Hey guys I was wonder what you think I should do. I own a 1997 30th anniversary camaro. It has new wheel and rims on it now, but i have the stock white ones also. Theres only about 5,000 of these camaros made, I want to put some mods on it but i'm not sure if i should, because its a limited edition camaro. Do you think I should buy a new camaro and do the mods on that or just mod my camaro??

 

It's hard to say, cuz in thirty years that car could be worth alot of money as a collecter. I would keep the white ones, but use the other ones. then later down the road put them back on. as far as mods, i wouldn't touch it. Buy a different camaro and go from there.

 

Unless it has less than 10,000 miles on it the collector value is pretty low. Even though it's a limited production car, it will never be worth what we are seeing the 67-69 cars go for. There are many reasons, such as prodution and the fact that aging baby boomers have alot of money to spend. I would mod the car and enjoy it because cars are never a good investment, (with a few very rare exceptions)

 

He makes a good point.

 

You could keep the stock components and modify it, that way you could return to stock later if needed...

 

I was just going to suggest that. Don't do anything permanent and keep the stock parts for later. What kind of mods were you thinking about anyway?

 

I have to agree with both JD1969 and DFENS on this one...I'd make a pretty good politician huh?

 

I agree with pd1969 on that one. I love the first generation camaro's and am restoring a 69 right now and I am cartain that any camaro made sense the mid 70's and on will not get anywhere near the value of the origianal first generations are pulling in. Because their was only one muscle car era and it has gone and feded into the wind of time and we can still watch vintage movies seeing how cool it was at that time but you can't get anywhere near the excitiment that was really going on unless you have lived and owned a street rod at the time of gas averaging 35 cents a gallon and hearing people burning rubber on a daily bases. Not to mension all of the street drag racing gangs were around to hold drag racing on the street.

 

You could always gat an engine to build then just pull your stoke engine and put it in a corner just in case.

 

my dad was telling me about those days, he used to own a 442 and gas cost 25 cents/gallon. He said there was so much drag racing going on at the time.