What you think ?
i think thirdgens still look pretty modern !
and they were introduced to the market almost 25 years ago !!!
can you believe it ? 25 years ago !!!
If i see a 82 running on 18"s and in pretty good shape i dont know why
but i cant believe it has 25 years !
i think the 2nd gens looks old and classic but 3rd gens i think they still belong on today's streets and are way nicer than several new car designs !!!!
what's your view on this ?
am i wrong ?

 

I agree, a good 3rd gen turns heads and continues too. 80s/early 90s GM/Pontiac designers were well ahead of the game in the design department.

 

yea, I agree as well...the 3rd gen has the best look

 

Noticed how in the '90s, the f-body and Mustang got all round a bubbly?

Look at the designs coming out now and how they are going back to the sharp lines and better proportioned panels.

Kinda like the thirdgen....

Thirdgens will be pretty popular in about 10 years once the stigma wears off and people start looking back.

 

Third gens are starting to look better to everyone now that they have some age on them. some models are already super collectable. I saw a 91 z28 bc4 on barrett jackson go for $41,ooo, it only had 16 miles on it but it still shows a rising interest in our cars. I agree that in 10 years, those of us with mint cars
will have someting worth 15-20 grand instead of 5-8. I hope.

Then instead of wondering why everyone doesn't like 3rd gens, we'll be mad that everyone just jumped on the bandwagon and now parts cost twice as much.

 

Yeah 3rd gens do still look like a car you could see in the showroom today. Everytime I look at the back of my 87 camaro it looks to new to be as old as it is. I would have to say 1981 to 1982 for the camaro and firebird was the biggest change in looks for any car. Thats probably why they still look new; they were way ahead of the ballgame for it's time.

 

I love more angular body styled cars, and the Third-Gens take the cake with looking the best. Personally I don't I've ever seen a nicer looking car.

 

Ive had a few people who came up and talked to me about my GTA who thought it was a newer model. Most people are really shocked when they find out its an 87.

 

ya the 4th gen maros and birds look too pointed and not "musclecarey" at all. on the third gens ther is still an agressive front end to make it look really nice.


PS: i hate 4th gen maros period.

 

Yeah, I agree, they are great looking cars and all the body lines flow with the car. I also think they are one of the best looking cars around still.

 

You're preaching to the converted. I like my 3rd gen better than my dad's 06'
mu***ng gt. because of the looks and because mustangs sit like a truck.

 

You know, 20 years ago when I was in high school the lot was full of 69 camaros, 73 mustangs, road runners, cudas ect, ect. We never thought anything about it. I never thought they would be worth so much. I had a chance to buy a cuda for 800.00. The same thing will happen to our cars. My car was built 12/86. The same month and year as my divorce and when I was shipped to England. Must be an omen.

 

3rd gens still look modern to me, however that back lower quater panel with the yellowish light is located, its a throw back to the early 80's.

 

My old physics book from high school used the f-body model whenever it showed diagrams of cars in motion

 

I bet you learned alot of physics because of that lol

 

What yellowish light ???
i don't have a light there

 

Sorry its a red light, I don't own the car anymore so I had to look at an old picture.

 

The basic thirdgen "shell" is very modern I think.

Ground effects and aftermarket hoods and spoilers can possibly make it look more modern. Then with the addition of different or custom side mirrors, door handles, side markers, taillights, and possibly headlights: A thirdgen could (could being key word here, if the car is done right) look as modern or more modern than any car on the road toady, exterior-wise anyway.

 

mmm you know what ?
ive been thinkin the same,those side lights on the front fender and quarter panel could be relocated and maybe add some modern style lighning..or maybe shave them ? maybe its illegal i dont know
you know which thirdgen i think looks the best ?
1992 Formula,so sleek,so low and thin and ellegant..
gfx doesnt work for me anymore,i guess everybody is trying to put body kits on their cars to look like GFX'ED at least here in Chile Southamerica
everyone is doing that (on a real bad bad taste) on most 90's and 00's cars
to give them a "tuning" look which i hate so that's why gfx doesnt work for me anymore

 

I sold out, I ended up selling both my 3rd gens. I bought a 4th LS1 type TA. I love it but I'm going to get another 3rd gen. However this time I'm holding out for a formula, or something without gfx.

