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 ?

 

IROCs, IIRC.

JamesC

 

And Z28's!

 

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

 

He is correct^^^

 

everything but the slower RS models hahaha jk guys

 

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!!!!

 

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.

 

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

JamesC

 

same here

 

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

 

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

 

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....

 

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

 

I like the black pockets with my scheme...

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

So glad I went from red to black buckets!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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?).

 

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)

 

my 86 and 87 sc's had 'em

 

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!

 

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"

 

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!

 

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...

 

Worked for me on my car.

 

this is the closest to that ive seen

 

Now I know why they didn't do it.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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...

 

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."

 

Mine are black