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| Car of the Month : July 2009 Sadler - 88 Camaro IROC-Z 350 TPI |
| My IROC-Z was the first car I bought that I picked out, and my plan is to keep it forever. It is literally the first thing I have ever loved besides family. While in the market for a thirdgen I was on Bear Mountain and saw it on the side of the road. I noticed it from a $6500 ad on Craigslist a few weeks earlier and stopped by to look at it. It was a genuine IROC-Z, 5.7 litre, T-Tops that didn't leak, power everything and it all worked. I left a $100 deposit and came back next week buying Carmine for $2900 on May 9th, 2008 after letting the kid know that I would have to fix the exhaust and head gasket problems. I drove it home and had it garaged for the whole summer while I rebuilt the engine's top end, cleaning the whole car, finally got it back on the road. Boy does it get looks going down the road, it doesn't quite look like many thirdgens around the Hudson Valley, and not many are driven by broads. I got 4th place in 1986+ modified at the Montgomery Lion's Club's fall show. Through the winter I redid my whole interior by myself and in April was named Car of the Month by the Times Herald-Record. My future plans for the car are to keep it forever and keep it a show/drag car. I plan on slowly having a new engine/tranny/rear/suspension setup in there making it a 10 second car in 4 years. |
