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Stan, my '67 Camaro RS/SS was also Aztec Gold. No spoiler though the roof did come down. My girlfriend at the time didn't think much of it until I stopped one day at a store in a strip mall. This was about 1980 and a nice summer day so the roof was down. Ran in to pick something up while she waited in the car. When I came out the car was surrounded by about 5-6 guys but they were ogling the car, not my girlfriend. When we drove away she said " I still don't get the car but I guess you know what you are doing.....those guys wouldn't stop asking me questions about this stupid car!" LOL I think she was a bit peeved she wasn't the object of admiration.

I would encourage you to hold out for a 240Z, and not go for the 260 and especially not the 280Z. My brother had one......they were lost by that point. If I was getting one it would only be a 70-72. Emission controls and safety standards started to take their toll in 1973 and it just got worse from there. Every year, slower and heavier. But thew early ones....wow.....they fit like the proverbial glove. I wore those cars, I didn't drive them.

When the latest generation Camaro was introduced in 2010, design based on the '69, I stopped by a showroom and picked up the brochures on it. Kept them for 11 years. Fast forward. My grandson bought a low mileage, one owner 2010 Camaro SS with roughly 405 hp. He has become obsessed with learning all about Camaro history and what can be done with these new ones to make them faster. He is OCD about the car. He won't even drive it if it's raining, the roads are wet, or the destination is off the pavement. Last year he was here at our house for CHRISTmas and when he left I remembered my brochures. I told him to wait a minute until I came back. I handed them to him, telling him how long I'd had them, and that they were his now. He was speechless, but finally recovered and said he'd keep them forever.

I love this stuff.

The line has evolved from Diggory to motor sports. I'll share with you all a cure to addiction. "Do not love what cannot love you back."

Many years ago I bought the fastest 1953 DBD-34 BSA Gold Star 500 single in North Carolina and took it to Alabama before going to Vietnam the first time. Over the next few years I put it back in order with a competition clutch, new racing magneto, everything...even spraying off the mud from the NC dirt tracks. There came a point with parent's garage filled with DBD-34 frames and spare parts that enough was enough. I got rid of all of it (trading it for a Norton Commando in pristine condition in disassembled form in boxes) and never again embarked on the nostalgic.



I drove my CJ-7 for 25 years all over India, Pakistan, Greece, the Balkans, Italy, France. My kids grew up in the back seat. The a/c never worked and we travelled with open windows in Crete stopping at road sides to get drinks. I elected not to do the work myself to restore it in 2014 and sold it to a former Marine who had two young kids that wanted to do fix it (though it was still running well...with bits of rust here and there). Basically though it was a rolling death trap with no airbags etc. (the Decals on the back window are code. if deciphered you are truly a historian)



You guys do your 1970's thing. Been there, done that.. and outside of shotguns that I can shoot, I welcome modernity. Just bought myself a new Wrangler JL Willys...back to the good old days. Except I don't have to spend $800 year in maintenance. And Jeep has finally fixed that crappy transmission after 14 years. (To demonstrate how close this one is to the CJ...wife, first time in the jeep, reached over to roll down the window. That showed we were close to nostalgia).