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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
You can't be serious or, <span style="font-weight: bold">if you are, I hope you are referring to vehicles that are too far gone to be repaired.</span> Even that is open to debate as there are many people who have the skills to save nearly any rusted vehicle. As far as I'm concerned I am happy to see these vehicles saved. </div></div>

my point exactly ...

Duesenbergs, Bugattis, AC Cobras and Shelby Mustangs are the only other cars (that come to mind) that have their serial numbers known and any <span style="font-weight: bold">tiny</span> piece from the &quot;original&quot; live on in a recreation ... why? Because of their value.

No one cared about these cars (Camaros) 10-20 years ago, if they were &quot;totaled&quot; they were parted out ... that is where all the cool HP parts come from, wrecked &amp; totaled cars. Then the &quot;shell&quot; was either cut up for replacement parts (quarters, floors, cowls, roofs, etc, you know, RUST or accident damage replacement panels), sold off and either crushed or morphed back into something salable. I can't tell you how many L78 Camaros and Z28's I personally parted out in the 70's &amp; 80's, even a Z11 Pace Car Camaro. They were worth what we could get for them and if no one wanted them whole (missing the engines already in some cases), they were parted out.

Think of all the LS series engines out of 98 &amp; up Camaros, Firebirds and Corvettes that have departed from their &quot;original&quot; chassis / body / etc. They live on in all sorts of cars now.

This response was not intended to take anything away from the original theme of this thread, it was merely my opinion in response to a question posed about replacement items on a high performance (desirable) vehicle.

My apologies if anyone thinks the replies to questions raised in this thread are out of line or off topic.

What happened to this car, the car this thread is about, happened to MANY, MANY cars, not just Camaros. It was all about value and what some skilled (and in a LOT of instances, not so skilled) &quot;body&quot; men could make from what they had to work with.