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camaro2you · 01-12-2005, 05:31 PM

well for me it all started one sunday when my dad and i saw a mustang covertible that needed work for sale around the corner from me. so my dad went to see how much and they wanted to much so he said will start looking. i said i want a mustang then my dad suggested getting a camaro because of their larger rear wheel base. and i said no then i just wanted a mustang but then i saw a camaro and i fell in love with it and after a few months of looking for a camaro firebird or mustang i told my dad to ditch the mustang idea and just look for a camaro or firebird. this was in the summer of 2003 and in october my dad went in the hospital for double bypass and that was over my birtday and when he came home he got my mom to drive us over to this camaro in west deptford. and i saw it and i loved and i told my dad to call about it. he called and said ther was no answer. and a week later i was walking home from school and thinking i should ask him to call again. but when i got up to my driveway i looked to the right and 20 feet behind the gate there it was the camaro that i was going to ask him to call about and that is how i got started. by the way i was looking for my first car when i was 11 then when i was 12 i got it and now i am 13 and am getting ready to paint it in the spring.

PBodyGT87 · 01-12-2005, 05:48 PM

Well let's see... I always had a natural affiinity towards cars and such when my younger brother, (dieselkickyoass4sure), started taking after my dad's liking for a good car or cycle. At first I didn't care much for the hobby, but it grew on me when i got a fiero gt for my first car. Now I know that's not an F body, but my friend Will (crazy77c3) introduced me to his buddies a couple years ago, who happened to be Tim and Justin, as well as Criag and Garrett, and all they talked about were camaros and firebirds. So they grew on me a bit, but I will forever be the "baby f-body".

P-body for lyfe yo, WERD TO Yo'MUTHA

Trans Am Chick · 01-12-2005, 05:55 PM

suprizingly enough i was stupid when i was younger. i fell in love with my ex. and he had an 87 firebird... and it was his first car... and even when he couldnt drive it we would sit in it and listen to music in the driveway. haha either way. that car was a lot of firsts. good times... most of them. with the exception of one almost accident last winter, the first friday of decemeber we slid off the road and were inches away from the gardrail and a telephone pole. but other then that i loved that car almost as much as i love him. got pretty attached too... eventually he sold it... but ehh everything has to go in its time... just like him i guess. doesnt mean it doesnt hurt when it goes. since then i liked his next car. but really started to want an f-body of my own. especially since he considered selling me the firebird... eventually he found a trans am at his school and eventually i bought mine offa Alex. i <3 my t/a... but not quite at much as i loved that firebird... i guess some things will never change ill alwayz love 'em. but thats just how i am...

NJSPEEDER · 01-12-2005, 05:59 PM

when i was a kid i was all about corvettes. i can remeber going on vacations with my family when i was still in grammar school and pointing out every vette and telling my family teh year and options available and anything else you can tell from an outside glance at a car.
once i got my license a friend of mine got a brand new 92 Z28(showing my age). car was loaded, L98, JG1, GU6, G80....all th right codes. we went out cruising one day and during teh summer, that was when i got introduced to teh vette attitude.
some jack ass down at teh beach had a **** box of a vette and had teh nerve to comment to us about how we would never meet any girls in a ****** little camaro. it was teh usual rich ******* with the vettes beat everythign attitude. we raced, he lost, he said we cheated, we laughed hysterically, i stopped wanting a vette.

don't ya love a story with a happy ending.

about 3 years later i got my first f-body. 91 RS, LO3 + Auto, black w/red int. i beat teh hell out of that car to the point it was useless to me. i will always miss it though. ya never forget yer first great car.

later
tim

arc555 · 01-12-2005, 06:58 PM

When I was around 12 or 13 I really wanted a Camaro. I just loved them and I can contribute some of that to my Dad owning a 1967 and a 1980 Camaro. As I got older I realized that I couldn't get a Camaro because they were expensive and the car insurance was outrageous. Late March of 2004 I was searching on a Florida based car site for my 'dream Camaro' and I found it. I had all of the money in the bank and I managed to buy it, buy it off of my Dad's friend from highschool.

JL8Jeff · 01-12-2005, 07:16 PM

Well, 2 of my friends had Mustang convertibles in high school(66 and 67) so I naturally had to take the other side and started researching Camaros. A couple of month later I stumbled on a 69 Camaro conv about 3 miles for my house and got it for $2000. It was just a 6 cyl car, but that was changed within a year. I never realized how solid that car really was until I sold it and started looking for another one. Oh well!

12secondv6 · 01-12-2005, 07:53 PM

Eh, I was pimpin in my 91 merc topaz...... mom leased my bird.....

