Hopefully some of you guys will appreciate the pain of losing a sweet 3rd gen. All my non f-body enthusiast friends/family only seem care about my health and insurance settlement (asses eh!)

Anyways I spent a solid year finding my 90Z (3rd IROC, 4th 4rd gen) with everything just the way I like it:

305 tpi 5spd with the g92 performance option(hotter cam, dual cats, various suspension bits), fully loaded, absolutely mint interior. Just finished loading custom amp and 6.5" kicker subs into the bose rear speaker deck Bought with about 150,000Kms ~ 93,500 miles in late March.

I unloaded my previous car before going to university, and this was my 'graduation' present to myself. I intended on keeping it pretty much forever.

Anyways, the other day as I was driving the vehicle to drop it off to get the only existing exterior blemishes fixed, curb rash on the lower front valence, a douche in a van turned left infront of me. Estimator wrote if off a few days later. These cars are getting few and far between up here, especially the ones I like (305/5spd Irocs) that haven't been rat-bagged to *****, so the loss of this beauty almost brings a tear to my eye...

Attached a few pics

 

Bummer

Can you buy it back?? It seems fixable from here

 

Man I feel your pain, My brother lost a 92 Rs convertible with 25k miles 2 years ago, and I still feel his pain :-/.

 

I was trying to, but the rules here in BC are a little iffy. To get my settlement I pretty much had to 'sell' the salvage title to ICBC. I had no first-right to buy the wreck or anything like that. It would have gone to auction a few days after it was written off and I believe that there are rules for who is allowed to go.

Anyways, you can't tell from the pictur, but the drivers side front suspension was pretty much gone, along with both fenders, the bumper and the hood. Also some mechanical damage i.e. the tranny somehow f'd up? Would have been to involved for me to deal with...

 

I feel for you. That looked like a nice ride. Do you plan on getting another 3rd gen?

 

Man, I would have shot the guy in the van.

I'm telling you guys...Beware of van drivers...they seem to be the absolute worst drivers around.
And I'm pretty sure they hate 3rd gens.

 

man thats terrible, and makes me sad, and yes It does always seems like van drivers always smash into thirdgens

 

Man, that sucks. Very clean car, and rare, too.

I'll bet someone will fix it up and keep it on the road.

 

I picked up a 2006 mustang gt using the insurance settlement and I'm using it as my daily driver instead of having the camaro and my old econo-box. I plan on getting another 90+ 3rd gen camaro but I imagine it will take plenty time to find just the one and it likely going to be more and more expensive to find a low km, 5spd 305.

I sure hope it does, somebody could make a pretty sweet ride out pretty cheap i'm sure...

 

Thats so sad that was one sick car from those pics i hate how no matter how good of a driver you are theres all those bad ones that just ruiin it for everyone. My dad has a mustang too and 2 weeks after he got it somone cut over into him and cause 1500 in damages (06 GT to) i would hate for something like this to happen to my car.

 

hey im sorry for the loss... that was a killer iroc-z i think it should be fixable but it just depends on the BC rules. Sorry for your loss. -Matt

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Man, that really sucks....

 

Hmph! Van drivers...Argh! That is a damn shame sir.

 

I feel your pain brother... the rules in BC suck for keeping your 'totaled' vehicle.

I know of a few cars around for sale, including a red '90 IROC. PM me if you need some help finding a car.

 

i feel for you my first third gen when i was 16 same thing happened hit by a van but on top of it all i didnt even get a settlement and the lady was driving while suspended. mine was even hit about the same spot and bent the frame and even pushed my steering box into the motor... doing 30mph my ***.

 

I feel your pain. I lost my first 3rd gen on a country road when I had to swerve to miss something in the road, lost control and slammed into a building after jumping a parking block. I will always miss that car. I've owned 2 other 3rd gens, Firebirds, and they were never going to compare to my Camaro.

Sorry for your loss, and insurance rules suck.

 

dont feel too bad... im responsible for killing a 90 l98 g92 car myself. although i swapped the whole drivetrain into another 90 iroc cc1 lb9 car

 

Almost had the same issue with my B4C. I wrecked it and the insurance company wanted to total it. My body shop was nice enough to write a letter to my insurance carrier telling them it was a rare car in good shape otherwise and they went ahead and fixed it. Had State farm for insurance and the Collison Center was on State Farms approved list. Don't expect to get the same service from a cheap insurance company or body shop. You get what you pay for..

 

if your going to part it out, let me know, just PM me, i an use a couple of things.

 

I would have to agree with ya, I had my car for a few months and I was driving, some socker mom almost t boned me, but I saved it by tromping the gas and breaking the rear end loose and swung it around to miss, all the while sporting a middle finger to her.

 

Hahaha wow i got a good laugh out of that.