Todays "full size" cars are compacts by 1960s standards.
My former ride:
Looks a little clunky but wasn't - had the police V-8 and a 4bbl in it, the original street sleeper.
Looks like my dad's former ride, which I was allowed to borrow when I was particularly good:
But his was a 72 and cream colored. Would do 90 in third gear . . . I never topped it out because I didn't have the nerve, but it handled as steady at 120 as it did at 70.