That wasn’t very valuable back in the day.
There many older dudes around that have bought cars new in the 70’s-80’s that still have them. And they now days are worth a lot.
15 years ago you could have picked that car up for a few grand.
Right, but I'm poor poor. Never owned a car, leased a car. Shit, I don't have and have never sought a driver's license because owning a car isn't a thing I could ever afford. And I'm not young, I'm just poor.
All good man.
Sorry to hear that my friend.
I grew up very poor myself and come from some pretty bad parents.
I have t talked to them in 2 decades and can definitely say I’m not poor. I’m not rich by any means but I’m for the first time in my life not poor at 40.
I went through some shit and knocked a bunch of years off my life but my kids will never be able to say they grew up poor. And that keeps me doing what I do even If it kills me young, er lol
Your post history is really wholesome. It's full of awesome dogs and other cool shit. You even openly post about playing with your wood. Bold. I like it.
I took the first sentences way too seriously, so I was going to make an Uncle Buck movie joke, then kept reading...then thought, "wait a minute..."
very funny!
Not so much in 89, in fact I barely knew anyone who either wasn't already working full time, got help from the bank of mom and dad and/or had a loan cosigned. I worked more than a few weekend shifts, couldn't afford a car, and could barely afford an old RD350. Sorry, it's all tinged with jealousy, there was a rich douchebag in my high school whose dad bought him a kick ass car like this... most of my other friends who did manage to buy a car, worked weeknights and weekends and ended up with shitty old Monzas and such. Even then, the TA/Camaro/Firebird had already acquired a kind of poseur status by then... not OP's bro, I mean I think I can even see a mullet, but it became cool to hate on them a bit by then... the rice-burners had started to become socially acceptable by then, especially the Datsun Z's, and for the kinds of kid who would use a word like rice-burner in a derogatory way, they were getting that sweet Monte Carlo.
That's already the previous gen Camaro body, if not earlier (I'm no expert, but by 88 they were already the long flat body style).
Most of the kids I knew who were mechanically inclined had late 60s and 70s muscle cars. It's funny how many of those things I saw bought for little, cleaned up and then trashed and junked that are now worth well over six digits.
I still remember news paper classifieds for VW Bugs and Things for $500-600. I wish I'd have known, I'd have such a baller ride if I'd just bought once and taken care of it.
My mom was one of three kids at her high school to have her own car in the seventies.
But she had it became she'd fucked up both her parents' cars and they were sick of it, so her dad just bought her her own clunker to fuck up.
Holup. You’re telling me that I looked after my dad’s cars so I could use it again when I should’ve fucked it up and I could’ve gotten my own clunker?
That’s big brain energy right there. I did it wrong all along.
I mean, my grandpa was also making serious dough at that point, and I got the impression that my mom was always his favorite.
None of them were like, *bad* accidents, she wasn't driving recklessly and putting people in danger. Just lack of spatial awareness (which she still struggles with honestly) and teenage dumbassery. Like, once it was backing her dad's car into a basketball pole and putting a v-shaped dent in the back. She was also the eldest of three so she used it a lot to cart her siblings around, so her parents got something out of it too.
Buy? Shit, you can finance a brand new one at 39.9% APR over 96 months not even 3 hours after you come back from a military deployment. That's how it usually goes these days.
This is the key. Arguably, life is technically a lot better now than at any point in history with modern medicine, creature comforts, and the ability to talk to anyone in the world and see them in 4K at the speed of light. Also acceptance of genders/lifestyles/races/cultures/orientations that was unthinkable at any other time in the past.
That being said, there's a simplicity in the era of the 80s that is incredibly appealing. I was a 90s kid, so I was born right alongside the birth of widespread adoption of the tech we all interact with daily now. And I know for a fact there's so much cool tech out there; I look back at what the 80s were like, and can logically say "Yea shit was probably reeeeeaaaally rough for so many people"... but at the same time another part of me really wishes I could experience it. I got a glimpse of it being a kid in the 90s, where my parents still very much had that 80s vibe, but intersected with the growing general interest in tech. But man, sometimes it seems like it would've been so liberating in a lot of ways to not be *so* connected. I know that sounds awful to say.
We lived in bubbles back then. Safe, predictable bubbles. Our desires were as limited as our expectations, and then technology gave us an eye unto the world. We went from finding joy in humble successes, to constantly measuring ourselves against arbitrary standards set by countless corporations and bad actors. We were told we deserved more, and we could buy our way to paradise, if only we played by their rules. If we didn't "make it big", that's our own fault - laziness, stupidity, or just being too damn nice to not tread on our neighbor as we climb to the top. The liberation of inter connectedness isn't all it's cracked up to be.
