I don't blame you for being tired after 40 years of cruises and car shows. Cruises and car shows are a little more exciting than watching grass grow, but not much.
The first generation Camaros, as they came from the factory, were pretty crude vehicles by today's standards.
If you wanted performance, you had to put up with the engine screaming at 2,700 to 3,700 rpm at freeway speeds, and got pretty poor to really poor fuel economy. The handling wasn't terribly good, the seats were awful, the brakes were - if you had disks - barely adequate, your "choices" of entertainment were AM/FM radio, the sound insulation was so-so, they leak, they require frequent maintenance, you have only two speeds for the wipers, the headlights aren't terribly effective, etc. - in short they were designed, built and sold over 45 years ago, and it shows.
All of that said, if you're willing to rebuild the car to a certain extent, a first generation Camaro can be a fun, comfortable, high performance, fuel efficient and reliable car.
A modest pro-touring style build - update the wheels and tires to modern sizes, improve the front and rear suspensions, including camber correction and good shocks, replace the front and rear brakes with modern disks, drop in a computerized LS motor, an LS accessory package and your choice of automatic or manual overdrive transmission, update the fuel system for the EFI motor, replace the front seats with something that actually supports you as you go around a turn, cut up the dash for a single DIN radio or (with a big loss of usefulness) use one of the hidden solutions, and DRIVE that baby.
For me, my '68 is my go to car for longer trips when I'm not hauling something. I've had it on the road for a little under 3 months and have a little under 3,000 miles on it, including round trips of a total of 450 miles, 300 miles (3 times), and 200 miles (3 times).
It brakes well, accelerates incredibly hard, handles well, is comfortable, has great seats, has AM/FM, GPS, Sirius radio, plays tunes from an IPod or (my favorite) a USB flash drive, is pretty quiet, gets 23+ mpg on the highway and draws friendly attention wherever I go. I'm still sorting out a few issues, and will address some issues over the winter, but it's pretty much a modern car dressed up like a '68 Camaro.
I built my '68. If I had it to over again, I'd look for a well built car that had most or all of what I wanted.
So, maybe your interest in these cars can be sparked by taking a different direction and having the best of the modern car performance dressed up in the classic car skin.