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James' 1985 Camaro Sport Coupe
My car is a 1985 Camaro Sport Coupe. I guess you could
say that the car found me. I work at a Ford dealership in
Nebraska, (even though I've always been a Chevy man) anyway,
I came into work one morning and saw that someone had traded
in the camaro on a Ford Explorer. The car didn't look like
much then. It was pretty rough around the edges. It had been
the victim of one too many bargain paint jobs. 4 in fact!
I wasn't really in the market for a car but I always wanted
a third generation Camaro so I took it out for a spin. Much
to my surprise the car ran well and didn't have any of the
typical F-body ratttles and squeaks. I found out later that
the car had been owned by an older woman since new. Therefore
it hadn't seen the typical abuse that so many older Camaro's
get subjected to. I asked the salesman what they were
asking for it and he told me $750.00 I told him that was
more than I was willing to shell out for it and after much
haggling I got the price down to $500.00. I brought it
home and drove it for a couple of months. I decided that
it was worth fixing up so I sent it off to a local body
shop for some refurbishing. I had only planned on
getting a nice paint job on it but as is always the case,
as the project progressed, I ended up putting a new rear quarter,
door skins, a rocker panel, and a new windshield on the car before
it was all said and done! In the mean time I decided that just
painting it silver would look nice but wouldn't have much pizazz.
So since I have always admired the good old G.M. muscle cars of
the 60's and 70's I decided to add the rally stripes in Black.
It really stands out now and I have recieved lots of compliments
on it. The looks on the faces of the guys at the Dealership was
PRICELESS! They even offered to buy it back!! NO DEAL!
Thanks,James Voboril
More pics here.
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