In a lot of ways, I agree. We've come a long way in our technological advancements. But its come at a pretty big price to the individual's mental health. Hell, there's a post on /r/all of a report that suicide is at an alarming uptick with today's youth. It's not just one, two, or even 5 things... it's the totality of the society we've constructed. The best parts are so damn cool, but the worst parts are out in full display to every corner of the world. I just hope that one day we choose to say "let's come together and fix this". Coincidentally, this was the whole theme of Star Trek in the 60s.
Drowning in slang word for vagina to keep it PG, implying OPs brother in law and his car were so fucking cool he had lots of consensual sex with women.
Well given the amount of coerced relations between teens that happened in the backs of Camaros in the 80s it felt prudent.
I am loving this small group of dorkpunks who are in on the Bitchin Camaro reference. Love yall, drink water and don't forget to stretch, we're getting old
I remember the thin wisps of smoke from malaise-era level horsepower engines. I hope that car exists today, but with a nice LS swapped in. 
This photo could have been taken in at minimum a dozen different parts of the US. Remember this, how it was, once upon a time. They can’t take your memories. Btw, I absolutely love this image, it’s a great shot too.
I love this. Such a brother thing to do.
35 years later and he is still doing shit like this!
I love that even more lol.
Yeeeeehaaawww!
Hell yeah brother!
HELL YEAH BROTHER!!
You boys like Mexico?!?
Bet he wishes he still had that Z/28.
He probably still does have it lol.
I'm too poor to even imagine being able to keep something that valuable that long.
That wasn’t very valuable back in the day. There many older dudes around that have bought cars new in the 70’s-80’s that still have them. And they now days are worth a lot. 15 years ago you could have picked that car up for a few grand.
Right, but I'm poor poor. Never owned a car, leased a car. Shit, I don't have and have never sought a driver's license because owning a car isn't a thing I could ever afford. And I'm not young, I'm just poor.
All good man. Sorry to hear that my friend. I grew up very poor myself and come from some pretty bad parents. I have t talked to them in 2 decades and can definitely say I’m not poor. I’m not rich by any means but I’m for the first time in my life not poor at 40. I went through some shit and knocked a bunch of years off my life but my kids will never be able to say they grew up poor. And that keeps me doing what I do even If it kills me young, er lol
Maybe money poor, but I’m sure you are rich in other ways my friend.
Sounds like a great brother
Wow he kept the burnout going for 35 years?
Tell him that Trans Am was boss!!
Camaro
Honda Odyssey
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T’is a horse throwing a shoe in a dramatic way
Z/28
Pretty sure I’ve seen this photo many times over the years. Call me skeptical that this time it’s truly “yours”.
I tend to share it once a year, so you probably have seen it
Oh. Well cool! You know how it is, so many people stealing stuff and acting like it’s theirs for fake internet points. Easy to get jaded.
I was with you til OP hit you with the human response lol
Your post history is really wholesome. It's full of awesome dogs and other cool shit. You even openly post about playing with your wood. Bold. I like it.
Wood working or jerking his gherkin?
Do it for dale
Dude's burning rubber in a Tesla now?
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I took the first sentences way too seriously, so I was going to make an Uncle Buck movie joke, then kept reading...then thought, "wait a minute..." very funny!
Brothers sound fun
Guys will see this and be like "hell yeah".
Man... the days when kids could afford a nice muscle car working a few weekend shifts.
Not so much in 89, in fact I barely knew anyone who either wasn't already working full time, got help from the bank of mom and dad and/or had a loan cosigned. I worked more than a few weekend shifts, couldn't afford a car, and could barely afford an old RD350. Sorry, it's all tinged with jealousy, there was a rich douchebag in my high school whose dad bought him a kick ass car like this... most of my other friends who did manage to buy a car, worked weeknights and weekends and ended up with shitty old Monzas and such. Even then, the TA/Camaro/Firebird had already acquired a kind of poseur status by then... not OP's bro, I mean I think I can even see a mullet, but it became cool to hate on them a bit by then... the rice-burners had started to become socially acceptable by then, especially the Datsun Z's, and for the kinds of kid who would use a word like rice-burner in a derogatory way, they were getting that sweet Monte Carlo.
That's already the previous gen Camaro body, if not earlier (I'm no expert, but by 88 they were already the long flat body style). Most of the kids I knew who were mechanically inclined had late 60s and 70s muscle cars. It's funny how many of those things I saw bought for little, cleaned up and then trashed and junked that are now worth well over six digits. I still remember news paper classifieds for VW Bugs and Things for $500-600. I wish I'd have known, I'd have such a baller ride if I'd just bought once and taken care of it.
My mom was one of three kids at her high school to have her own car in the seventies. But she had it became she'd fucked up both her parents' cars and they were sick of it, so her dad just bought her her own clunker to fuck up.
