Car Lust breathes heavily in re: the 1970 Camaro.
Echh.
The last Camaro I liked was the '69 R/S. My dad had one. 307 V8, nothing flashy, but that was the first car I ever rode 100+MPH in. Dark metallic blue. The only minus was that it had an automatic (but that was so Mom could drive it if the need arose).
He traded it in '71 for a 3/4 ton pickup truck for his business. A couple of months later he had the truck in for some warranty thing and asked if they'd sold the Camaro. They had; to a nice young lady who within two weeks had totalled it.
I think for the rest of his life, he wished he'd kept it. I wish he'd kept it, too. The damn things are going for anywhere from $30-70K in appropriate condition.
*sigh* I hear ya on the 70 forward.
My first car was a 67 Camaro SS, 350 V8, white with a black vinyl top and red interior. I bought it in Virginia for $1000 in 1975, and my step-brother and I drove it back to Indiana.
Got my first speeding ticket in West Virginia, my second one in Ohio.
By the time I gave it up in LA 5 years later, it had new paint, new front seats, a rebuilt engine, and a new 3 speed auto transmission (replacing the 2 speed factory POS). And a Sears cruise control for those miserable drives from SoCal to Indy and back every summer.
I remember that car :)