i dont know how many people have got aroudn to readin this months hot rod but what do you think? i see it comin.... the 3rd gen revolution.. and were all 1 up on the game haha.

 

sounds to me like they're more interested in vettes...

 

maybe i read that wrong but it seems they dont think 3rd gens are the next hottest thing?

 

Looks to be the mag is saying the 3rd gens will be hot, but no one is agreeing with them.

 

yes there sayin that they predicted 3rdgens to be hot but its nto happening.....yet. what im asking is do you see it happening? or do you ever think it will. will 3rd gens one day rule the world of muscle car restoration and modification?

 

This text just smacks of name dropping...

At least they are dropping all the right names.

~cough~

General Motors

~cough~

 

Third Gens are big and will get hotter but not like 1st Gens, that's a long while away. Don't listen to the unimpressive magazine that is Hot Rod, they are always fans of the way back stuff and barely ever talk up 80's cars or even newer stuff for that matter. People are still telling him to look out for Third Gens for a reason. But, we are talking about Hot Rod here. I wonder if they even factor in that they still have to get by emissons and the complexity and price of EFI keeps alot of people from building them.

Third Gens simply do not have the years on them yet. Cars this "young" don't get big this early, it comes with age. They've always been popular cars and attention getters. Compare that to 4th Gens which have been the opposite from the start. Every person I've ever talked to that had one liked it or wishes they still had theirs or would like another. They've been in plenty of TV shows/movies and I'd look for them in games next. Their last production year was 92 and they are still pretty fresh to the public. Many or most random people think of these cars when they think of the word Camaro or Firebird as GM's own surveys showed, but it's gonna become less over time as you see less on the road. It's already starting. Just look at the other magazines, sites, used collector car traders, merchandise, restoration catalogs, Camaro/Musclecar books, the aftermarket, and Third Gen specific companies. It was nothing like this just a few years ago. I see them more and more at shows and cruises. The prices for nice top models have been going up and the low mile cars have been showing up and are usually going for premium prices. They are being recognized. Compare them to the prices of 80's M*stangs, they are way ahead. Look for more and more recognition as the years go on and people start learning more about them. When you barely see anymore daily drivers out there and the ones you do see only once in a while are meticulously kept or are works in progress running around with Historic plates on them or have Collector car insured inspection stickers in their windows, (some do already) you'll be glad you have yours and bought when you did. They are not fully into the collector car market yet. There's nothing else out there that will look, handle, accept parts easliy, and only gain popularity and attention in the coming years like they do/will and for the price. It takes thousands more dollars to restore a 1st Gen or even buy a nice one and try to make it perform overall like a Third Gen did stock instead of just buying an advanced Third Gen and upgrading it or being able to have an all original, numbers matching car and keep it mint to show and enjoy. Just wait, believe me.

 

I agree thirdgens aren't ready for the big boom. Look at the first gens. When I was 15 the 67-69 camaro and other muscle cars during that time were the hottest thing going. They were in a class by themselves. At 15 yrs old they had stopped making them only 6 yrs earlier and had moved into the second gens. Only in recent times have the second gens even begun to come close to carring the same price tags as a first gen. I wish I had a 70 split bumper. They are worth a lot of money. Granted the first gens still hold the line for the most pricey but second gens are a close second. One can only hope thirdgens will be next.....

 

Mine is a '71 but is just a shell...I have the LT1 and T56 that should go in over the next couple months.

The only thing that I can think of holding the 3rd gens back is 'modern' look that the plastic bumper covers give the car...there is nothing better than some gleaming chrome.

 

itll definately happen, given time... enough of it. Thirdgens personify pretty much the last of the real muscle/pony car....

Just notice though, there's begging to be less and less third gens out there on the streets, and a nice/clean one does catch many an eye.

Just the other day, I was in a parking lot, picking up my dad from his eye-doctors appointment, and there was a group of import-cars, and a new stang, owned by a group of asian people, and when I drove by, one of em pointed at my black 92z28 and said, "now that's a hot rod!" to his mustang friend.

 

IROCZTWENTYGR8 couldnt have said it better

 

I noticed when I first got my 92 RS when I was about 15 or 16 years old(1999 or 2000) there where alot of 3rd gens here in this small town I live in. Now I think the number of camaros can be counted on one hand and firebirds on the other. As the numbers go down the more comments I seem to get on my camaro.

