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I guess this would be photo history ? I'd like to see period pictures of Third Gens..... even if you don't have the car.

IMissMy86TA

My 1986 TA back in the day before the GTAs where invented. most had a silly red tape above the black ground effects or a two tone (black with gold ground effects or black with silver ground effects) I thought that it would look better with all black.. seems like GM agreed with me and the next year the GTA was born. The program manager took off the tape on an 86 and drove it around detroit and got lots of compliments. so did I... I dont have the car anymore but bought a black GTA 5 speed TPI to have more power.

jez3941

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not mine, just a random car my uncle took a pic of back in the day
it just screams "I love the 80's"

Van Nuys born

Great pic's , Thanks

It's cool when they capture other stuff to help date the time period

Veaceonee

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My parent's 85.

Van Nuys born

The original owner gave me this pic of my Iroc when it was new in 89.

mantaguy

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Beautiful Color.Pontiac used that color in their 86 sales brochure.You don't see that color often,me personally,I've never seen one that color.

scottmoyer

Here's a few of my past cars from back in the mid 80s!!!

1982 Crossfire Z28


1983 LG4 Z28


1988 L03 Sport Coupe

PurelyPMD

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I ordered it new February 17, took delivery April 16, 1987 then sold it in September of 1989. This past week I found it again half way across the country & it will be mine by this time next week!

IMissMy86TA

agreed. Never seen one in real life. definitely 80s classic look

IMissMy86TA

That looks like my first car 83 sport coupe but looks like it already had the exhaust changed so must be later 80s
if it was mine it got more action after it left me..lol I was 16.

scottmoyer

I'm sorry, but I tried looking closer at the picture to get an idea of the year and I had to look away. The shorts that guys wore in the 80s was scary. That might be why I never wear shorts even to this day!!!!

jez3941

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I know, some things can not be unseen
if you can manage to look it looks like a white TA behind the brown van

scottmoyer

I think that's an '84 TA anniversary car.

((Mike))

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I wish I could edit myself out of the one with my 82 LG4 Z28 but its the only photo I have of it. That one was taken 26 years ago. The one of my 91 RS I posted in other threads but I included it here too. Unfortunately I can't find any of my red 84 L69 H.O Z28 but it looked like Scott's 82. I know its not a 3rd generation car but I also included one of my 69 Z28 that I wish I had never sold.

((Mike))

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What a beautiful car! What color is this? In the photo it kind of looks like the orange color they had in 88. But its an 89 right? Maybe its just the lighting in the photo.

FormerL69

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I'm sure I've posted these before, but here is my '84 L69 5-spd Z28 before:



and after ...

Van Nuys born

Thank's for the compliment Mike,

And yes it does have orange in it to my eye...... you can see the red stripes in flag in the forground.... and they show up as red. Lighting does change it a bit.

1bad86

Great looking car. Be sure to post pics when you get it back, I would like to see it in its current shape after all these years. Happy to see your getting it back.

IMissMy86TA

I like the newer fresher look you gave it but I have to say the old look has a place in my heart too. you dont see many in that color combo these days.

87 mm5

That is awesome you found it!! I seen your post on craiglist looking for it. So whats the story? How did you get the info on where it was and who had it? Let me know, cause I tried looking for my 87 that my dad bought new but no luck

GICATA

I love the Camaro with the chicks in the back....man, I miss those days!

Well...except for the guys shorts. (but I did have some of my own)

Van Nuys born

The second pic Purelypmd posted of him and a friend at speed really captures the moment. A great picture to have.

eseibel67

My employer at the time sent me to skid school at Mosport near Toronto. Best part was the end of the day when instructor took us out on the race track for 10 laps. Instead of driving the school-supplied Sunbird, I gladly signed the waiver to take my 3 month old 5 speed TPI Formula out there.

Boy those were the days.

When I was young. And naive. And thin.

cs2000

Hopefully this will go through, This is a picture of my '91 RS That I bought new in January 1991, The picture was taken on Memorial day weekend 1991 at my Grandma's house in Staten Island NY. My brother and I drove there for the long weekend from Wisconsin. where the RS got 29mpg. it was loaded with all options including Leather, CD player, 5.0 EFI and 5-speed. The following year I took it to the Grand canyon and got the highest of 31 mpg.. pretty good for a V8

IMissMy86TA

Why you say Naive? because you ran a track with your car? I am actually jealous!

eseibel67

No regrets about driving any mechanical thing hard.

johnsta

1984 l69 Z28 taken around 1992 and 94 and 87 T/A taken around 1998

GICATA

This is a pretty blurry pic, but it's from 1983 when my car had about 150 miles on it. I still have the bowling ***** in storage!