She got her 98 C5 and turned to me and offered the bird..... the rest is history 8)

GrandmasterCow · 01-12-2005, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by camaro2you

well for me it all started one sunday when my dad and i saw a mustang covertible that needed work for sale around the corner from me. so my dad went to see how much and they wanted to much so he said will start looking. i said i want a mustang then my dad suggested getting a camaro because of their larger rear wheel base. and i said no then i just wanted a mustang but then i saw a camaro and i fell in love with it and after a few months of looking for a camaro firebird or mustang i told my dad to ditch the mustang idea and just look for a camaro or firebird. this was in the summer of 2003 and in october my dad went in the hospital for double bypass and that was over my birtday and when he came home he got my mom to drive us over to this camaro in west deptford. and i saw it and i loved and i told my dad to call about it. he called and said ther was no answer. and a week later i was walking home from school and thinking i should ask him to call again. but when i got up to my driveway i looked to the right and 20 feet behind the gate there it was the camaro that i was going to ask him to call about and that is how i got started. by the way i was looking for my first car when i was 11 then when i was 12 i got it and now i am 13 and am getting ready to paint it in the spring.

hey man, was this car on kings hywy? if it was, i know the previous owner. hahaha

ar0ck · 01-12-2005, 09:29 PM

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CrAsH · 01-12-2005, 09:51 PM

truthfully as long back as i canr remember i been a firebird/trans-am freak my dad sas its cuz when i was a baby he made me watch smokey and the bandit all the time (grate move i have all 3 on dvd

) i rem playin wit lil hot wheels of them all the time to. i also think it has sumthin to do wit all the camaros my fathers best friend has /had & the fact that i have to be dif from evry1 else and all i see r civics mustangs and camaros so naturally i went to the prettiest of all cars firebird trans-am.still havent been able 2 get 1 im lookin though but for now i drive my dads truck.

01-13-2005, 12:40 AM

Originally i was a mustang guy, knew everything about them, what they ran stock, how to tell what was what just from the outside, all the specs and everything. then i lived at my aunts taking care of my uncle what was dying of cancer

my aunt has an anniversary TA, i started learning the specs on F-bodies and how GM has always been ahead of ford in performance. and fell in love with the curves of a 4th gen TA. then i got my license, drove a ford taurus for a little over a year and got my firebird with my own money. now i learning as much as i can about them so hopefully ill be able to do my own motor and tranny rebuilds somewhere down the line

Savage_Messiah · 01-13-2005, 02:00 AM

Was looking for cars, my dad kept looking a 4 cyl beaters for me, 2 doors over my car went for sale for 5k, my mom went and talked them down to 3k, and for my bitrthday the title was on the fridge and the car was in the driveway [im still paying my parents back... very very slowly

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BigAls87Z28 · 01-13-2005, 03:11 AM

Ah...my first date with a Fbody...
I was 3 years old, and my dad was looking to buy a new Camaro. He scopes out all the lots, and find that this one dealer has a Z28 on the lot, loaded with everything he wanted.
My Dad takes me to the dealer with him, and before we go in, he tells me to remember "16-8". So my Dad haggles with the dealer on the price. The car stickerd for 17.5, and my dad said he wouldnt spend more then 16.8. The dealer said that 17 was as low as he could go.
My Dad then turns to me and says "Hey Alex...tell the man what Daddy is gunna pay him."
So I look up from my toys, look at the dealer and say..."16-8".

The rest is history. 8)

I always remember taking the ttops off and crusing down to my grandparents house in south jersey over the summer. Then my dad was going to sell the Z, and he said that if I helped him tune it up and fix it, that he would give me the money to put twards a new car. I fixed it up, and he asked if I wanted to drive it before he sold it.
Well, I started it up and drove it and I was HOOKED! I couldnt stop driving it. No way I could ever sell this car. So with half the money, I got my moms Taurus, and the other half went into my Z and making her road-worthy.

camaro2you · 01-13-2005, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by GrandmasterCow

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Originally Posted by camaro2you

well for me it all started one sunday when my dad and i saw a mustang covertible that needed work for sale around the corner from me. so my dad went to see how much and they wanted to much so he said will start looking. i said i want a mustang then my dad suggested getting a camaro because of their Â*larger rear wheel base. and i said no then i just wanted a mustang but then i saw a camaro and i fell in love with it and after a few months of looking for a camaro firebird or mustang i told my dad to ditch the mustang idea and just look for a camaro or firebird. Â*this was in the summer of 2003 and in october my dad went in the hospital for double bypass and that was over my birtday and when he came home he got my mom to drive us over to this camaro in west deptford. and i saw it and i loved and i told my dad to call about it. he called and said ther was no answer. and a week later i was walking home from school and thinking i should ask him to call again. but when i got up to my driveway i looked to the right and 20 feet behind the gate there it was the camaro that i was going to ask him to call about and that is how i got started. by the way i was looking for my first car when i was 11 then when i was 12 i got it and now i am 13 and am getting ready to paint it in the spring.

