Boy, it's been a long time since I posted here. Hope everyone visiting is doing well.

I'm getting ready to put my Camaro away for the winter. I need a number of things done to repair and maintain my Z28 but they will have to wait till spring and summer. It's getting cold where I live and I need to set aside some money to buy parts etc.

  One of the things I want to do is replace  the original first gen Sparco "EVO-2" racing seats. The Sparcos are very supportive and comfortable to sit in and I love the look but the grippy fabric is flimsy and worn out and I can no longer get replacement seat covers for them (Red). In addition the seats have so much bolstering that it is a real pain getting into and out of them. I have learned to dread it.  The racing novelty is being replaced by a desire for easier egress..Evo-2s are real racing seats so of course there is no recline mechanism and I want seats with less bolstering so it's not so difficult exiting the car.

  The clear coat on my aftermarket fiberglass hood is also starting to peel so I need a respray and because I haven't done much maintenance since moving across country and buying a new house the car has been sitting more. To top it off, my opti-spark distributor is starting to have issues and my dash pad has begun to crack. Lots of stuff to do and money is tighter lately.

The World's Best 4th Gen Camaros

The purpose of this Blog is to display and applaud some of the world's best examples of the 4th Generation of the Chevrolet Camaro, the 1993 thru 2002 model years.

___The 4th Generation of the Camaro is the last of the "FUTURISTIC" CAMAROs, the "Forward Looking" design effort.
__The 4th Gen Camaro was neither cautious nor timid. Its was a Jet-Fighter for the street....designed with the most radical wind-cheeting windshield angle ever attempted by mankind....10.9 to 1 compression in a mass-produced production car with 4:10 gears as an option and a genuine 6 speed manual gearbox in a safety and emissions legal car that still weighed only 3400-3600 pounds. You could buy a true rear drive front engined pushrod V8 muscle-car.....and all that for the price of a boring, forgetable but pracical Toyota Camry (sorry Toyota).

__Although I think of the 50s and 60s as a Golden Age of American Cars with the advent of Muscle Cars, Pony Cars, Sports Cars etc. the truth is we live in perhaps the most awesome time in Automotive Enthusiast History. Street car horsepower is at an all time high (can you say reliable grocery-getters pushing over 400 horsepower and strretable turbo- powered cars getting well over 1000 horsepower ( and Racing Camaros up to 2000 HP)... 6 speed 550 horsepower Cadillacs!! American cars that actually handle well. The list goes on and the number of cheeseburger and fries restuarants and drive-thrus is at a plentiful level. Not only that but you can pickup a 400-500 horsepower 4th Gen Camaro for 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost of a dumpy looking new economy car. Life is great!!

__Bang for the Buck was also the defining essence of Hot Rods, ever since their inception as a movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

__A used 4th Generation Camaro is still (even more than when new) a great deal for the money and after all isn't that the essence of what Chevrolet has always represented, value and good looks.

__For someone today looking for an inexpensive platform that lends itself to easily and inexpensively increasing performance, a 4th Generation LT1 or LS1 Camaro is hard to beat for the price. They are far cheaper and 400-500 pounds lighter than the new 5th Gen Camaros and examples can be found with all varirties of aftermarket power and handling modifications already done at a fraction of the price.
__In addition some of us out here simply prefer the looks of the 4th Gen over the 5th Gen Camaro.
__Hope you enjoy the Blog.
__If you own or know of a car that you think deserves to be on the Blog site plese send us an email or post a picture etc. Thanks.