[FactoryMatt]

Originally Posted by Evergreen6

I got mine the day before Thanksgiving.

It had been sitting on the lot for a few months, dusty and covered in fallout, battery was almost dead. But it only had 8 miles on it and protective plastic all over inside. It turned over (active exhaust cutout open!) and that got my heart pumping. I knew I was taking that car home!

I think the car found me, actually. It's like it was waiting.

I asked them not to prep it. Back in 2002 I was a college kid working at a Chevy dealership the summer they stopped producing the Camaro. I was heartbroken, and, too broke as a student to afford a new one at the time. So to take a new one home, the last of the last, prep it myself, was kind of a symbolic homecoming for me.

I charged the battery that night and then spent the next morning (an unusually nice, dry sunny day in November) to get it washed, clayed, and properly cleaned up.

I ran a search on cars.com and it says there are only 33 new 1SS manual cars listed in the US. There are none in WA state right now, which is home.

great post. found mine that same week. growing up i worked with some dudes that had cammed WS6s. never thought i'd be in an F body, but here i am!