91 Camaro - Third Generation Third Gen Project

[Gmachine1911]

Well, I’m starting this build thread to document a new addition to our household...a 91 Camaro RS that I got today for my 15 year old who’ll soon be driving. I chose the thread name because he’s the third consecutive generation in our family to own a Camaro and this car’s obviously a Third Gen Camaro. My Dad has a 79 Z28, I’ve got my 68 Camaro, Project “Cha Ching” on here, as well as my current project 67 Nova “Resurrection”. Although his dream car’s a 69 Camaro and he’s been wanting one in a bad way, I’ve been looking for a nice 86-92 Camaro for awhile as that was also on the short list and I knew it’d be more within reason. I really wanted an 87-89 Iroc Z that was in tact, relatively unmolested and didn’t require anything major in terms of rust repair or paint to avoid having another major project. I went and looked at a few different cars that seemed to fit the bill but they all turned out to be too much work for too much money. Finally, I found this one locally that’s in excellent condition and, although it’s not anything special, it certainly fits the bill for being clean and unmolested.

Despite having 99,000 miles on the 3.1L V6 automatic, the car is truly mechanically sound. The T-tops don’t leak a drop (test drove it in the rain the first time), the doors shut like it’s brand new, everything in it functions like it should and it’s impeccably clean inside and out and underneath. It’s nothing rare or special but it’s just a clean car that was part of a guy’s collection that had passed away and, aside from a few cars with sentimental value, the family wasn’t interested in keeping anything. The worst part about the car is that the red wheels have faded to a shade of pink from the heat, etc. so that’s gonna be at the top of the list to remedy. We’ll probably paint them in silver for now or maybe find a nice set of factory RS wheels. Other then that, there’s just a few odd items to be addressed such as polishing out the front turn signal lenses, upgrading the headlights to LED’s, changing out the front struts and I’d like to dress it up a little with some Z28 hood blisters, front grill with fog lights and stripes. Later on we’ll probably change the original radio and speakers out for more updated components and eventually I’d like to swap the wheels for something more modern looking. Hopefully, we can catch a couple of cruise-ins yet this year and he can show it off a little! Anyway, here’s some pics...Thanks for looking!