Retro Firebird,,,, NO THANKS!!!
A retro firebird will take away from the FGF's out there.
These cars are something special and deserve to be preserved, honored, respected,,,, not mimicked.
Why should someone off the street be able to buy 60's style and power without effort?
There is a certain amount of respect that we all get for having a classic firebird because we have put forth great effort and expense to preserve a piece of history.
To me, owning a classic muscle car is more than simple ownership. It’s a marriage of man and machine. This is an expression of ones self and requires devotion.
The title of "muscle car owner" is one that is earned, not bought.
A person that simply throws a wad of cash down on the register and drives home a muscle car doesn’t truly deserve it.
All me to elaborate a bit.
Now, you don’t need to do all your own work on your car or be the most knowledgeable wrench either. But what you do need is to have a respect for the classic vehicle and what it represents to many people.
This is something that cannot be reproduced in Detroit. These cars are dreamt about, lusted for, and kids build models of them.
This is only something that a true love and devotion to these machines can deliver.
Whether you pay thru the nose to have your classic restored and worked on, or if you do all your own work,,,, if you maintain these classics to the best of your ability (both knowledge wise and financially) and its more than a car to you, then you deserve to have it.
Retro cars simply cash in on the mystique of "real classics"
Mass-produced, marked up, bastardized versions of the original have no place in my heart!
I have more respect for a 1968 firebird or any classic for that matter, that is held together with bondo and has a owner that spends every extra dime on it than an off the shelf, brand new, high performance, full of options, "retro muscle car"!
To me, that guy did nothing special to buy or maintain that car.

The fact that retro cars are even around points to a complete lack of creativity from today’s automakers. They have no clue what the people want, so instead of making advances they simply re-package what worked before.
If this is what GM needs to do to stay a float,,, so be it. But it takes away from all the classics out there. Just as the mustang has taken away from its ancestor.
Sad, sad, sad.
Of course, as always this is just .02