Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by Leo99
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by JohnnyJohnson
I can buy 2 Camry's for that price and each will be on the road years longer than that Camaro.
I don't recall the last time i saw a 1969 Camry at a car show
There are lots of old F-bodies on the road, even up here in the salt belt, can't say the same for "vintage" Toyota products. A Camry will live a lonely life of one or 2 owners who blissfully operate it like a toaster until it ends up in a scrap yard. The Camaro will likely have a pile of owners, experience all sorts of modifications, power adders, repairs and be the birthplace for all kinds of memories and experiences for which the car was integral.
I have absolutely amazing memories of my Mustang and my M5. Both cars taken out of this world by accidents, not their inability to compete in a field of anodyne appliances. Nobody recalls with delight their days spent with their coffee maker.
You're waxing nostalgic. I have a lot of memories from my 77 Buick and 86 Accord and 95 Cherokee. The memories come from the experiences, not the cars themselves. Cars don't have much life left in them when I'm done with them.
I'd get the manual in the Camaro. Shifting gears is fun.
Slamming gears with the rear stepped out in my foxbody, taking it to the track. The car WAS the experience and that's the point.
The OP is shopping a V8 Camaro and considering the manual option. He's not in Camry Country with that mindset, so for it to be even suggested was utterly ridiculous.
Exactly that is why I have loved all my F-bodies, and the Caprice will roast set of tires of it, hang the As* out there and move pretty well for a guy. Some people don't get it and this place can be a fun sucker at times.