The Last Camaro on the Assembly Line
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The Last Camaro on the Assembly Line
Last' Camaro sold for $71,500 at charity auction; buyer admits he 'wanted it bad'
News-Journal wire services
AUBURN, Ind. -- The last new Camaro to be sold by Chevrolet -- a red, T-topped Z-28 -- brought a tidy $71,500 at a charity auction.
"I got a little crazy," said the buyer, Mark Gembinski, a 32-year-old business manager from Mayville, Mich. "I paid a lot more than I wanted to, but I wanted it bad."
When Gembinski was born, his father took him home from the hospital in a 1969 Camaro.
His Z-28 wasn't the last Camaro to roll off the assembly line -- that car is headed for Chevrolet's museum. Gembinski's car was second-to-last, produced last week at a General Motors plant in St. Therese, Quebec.
More than 4 million Camaros were sold since the muscle car debuted in fall 1966 with the 1967 model. It reached its heyday in the disco days of the 1970s but sold poorly in the era of SUVs and imports, and last September, General Motors announced it would stop making the Camaro, along with the Pontiac Firebird.
Gembinski bought his Camaro on Sunday at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, and proceeds will go to the National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere.
"It's a very sad day for us," said Scott Settlemire, Chevrolet's assistant brand manager for the Camaro line. "But the money is going somewhere good."
News-Journal wire services
AUBURN, Ind. -- The last new Camaro to be sold by Chevrolet -- a red, T-topped Z-28 -- brought a tidy $71,500 at a charity auction.
"I got a little crazy," said the buyer, Mark Gembinski, a 32-year-old business manager from Mayville, Mich. "I paid a lot more than I wanted to, but I wanted it bad."
When Gembinski was born, his father took him home from the hospital in a 1969 Camaro.
His Z-28 wasn't the last Camaro to roll off the assembly line -- that car is headed for Chevrolet's museum. Gembinski's car was second-to-last, produced last week at a General Motors plant in St. Therese, Quebec.
More than 4 million Camaros were sold since the muscle car debuted in fall 1966 with the 1967 model. It reached its heyday in the disco days of the 1970s but sold poorly in the era of SUVs and imports, and last September, General Motors announced it would stop making the Camaro, along with the Pontiac Firebird.
Gembinski bought his Camaro on Sunday at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, and proceeds will go to the National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere.
"It's a very sad day for us," said Scott Settlemire, Chevrolet's assistant brand manager for the Camaro line. "But the money is going somewhere good."
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The guy should have, in front of everyone at the auction, doused it in gasoline and set it ablaze in protest of stopping the production of F-Bodies! THAT my friends, would have made a point!
HEY!!! Maybe we all can get together somewhere and burn our cars in protest. Sure beats that burning of the bras thing in the early 70's, although it was a joy watching all the ladies take off said bras!!
HInk (I'll carry the lighting torch)
HEY!!! Maybe we all can get together somewhere and burn our cars in protest. Sure beats that burning of the bras thing in the early 70's, although it was a joy watching all the ladies take off said bras!!
HInk (I'll carry the lighting torch)
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