Calderone

Which camaros came with black headlight pockets ?
i love the way they look !
i know its just an appareance thing but which cars came with this and which don't..it was optional or something ?

JamesC

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IROCs, IIRC.

JamesC

85_ZED28

And Z28's!

MonteMan357

yea i think that was it...IROCS Z28's and heritage cars

a mack6

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He is correct^^^

BlueZee28

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everything but the slower RS models hahaha jk guys

a mack6

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Well no, the regular camaros, berlinettas, SC's and RS's didnt get them. So yea essentially the slowest camaros didnt have them, unless you were blessed with the heritage package like myself and got them!!!!

darkhorse91

if you consider the heritage package and off color headlight pockets a blessing. IMHO the only cars that should have black headlight pockets are black cars, otherwise it looks out of place. No offense just stating my opinion.

p.s. A pure white car with blackouts, window tint, and black rims would be able to pull it off too.

JamesC

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Of course, you're welcome to your opinion, but I couldn't disagree more.

JamesC

BlueZee28

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same here

MonteMan357

ill also have to agree on that one...the blackouts makes it look a lot meaner

darkhorse91

blackouts and black pockets are way diff. blackouts work a little better but not much

a mack6

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Yea go blackout or go home. It seems the people who dislike the blackouts the most keep saying they dont fit the color scheme of the car or something. Yea my car may not have black anywhere else on it but the black headlight covers just set off the entire front end. I mean i don't know what it is exactly about them, but i absolutely loathe camaros without black headlight pockets....

MonteMan357

i wasnt talkin about blackouts sorry i meant blacking out the pockets....

ScottyRS

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I like the black pockets with my scheme...

87CIZ

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i've never had a choice on black headlight pockets or not both my Iroc's are black but my step-mom's 84 Z H.O. is bad. The black light pockets set it apart for sure.

BlueZee28

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i always thought it'd be kinda cool to see a black camaro with grey headlight pockets and grey stripes

ZZ4 86 Z28

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does anyone know what kinda paint to use for the headlight pockets. my car's bumper was repainted before i bought it and the whole bumper was painted the same. i go to school for auto body and we have a paint booth so i could do it. what exactly would the paint be though? its like semi gloss...can you buy it in a can? thanks a lot.

shawn18jgr

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So glad I went from red to black buckets!

Not Danny

right b4r i got my 83 z the front end was repainted and they never did paint the headlight buckets black, just doesn't look qiute right to me. In the spring when it get a whole new paint job they will be going back to black.

chris86sc

My 86 SC did come with the black headlight pockets, but when I painted the car I had them done the same as the whole car.

Camaroguy18

it just makes them all look like my car went around beating the crap out of other f-bods.......why it would do this I have no idea - the thing has a mind of its own -


...nah I dont mind them, but it's not for me

Firebreed

my Berly came from the factory with blacked out headlight pockets.. Hell i can see the masking tape marks that the paint shop left after spraying it body color, when the PO took it to a quick repait

91Zman

uhh same here also.

Black pockets were available on the top models,to help signify top model, but were also on berlinettas too(perhaps only the top berlinetta model?).

Firebreed

that really doesnt make sence.. there was no "top" berlinetta model.. a berly is a berly.. migh tnot have all the same options but its the same model.. it would get the black pockets just like the z's and the irocs got no mater the options (other then the delete)

darkmage

my 86 and 87 sc's had 'em

Abubaca

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Yep, two more mid eighties SC's with black pockets here. It certainly wasn't ONLY the higher end cars.

....and I'll agree that I've never seen a car without black that I liked. It looks like they were forgotten about.

.....and I've repainted my pockets so many times over the years with nothing more than satin black rustoleum. NEVER had a single hint of a problem. I've actually started painting my grill insert that "satin" finish too so they match!

tnt_viper

I'm happy I dont have the black headlight pockets on mine....I dont find it ugly, but to my eyes it's nicer without.

Superchevy magazine quote "Camaros dont have black eyes, they give them"

MikeDirntRulez

Even though the black headlight pockets make it look like the car is on heavy doses of crack, or hasn't gotten sleep in the past few weeks.....

I still love it to death!

Tobias05

camaros don't look right, in my opinion, w/o black, or even grey headlight pockets...

EDIT: just noticed my signature picture doesn't have the pockets painted yet

I still stand behind my original comment...

Gunny Highway

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Worked for me on my car.

MonteMan357

this is the closest to that ive seen

Gunny Highway

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Now I know why they didn't do it.

BlueZee28

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that WOULD look good without the stripes and the painted ground effects

BigWhiteGTP

I think it totally makes the Z28/IRocs look like animals!!!! The car looks plain and boring w/o them. And in my own warped/perverted opinion, you know how good women look with mascara or whatever that black stuff they put around their eyes when they get all dolled up. You know it drives you wild. Well, same thing for me and nice Irocs.

ZZ4 86 Z28

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k...lol. i get what you mean, i just dont see it like that.

91Zman

I didn't mean the "berly" as a top model as in the Z28 or IROC.I was referring to the ones with a 305(the top/best berlinetta) Aren't those the ones that had black headlight pockets?

....sorry if I didn't make sense.

deadbird

Painted mine black on my teal beater.... wish I hadn't.
Black and (dark-bright) teal is apparently the one combo that are 'two great flavors that don't taste great together' (kind of like fruitcake... fruit:good, cake:great, fruitcake:disgusting)
Just my opinion though...

Sitting Bull

This is true. My 86 Sport Coupe also came from the factory with black headlight pockets. So it certainly was not restricted to the so-called "faster cars."

Agent13

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Mine are black