A few of us at Hemmings, who came of age in the 1980s, nearly choked on our Bubble Yum, when a red Camaro IROC-Z convertible sold at Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale two years ago for a whopping $102,300.

For reasons we can't even begin to comprehend, Chevrolet is doing just that, testing the next-generation Camaro alongside pristine third-gen models (really, they are damn clean examples of the breed).