Originally Posted by
Chuck 98 RT/10
I wouldn't call it a silly pony car war. Back in the day the Camaro sold well over 100,000 annually and as high as 280,000 in 1979. There are a lot of diehard GM fans that would jump on a Z28. Being that GM has made about a million stupid decisions for the past 30+ years, the demise of the Z28 can probably be counted as stupid decision 1,000,001.
280,000 in 1979 is kinda ironic really, as 79 was right in the middle of the worst years for american performance cars. Emission controls killed carb cars, and until the TPI started multi-point injection performance was horrid.