Everyone here knows I love these, and I'd really REALLY like to add a Players car like this to the stable some day. My dad worked for ESSO, who was a big sponsor of the Players race series, and my dad being a bit of a Camaro fan (he was driving the 84 that's now mine at the time) got access to tickets, memorabilia, etc. I loved watching those races as a kid, and I still have a bunch of the memorabilia.
Course another big sponsor was Canadian Tire, and as a result I've been able to locate and acquire some more memorabilia from the Canadian Tire racing team.
I also think the cars get a bad rep because they did often fall into misguided hands....whether it was just douche bag owners who drove them into the ground, or owners who made modifications in the name of speed only to make the cars that much worse.
A stock, well-sorted F-body (3rd or 4th gen at least), while not terribly fast, is a great car...decent handlers, comfortable highway cruisers, astonishingly reliable, and even reasonably practical as a DD. I don't drive my cars a ton anymore, for work and family reasons, but I've logged hundreds of thousands of kms in f-bodies in the last 15 years and enjoyed them immensely.....Anyone here who thinks they're all junky rattletraps is more than welcome to come drive one of my properly-sorted cars.
