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Originally Posted by The_Blur
I've always been confused by the fox body worship. They look like Escorts and weren't fast enough to be as popular as they are. I'm sure someone will claim they were a driver's car or that it was about the experience, but the only experience you'll get in one of those is the experience of growing a sketchy mustache and a flowing mullet.
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Mullets were for Camaro owners back then. Unfortunately, that was kind of true.
As someone who lived and drove pony cars back in those days can tell you, if you wanted to go fast in a pony car, you weren't going to do it in a new Camaro. The 305 was the WORST thing to happen to Camaro Z28, ever, imo. I struggled with it because I liked the Camaro body style, but after test driving one of those "new" notchback 5.0 Mustangs, there was no comparison performance-wise.
Were they ugly? Sure. But the fun-factor and a relatively lightweight car (not to mention fairly cheap) was a big draw. And you didn't muck with them on the street if you had a new 83 Z28 with automatic like me. I even got edged out by a V6 manual '82 Berlinetta my friend had!
I stayed with Camaro through and through, but those were some LEAN times. VERY lean and I took a LOT of bitch-slapping from Mustang's dominance. You bought Camaro for style and features (not many) because unless you were gutting it and dropping in your own build, you weren't going fast in it. No way, no how. Don't let anyone tell you different because they can't if they were really there.
Some of you are too young to remember when owning a Gen 3 Camaro meant you were the butt of nearly all car jokes (the mullet and trailer park jokes still hang though). It wasn't until '93 did Camaro start getting serious about kicking sand in the Mustang's face. I'm just glad the battle still lives on!!!
If Camaro no longer existed, I'd probably drive a Corvette or CTS-V.