Looks dated to be honest.. if you compare it to the Brit's 1985 Ford Sierra Cosworth the Cossy would look way modern than this.. a Non Car Guy would say the 85" Sierra Cosworth's from the late 90s or even early 2000's 🤷 and the 85" Camaro looks more like a late 70s European Sports Car. (take a look at the 1978 Renault A310, yeah you can see the Camaro.)
The name IROC on the IROC-Z in this clip, stood for International Race of Champions. It was a classic one-make racing series that lasted from 1974 to 2006, and featured some of the top race drivers in the world. Chevy Camaro was the exclusive car for the series from 1984 to 1989, when Chrysler began supplying Dodge Daytonas until 1993, followed by Avengers until 1996, when GM reclaimed vehicle supplier status, this time with the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am until the series ceased operations in 2006.
My mom bought one brand new in 1983 when she got hired at westinghouse my dad always crapped on her for buying the V6 yet he drove it to work everyday. Later that year she found out he had a lady from work driving it and she wrecked it. My moms new Camaro t top wrecked cause of some side lady. Well parents divorced a year later. My mom ended up with the house me and a new black Iroc and my dad was alone living at his fathers house with a 81 New Yorker lemon yellow lol
I had an '85 Sport Coupe that we bought new, that I took to college for the next four years. It was midnight blue, and it looked gorgeous on the outside. But, MAN, what a lemon that thing was, it was continually broken. I remember one nifty flaw, was that the starter was too close to the engine block, and the engine would actually burn them and they had to be replaced all the time. Lousy car, but it did look good- which, hey, was all that really mattered to 18 year old me!
7:13 And an optional hatch release button in a place you can actually use it, instead of that stupid yellow button that you always had to open the glovebox to get at, like damn it GM why is everything good always an option, like that should have been standard on everything, and even the corvette guys had to do that same stupid open the glovebox and push the yellow button thing too. which, while sounding petty, was actually always a huge pain in the ass as you always had to reach over into the passenger seat, grab the handle, open it, press the button, hold it, and sometimes do it two or three times to get it open.
"When properly equipped" Also when you want to go shopping for a new transmission. I'd love to see the 60-0 distances when hauling three tons behind it. I'm guessing you'd be lucky to stop in the same zip code.
I just found one of these in my grandfathers garage. 1985 Berlinetta T-tops hatchback v-8 automatic fact aluminum wheels . 65,000 miles keys in ignition barn falling down around it. He just sold 50 yr family junk yard. :(:(😭😭😭😭
When you look at the 82-88 Canaria, how many of the base models actually had the base interior, AM radio, etc, not many I’m sure. That’s why I’m sure you upgraded to any of the more luxurious trims instead of bare bones car unless you wanted it that way
i had one,in black with the tan interior....v8,loaded.....$4500 in 1994 with 50,000 km(25,000 miles) drove it for 10 years.....sold it for $1500 now ive got an 86 trans am 5.0 v8.5 speed
A high school friend of mine traded his 1969 Z28 to get one these new Berlinettas, what critical error that was. He was fucking clown anyway, parents bought him everything.
I had an 1989 Rally Sport with T-Tops and and a 5.0 V8. Sounded great and had some power but that thing was junk, very poorly built. Parts came off, paint peeled, etc.
or wrapped around telephone poles, for the z28's and Iroc's anyways.. I sold my z28 to a friend of a friend, he crashed it a few weeks later.. driving like an idiot in the snow.. spun it out.
@@chrisburns5691 that's true. Pretty sure my 83 Z28 was a daily driver for a good portion of it's life. It's a rust belt car, hatch hinges and ttops leak. Drivers floor and both lower quarter panels need to be replaced. Seems like everyone spent their money on buying the car, and not in taking care of it or storing them. Doesn't help gm didn't undercoat any of them.
@@ToriL97 for sure. Mine was the same year! Red z28, with black and grey interior. Cross fire injection, with a shift kit and 3:73 rear end, Flowmaster exhaust... it wasn't fast by today's standards, but it was fun and had good torque. When you floored it the hood flaps would fly open, lol lots of fun. Beat a 5 litre mustang of the same year, also beat an 86 442, 97 Acura integra type R. Sometimes I wish I had kept it, put a TPI motor in it. Oh well, I have a boat now lol. Good luck with the car. They will be the next collectibles.
ive got a spotless 1986 trans am,undercoating and crown rust proofing annually.....they last indefinitely.........you wanna see rusty cars,anything from the 60s or 70s was fucking horrible
the look actually grew on me. The irocs can look great, but can also look like they are trying too hard. The Berlinetta in a decent colour, with some decent wheels and fat tires, can be a cool car..
Look up Italian car models as well as European cars. If you consider yourself an automobile enthusiast, You should also look into coachbuilt cars. You could learn a lot
Can someone tell me, could these cars move? That base model doesn’t look or sound exciting. In the 80’s I dreamed of having a camero or Monte Carlo. Still waiting. Maybe for my 50th in 8 years.
and thats where i would post the pic i have of a Sport coupe Camaro towing a not so small boat. 😂 i do have a class 3 hitch took off a GTA one day id love to install on another 3rd gen F-Body but my 85 is too clean to do that.
Smog was up, CARB was taking over and CAFE regulations started eroding the market for performance minded consumers. Oil embargo. Japan was exporting models with thinner steel unibodies that got better fuel economy. Really 1982-3 was when the power numbers started coming back thanks to electronically controlled tuned port injection.
155hp from a 5.0L V-8. *tell the customer this is the high performance package. Jesus Christ. even a base model 85" Toyota Supra 2.0 N/A I-6 has more power than that.
Out of all of those the Iroc is the only one I like. I never really liked this generation or the Camaro for that matter even though I’ve had some. I liked the trans am better.
sales person saying it is well engineered. proceed to tell me the "Performance" version makes 155hp from a 5.0L V8. what sort of bullshit is this? 😂🤦 a Toyota Supra with the 2.0L 1G-GEU engine of the same era makes 160hp (and that's from the base model) the Performance Package has the 1JZ Twin Turbo engine that makes 280hp's
First, the Celica Supra was a performance package available in 1985 and with the best engine (161hp) ran 16.1 seconds in the ¼ mile. The Z28 was offered with the LB9 w/215 HP and ran the ¼ mile in 15.0 seconds. The 1JZ wasn't even produced until 1990 and was only available in Japan at that time. Even so, if it would have been available in the USA it would cost around $25k USD. The IROC-Z was less than $12k USD.
@@explorer909you clearly have no respect for the classics. Sure, today’s Camaros may be faster and more powerful, but they lack the character and personality of the older ones, and they also have even more flaws. The '80s Camaros had their flaws but to my eyes, they look far more attractive than the newer ones. Today’s Camaros are far behind the '80s and even the original '67. People who compare '80s Camaros to today’s Camaros should be medicated.
