ok...im wanting to trade my 94 Camaro Z28..nice car and I love the power, but I don't like working on it everything is to complex and crammed together so I think im gonna trade on a 67-69 Camaro Z/28 or SS...not real sure yet. YOu think this is a smart decision im going to mechanic school in about 6 months..for a year..and I really think working on an older car would be alot funner.than what i got now..

Any input +'s and -'s on these cars if any



Thanks to anyone who replies

 

also hope nobody complains..about me posting this here instead of f-body lounge im just guessing that the guys who know alot about these cars..would see it here alot faster..than in the lounge.

Sorry for posting it here..but I just felt id get alot more input here>

 

1st-gens are very nice cars, no question, but I don't know if "trading" a 4th-gen for a 1st-gen is very realistic?

First off, the value of a '94 Z28 compared to any nice '67 - '69 Z/28 or SS is going to be peanuts. Unless you get a complete dump of a car and restore it yourself (getting harder and harder to find old Camaros now) then you can expect to pay big money to get a 1st-gen in good condition.

Second, while maybe the 4th-gen is a pain to work on, they don't require much work, whereas a 1st-gen will be easy to work on but will always require work (well, not always, but carbureted cars never run as nice as fuellies)..............which leads to another point, which is gas mileage is almost nil for an old 1st-gen, while you can probably get ~20 mpg no problem with your '94.

Not trying to say don't do it, but you may want to reconsider trading a nice daily-driver type vehicle ('94) for a car that a lot of people will cringe seeing driven on a daily basis, considering they've become a collectors' car at this point. You'd probably be better off keeping the '94 for now, and waiting until down the road when you can afford to have a 1st-gen as a weekend cruiser / toy car, instead of your primary means of tranportation .

 

Could not have said it better Pete.

 

Ditto.

Restored perfect running 67-69 Z/28? $35K-$65K
Restored perfect running 67-69 SS? $25K-$50K+ (depending on options.)

Ultra-clean '94 Z28? $5K on average. Tops $9k?

You'll be hard pressed to even find someone willing to trade a clean plain Jane V8 67-69 Camaro for it.

1st gen Camaros are appreciating in value daily while 4th gen Camaros are depreciating.

Working on old cars is fun... however it isn't easy. There are no computers to tell you what is wrong, or to make minor adjustments on thier own for optimal peformance. You need experience and patience to work on them daily. And you will be working on it daily if you expect to use it as a daily driver. Sometimes things are hit and miss. You end up replacing 4 things to get to the problem, where a PCM could have pointed you directly to the broken part.

On second thought I need to print this out and show it to my wife and son. They're clueless when it comes to the differences between my kid's 96 Mustang GT and 67 Camaro as daily drivers.