worn out LT1 lambasted the tuned port car pretty bad and I never thought this LT1 car was very fast either.
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Chevy didn't like that Buick had the faster car back then but it was short lived nonetheless.
 
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blue_69_malibu said:
Stock Mustangs and Camaros were often 16 second cars, especially with an automatic.
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So were 95% of all of the Chevelles ever made. People act like EVERY Chevelle built was a LS6 four speed with 4.10 gears. My wife's 1987 sport coupe Camaro could out handle and out brake every Chevelle ever built. It also would knock down 27 MPG on the highway with a carbureted 305, and could whip the ass of my 72' convertible in stock form in every way. I will also say that having done several 15-18 hour days behind the wheel, it was a hell of a lot more comfortable too.
 
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Think this thread has gotten a little of track. Think that someone would pay $56K for that car is a little out of line.
 
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I am guilty of nearly trading my 66' Malibu in 87' for a brand new Z-28. I was barely out of hs and using my best manners during a test drive with a salesman. No hairpin cornering, no burnouts, and no jacking around. I did get to floor it rolling and getting on the interstate. It was cool to drive but not impressive hp. When we discussed what I had to trade, that was it. The salesman kept saying, "There is no way I can sell you on this car."

I am also guilty in the mid 90's of almost trading my 69' Camaro towards a mint 81' Z-28 that was parked inside a classic car showroom. I really gave this one some thought. In the end, I walked away because I did not want to be "that guy", embarrassing myself by driving around an 80's car that was no longer cool. The 69' Camaro was been blessed with timeless coolness.
 
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blm said:
Think this thread has gotten a little of track. Think that someone would pay $56K for that car is a little out of line.
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Why is it out of line? The car only has 2,000 miles on it. Earlier this year I came face to face with a 71' Cuda that had a five MILLION dollar reserve on it. Do you want to explore the definition of out of line?
 
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I had an 84 T top 305 HO 5 spd T/A DD from 97-99, did drop a 350 in it but that car handled like it was on rails and a very fun car, wasn't that fast but was ok with the 5 spd
 
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Droptop72 said:
Earlier this year I came face to face with a 71' Cuda that had a five MILLION dollar reserve on it. Do you want to explore the definition of out of line?
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The price on the cuda is out of line as well. A super car is cheaper which the Cuda is not.
Let’s put it this way. For less than the selling price of that 87 Camaro I could buy a brand new Camaro SS that would out perform that 87 in every way. Also for considerably less I could get a brand new Mustang GT that puts that 87 to shame in both performance and appearance. Yes the 87 can out perform some of our Chevelles but the Chevelles have style. After 73 the Camaro was a dud style wise except maybe a few early 2000s.
 
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blm said:
The price on the cuda is out of line as well. A super car is cheaper which the Cuda is not.
Let’s put it this way. For less than the selling price of that 87 Camaro I could buy a brand new Camaro SS that would out perform that 87 in every way. Also for considerably less I could get a brand new Mustang GT that puts that 87 to shame in both performance and appearance. Yes the 87 can out perform some of our Chevelles but the Chevelles have style. After 73 the Camaro was a dud style wise except maybe a few early 2000s.
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Well, style is subjective, and personally I would take the IROC styling over almost ALL of the Camaro's including the current one. They certainly look 100 times better than any Mustang built during that era. Heck, I could sell my Chevelle today and buy a decent C6 Corvette that is a VASTLY better car, but my Chevelle has a connection to me that can't always be rationally explained. I'm sure that Camaro has a similar connection to the guy that paid 56K for it. Every year I go to the Mecum auction at Indy (One of their biggest), and frankly, half of the couple thousand cars there I wouldn't give you five cents for, but they sell them by the truckload. If you want to argue that the guy overpaid for where the market is on that particular car, that is one thing, but slamming a car or a person because you don't personally like the car is a slippery slope, and something most all of us, including myself are often guilty of. Few people are a more harsh judge of cars than I am, but at the end of the day, if the owner likes it, that's all that really matters. Sorry if I sound defensive, but I have a love for many cars that others turn their nose up at. I'm the guy that would rather have a T-Type Buick Regal than a Grand National and I love 1980-81 Z-28's.
 
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Well I could not agree more that style is subjective. There are certain items/styles on Chevelles that I like better than others and even certain models of Chevelles that I’m not that fond of. I never take offense when someone doesn’t like something I like. They could say my Chevelle is in very poor taste but I could care less. As long as I’m happy with it that’s all that matters as it should be with anything as insignificant as a model/color/style of a car. Even some of the well known car designers on the big shows produce things that I think are in poor taste. Think they would give a rats ass in they knew my feelings. If everyone liked the same thing the planet would be a boring place.
However still doesn’t change my feelings that at this point in time that 87 Camaro is grossly over valued. I’m sure whomever bought it doesn’t think the same.
 
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