f you were able to suddenly don a mullet and hop in Doc Brown's tim
machine to travel back to the year 1985, you'd find that the pinnacl
of affordable performance was available at your local Chevy dealershi
in the form of the Camaro IROC-Z. This was the first year that the
was offered, and though this particular example seems to be equippe
with the 4-barrel 305 and a five-speed stick, the IROC was the firs
Camaro to get the Tuned Port Injection engine, which displaced 30
cubic inches and offered up an impressive-for-the-day 215 horsepower
hooked up to a four-speed automatic transmission. Other uplevel bit
included 16" 5-spoke alloy rims and meaty 245/50ZR16 tire
cribbed from the Corvette

Here we are in 2009, and most of these cars were snatched up by young
hot-headed male drivers once they hit the used market, meaning tha
nearly all of the Z's still on the road are in less-than-stella
condition. Fortunately, eBay has come to the rescue once again wit
an auction for a factory-fresh '85 IROC with just 4.3 miles on th
odometer. Most of the parts are there, minus the stock set of wheel
and tires, but the car has been sitting for the last 23 years insid
a warehouse of some sort. Perhaps it's a gem underneath all that dus
and muck, but expect to perform lots of hard work if you actually wan
to make it drivable again

The current bid is well over $15K and the reserve has not yet bee
reached. We're not sure what an untouched '85 IROC is really worth
but apparently it's a bit more that we'd have guessed. Check out ou
gallery belo

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