Nowhere near........
Posted on 08/05/2005 7:16:52 AM PDT by Range Rover
Exactly! The R/T concept car was first shown to me by the local Dodge dealer on his computer. He said,"Look here! we'll be selling that Charger in a couple years!" I've never been so disappointed! You're right, a re-badged 300, and 4 doors. What are they smokin?............
Nowhere near........
see #82....
I didn't buy my car based on a 3 year old concept car. I bought it because I saw it, test drove, and liked it well enough to buy it. Yes, it's the same basis frame and interior as the 300 and the Magnum, but my inital comment on those cars was that if Dodge could add some curves to the thing, and give it a fast back instead of that goofy station wagon - I'd buy it in a heartbeat. To my shock and amazement they did exactly that, and I fell in love on the test drive.
It's a good car at a reasonable price, and I'm THRILLED with it.
That's not the exact car. But it was a virtually identical yellow Firebird rag-top, and it was in Kent, Washington during the '70s. Garaged, and rarely driven. I understand one of the grandchildren inherited it when Ms. Schumaker died at age 98 or so.
Well, the new GTO was coming in at $35k or thereabouts and the Mustang GT was pushing $28k kitted out last I checked. Roundabout guess would be in the $30k range not counting whatever dealer premium and gas guzzler tax. For that money, you can pick up a REALLY nice vintage machine. My last goat cost me $500.00 but that was in no way normal. Last one I priced was $24k and I though it should have been more like $15K.
Trouble with the more high stung motors from 67-69 is that you are supposed to feed them LEADED fuel having at least 100 octane - that is if you have them set up as they left the factory. The only place I can get anything like that is from a local speed shop and it's costing me $7 a gallon. I only run that in one of my bikes that was set up for that back in '67. Put 94 in the tank and it pings. Advance the timing enough to get by and you risk holing a piston (done that twice).
Still looking for a GTO needing a bit of work but workable. All I see is trailer queens and complete rustbucket rats.
>> ...a 400hp HYBRID........it can be done...today
You left out the part about it weighing less than a Rolls Royce and being finacially viable for people making less than $125K.
Yes, it can be done today, and if we did it today it would be a monstrosity; a contrivance of near-epic proportions. Yes, the technology is there -- in research laboratories. It is NOT, however, ready for "prime time" and it will not be ready for at least another decade.
Internal combustion still rocks the house and rules the roost.
The day I buy a hybrid or electric will be the day after somebody takes the NHRA Championship driving one.
"Two nasty Nazi cars are close behind the beautiful lone driver. The police numbers are gettin' closer, closer, closer to our soul hero in his soul mobile, yeah baby. They're about to strike, they're gonna get him, smash him, rape the last beautiful free soul on this planet.
"But, it is written, if the evil spirit arms the tiger with claws, Brahman provideth wings for the dove. Thus spake, the super guru."
-- Vanishing Point, 1970
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