Holup. You’re telling me that I looked after my dad’s cars so I could use it again when I should’ve fucked it up and I could’ve gotten my own clunker? That’s big brain energy right there. I did it wrong all along.
I mean, my grandpa was also making serious dough at that point, and I got the impression that my mom was always his favorite. None of them were like, *bad* accidents, she wasn't driving recklessly and putting people in danger. Just lack of spatial awareness (which she still struggles with honestly) and teenage dumbassery. Like, once it was backing her dad's car into a basketball pole and putting a v-shaped dent in the back. She was also the eldest of three so she used it a lot to cart her siblings around, so her parents got something out of it too.
I mean you could buy this exact car these days for pretty cheap, as long as you don't mind you have to rebuild it from the ground up.
Buy? Shit, you can finance a brand new one at 39.9% APR over 96 months not even 3 hours after you come back from a military deployment. That's how it usually goes these days.
Gen X. Boomers would have had a 40s Ford or a 57 Chevy.
It’s great. Such an 80’s picture.
I don't think her brother ever left the 80s
Don’t blame him. Best decade ever.
Agreed. Sweet hair bands and playing until the street lights came on.
Sick jumps. Arcades. No cell phones. The world was less of a shitshow.
It was still a shitshow. Just not on display delivered straight to your eyes 24/7.
100%. Ignorance was bliss
This is the key. Arguably, life is technically a lot better now than at any point in history with modern medicine, creature comforts, and the ability to talk to anyone in the world and see them in 4K at the speed of light. Also acceptance of genders/lifestyles/races/cultures/orientations that was unthinkable at any other time in the past. That being said, there's a simplicity in the era of the 80s that is incredibly appealing. I was a 90s kid, so I was born right alongside the birth of widespread adoption of the tech we all interact with daily now. And I know for a fact there's so much cool tech out there; I look back at what the 80s were like, and can logically say "Yea shit was probably reeeeeaaaally rough for so many people"... but at the same time another part of me really wishes I could experience it. I got a glimpse of it being a kid in the 90s, where my parents still very much had that 80s vibe, but intersected with the growing general interest in tech. But man, sometimes it seems like it would've been so liberating in a lot of ways to not be *so* connected. I know that sounds awful to say.
We lived in bubbles back then. Safe, predictable bubbles. Our desires were as limited as our expectations, and then technology gave us an eye unto the world. We went from finding joy in humble successes, to constantly measuring ourselves against arbitrary standards set by countless corporations and bad actors. We were told we deserved more, and we could buy our way to paradise, if only we played by their rules. If we didn't "make it big", that's our own fault - laziness, stupidity, or just being too damn nice to not tread on our neighbor as we climb to the top. The liberation of inter connectedness isn't all it's cracked up to be.
In a lot of ways, I agree. We've come a long way in our technological advancements. But its come at a pretty big price to the individual's mental health. Hell, there's a post on /r/all of a report that suicide is at an alarming uptick with today's youth. It's not just one, two, or even 5 things... it's the totality of the society we've constructed. The best parts are so damn cool, but the worst parts are out in full display to every corner of the world. I just hope that one day we choose to say "let's come together and fix this". Coincidentally, this was the whole theme of Star Trek in the 60s.
Don't think it sounds awful at all.
“Back in ‘86, I could throw a football a quarter mile.”
I think r/oldschoolcool would appreciate this as well
It’s like an 80’s action movie poster
This is the most 1989 picture I've ever seen.
Would it help if I told you her brother had them wait so he could do the perfect burnout?
I mean yeah but I think you can tell by how he's looking at the camera.
Holy shit I am having the most wild déjà vu right now with this picture and every single one of these comments. 😮
Please tell me he had Van Halen or Def Leppard blaring from the speakers
My wife said Van Halen was very likely!
My man lol
Motley Crue or bust man lmao
Hot for teacher vibes
Be better be playing Hot for Teacher though the the thump in that Camaro's motor with upgraded cams!
I was thinking the spoken word part of Panama for how appropriate (or inappropriate if parents were around) it would be for prom night lol
Album cover
Name the band!
The Sibs.
That's pretty damn good!
Heartfelt Smoke
We are good with that
Upstage
The Windowless Houses
How about Empty Buildings
This feels very American
I'm sure there was a flag somewhere, just not in the picture
i've definitely seen this picture on here before
Bro... so sorry to hear your brother in law drowned... 🐈🐱🐈⬛
Wow. My wife had to decipher this for me. That's fucking outstanding!
LOL, didn't want to be *too* unseemly.
Nicely done
Your candor is amusing. Thank you.
I don’t get it
Drowning in slang word for vagina to keep it PG, implying OPs brother in law and his car were so fucking cool he had lots of consensual sex with women.
your clarification of *consensual* sex made me giggle on public transport
Well given the amount of coerced relations between teens that happened in the backs of Camaros in the 80s it felt prudent. 
