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The Return of the Muscle Car
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| 04/23/03
| COLLIN LEVEY
Posted on 04/22/2003 9:05:55 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: Constructionist
Of course the 1969 Convertible Firebird is better than the 67 and 68...
141
posted on
04/23/2003 7:00:46 AM PDT
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: mhking
I used to have a friend from Tokyo who went to college in Chicago. When he moved here (mid 80's), he bought a Buick Grand National (one of GM's last true muscle cars). When his mother (a quiet, reserved woman) came to visit, all she saw was a Buick Regal. She had no clue. That is until people challenged her to race more than once at stop lights...This brings back some happy memories. Fifteen years ago my late father-in-law gave up driving and gave me his 1979 Olds Cutlass. It was faded and didn't look like anything but an old man's car. So when some yuppie scum driving a BMW would pull up to a stoplight next to me, all he saw was a pretty suburban mommy in an old, uncool car, with a backseat full of groceries. What the yuppies never knew was that someone had dropped a 454 V-8 into that old car and had taken off the emissions equipment. I did so enjoy dragging away from the light and making the bimmers and Porsches eat my tailpipe. They could not hope to accelerate as fast or keep up to me. It was so childish on my part, and so satisfying.
142
posted on
04/23/2003 7:17:41 AM PDT
by
Capriole
(Foi vainquera)
To: merak
A Honda Civic or Accord, an Acura, or a Dodge neon with a 135 - 160 hp motor will easily go as fast as it's possible to go in all but a few places in America today while getting 35 mpg and still feeling tight and new after 150,000 miles.Yes, but will they do a 1/4 mile in under 11 seconds? Or 0-60 in under 5.5?
143
posted on
04/23/2003 7:29:48 AM PDT
by
billbears
(Deo Vindice)
To: merak
Anyone who buys a high performance front wheel drive car has a deathwish. They make the notoriously squirrely handling of the rear engined Porche look civilized. That's dated info. Try actually driving Neon.
I have. If a front wheel drive car is handling well, then you aren't driving it 10/10ths. see post 141
SO9
144
posted on
04/23/2003 7:43:37 AM PDT
by
Servant of the Nine
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: Servant of the Nine
145
posted on
04/23/2003 7:45:19 AM PDT
by
Servant of the Nine
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: Dan Zachary
Very sweet...my first car was a '66 Mustang that I completely rebuilt back in the late-80s.
Wonder what the insurance rates will be on this thing, once a bunch of teeny-boppers start wrapping that 400 hp machine around trees.....
To: Pokey78
What a clueless, out-of-touch article. I live in a SoCal beach city that is the center of the universe in terms of hot rods and muscle cars. Practically every car that is run in any of the car mags can be seen driven around on a daily basis.
Because this area is home to so many car lovers, if one would like to discern current automotive trends, all they would have to do is drive around for a day or so. While it is true that there is a massive horsepower trend going on, it sure as hell isn't in sports/muscle cars.
No, dear readers, the true muscle/power trend is in trucks. Just 2 years ago, a full size Dodge Ram V-10 would stand out; now, people are buying F-350 dualies with who-knows-what under the hood, putting in massive air shocks and oversized off-road tires, and jacking them up 4-6+ ft so they look like something from the monster car circuit.
The kicker is that these aren't low-end jobs being put together by kids - these are $50-60k rides being purchased/built-out by adults for street traffic. And, last but least, proudly displaying Bush 2004 stickers.
To: Snerfling
And, last but NOT least, proudly displaying Bush 2004 stickers
To: mhking
'70 had an dumbed down Cadillac engine Do not concur my friend. The LS-6 was a Chevy MK IV big block, solid lifters, rectangular port heads, and a big old Holley. This engine was shared with the Chevelle and few of either were made. The more common LS-5 had the oval port (truck motor) heads, hydraulic lifters and a Quadrajunk.
149
posted on
04/23/2003 8:11:30 AM PDT
by
j_tull
(My words but a whisper, your deafness a SHOUT!)
To: mhking
The Corvette may be a lot of things, but it was NEVER a muscle car. You are correct!
The Corvette C5 is nothing less than A WORLD CLASS MACHINE!
150
posted on
04/23/2003 8:15:42 AM PDT
by
Freeper
To: Pokey78
Visiting the annual International Auto Show is like visiting a kissing booth with the Swedish Bikini Team You know the rules around here....
151
posted on
04/23/2003 8:16:50 AM PDT
by
steve-b
To: LisaAnne
You know....an original 240Z in the early 70s sold for around 3K brand new?
152
posted on
04/23/2003 8:35:25 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Hootie to head EEOC...)
To: farmfriend
FRee Republic doesn't have enough capacity to handle all the cars my ego would want me to post...:-)
To: wardaddy
Yes, I know. But I was too broke to buy one then, so I dated a guy who owned one. ;o)
To: LisaAnne
Well...good for him..;>)
155
posted on
04/23/2003 11:11:06 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Hootie to head EEOC...)
To: LisaAnne
"Are you selling the Roadmaster?"Afraid not, sorry. I just pulled the image off the net. I was looking (unsuccessfully) for one with the "full chrome package" and all the little extras you could buy back then, such as the exterior "sun visor" in your choice of green, amber, red or blue. Many of these old monsters were still available with the plush wool mohair upholstery and had the "gothic" portholes at the fenders to complement that armed-to-the-teeth chrome grin at the grille.
To: mhking
It needs a stick.
To: knak
Super pic! Some buyer must be VERY happy!
158
posted on
04/24/2003 7:08:51 PM PDT
by
BenR2
((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
To: merak
Am a car nut including a new 2003 Vette. Have German vehicles and am done with new ones.
Just brought home a new Infiniti Q45 for the weekend, and ... there is nothing else I can say right now.
To: farmfriend
It is cool looking Continetntal, but then, I've always been partial to Continentals.
160
posted on
04/24/2003 7:28:34 PM PDT
by
Lx
(Scratch a liberal, find a fascist)
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