Time to start thinking about buying my oldest son a car

A 305 Camaro wouldnt be a bad car to have, but if I had a kid I'd much rather they drive around with a 4cylinder or v6 granny mobile than a V8 the first year or two. Besides letting them start off with the V8 is cheating. They should earn it by swapping it in, also they'd learn a little bit about cars if they get that opportunity.

 

https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/d/1978-camaro/6464391049.html

Low mile, stick shift, 305........SECOND gen.

 

You're going to mess with them is right.

 

This is what I want my boys to learn

 

305 gets you the sound, that's about it.
They'll be wanting to swap in something if they're so inclined anyway. Anything fits easily in them at least.

 

Yeah, having anything 50 years old is going to require a little attention but can also teach you a lot.

 

Man, they were maintainance prone NEW

And air cooled engines usually needed rebuilding everytime they got hot. Like a dirt bike.

edit: And Texas is HOT.

 

Why not water cooled VWs. Far cheaper and they beg for swaps and modding. Good cars to learn the basics on.

A decent mkii are peanuts... hell a good mkiv is cheap too.

 

It used to be hard to figure things out. Now all you have to do is YouTube

 

If that 2nd gen Camaro had a 5 spd. swapped in, I'd be calling about it.
It would get pretty good mileage overdriven.

 

I had plenty of Air Cooled VWs and only did regular maintenance, replace points, valve adjustments, oil changes, nothing difficult on those cars.

 

Heat kills them....and forget A/C......the heaters are out to kill you too.

 

You never had alternator problems constantly? I can remember buddies cars always having dead batteries. One fun trick I remember was them changing the belt while running though.

 

I had a blast with them, owned 3 or 4 of them.

 

"Original 305 Engine with permanence upgrades (70,557 original miles)"

Thems much better than the tempermance upgrades, which only last to 65,000 miles.

 

Kid gonna put his entire phone in the cassette player thinking it’s a dock

 

Then bitch because. "What kind of phones did they have back then... they were HUGE" as he rattles his phone in the 8-track slot.

 

I had a blast with air-cooled VW's back in the day, but that was pre-cellphone social media attention whore syndrome. There's not a chance I'd let a new driver out on the road with one these days unless they were a bastard stepchild with a meaty life insurance policy.

It's also worth mentioning they have had a tendency to get stolen ask me how I know.

 

Get him a Notchback. The red one is mine i did a complete pan off restor. Sadly i sold it miss that little car it was a blast to drive!

 

Notchbacks are really cool, I had a 70 Squareback for a short period of time, did a couple quick repairs and sold it for double what I paid for it.