a few months before I was turning 16, my dad and I were already starting to look at cars for me. Just by dumb luck someone my dad was working with was selling a camaro - 87 sport coupe, silver, v6, auto. My dad felt she was asking too much, but I did get to sit in it and go for a ride in it, and I felt like it fit me well. And I mean fit me in two ways. I liked the styling and being ~6'3"/6'4" borderline, and somewhere in the neighborhood of about 325 at that time I'd guess, I sat in a few other cars that I wasn't comfortable in. I actually could have had a free car from my uncle, but the leg room was an impossibility.
So I continued looking at cars, scouring the newspaper, and I started focusing on camaros and firebirds. I found one around 3 weeks before my 16th birthday - an 88 sport coupe, and I didn't know **** at that time, so I was really surprised that it had ground effects and the 15" z28 style wheels, so I was really liking the car. The price was really good too, so I bought it, with my dad's help considering I was 15 at the time.
I got my brother and my best friend into cars as well because of that car, and my best friend wound up with an 87 formula which wound up with a blown trans and he left it parked in a neighborhood so long someone torched it. So then he wound up with an 87 iroc, tpi 350 hardtop car.
After about 5 years with my sport coupe, I was getting sick of it and did everything I wanted to, and I started looking at tpi thirdgens. At the same time my friend with the iroc blew the trans and had a kid on the way, so he sold it to me really cheap.
The iroc is really what got me big into cars. I did work on my sport coupe - while i owned it both the engine and trans took a dump and I assisted in swapping in replacements. At the time I didn't know anything so I didn't really look into the feasibility of swapping in anything better. I also redid the interior - different seats, a stereo, and new carpet. And I did basic maintenence as needed as well.
But once I got the iroc, I really started playing with it. I kind of stuck with simpler stuff and what I already knew the first year, especially since it was my daily driver, and I did some cheap/freebie mods and a bunch of appearance type stuff, interior and a stereo. But once I had another vehicle as a daily driver, it wasn't long until I really tore into it. Paxton blower (and soon after another trans...lol), headers, suspension, T56 swap, more appearance stuff and several different sets of rims, and finally once I got my own garage to work in - my engine swap.
I have the iroc over 6 years now