 

ive never understood the whole thing about 3rd gens looking modern.... to me they look very 80's. i remeber when i first got my 91 and had it parked outside, my neighbor asked me if it was a "2000 or so". i was like what??? lol he thought it was a fairly new car. so i guess a lot of people do think they look modern

 

They don't look all that modern to me, but maybe that's because of the fact that I know they're older. Still have a lot of people stare and point and ask me questions though. Someone said a 4th gen doesn't have the "musclecarey" look to them....a 4th gen T/A comming at you looks pretty muscle-car-ish and mean to me. One of the main reasons I got the Ram AIR II Hood.

 

not really...on all of the tests I would just write "the car does what it wants, ignoring all laws, because it's an f-body...and it has t-tops...and its sweeeeeeeeeeettttt".........I really wish I would have graduated now

 

Its easy
Look at the cars from the 70's or late 60's
they were all like that big and bulkies
Chargers,Fbodies,Torinos,Challengers,Mustangs....Ok
Look at the cars from the 90's and 00's all rounded,like the 4th gens are
so they are not different from the rest of Dodge stratus,Chevrolet cavalier,Chrysler sebring,Neon,Dodge stealth Mitsubishi 3000GT,Eclipse,and most of those,they tend to look all the same..
while 3rd gens...are from the 80's but...which other car looks like a Thirdgen ?
They look a bit like race cars,they look a bit like the 70's cars,they look a bit as the batmobile,but they are low as a lambo sometimes,they have some exotic feel,i think that's why makes them stand out from the rest
Think about it : WE KNOW ALL THE YEARS AND DETAILS...AND WE KNOW SOME OF OUR THIRDGENS ARE SLOW ! But most of the people doesn't know at all !!! They think they are super super fast race cars,and modern !!!
some guy thought a 89 formula of a friend were from 1998 !
Our design is pretty unique and i dont think any car look like ours
maybe Delorean and Toyota supra...but i dont think so
Look at Camaro18Guy's car....it can be a 82 converted to look like that
and it would be pretty difficult to think its a 82 ! You see.Our cars are unique and since i kept reading this tread im feeling proud of my82,it turns a lot of heads !
please think about my point : they dont look like a specific era kind of car
let's discuss !

 

Quit trying to make these old, Joe Dirt lookin', redn3ck, wife beatin' cars from the Hasselhoff era out to be more than what they are.

I do think they are still some of the best looking cars on the road (at least the ones that aren't all beat to hell yet). However, I don't agree with "modern".

I will never part with my '91, G0D-willing, but I will also continue to grow my mull-et out. It keeps my neck warm when I roll with the winder's down (non-functional AC)......

 

lol !
i think they won't be seen like that on a few years
the 70's muscle cars were on that status on the 80's if im not wrong
and now ..they are sold for big money

 

No, to me the fourth gens look bloated, even more so with the bulge hood...But we all have out own opinions....I think the third gens have stood the test of time rather well.I get people all the time shocked at the age of my car....Most of the new cars look kinda alike to me, kinda alike crap....lol.......

 

good thing my physics books dont have that.. Id be failing so bad.. I can barely manage a C with sedans as the models lol

 

I don't think third gens look modern so much as their design has just aged really well. Look at any other car desinged in the 80's and for the most part, they look really outdated. Just a prediction, but I don't think that the fourth gen's design will age nearly as well as the third gens has.

 

How will the fifth generation looks effect the third gen?

 

the fifth gen looks like butt. from that huge ball shifter, to the space shuttle designed interior, whoever designs those things should be shot.

