h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I love this car. The 1969 Camaro SS is a machine like no other. A 350 engine, power brakes, lines that just won't quit, and an transmission that is easy to handle. Navy blue, of course, or cherry red, are the primo colors. There is nothing quite like cruising Pacific Coast Highway at sunset on a Friday in June, windows open, Tom Petty playing on your stereo, feeling the rumble of that engine going 75 mph.

Extremely Hoopy.

here is your virtual speeding ticket as most stretches of PCH are posted 55 and some a bit lower!

I will contest this, officer. I want to see your shift supervisor. I was framed!

The first time I ever saw a Camaro was in a drive-in fast food place in Oklahoma City, OK, USA, about 1967. I fell in love immediately. It was metallic blue, it was quiet, and it looked like it could run like a bat out of hell. I was in a (very cool) Beetle at the time.

I left for college that year, my mother managed to get me a Camaro for graduation - it wasn't easy, my dad had died, but we (my mom & I) were both working. The Camaro was red with a black vinyl top, and it ran ... sheeeeeeez ... it was like a motorcycle as far a power to weight ratio. Mustangs? Forget it, a 327 Camaro vs. the hot 289 Mustang was a TKO, before the race started.

Of course, it fell apart, mostly due to the lack of maintenance attention from a college kid, but that car was amazing. I now drive Honda Accords, but man ... that first hot car ... and it was hot in all the meanings of the word.

I have never owened a Camaro but it sounds great.

Indeed the 69 is the best looking of all Camaros past and present
my preference would be the SS/RS version in the clasic dark metalic blue, unfortunately I will probably never own one as there is just not the time or garage space for a muscle car right now due to other automotive projects.

I would love to own one but if I did I wouldn't be able to drive it cause of the price of petrol here.

Could be a "Garage Queen" perfect condition and only driven on special occasions or particularly great sundays, there is always the
"parade" to Brighton every year just after Guy Faulks day!