“...And we grew up dreaming of driving at 16....”
And were able to buy used muscle cars for less than a grand, that you could drive the Hell out of and LOVE it...
Both it and the Camaro were almost identical .... both too light in the rear end for dragging.
My first car was not exactly a muscle car (’71 Pontiac Ventura). But I paid $550.00 cash. It had a V-8 307 and I could access and change pretty much every part in it. Drove it for six years, and likely would have driven it longer were it not for Pennsylvania state inspection.