FrankieRider2

Not a great shot, but it was almost dusk by the time I got home with the car: Day One, September 23, 1988.

GCrites80s

What wheels are those?

Van Nuys born

92RS(real slow)

Look to be the older style ronals 16x8

FrankieRider2

Car new had RONAL R9 rims on it. Dealership would never admit to what happened to the original wheels. I made them warranty the wheels before I would buy the car.

Car as it sits today:

Van Nuys born

Look's fantastic ^^

((Mike))

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I dug up this old photo of me and my buddy with our 91 Camaros. We bought them at the exact same time. His was an automatic and mine was a stick. I regretted not checking the order box for the 16" wheels though like he did.

IMissMy86TA

Looks nice Frankie. where did the Ronal rims go?

two-if-by-sea

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This is a page from a scrapbook I had back in the day. January 1992. I was a senior in high school. I sold my 1983 Camaro and bought a used 1987 Camaro.

The '87 was purchased from a Chevy dealer that is still around, Hertrich Chevrolet, though they are no longer at this location in Federalsburg Maryland. This particular dealership probably had no more than 30 or 40 new cars in stock at any given time. That's a burgandy 1992 Chevy Lumina sitting next to the '87 Camaro, and also pictured are a few Geo Storm's and Geo Prism.

Van Nuys born

Cool pic's, and the old newspaper ad is the stuff that doesn't survive... But very cool to see now.
Thanks to all for these great pic's ... And keep them coming.

chazman

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6/26/89. The day I took delivery of my '89 IROC-Z. This is a dealer photo they'd do with all new car deliveries. Note the the front license plate bracket. I had EXPLICIT instructions to NOT drill the grill surround for a plate. The replacement part has already been ordered from the parts dept as this pic is being snapped.

That '89 Ford Probe behind me was my future wife's, who drove me to the dealer. The Probe replaced her '84 Firebird, which was stolen on the same day she made her last payment on it.

aaron7

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Had to scan these in, going back a ways!

This was back in high school, 2001-ish. My first (registered) car. 84 Z28 H.O. 5 speed. Swapped in a 350, WC T5, 3:08 posi rear, and changed over the entire brown vinyl (yeah really) interior to black. Learned how to work on cars on this thing. This was in the Chiltons/Haynes days... didn't know about forums! Was rear ended stopped for a school bus leaving school one day

You can see the numbers from the drags on the windshield

eseibel67

Those morons at the dealership service the 97% of the population that is oblivious to the fact that motoring is not just transportation, but fun. The sales department should have ensured the car was PDI's as per instructions.

What a way to ruin your special day.

Jerks.

chazman

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Oh, they didn't ruin my day. They just had to pay for a new surround.

mantaguy

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So now Your SPID has the VK3 on it??(License Plate,Front Mounting)

burnout88

Attached is the Ad from the dealership I purchased my 88 IROC from in 1996. I bought it in a Chicago snow storm in Jan shortly after graduating college. The notes on the ad are from when I called on the car and salesman's name I bought the car from.

According to the ad it was "TOTALLY MINT". Lower corner of the second image is my car in the ad.

Still have the car today 17 years later.

redneckjoe

this is from 1988. its an 84 z-28 i bought used. my first third gen.

((Mike))

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Thats really cool that you kept the ad that you found your car with. I had my first 87 IROCZ back in 1996. I completely gutted the interior and put a brand new one in it. It was stolen the day after I finished. When I got the car back it had 6" of water in it. Im happy that my current 87 IROC isn't my daily driver.

burnout88

I thought I had lost the ad put eventually came across it and decided it would be a good idea to scan it. Bummer about your first 87. I am also really glad mine is not a daily driver anymore.

puma1552

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Love this thread so much. I too have the tiny Autotrader ad for my car...I used to love biking down to the convenience store each week and getting a pop and a new Autotrader on newsprint, and going right to the Chevy and Ford sections looking for Camaros and Mustangs, then flipping to the classic section in back to look for the same.

The internet has ruined so many of life's small pleasures.

eseibel67

puma: You are dating yourself! I remeber the same, Autotrader was delivered to my local corner store every Friday afternoon. And it was regionalized, so you could only search cars that were close. The only way to find a more exotic car from a far away land was to buy a differnent paper, like Old Autos or Hemmings.

Ahhh the good old days. When information was acquired in blocks of a week or a month.