<![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro? - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro? - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Well the camero has its original hubcaps, and I don't like fords, but the stang guy says "Barrett Jackson", "Eleanor" and "...but I'm too lazy to get started" in the same paragraph. Plus the Mustang can turn purple on command, how bitchin' is that? It's like the Wonderbug/Schlep car thing only for real. Mustang wins.

RolloGrande

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I say Mustang - make the body nice, slap a screaming chicken on the bonnet, and a 1.8L V-tec under it, then take it to Barrett-Jackson for the big money.

the good dr zero

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Geez, I don't know. Either one sounds plenty good for PCH. If I were REALLY going to do a Camaro/Mustang project, there are plenty to buy around here. You want trouble, go for it.

TR3-A

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> As much as I'm a Ford guy, I just don't have much attraction to the early Mustangs. I know, I'm a heathen. But Camaro it is.

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I say Camaro.

You put the Mustang in/on the side/in front of your garage and your neighbors go, "Oh, he's working on a car and it just needs a few things and final paint!"

Bring that Camaro to the same party and your neighbors will have cold shakes about the declining property values from a rusting, multicolored hulk that will sit mocking them for years.

petedmeatv

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> oops!
looks like the republicans are winning here...

PCH says john McCAin will be next president...
by 65%

who woulda thunk?

wheels OF satan!

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Ok, Grammar Nazi time!

"i have know idea"...really? It's easier to type out two extra letters incorrectly than the actual word? Somewhere out there, a high school girl's KRZR just burst into flames.

Same with "feal free to call"...it's the same freakin' letter ferchrissakes. Sometimes I swear these guys go out of their way to look illiterate.

Ok, back to business. Camaro all the way, until we can find a badass matchup of two Challengers that will be ridiculously overpriced once the new one comes out. Now that's PCH for sure.

bzr

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> @thunder: Damn you. I just read that guy's whole page.

Murilee: You must visit that link. That guy appears to have gone through PCH and lived to tell about it.

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> @Murilee Martin: He gets extra bonus points for sarcasm. The guy in the Mustang ad really believed it.

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I'd normally go with the General on something like this, but I've always wanted to build a Suprang, so there you go.

thunder

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Had to show some Mustang love.

Straight Six FTW. My '65 had a Six. And not that bloated 200 Six either.

ShastaMcNasty

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> It would take the wisdom of Solomon to discern which POS is the S-tier. BUT the Camaro is 95% complete in some alternative numbers universe where 95 = 30. So get some bolts and duct tape and a welder and assemble the pieces. It's an old Cameo with a stolen nose. Who'll know if you screw it up?

The Mustang ad is cheery and positive where the Camaro is discouraging. But read the Ford story, and don't skip "Trussville, AL," which is one place I'm never going on purpose. The engine "bonus" story alone should tell you this is true hell. "Zero" miles on the motor. Well, yeah. It's never started. But it's got "some kind of" headers. (I think I'll start a company called "Some kind of" shirt, car, toy...)Everything you need right here. To go insane in Hell.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I'd say the Mustang is much more hellish. Imagine the delight you'll find when you try to search junkyads for hinges and bolts that you need.

Or just pay out the ass for them at all those NOS places.

The Camaro, for me, at least, i'd be too tempted just to chuck a 383, 3.73 rear gear, posi, and a 200shot, and not touch the rust. Call it a day until it falls apart.

The Mustang, i would actually care enough to be dumb enough to try to make it at least look nice. Although just to piss all the purists off, i'd probably put an import motor in it. (Turbo Tundra motor, anyone?)

93celicaGT2

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I always say that my Camaro is 95% complete. Maybe the definition differs depending on the individual. I just need to install a door panel and hook up the console gauges.

Oh yeah, mine is registerd and insured too.

[homepage.mac.com]

However, it did look a lot like the PCH contender when purchased back in 1986.

ProfessorFate

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I'd rather push a Camaro than uh, push a Mustang...

beta.rogan

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> @B: But everybody would love a Mustamarominochero GT/SS!

Smells_Homeless

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Camaro. Your neighbors will know and admire a well-restored Mustang, but they won't "get" an original '67 Camaro. Lack of understanding/admiration from friends and neighbors adds to your Hell.

Besides, if you ever succeed in restoring the Camaro, you'll lie awake at night wondering if anyone notices that the front fenders are from a '68.

NewCaledonia

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Camaro, it is always badass at all point in time of the project.

Beater mustangs dont look as cool.

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> When it comes to a 40 year old POS, I'm a Ford man.

dulcamara

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> let me see
CHEVY is republican ( eisenhower)
FORD is democrat (kennedy)

this is like the early election, right??

wheels OF satan!

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> mustang with a chevy engine.

boognish

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Camaro all the way. The Mustang at least looks like you can make a car of it. The Camaro should have been made into sodapop cans a long time ago.

BSAKat

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I went for the Mustang because it's a notchback, the least popular/ valuable body style for old Musclecars. All Camaros of this vintage have the same body, but whoever restores this 'Stang will always feel jealous when they see a fastback.

Also, Centerlines FTW.

Armand Bengle

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> The Camaro. Good luck finding a hot French exchange student to help you fix that mess.

Pinkerton

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Camaro all the way! Cheap crate motor 383, add a supercharger or some of the giggly gas and hoon away.

reefer

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> It has to be the Camaro. After all, my version of Hell has ice cream and this Camaro is 95% complete!

CafeRacer1200

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> @squablow: What about this Mustang?

Murilee Martin

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Definitely the Camaro. I always wanted a car in light blue...sort of.

voodoojoo

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> The Mustang ad states "PURCHASED SEVERAL YEARS AGO WITH ALL THE AMBITION TO MAKE A TRUE BARRET JACKSON PIECE"

Any ad that mentions Barret-Jackson is automatically the loser.

Because I'm sure B-J is just lining up for 6 cyl Mustang coupes with amateur restorations and random 302 swaps.

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Are you kidding me? Read the description on that slomaro. That thing is practically bailing wired together. At least the stang has had some body work done, and comes with a rebuilt 302 with a serpentine setup.

bradite

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Obviously the Camaro. As Better Off Dead showed us, they can be rebuilt in an afternoon by an appropriately motivated underage French girl. I wonder if the seller would be willing to throw in one of those?

JoeWoodsprite

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Camaro!! There are just too many Mustangs out there. The Camaro will be more hellish in all areas except the engine.

ZWECK

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> @B: Oh come on, wouldn't you rather have a Pontang?

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> @TX_law: My subscription to your newsletter begins today.

Fettle those Camaro inner arches and jam betwixt them a Mercedes-Benz OM423 V10 diesel. Sorry, a perverse fascination of mine.

No idea why I'm in a Camaro mood today, best vote quick befor I change my mind.

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Promise you'll never leave, Murilee. Promise!

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I say Camaro, the description is full of utter hopelessness. It sounds like the whole car would fall to pieces if you sneezed too loud. The seller is desperately trying to come up with anything positive to say (the fenders are nice...), but has to back out of every comment (..aside from the dents).

TurboBrick

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> I want to combine the two, a Mustamero! Everybody will hate it equally.

B

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> From my research, I have establish that a craigslisted Camaro always becomes a "camero" which apparently makes it even more white-trashy.

I'd go with the Camaro with a Cummins bi-turbo setup. All hail our diesel overlords. How about a 10.8L M Series with a little bit of forced induction?

TX Law

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> Camaro > Mustang except in the eighties.

Dave7

]]> <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: Mustang or Camaro?]]> haha! camaro has a definitive lead (2 to 0)

die Mustang!

mikedrawcar

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