Posted on 11/30/2025 4:38:20 AM PST by Candor7
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Bunch of bull sh-T, I was there, no one I knew ever crashed due to car performance. Most crashes caused by stupid people.
I’ll take the Charger.
I had use of a ‘68 Pontiac GTO (which was better than owning it) for ayear back when itwas quite new. A real hot rod, but I sure never wrecked it or even got in trouble with it.
Bull Shiite
The Camaro and Trans AM suffered from a little axle hop without torsion bars and that may have totaled a few. We did a lot of street racing in the 60’s and I was a little wary being next to one from a standing start because they did jump around a bit. I saw a broken suspension on a brand new Camaro.
The 289/289 Mustang was a little squirrely. Classmate got killed in one but was probably just excessive speed. Another classmate’s father had a 421 4 speed Pontiac Grand Prix that did not seem to have enough stopping power but nothing came of it. My 390 Fairlane GT was pretty stable.
“...Bunch of bull sh-T, I was there, no one I knew ever crashed due to car performance. Most crashes caused by stupid people....”
Yep....fully agree. Pure, unadulterated BS. I was there as well and owned a couple of those Mopars.
Stupid people doing stupid things resulted in stupid accidents... Guns don’t pull their own triggers and neither do muscle cars set out to destroy their owners....well, except for “Crhistine”.....LOL.
Nice video of some of my favorite cars, but whoever put the narration together is...well...a pearl-clutchiing idiot that’s dumber than a box of rocks....
Who’s the fag narrating and how can he talk with his thumb in his mouth?
Inexperienced/uneducated.
I know of a few youngsters killed by foolishly overly generous parents.
Give your kid a car that is way too powerful for their skill set and you just may be buying that child a coffin soon after.
Don't blame the car for your lack of wisdom.
The tarrator does noy sound like he ever drove one of those 12 vehicles.
This is a redefine-history, greenie approach to great cars.
These anti fossile fuel socialists leave no stone unturned to redefine freedom of movement history .
IMHO these were the greatest US cars ever built, especially the Camaro.I wish they were building them today.
Their greatest performance was on long road trips via interstate, cruising for hours at 80 or 90 in Wyoming for example, where the roads are straight for hundreds of miles.
Dangerous? Only if you don’t know how to drive. I had two Old’s 442’s. One was a ‘68 with the ram rod 350 (W31), and the other was a ‘70 with a 455. Both had over 400 hp with some mods I made, the ‘70 probably over 500hp. Never had an accident with either one and I raced both of them. In ‘77 I sold the ‘70 442, (big mistake on selling either one) to a kid’s mother who was buying it for his graduation present. It had only 60k miles and was in pristine condition. He went to a party after graduating and got drunk, was chased by cops at over 90 mph on winding country roads and flipped it about 4 or five times. He only had some scrapes and bruises, but the car was totaled, a mess. I damn near cried when I saw it.
Man, I couldn’t agree more. Some of the best cars ever made for around 3k - 4k bucks. Sunnoco 260 103 octane at 35 cents per gallon. Ah, memories.
Neighbor had a Hemi SuperBee. Didn’t take him long to get from one end of the culdesac to the other.
All have denied knowing about playing chicken ????
That was the problem with a lot of the muscle cars IMHO.
They had huge HP , but didn’t handle for crap.
They were not Ferraris.
Even the early Porsche and Mercedes models didn’t have the suspension system or brakes to prevent a side roll.
Then many of the so called muscle cars of the 70s didn’t have the horse power of todays mid size Toyota.
Even high end sportscars like the Mercedes SL550 in the 70s and 80s didn’t have the HP of my IS350 Lexus.
Many of the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Ams had less than 300 HP in a fairly heavy car.
The newer version of the Mustang GT is a much better car than most of the models from the 1960s.
Sunbeam Tiger (Like the one Maxwell Smart drove)
It had a V8 in a car so light that it would spin out on any corner because half pedal broke the rear tires loose.
In 1985, I had a friend that got killed drag racing his 69 camaro on an open stretch of county road. Tire blew out but whose to say he neglected front/suspension maintenance, or it was just a bad tire. He left behind a wife and 3 kids under 6 years old.
Yes, yes. Very dangerous. Sad really.
Sell them to me.
That ain’t his ‘thumb’...............
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