New Jersey Fans Lament Demise of Fabled Camaro, Firebird.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 28, 2002 | Copyright information

By Brian Aberback, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 28--Everyone who was anyone at Bergenfield High School in the late Eighties and early Nineties drove a Chevy Camaro or Pontiac Firebird.

Sleek, fast, and powerful, they were the perfect cars for cruising the main drag or jetting to the shore, said Krista Merschrod, who could be seen around town back then in her bright red 1988 Firebird.

"It's a total adrenaline rush," said Merschrod, who today owns a 1967 black Camaro Super Sport. "When you're driving it you just feel the ...

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