LOL! My kid actually had me dissect all the terminology in 'Little Deuce Coupe' and 'Hot Rod Lincoln'...
Kids today like to brag it up... how much more power is coming off the factory line... They don't understand that back in the day, you could take a stock car and a few hundred bucks and make a fair ground-pounder (if you had the right connections and a couple duffers that had the knowledge).
Most every kid I knew back then had that ingenuity and drive. Nowadays they throw a chip in it, and everything else is about the sound system *shakes head*...
Don't remember the words to "Hot Rod Lincoln", but could sing "Little Deuce Coupe" verbatim. But then, you probably don't want me to do that...har! What's there not to know for your son? "My four speed duel quad posi-traction...409". He doesn't get a 4 speed tranny, nor a duel quad 4 barrel, nor posi-traction?
"They don't understand that back in the day, you could take a stock car and a few hundred bucks and make a fair ground-pounder (if you had the right connections and a couple duffers that had the knowledge)."
Yes, add a Weber quad or even advance the timing or change out the exhaust/headers and get more power from a stock car.
However, I have to admit that the nitro Japanese cars are on par with major American muscle cars as far as off the line. Ever watch the first and second Fast and Furious movies? Although, I always thought unfair. The Asian motors had nitro at a push of a button. The American muscle didn't - think if they did like a dragster? The horsepower and torgue would literally blow those wimpy CID's off into another planet.
Give me American muscle anytime. Although I would prefer modern suspension as they do on "Overhauling". My tri-powered 348 rides like a boat, but then it is a cruiser, so who cares? Never been a big hotrod fan...more the stock cruiser type. However, my 2000 Vette still gives me a thrill when I punch her. Ask your son what "punch" means.