I agree with IROCZTWENTYGR8, those who had them likes and may want another, if they never had them they would like them. Those I have talked to like to have a 3rd gen for it is a good price, nice style, easy to fix up, and decent on gas(most times).

I would drive my camaro to H-E-Double hockey sticks several times before I own most anything else.

But I will be a while before the 3rd gen gets as popular as 1st and 2nd.

 

yes those are all some good points

Sadly im selling my 1st gen that i bought when i was 14 due to i really relized i could never afford it on my budget then i fell in love with 3rd gens and got my 89 project


if anyone might be intersted ina trade for a 67 camaro rs/ss for a 3rd gen lemme kno

 

I dont know if the thirdgens will be as hot as the first gen or a nice 60s mustang to the eyes of the public but I know
I get compliments at least once a week at the most ramdom places,
at school, at the grocery store, when a cop stoped me he told me about his 89 camaro told me he missed it,
I dont see anything I could have got better for the money I paid and mine is good on gas, insurance,maintenance,etc...

I would say that the thing that people like the most about it, and I m sure you got that from people also, is the sound and the big look just remember how ugly the others are ( a kid next the my appartment got a early 90s pink civic with a mufller that sound like my blender 100 time louder= i need to take a picture of it for you guys to see his "art"

 

IROCZTWENTYGR8, as usual, I am in total agreement with you concerning the thirdgens present and future status.

My belief has always been, and will remain so until proven wrong, that as people in my age group who "came of age" when the cars were selling new and who even purchased one new (like myself) will start yearning for those cars again (I already do). As my age group, moving up the financial ladder, begins purchasing the thirdgens in better shape it will begin to start driving the prices up in all classes.

Last May I had a '73 and a '69 Camaro that I sold so I could concentrate my funds on thirdgens. I jumped at the chance to buy TRAXION's car and still intend to purchase a '91-'92 Z28 or TA convertible in the next couple of years. And even after that I intend to buy a '91-'92 L98 Z28, too. Then, I suppose, I will be done.

 

Im keeping mine, the fun factor is hard to beat

 

I like my car, you guys like your cars.... and thats our generation... not age i mean OUR cars... i dunno what got me to like 3rd gens so much, but every time i see one it kinda gives me a little joy... alot of the old and new hot rodders always rag on these cars, just like the magazine articles and yes in stock form and for their age there horrible... but i got my car knowing it would be a long road ahead. I think 3rd gens are the best platform for performance work, drag racing road racing or show, you can go either way. There is not too much technology involved the cars but enough to make em great daily drivers. Alot of em are so cheap its easy for younger guys could get into the sport. I remeber the day when it was delivered to me, comming around the corner how excited i was....and i was only 16 and most of you guys can probably remember the first time you saw you car.

More and more our cars are becoming popular... that is true, but i already think they are already a BIG CRAZE but with the younger generation that not caught in the whole 4banger turbo craze; they guys that dont have a zillion dollars and cant show they car of in every show and mag. There are alot of us that have these cars, but not alot have local 3rd gen groups.

I've notice alot of kids that are growing up around me and my buddies are getting to like 3rd gen mustangs and camaros. And i think that how i was, my dad drove a z for a while, i became aware of "cars" in the late 80's early 90's when 3rd gens were at their peak... i remember looking at MacGuyver and seeing and episode of then racing 3rd gens.

 

Can't agree with you more - i NEVER see a thirdgen 91-92 bird around the state, that is in nearly as good of shape as mine is. NONE... the few i do see are rust buckets, and the few that are in nice shape are high mileage. I really do not want to sell my car, but in the soon future, unless i get a place with a big garage, its going to have to go sooner or later... hopefully it is later...

anyways, thirdgens are disappearing, and good looking ones in good shape are becoming as rare as hens teeth around here.

 

what i was getting at is that there are more enthusiast's out there with them, yes the cars themselves are becoming rare or otherwise, it seems that every week there crashing another one on some lame *** game show, but there are more people modifing them and comming into the auto world... but thats only what i see from the local long island sceen. but that was a year ago or so... i havent driven the car in a while