hey man, was this car on kings hywy? if it was, i know the previous owner. hahaha

i think it was
it was back in a condiminium complex in west deptford.

its a 1986z28 camaro
black with gold ground effects and the gold wheels

Fasterthanyou · 01-13-2005, 06:40 AM

I was like Tim. Only I'm STILL a vette fan, just can't afford the hope ups to make it worthwhile. If I couldn't do anything to either I'd be driving a vette right now.
I actually went shopping for cars and I only knew that I wanted something fast. I was stupid and turned down a 76 red vette with a 400 that had a cracked rear bumper and a non-running engine. Guy only wanted $3600 for the whole thing and all numbers matched. Car was in excellent condition for the price, but allas I would have owed my parents money and that didn't jive well with me. So I thought what's next in line to a vette... camaro. Went out and bought my first camaro which was a turd. 86 sport coupe and I wasted a lot of money in it. Lucky for me I sold it for more than I initially paid for it but I had over $2000 into it that was lost for good

. I sold it because I couldn't find any 91-92 ground effects and the aftermarket ones I bought got lost in shipping. So I bought my current 91 red sled and beat the snot out of it (like I do with all my cars). I promised to never sell this car so it's still with me through thick and thin. It's been totalled when the interior got majorely jacked up from the last car stereo stealing. Needless to say I took the $3400 the insurance gave me and bought the car back for $1400, the rest of it went into a new and better stereo and some went to the new motor a year later.
That's how I got hooked. Now I know so much about thirdgens that it makes going to another platform pointless, especially since I already have rear wheel drive, a v8, and leg/head room!
That's how I got started. I'll always have my 91 unless it gets wrecked, even then I might just chop it up and turn it into a full out street car with fiberglass front end and tube chassis.

sikbyrd350 · 01-13-2005, 07:40 AM

Smokey & THe Bandit and Knight Rider...nuff said
although I have a soft spot for Orange Mopars...not quite sure why...

foff667 · 01-13-2005, 09:59 AM

i was never really a car guy till i met tim lol he had his rs, my friend len had a 91 350 formy, our other mutual friend andy had a mid 80's berlinetta so i figured i had to join them cuz i wasnt beating them in my 89 beretta gt lol so i bought my first fbody an 87 ta that was the most deoptioned of its time...thankfully that didnt change my feelings about the car and have never looked back...to this date ive owned 4 of my own.

Tru2Chevy · 01-13-2005, 10:50 AM

My dad is a mechanic, so cars and racing have always been a big part of my life. I was also obsessed with vettes as a young kid. It wasn't that I didn't like Camaros and 'birds, but I viewed them as the vette's little brother, so they just weren't as cool.

My first car was destined to be a 1985 Omni, bought when I was 15. Dad was using it as a commuter car (much better milage than the '84 Silverado), and I was fixing it up slowly. On my 17th birthday, I got a call from my mom asking me if I would be interested in a Camaro. A friend of the family was moving to CA, and she had an '85 Sport Coupe with a nice stereo and a blown head gasket. I bought the car for $300, towed it to my dad's shop, and began learning everything I could (the hard way) about the 2.8. I got the head gasket done, and about three weeks later one of the rod bearings went. I ended up spending a bunch of money to completely rebuild the 2.8....only to have the same rod bearing go about 2 months later. Drove the car for another 6 months, just waiting for a piston to come flying through the hood, until it died. That was the end of my senior year of high school, and I went off to college f-bodyless. A few years later, in June of 03, I found my current car...which we all know is still sitting in my driveway

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- Justin

V · 01-13-2005, 12:07 PM

well when i was 16, i got my first car, a 4 dr 1973 dodge cornet custom. i had that for 1 week after i got my liscense at 17 and then i realized i wanted something better. My friend was looking at a 87 Iroc z with a 350tpi and ttops, very clean car. i fell in love with it BUT i didnt want to be like him and get a camaro. So i looked for the next best thing, a trans am. after looking at a few pos ta's later, i came across a black 88 GTA tpi 305 auto ttops digital dash etc. i got it 1 day before my freind brought home his Iroc. After that GTA i was hooked on fbodies. Since then i have owned around 25 f bodies, sure i have bought a few broncos and daytonas, and my 79 vette but i'll never forget how fun these f bodys can be.

