2025: I still own my 87 Z28 (not an IROC-Z) convertible with TPI / 5-spd and 1SC option package. The engine has never been out of the car. All original including the top! Still looks and drives awesome.

Quick? Cheap and poorly built, GM in the bad old days.

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Had a black aero exactly like that one. Twas an amazing car and nothing quite like it. With snow tires it was unstoppable in the snow.

This is my favorite year for the Nova!!

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I remember racing in Carolina PR speedway in 1994 with a similar one and I did 17 seconds in the quarter mile.

My 2022 mustang gt is alot fast than that

bought my built and blown 03 Z06 in 2012 for 25K, she had 24k miles on her. She's now got 39K miles and I could sell her for more than I paid for her. 580 rwhp allows her to embarrass Hellcats on the occassional freeway roll. No better bargain for the guy with a middle class wallet.

I know Sterling cars , I think it's a great car underappreciated , I did like that car a much

Such a crisp design. Genius.

Despite a moron driving it, our Z28 test car turned in a best time of 6.1 seconds. That is what they should have said, they seriously need better drivers.

My grandparents had an 02 Camry. When I was in college and my POS car died my grandma loaned it to me. It was so sporty and fun to drive. You never would have known it was an almost 20 year old car.

Check out mine its in the shorts section, longtubes catted x pipe and stock performance pack mufflers

My friend has a 87 Iroc 350 99, 000 original miles, he’s the second owner

A $30k versus a $12k car in todays market

Long running sports car fan demand for sure, working on an 88 mr2 now

We got one of these in 2004 or 2005 I wanna say after our Ford Windstar van had it's transmission go out. It was in that kinda Sky Blue colour on the outside, don't remember the interior colour, but it had the DVD player and headphones. It made a few journeys to and from Montana a lot more bearable back in the day before we had more than a GameBoy or DS. We sold it before we moved overseas, only to move back a year later due to the recession. After we had a Kia Sedona for about 5 years, it got totaled a month after it was paid off thanks to a distracted driver destroying the back end, and ended up getting the facelifted 2007 model without DVD player and we loved it. No transmission issues, no major leaks, and well maintained, though it did have improperly repaired crash damage that made the interior leak from below the carpet. That was a pain in the ass to repair and I didn't have the car for a total of about a month, but once that was fixed it was almost like new the whole time we owned it.

While stationed in Europe back then, you could order these through AAFES. My coworker bought one. In order for it to meet Germany's tough inspections, GM had to add stronger seals, wipers, better high speed rated tires, with the optional gearing. There were also other things they had to do to it, but I can't remember them all. Bottom line, we called it "Euro Spec"...it could be tagged for European and American use. Got to ride in it on the Autobahn at around 155 mph...with plenty of pedal left...in 5th gear.

I swear I had no idea this car even existed until recently. I've never seen one and I'm almost 30. However, I grew up seeing 90s Geo Prizms everywhere.

At 183 inches long, the S10 Blazer is the same length as the 2018 Equinox. Also, I had no idea these trucks had recirculating ball steering. I love these old GM trucks with that roaring 4.3L V6. You couldn't get selectable four-wheel drive until the GMT360 debuted for 2002.

I really loved this car growing up, and wanted to get one so bad. Got my license and ended up getting a Blue 2000 Volkswagen Jetta TDI

I've known all these details about the Arnage since I read about it in The Robb Report in 99 i think.

The 4.4 liter BMW engine the first Arnage had was definitely no slouch. But just about everyone prefers the guzzler.

This video is rated ‘M’ for mosquitos.

Why would any body spend their hard earn money on a car like this when you had brands like Toyota honda Datsun that were proven to be more reliable

I had a 5-speed 1989 Z-24 that went to 375,000 kms. The reason I had to junk it because a tree fell on it. Crap I could never find another one either. It had a racing ecu in it too, and twin piped stainless glass pack muffler. Sounded awesome.

Getting one monday.

Boost gauge was located right bottom as standard! Anyway, 40 yrs passed. I owned 3 of them for 17 yrs.

John Davis always knows how to make you laugh 😂 The 360 Spider is a gorgeous car, my all time favorite V8 Ferrari drop top. I forgot how good that 3.6L F136 V8 sounds at any speed, what a magnificent engine. When purer Ferraris were made.

