So i went to the antique store yesterday and was browsing through everything,bored out of my mind ( i was with my mom and sister) And then i come across a hotwheels,diecast,and matchbox section filled to the BRIM with cars! Being extraordinarily excited, i begin my desperate search to FINALLY come across a thirdgen trans am. Every store i go to with toy cars,i search each and everyone to hopefully come across one. Ive been doing this every week for a year! So anyways,i go through every single car at the shop,must have been 1200 cars easily. No trans ams. But i did find 3 camaro models. One is a good size 1988 Iroc z ( grabbed cause its an 88 like my trans Am), the others are a small Matchbox 1989 Z-28, and a Hotwheels 1983 Blown Z28. Yeah thats right,its built ;D Sidepipes,4.10's,Got the 50's on the back and everything haha. Im guessin she easily puts out 600 horse! Anyways,heres some pictures


Think its got a B&M shift kit in her? Lol

 

Forgot to mention,the blue one has a custom paint job,aftermarket racing rims,And a rear windshield wiper?

and shes Tune port

 

Awesome find!!! I bet that made your day.

 

i have a couple of the one with the blower. except they dont have a blower, ones white with blue and black specs and the other one is teal.

for a second i thought i had a t/a but i remembered it was a 2nd gen. i have never seen a 3rd gen bird that i can think of. although it has been a few years(like 10yrs) since i have been into hotwheels.

 

The larger one is actually a dealer promo model - they were dealer give-a-ways to promote the car back in the day - there is one for every year Camaro, but I'm unsure if Pontiac ever had them for the 'Birds.

There are a few 'Bird things out there, but they are few compared to the Camaro stuff. Some of us have quite large Camaro collections. There's a thread here: https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/body...available.html

You can see some of my collection here: http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/l...Camaro%20Toys/

One of my favs is the Monopoly set - it has a small metal Monopoly play piece that is a 3rd gen Camaro.

 

Ask and recieve...

 

i found a johny lighting trans am at walmart last week in the hotwheels section

 

you know now that you posted that, i think i had a couple red ones without t-tops(t-tops were not cut out). i remembered not liking them because they weren't hotwheels or matchbox

 

You don't happen to want to sell that, do you? I think my husband would LOVE to have that!!!

 

I bought one in black a few weeks back.

 

I've actually got the exact same turquoise one tucked away somewhere from when I was a little kid. Very cool find.

 

heres my little collection on 3rd gen camaro hot wheels

 

you know, iv seen one of those bigger camaros before. it was at a sports shop in a town around me, a blue iroc with racing decals on it, from when they raced these cars i presume? is this kind rare? iv never seen them before

 

i have a life size one that runs pretty well hahah..but yea, ive got a couple GTA's from Johnny Lightning..a black one and a red one. have a 1:10 of a TTA and a model of a 89 GTA haha..love em..

 

Bump cause I jus seen this at Wal Mart... recent release

 

Aww, now I have to find mine... I've got a couple unique ones from before I was born (older brothers )...

There's a red Camaro missing the hatch. It's supposed to look like it got in a crash and the hatch is supposed to sit in place and hold the rear of the car the way it's supposed to be before you crash it into something, when the hatch pops and the rear looks like it hit a tree, lol.

Also have an STP full-out blue and yellow Bird with fender flares (Matchbox, I do think), a black Bird as seen above with the T-tops missing and red interior (flat hood but with a gold hood bird), and a couple of others, including a purple color changing Camaro (when warm, the color fades to white with a skull and crossbones on it).

Also have a slightly larger scale drag Camaro that is actually a pull-and-go racer... You pull it back all the way, and it starts out slow before going all out. Believe it has a carbed engine, (or was that the one the hood doesn't open on? I don't remember). It's white and teal and I believe 76 fuels is one of the major "sponsors" on it. And yes, the pull-and-go still works .

Also bought a gunmetal and silver GTA off of eBay a couple years ago. I gave most of my Hot Wheels stuff to my nephews but kept the Vettes and the F-bodies I could find. Still find a couple here and there.

:edit: Almost forgot... Not an F-body, but I'll bet you don't see Fieros very often. I have a red one with the American flag on the "hood".

 

i have one hotwheels Camaro i bought at walmart a few months back, a 1991 Z28 Dealer model, and a 1/8th scale 85 IROC-Z still sitting in the box waiting for me to put it together.

 

Where!?! I've been looking for one for forever!

 

they were selling the 1:18 gta at toys r us for a while, i remeber red, white and a black one, and atleast the white and black in a 1:43 scale too, Johnny lighting and greenlight come out with alot of them, their usually 2 or 3 cars just in different colors thou, i got a number of them.

Think i got 4 or 5 of these blue formulas

heres a good site if you wanna see the different firebird toys, models, diecast, etc, its all gens thou
http://www.firebirdtoys.com/

 

Love all the responses guys,thanks tons! You guys have had some awesome finds!

Will anyone sell me one of the bigger Greenlight scales of a black Trans Am? I can trade one of the maros too :-)

 

I've also been looking for a Greenlight model of the black GTA. If anyone would be willing to sell, lemme know. All the ones I keep finding online are like permanently outta stock.

 

That is to cool, I thought I was the only crazy one collecting them..haha
I have a sweet iroc hot wheel

 

I also have some of the hotwheels Camaros. Most of them picked up from flea markets for $0.50 or less, and in bad shape. Picked them up just for the fun of it though.

Finding the following models took me a few months.

1:64 Johnny Lightning (very small)



1:43 Solido



1:24 (Action historical series)



and another 1:24 Action model



1:24 JADA toys



1:18 Greenlight



I really wish they'd make a 3rd gen Camaro

1:18 Sunstar

 

How much do you want for this?

 

^^ What he said! Where'd you get it

 

I got it from a diecast reseller in Germany.
(this one: http://www.modellauto18.de/)

Paid close to $70 for it.
Even if I would sell it, you don't want to pay shipping, trust me.

I think they were limited to somewhere around 1500 units made.

They only have the TTA and the red GTA at the moment.
Prices still at $70 each.

With shipping to the US that would make somewhere around $130.

 

Im not into hot wheels or anything but I work at Walmart and walk past this display every single day and it bugs the crap out of me. See that red camaro? See what the picture is? A 2nd gen. What's inside? A third gen. Annoys me waaayy to bad lol

 

 

you can pick the tta up pretty commonly on ebay and amazon for around 40-50 plus shipping, the others get put up from time to time for usually not a whole lot more but depends on the seller, i paid $30 for mine from toysrus a while back.

 

Here's my diecast collection. It's about 90% camaro and 10% tri-5 chevy's.

 

Hey, I saw some Firebirds in there!!!!!

 

I have this small third gen toy.