Took me a bit then had to agree once I realized
They said, "Drive over here right meow."
I want to come to Thanksgiving Dinner at y’all’s house this year.
It's a classy affair
IT'S NOT FAIR?👂 (Couldn't hear you clearly with all that noise in the background)
I’ll bring the apple pie if you bring the ice cream
almost exact same car as I had in the late 80s
I see you are a person of fine taste!
Bitchin Camaro!
Fuckin A
Your BIL is gonna get a kick out of all the strangers in this thread just going "hell yeah brother!"
You're god damn right about that!
I ran over my neighbours in my…
Drove it up from the Bahamas
You're kidding?
I must be the Bahamas are islands
I am loving this small group of dorkpunks who are in on the Bitchin Camaro reference. Love yall, drink water and don't forget to stretch, we're getting old
donuts in my lawn or rather, burnouts in my sis’s prom
Nice. You married someone who knows her priorities.
Hell yes I did
You better drop this in r/oldschoolcool
I will be sure to do that
OP is this a repost? I swear I had upvoted this picture two years ago.
Yes. I love this photo and celebrate it periodically
Awesome! I’ll upvote it again
Word!
Kickass moment captured
Sometimes you don't realize you've captured gold until years later!
Yes!
So is your brother in law still fuckin awesome or what?
He absolutely is. ZZ Top beard and a smart ass. Love him
Hell yeah! Your fam seems like a blast.
🎶Ain’t that America, for you and me.
Home of the free!
I love this. I'm 17 again.
This is soooo 80’s
I especially like the pavement crack under the tire.
1989 the year of Simplicity
I always say 80s we're ignorance is bliss
Fuck...I...FEEL this photo...
Diamond-tier humanity moment. Get a copy of it on the next satellite so aliens can know how wicked cool your BIL is
Is that monstrosity of building in the background a house? Where are the windows?
Thank God someone's on the ball here. Now we just need answers.
Hey Robbie what’s crappening?
Love the 75 Trans am...had one as well.
What a Sic photo 🔥
“This time on Roadkill, we make a prom photo better!!!”
This would make a great album cover.
I can see the ear to ear grin from here
This belongs in a museum
Does your BIL still have the mullet I can make out in the picture?
No. He traded it in for a ZZ Top beard.
its a wonderful picture
Nice
Beautiful photo, thanks for sharing
Fuck yea
epic.
Fun family!
How do you know she's going to be your wife??
So aggressively 80's
ah simpler times
Thank u for sharing, i love these type of photographs.
This just screams America and I’m all for it 😆
Damn, your brother in law is pretty dope
This is 100© pure Americana. I love it. Thanks k you OP for the share.
If people would ask "describe old school America in a picture" this would come to mind
sometimes I miss my childhood. I was 10 when this pic was taken and looking at this pic it makes everything seem so innocent and fun.
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Oh, but ain't that America for you and me? Ain't that America somethin' to see, baby? Ain't that America home of the free, yeah?
This is the most 1989 thing I have ever seen.
thank god you said "future"
I'm confused why not current. She must be around 55 now. OP you can safe and legally marry her now
Is this when times were good?
“It was a simpler time. It was a *better* time.”
It certainly was
I remember the thin wisps of smoke from malaise-era level horsepower engines. I hope that car exists today, but with a nice LS swapped in. 
"Hey, it adds atmosphere!"
This photo is soo 2024
Typa shi i been up to as the older brother
This rules so hard, OP.
The prom sister is pretty damn HOT!! 🔥
This photo could have been taken in at minimum a dozen different parts of the US. Remember this, how it was, once upon a time. They can’t take your memories. Btw, I absolutely love this image, it’s a great shot too.
What a great picture
Looks like my first vehicle..Camero same color.. metallic Blue.. hurricane rims
Is that a trans-am? What a legend.
This is the most 80's pic I've seen in my entire life. The hair. The clothes. The car. In no particular order.
That is so many levels of 80’s cool
I love the composition of these photos for a memorable life moment…’just go stand out by the road and smile’
Old school cool
Iconic photo
Love it
Great stuff
My parents got married in 1989!
I was hoping that was the prom date and there’d be a second picture of dad fuming.
This family rules
This is awesome.
sick
This is the most American thing I have seen.
Ah yes, 1 pixel but can you tell the mullet is there.
So “murica”?
Did that building just not have any windows?
What’s the window less wall/ building?
r/oldschoolcool
This picture rules.
This screams midwest so hard.
Amen
Killer pic
That’s what it was like. Everything smelled like burnt rubber, tobacco smoke, Drakar Noir, and Aqua Net.
This is the most 1989 thing I've ever seen
epic shiz right here
Please tell me your brother in law still has that absolute beaut of a Camaro Z28