We had an '86 5-door Nova with the CL trim level. The seats were really comfortable and the car was nearly perfect. The only real issue was that it had a weird hesitation and the choke on the carb would get gummed up. After we traded it in, I found out that Toyota dealers had a solution for the hesitation. The car was roomy, fuel efficient and being a 5-door could haul stuff very well. I put an aftermarket stereo with a big power amp in it and really hammered the stock speakers,which took it in stride. I would love to have that car today!

Gung Ho! Michael Keaton was great in this.

My Riviera and I also❤ it's more expensive twin, the reatta❤

Amazing that this old video is still relevant, because the Buell XB9R & S are still very relevant today. These remain the same scalpels of the track as they were 21 years ago when I bought the XB9S that I still trackday. I also had an XB9R like the one shown but prefer the XB9S (street). The body position and knee work is a bit different but the wider handle bars make it better, even for my 6 ft 3 inch physique. I have uploaded my September 28, 2024 trackday as a KZbin video. It is comprised of many still shots and a few brief video snippets. At time marker 1:49 the videographer caught me into a great left hander but cut the camera as I made the turn-in. No, I did not lay it down but throughout the day gathered lots of Pirelli boogers in those Ss. If you desire to start trackdays and want a real seat of the pants (leathers) feel, get a good used Buell air-cooled XB9 or XB12 S or R. Get it repaired correctly and have a ball. It will do an honest 120 mph on this short straight but the real kick is going faster through the turns than the bigger bikes. They will pass you on the straight but you catch'em in the turns. The XB9S is also my street bike, with lots of smiles on the street rides too. Use title; 80 year old motorcyclist track day because I cannot imbed the actual YT address here.

I remember seeing a few of them back in the day but I remember one in particular. I worked as a maintenance man at a hotel back in the early 90s and they had a few banquet rooms that they rented out for meetings,weddings etc. I remember a lady that had a hatchback Nova who was there every month for a local group that always had meetings there. She was a middle aged lady that had a 5 speed Nova which back then it was common for a car of that size to be a stick shift! Sadly you don't have many options to get a base car with a manual transmission like you did back then as many people would learn to drive a standard with an econobox and keep buying them until they were forced to switch to an automatic!

I had new in 1987. It never was a Chevrolet Nova. It was a Toyota. Period. 🤔

The downside! You could buy at the same time a mustang 5.0 convertible for around 17,000 dollars that was a better car and much more ego boosting and fun to drive

What a junk...a total rip off

I love my Saab Arc convertible but the repairs are costly when it's time to take it to the shop.

My mom used to had a 1985 Toyota Cressida. I remember growing up seeing the mid to late 80s Chevy Nova's on the road before they switch to Geo Prizm in the Geo brand GE🌎...

I love mine so much that I once tried shagging it.

As a.af"FORD"able man, One of the few "Heartbeat 💓 of America" car models that I truly appreciate. just enjoying the beautiful view 🪟 From a Long distance loveline.

It was low 15-15.7 not a 16 sec car and yes it would eat most bmw 5 if both didn't have a tune but both had same tranny lol this guy didn't know wack on this and some like mine had electric blowers like turbo / supercharger i know this because you have to disconnect it and a cooler lines and stuff to do a belts changes and with a tune transmission it do 14 high to 15.2 and put wider vette tires sizes on it and it do 15 all day intil motor or tranny or rearend parts go but it would do alll on dash and some if in right modes and light up on gas and cut plastic shims off gas petal i did mine because i wanted a fancy after market race looking and same with steering wheel and wheels at first but moved back to stock looking stuff and and tubontics company has upgraded blowers and electric stuff and coils and the cosica exhast and other parts and a airraid coolbox was also upgraded and well just to say caddy warranty was never worth it anyways and they hated them so i just got parts and stolen parts out of others in our lots to fix mine like they was my own parts bin 😂 because most was headed to junk yards i took wheels and lugs and bumpers and fog lamps and trunks and doors front glass and rear glass and sunroof and list go on

The sport v in black was a mix of them two and thats what i had

If you didn't mind having a 2 seater with an automatic transmission grand am V6 Buick engine was better than the 2.8 V6

I never realized they cost that much. I bought a 5.0 Mustang in 88 and it was about $13k. It wasn’t a convertible but it was pretty well loaded and had the sunroof.

Its funny because you throw a set of Bilsteins on these rigs and it corrects ALL the body roll and bounciness and still makes it ride plush

I have an MR2 Spyder. Owned it for 11 years and still can't get over how good Toyota managed to make it sound stock. Still brings a smile to my face :D

Just bought one.

I own a 1999 first edition and can say they definitely arent boring haha