Dan87IROC-Z

I hope so, my car is a rare 87 IROC 350.

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1987 Chevy Camaro IROC-Z
L98 TPI 350 (5.7L)
TH 700R-4 Transmission with 2.77:1 Rear End

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Chuck Everly

I doubt the value will change much. It generally takes a car about 25 to 30 years to start appreciating in value. I am sure there are some exceptions to that.

One way to make your car more valuable in the future is to keep all the stock components. Generally speaking collectors want to buy stock cars. It is very expensive to buy a modified car and get it back to stock condition when the parts are no longer made or plentiful in the wrecking yards. Been there done that


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88 IROC convertible

Jim85IROC

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The end of new model production will have absolutely no effect on a 10-15 year old car. Cars like the Impala SS maintained fantastic value after they were discontinued because they were fairly rare and very popular upon their 'dismissal'. Your IROC is already 13 years old, and there will be just as many around regardless of whether there is a 2003 model or not. That means that supply hasn't changed. Will demand change? Doubtful. Thirdgens have a totally different buying market than new models, therefore demand should remain constant.

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Drew

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Value and thirdgens don't go well together. There were so many made (more than 20,000/yr) that most everyone above 25 has either had one, or their brother had one, and they're old news. Further even if you baby the car and try to preserve the car it will still age and decline. Prices for nice clean all original thirdgens are going up around here. But I wouldn't expect to make a profit off a restoration for several more years.

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Ih8myZ28

I think once a common car line is discontinued there is actually a slight decline in the value of the older cars.

The reasoning is that new cars on show room floors & their advertising campaigns (or lack of, in the F-bodies case) also do a certain amount of promotion for the older models. People go to a dealer and see a nice Trans Am WS6 in the showroom for ~$30,000, fall in love with the car, but can't afford it. So they go looking for a 2-3 year old WS6 instead. That won't happen any more.

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1996 Camaro SS

crazeinc

with that attitude about discontuning the fbody, you don't deserve you car's value to go up! only kidding...

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92 Rag

...actually...with older cars it has been shown that they usually bottom-out in price when they are 10-15 years old, and then start to appreciate when they are about 18 years old

[This message has been edited by 92 Rag (edited September 11, 2000).]

Stuart S

My guess is over the next few years, the clean original STOCK low mile cars WILL become collectible...

Regardless though, I will never sell my TA...it'll be inherited first

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Skeletor

I agree with 92 rag.. look at 2nd gens.. early models are worth more then the late ones. although a 71 camaro is a muscle car.. but then agian after 74 is when all cars lost performance and not till mid-late 80's when power was being put back in these things.. i call the late 70's and early 80's the "dark ages" of automobile history.

so inconclusion.. my guess is as good as yours.. so what do you do? keep it or get rid of it? kinda like stocks..

i also agree with Drew.. there was A LOT of these damn things made.. everyone has either owned one, or knew someone that did..

Satan87Z28

You guys are all missing the most important point, and that is the camaro won't die. See, you can actually thank chrysler for that one. In 2002, I think, the charger will be back and it is coming back as a muscle car. It being a muscle car will keep the camaro alive. You think GM will kill the camaro if the muscle cars come back to town. Hell NO! The camaro will just get meaner. You guys just wait, GM won't kill it or make it FWD, they will put some money back into it and it will be as plentiful as thirdgens are, you'll see.

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Jza

It's probably gonna be another 8 to 20 years before they're appreciated the way we now appreciate cars of the 60's. But I think everything works in cycles (like bellbottoms). Maybe a couple decades from now we'll see a resurgance of hair/heavy metal or new wave, flourescent colored clothes, and we'll know the 80's are back and it's time to whip off the cover from the ol' F, find some of that old-fashioned gasoline and go turn some heads. Hehehe, I'll pass on the 80s fashion comeback though..