 

have you seen it in person?

 

When I bougt my IROC new in 1985 I got stopped in Louisana for speeding(100mph) and the parish Trooper said "You boys think you can fly through my parish in one of those funny-lookin Italian cars, well you got another thing comin." I replied" Uh officer, it's a Chevrolet." He handed me back my ID and walked away hanging his head. It made my day. Badman

 

Yes,some kids believe it or not had shouted : LOOK...A FERRARI !
It was my old 82 S/E lol !

 

I still think the thirdgen design of both Camaro's and Firebirds are the best out of all. I'm more partial to the Firebird (I own one) and think they are the most sleek and aerodynamic of them all. I like the late 4th gen birds, but like someone else posted, they are too rounded and bulging. 4th gen Camaros look like A$$ and I still mistake them for Chrysler Sebrings

 

The third gen has a timeless design that differs from everything else out there. it just looks so right. Whoever designed it did an amazing job.

The man the designed the structure on the other hand...

 

lol i do that too with the sebring they just look so much alike

 

I would love to know more about the guy who designed the Thirdgen body
which one was designed first camaro or firebird
why firebird got hideaway light and not the camaro
who designed which could be the main differences like the
line on the sail panel on camaros its almost straight angle
and mo much more !
who knows all this cool info ?

 

If im not mistaken John Delorean designed the 3rd gen firebird.

 

I can join in on mistaking a sebring for a camaro... that's when I realized I needed contacts. Also, I was at a stoplight shortly after getting the boyds for my car and I heard the guy next to me hollar through my closed window what "nice car!" so I rolled my window down and he asked what year it was. I told him '83 and he nodded and said " '93..." and I said, no, '83. He replied "wow." I thought he was nuts.

 

i think id really depends on how good of shape there in ive seen some rust buckets that show there age but when i see one with no rust and great paint you would never think of how old it is

my car looks like a 4 year old car at most to me but yet my last 91 car showed its age

 

yea i've seen it, sat in it, etc etc. I hate it.

 

Theres a book called "Camaro: The Third Generation" by MICHAEL LAMM. It was published in 1981 and tells about designing the third gen and such. Tons of info in it. I found it at my college library one day. Looks like this

 

well you're retarded.

 

Well, Some points of it i think arent that great but i havent seen it in person.

If you had Seen the trans am concept Drawing in a magazine * dunno if you did it may have been car and driver?*

That blows the camaro design out of the water, it seems the trans am look is better with that body style.. i hope gm is smart and makes another firebird

 

Leave the insults out, like the old saying goes "opinions are like..." you know the rest.

 

I don't think that thirdgens look very modern, lol, but not saying they arent sporty looking, but because most modern cars look axactly the same. With the triangular body shape, the tall(bull dozerish) rear, and the same front end styling. Older cars had no look alikes, they are unique(except maybe the 70 barracuda and 69 camaro) but now hondas, look like nissans, and chevys look like dodges. They seem to try and be as cheap as possible. Thats just my

 

do you need a hug?

 

When I first saw the late 80s Camaros and Firebirds... I didn't like em. My favorite car at the time was the 70 1/2 Z28 and the 70 Challenger. One day I visited my local Hobby Shack and on the shelf in the car section was the Revell 1/16 scale model of the RED IROC 87. When I saw this model I also remembered not liking the car.. to me it was too "Space Shuttle".... 8 yrs later I ended up purchasing a RED IROC 87...just like the one on the box and eventually purchased the same model 1/16 scale for nostalgic reasons. Funny how that happens.

Today..I think the IROC camaros are some of the best looking cars periods.. even some of my buddies who are into imports... like the lines and the "NASCAR" aggressive look of the RED IROC coming up on them... Even though the engines dont stack up to the LT1 or LS1s... the lines and the SUSPENSIONS DO! I have also noticed that the build quility is a bit better then my gfs 95 T/A.

 

Enough is enough.