Untamed · 01-13-2005, 12:10 PM

Yeah I'm another Smokey and the Bandit victim. Saw the black and gold and knew I wanted one. In college I couldn't afford much so the 85 Camaro in my sig was my first f-body, enough to make me appreciate both the Camaro and Firebird. Later I tried the 90 Firebird and decided I liked them better, so stuck with them through the 97 Firebird. I've never owned a Trans Am and still dying to jump into one.

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Originally Posted by CrAsH

truthfully as long back as i canr remember i been a firebird/trans-am freak my dad sas its cuz when i was a baby he made me watch smokey and the bandit all the time (grate move i have all 3 on dvd

) i rem playin wit lil hot wheels of them all the time to. i also think it has sumthin to do wit all the camaros my fathers best friend has /had & the fact that i have to be dif from evry1 else and all i see r civics mustangs and camaros so naturally i went to the prettiest of all cars firebird trans-am.still havent been able 2 get 1 im lookin though but for now i drive my dads truck.

CrAsH · 01-13-2005, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Untamed

Yeah I'm another Smokey and the Bandit victim. Â*Saw the black and gold and knew I wanted one. Â*In college I couldn't afford much so the 85 Camaro in my sig was my first f-body, enough to make me appreciate both the Camaro and Firebird. Â*Later I tried the 90 Firebird and decided I liked them better, so stuck with them through the 97 Firebird. Â*I've never owned a Trans Am and still dying to jump into one.

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Originally Posted by CrAsH

truthfully as long back as i canr remember i been a firebird/trans-am freak my dad sas its cuz when i was a baby he made me watch smokey and the bandit all the time (grate move i have all 3 on dvd

) i rem playin wit lil hot wheels of them all the time to. i also think it has sumthin to do wit all the camaros my fathers best friend has /had & the fact that i have to be dif from evry1 else and all i see r civics mustangs and camaros so naturally i went to the prettiest of all cars firebird trans-am.still havent been able 2 get 1 im lookin though but for now i drive my dads truck.

ive never even gotten a chance to drive an f body:'( although ive been in tunes of em and seen alot of em

karr95 · 01-13-2005, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sikbyrd350

Smokey & THe Bandit and Knight Rider...nuff said
although I have a soft spot for Orange Mopars...not quite sure why...

Knight Rider did it for me too. There is also something about a Trans Am that just screams cool to me. Whether its the looks, power or general feel, there is just something about it.

formula4speed · 01-13-2005, 04:09 PM

I was driving a 97 escort, best friend bought a 91 RS auto hardtop V6 and I couldn't let him have the faster car. I shopped for 6 months to find my 90 formula, 305 and 5 speed with t-tops. He sold his camaro cause he got a 94 escort for free but after about 6 months he is looking for another camaro.

CrAsH · 01-13-2005, 04:43 PM

Â*There is also something about a Trans Am that just screams cool to me. Â*Whether its the looks, power or general feel, there is just something about it.[/quote]
very true

Oddball · 01-13-2005, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

Ah...my first date with a Fbody...
I was 3 years old, and my dad was looking to buy a new Camaro. Â*He scopes out all the lots, and find that this one dealer has a Z28 on the lot, loaded with everything he wanted. Â*
My Dad takes me to the dealer with him, and before we go in, he tells me to remember "16-8". Â*So my Dad haggles with the dealer on the price. Â*The car stickerd for 17.5, and my dad said he wouldnt spend more then 16.8. Â*The dealer said that 17 was as low as he could go. Â*
My Dad then turns to me and says "Hey Alex...tell the man what Daddy is gunna pay him."
So I look up from my toys, look at the dealer and say..."16-8". Â*

The rest is history. Â*8)

I always remember taking the ttops off and crusing down to my grandparents house in south jersey over the summer. Then my dad was going to sell the Z, and he said that if I helped him tune it up and fix it, that he would give me the money to put twards a new car. Â*I fixed it up, and he asked if I wanted to drive it before he sold it. Â*
Well, I started it up and drove it and I was HOOKED! Â*I couldnt stop driving it. Â*No way I could ever sell this car. Â*So with half the money, I got my moms Taurus, and the other half went into my Z and making her road-worthy.

I think I read this sotry before and it makes me smile each time I see it. I'm going to have to bring my young kids with me the next time I go car shopping for the same thing.