Just got my first fbody on March 31. Brought her home and now I'm trying to learn everything I can about her.

Here's my 1998 Bright Purple Metallic A4 z28
looks dark in these pics... I don't have any showing just how purple it is, but will soon...

Welcome. Good looking car.

looks good

Hello and welcome to Camarosource.ca! Absolutely LOVE that tone of metallic Purple!

Great looking car. Love the color.

Cool the Barney Mobile has arrived

Welcome to the site.

Thanks for the welcomes. Oh and to jennie - I am on Z28.com - really like that site.

Here's my story...I used to dream of owning a 67 Mustang. Yeah I know polar opposite of a Camaro. I ended up meeting my now boyfriend and I totally was taken with his 67 Camaro. We started hanging out and I started learning how cool Camaros were. In 2002, I didn't figure I could afford a Camaro (though I wanted one badly) so I ended up with a Nissan Sentra (don't ask I was just ready to get rid of my falling apart Ford Ranger). My boyfriend bought an 02 SS (one of the last 6 the local dealership had an allocation for). I really, really, really got interested in the LS1 fbodies at this point. We started going to the track, joined a local Fbody club, etc...So earlier this year he had found a V6 firebird he wanted me to look at...it wasn't the car I wanted though. So I started looking after looking at many Firebirds, T/A's and Formulas, I decided that since I've always loved the Hugger Orange Camaros that I would start looking for one. I found 2 on autotrader - a V6 in Washington Sate and a Z28 Vert about 4 hours from home (just east of Baton Rouge,LA). My boyfriend was completely against the Vert. Said I couldn't afford insurance, etc (I'm 28 with a clean record). So a week passed and I decided to contact the seller of the vert and found that it had been sold 2 days prior. So I'm back to square one. He finds a Z28 in Arkansas and a SS in Michigan. Both decent cars. I wasn't keen on the 100k + miles on the Z and couldn't afford the $16K price on the SS. So I start looking on ebay and think hmm....if I can't find orange, I wonder if there are any purple LS1 camaros (wasn't sure if there were or not) and that's when I stumbled upon the auction for my car. It was listed as stock with 39K miles on it. Pictures looked great, but I was a little leary because the interior looked more tan than grey. So, I watch all week long as it had just been listed and wait until Easter Sunday to get here so I can bid at the end of the auction. On Sunday morning I think there were 2 bids on the car. The buy it now price was $12K (I could only go $10K). I ended up the high bidder but didn't meet the reserve (I had put max bid at $9500). So we called the girl and she agreed to $10K. I was so thrilled and excited!!! Only 1 problem - the car was in Manassas, VA (just about 18 hours from us). So we made arrangements to go a week later and pick the car up. , we drove about 36 hours round trip to get my baby and it was WORTH IT!!! We actually in total were gone from home 54 hours as neither of us could take much time off work at time.
So far, the only thing I've had to do was get the plugs and wires changed. Other than that it's mechanically sound and the paint and body and interior were in fantastic condition for the age.
I am planning on going to 17" Chrome 10 spoke SS wheels, getting headers and exhaust and doing the intake and of course some subframe connectors. There's a few other things I want to do as my funds will allow, but I've listed the initial stuff.

Sorry this is so long, but I am definitely a very proud new Camaro owner

Great Story Jennie!!
And yes, I do believe my car found me. The girl had been trying to sell it for nearly a year ... And she was VERY picky about who it was going to (she had totally babied the car - garage kept, only taken out on nice days - only but 18k on the car in 7 years!). Anyway in the year's time she only had one other person that she was ok with selling the car to and that was a 19 year old girl that couldn't get the loan - lucky for me

Definitely love at first site BUT I can't decide on a name
Madman (as in Madman & Co. Racing) has nicknamed it Skittle since it reminds him of a grape skittle. I've been thinking about Stitch but it doesn't seem to fit. A girl at work suggested Purple Lightning. But, as of now she's still unnamed.

Welcome to CS!!!! Nice ride and thanks for sharing your story with us (it wasn't to long at all )!

Could you please put your general location in your profile so it appears in the left side of your posts.

Again, nice ride, and I like the colour. You don't see to many purple Camaros.

took me a minute to realize I needed to scroll over to find the user control panel. 'doh!


Anyway, i don't have any times on the car. It's a bone stock LS1. I've hit about 105 on the road but will hopefully hit the track soon as I can get me some subframe connectors

That is an absolutely gorgeous car, I love that purple color. Welcome to the site, & interesting story as well. The first car I really fell in love with was a '70 vette, but the one that I wanted when I was about 15 (the age I could start driving) was a 'maro. My dad is a DDIY kinda person (don't do it yourself) and didn't let me modify the truck I got, since it was a 'family' car (third link in my signature) & I just started liking Blazers, got my own & I still drive it, but I re-fell in love with Camaros when someone I worked with was driving one, & offered to sell it. She was supposed to be moving but ended up staying & kept her car, so I ended up buying my cousin's car from him. A teal automatic V6 coupe is a far reach from the dark purple 5-speed IROC with t-tops that I always dreamed of owning, but it's still a Camaro. I can't even watch the movie Transformers without going out and driving afterwards.