My advice...
Stop looking locally!

Fla cars usually a last resort for a project for me due to all the salt water soaked coastal cars. I just don't even go there, not to mention a survivor car in Fla is always higher than a Alabama, Lousianna, Ga, car.

You can find 2nd gen camaros in the 3k range still but the problem is you have to be ready to buy when you find a deal. The guy who goes looking with no $$$ in his pocket is wasting everyones time. Go with cash, and go with a way to get the car home. If your tite on cash take a truck etc... or rent something, car hauling co.'s can add anopther 1-2k to your project cost.

Thanks for the advice. I do have the cash (I'm still adding to the till) and I have my truck (Dodge 3/4 w/ a Cummins) with the use of several trailers. I'm going to take everyones advice and just be patient and keep looking but not to the point I'm disappointed. Like I said before, if I find one great! If I don't it just wasn't meant to be. Maybe I will settle for something else, but first I want to exhaust my efforts finding this car then I will settle. This way I know that I looked and couldn't find what I wanted. I do have an avenue of getting a rubber bumper car and I might have to go that way. I know there are deals out there.....I just have to find it!!!! Thanks guys for all your advice. I didn't mean to offend anyone or piss anyone off. I REALLY REALLY do appreciate all your advice and I will take it too.

I don't think anyone is throwing stones here. You titled the thread 'This hobby has turned for the rich only" and yet you expect to get something for damn near nothing.
I really hope you find the car your looking. Lord knows everyone loves a good deal.

If you can find a decent rolling 1st gen for $5K please post up the details.

Good luck on your quest, be sure to post pics of the cars you find.



Rich

Thanks Rich I certainly will leep y'all posted.

Yes, the first gen Camaro hobby is not for the shallow pocketed ones, BUT

Try craigs list, with the key word as 'project'. There are alot of deals out there, yes they take some looking and presistance. Tyler from ATS said he looked for years to find his current driver/track/budget Camaro. He was tooling it around during SEMA, Alcon brakes and smokey small block and I think a 3.08 rear gear.

Keep looking or dare to be different.
I just looked a 60's Stude (not a lark) small boxy and I bet a Camaro front sub-frame would fit in the front, add a wicked set of rollers and that car would be the attention getter at a show and a corner carver too. Not exactly a Camaro but alot of fun. No you can't open the DSE catalog without buying a grinder and since of imagination, but this is what Hot Rodding is all about.

Do you really want a Camaro?
or
Do you really want to be featured in a magazine?
or
Do you really want a vehicle that you can pour your time, money and creative-ness into, and have a good time too.


Yes, I had a beautiful blue 69 SS.
Yes, I just passed on a 70 Camaro, cheap, but it needed EVERYTHING.
Yes, the deals are out there, and sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes its about seeing the forest for trees.
Are you looking for a Camaro or looking for a soon to be cool car?
You would not believe the number of people who ring my door bell and ask if my 64 Coupe de Ville is for sale.
You need to look around, drive thru some neighborhoods, visit some small towns, ring some door bells, don't peek over any walls or gates unless you like armed confrontation though.
Look around your neighborhood, I can't count the number of times, guys have told me they found this car right in their own backyard , not more than an hour away. Grab a bag of sunflower seeds and a Sunday afternoon and go for a drive, visit a part of town you haven't seen in a while. You never know what you might happen into.
Searching 'the internet' in some distant far and away place is never as much fun as going for a Sunday afternoon drive.

Good luck.
Keep up the search.

Persistance

"Nothing in this world can take the place of Persistance."

"Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent"

"Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb"

"Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts"

"Persistance and Determination alone are omnipotent"




Mick

there has been a few around here lately, when I get home I will try to post some links.

another tidbit i think may help you...

1st gen cars, camaro will usually always be more than firebird 1st gen. If you do not mind a firebird 1st gen you can usaually run off with one for about 1/2 price of a camaro 1st gen. Also you hardly see many 1st gen firebirds compared to camaros so that adds to the uniquness i think.

http://www.racingjunk.com/category/1...67-Camaro.html

http://www.racingjunk.com/category/3...vy-Camaro.html

http://www.racingjunk.com/category/1...ET-CAMARO.html

http://www.racingjunk.com/category/1...oject-Car.html

/shrug 5 minutes on racingjunk.com looking in fla & alabama only and found 4 possible projects around 5k or and under.

http://houston.craigslist.org/cto/1083179645.html

Guess all the others have already sold.

My buddy inherited this 1973 running car from his aunt. He had it on Craigslist several month's ago for $7k. No Takers. I would be willing to bet if you waved $5k in his face, it would be sold!