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Old 12-15-2019, 8:10pm   #21
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Even after all these years, I still find these cars sexy as hell. Detroit Speed did one up, and man, that sucker is bad ass. I want one in this color to this day.

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I wasn't a huge fan when they first came out but they grew on me. Kind of like a mullet grew on the people that drove them.
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I wouldn't mind one.............it would have to have the 5.7 though
I'd rather have the 350...
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I'd rather have the 350...
* The GMC version of the 350
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I still have the one that I bought new in 1989. Just like the brochure car that year. 5.7/auto. Pics when it was new. I never drive it. Has about 60k on it and sits in the garage. One of my friends beats me up all the time about not driving it. It really was a tight, fun driving car. I have all the original paperwork. I recorded a cassette (both sides) of Guns N Roses to listen to while driving it back from Atl.







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I still have the one that I bought new in 1989. Just like the brochure car that year. 5.7/auto. Pics when it was new. I never drive it. Has about 60k on it and sits in the garage. One of my friends beats me up all the time about not driving it. It really was a tight, fun driving car. I have all the original paperwork. I recorded a cassette (both sides) of Guns N Roses to listen to while driving it back from Atl.







Todays version of that would be closer to $48k than $18k.
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Saving it for the next owner? That’s nice of you.
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Saving it for the next owner? That’s nice of you.
Saving his wife for her next boyfriend too?
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Saving it for the next owner? That’s nice of you.
Bought a new truck a few yrs. later and just lost interest in the IROC.
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Bought a new truck a few yrs. later and just lost interest in the IROC.
Keep me in mind if you want to let it go.
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I always liked the looks of the Firebirds better.


T/A GTA, with gold honeycombs, please.

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I still remember watching the first episode of Knight Rider back in the fall of 1982. I owned a '67 Firebird 400 at the time, and in that first episode a couple of punks in a '67 Firebird try to steal KITT.
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I have always liked them. A few of my friends had them in college. Both with the 305...my 94 V6 Camero was faster but they looked better.
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Keep me in mind if you want to let it go.
I've watched a couple of them go through Mecum. I still think they are good looking cars, just can't get motivated enough to do anything with mine. It was my first new car and took awhile to find that color combo.

I went to a World of Wheels show not long after buying it and someone had a
1LE car there. i had no idea they existed. I needed a daily driver at the time. The 1LE was minus A/C which was a daily driver no deal.
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I've watched a couple of them go through Mecum. I still think they are good looking cars, just can't get motivated enough to do anything with mine. It was my first new car and took awhile to find that color combo.

I went to a World of Wheels show not long after buying it and someone had a
1LE car there. i had no idea they existed. I needed a daily driver at the time. The 1LE was minus A/C which was a daily driver no deal.


I couldn't go that high, but it appears to be a beauty.
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I've watched a couple of them go through Mecum. I still think they are good looking cars, just can't get motivated enough to do anything with mine. It was my first new car and took awhile to find that color combo.

I went to a World of Wheels show not long after buying it and someone had a
1LE car there. i had no idea they existed. I needed a daily driver at the time. The 1LE was minus A/C which was a daily driver no deal.
Today's 1LE is more than just A/C delete...
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Today's 1LE is more than just A/C delete...
A/C delete is the dumbest fn thing ever done to a vehicle.
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It's not wrong to like those cars and you don't have to have a mullet to own one. Had a couple of friends that had IROC-Z'S and they didn't have mullets. I had a 89 GTA Trans Am and I didn't havr a mullet. Kind of wish I had that car back.
I had an '88 GTA when i was in college. man, what a gas hog. Wish I had made the motor into a stroker when I had to pull it out.
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I had an '88 GTA when i was in college. man, what a gas hog. Wish I had made the motor into a stroker when I had to pull it out.
You guys would probably like this one too. Maybe Kokos next COTY?
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A/C delete is the dumbest fn thing ever done to a vehicle.
No it's not. Disc brake delete on an early 60's Corvette. At a car show a guy had a poster saying 'RARE Corvette, disc brake delete."
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