3S is offically not cool any more....

[R/T93]

Yeah my uncle said cars had to be WORKED and have slicks to get into the 12's. He had a 69 396 Chevelle that got 7 mpg, he sold it in 73 for a buick century that got 12 mpg....... Fail

[HilbillyHomeboy]

i really do get a kick out of the domestic crowd. there seems to be no end to guys who are "so freaking proud" of having a 60's/70's car that runs mid 12's.

hell, we can do 11's with bolt-ons. that's not even a challenge.

It's the fun of having something unique. Same reason the 3/S is cool, there's just not that many around anymore.

Oh but the whole Appreciating asset thing for good muscle cars kinda kicks ass too. I've yet to lose money on an antique/classic car. Can't say that for anything else I've owned.

Jeremy

[IPD]

It's the fun of having something unique. Same reason the 3/S is cool, there's just not that many around anymore.

Oh but the whole Appreciating asset thing for good muscle cars kinda kicks ass too. I've yet to lose money on an antique/classic car. Can't say that for anything else I've owned.

Jeremy

i'll give you the appreciating value thing. it's totally inexplicable to me, but i guess baby-boomers have a LOT of rather inane sentiments.

unique? not hardly. i can't spit in any town i'm in without hitting a half dozen 1g camaros, tempests, darts, chevelles, etc. and that's not even going back further to the WAY, WAY, WAY too prevalent amount of deuce coupes or pickup-truck resto-rods.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

Kids will say the same thing about your "desirables" in 20+ years. It's all relative...

You're not seeing real deuce coupes in any repeatability. Not Henry J. steel, no way no how.

Let me know the next time you see a 67 Buick GS400. Right, I won't be holding my breath.

Jeremy

[mcshooter]

Hot Cars by Hans Tore Tangerud check this for your old muscule cars . i posted this earlier

[IPD]

Kids will say the same thing about your "desirables" in 20+ years. It's all relative...

You're not seeing real deuce coupes in any repeatability. Not Henry J. steel, no way no how.

Let me know the next time you see a 67 Buick GS400. Right, I won't be holding my breath.

Jeremy

i guarantee i wouldn't be nearly as attached to this platform if it wasn't capable of hanging with "the big dogs". performance matters to me. it doesn't appear to matter to those stuck in the 60's.

and what difference does it make if a deuce coupe is original or not? THEY LOOK FREAKING IDENTICAL. honest to god, no one outside of the 3/s community gives a shit if you strip-frame-restore a 99 vr4 or if you clone one from a different year and paint it--without stripping it down. the same applies here. genuine or not, it's the amount that matters--and when it comes to deuce coupes, there are WAY too many of them.

67 buick gs400? looks like a gto. sure, there's differences between all of the 60's era cars; but they all share the same freaking design elements. any casual observer can tell the supra and 3000gt are different cars. most "non-indoctrinated" people would have a hard time differentiating between muscle cars.

p.s.

in 20 years, the 3/s will still balls to the wall fast with bolt-ons. meanwhile, newer cars will be neutered by liberal pussies and older, 60's era cars will still be running n/a on carbs & being proud of running 13's.

p.p.s.

it's just hard for a "young pup" (relatively speaking) like myself to understand the sentimentality. the cars didn't have unique design features (look at the design of a 3/s compared to everything else; now look at the design of a 69 gto vs. everything else). we "forgive" fox-body stangs because they're cheap and stupidly fast; but 60's era cars are the worst of all worlds, imho. they look too similar to each other & the performance is tepid.

[bluzvr4]

i kinda agree but then again totally disagree a 67 chevelle a 67 camaro and a 67 vette look nothing alike

[IPD]

a vette has, for the most part, always stood apart from the "run of the mill"; and that is why i better understand the collector fascination. they also perform better than most other cars for their respective time period.

if you put the average person in a room with the following debadged cars:

67 dart
67 falcon
67 chevelle

they WOULD NOT be able to tell them apart.

again, i get the fascination with unique sheet metal (39 zephyr--to an extent, for instance). split-window stingray, definitely. dmc-12 delorean, MB 300 gullwing, lotus esprit, bmw 507, etc. there are cars which just are DIFFERENT from everything else, and i get that. i don't get what makes owning a dart over a falcon so desirable. blind brand loyalty? the first car you ever owned?

if i were an aging 60 year old baby-boomer, i'd be plunking cash down on that supercar i lusted after but never got; i wouldn't be blowing my wad on prettying-up a 60's mass-produced hunk of sheet metal which stole design elements from every other 60's mass-produced hunk of sheet metal. i'd be buying a miura. i'd be buying a bora. i would not be buying clones.

[bluzvr4]

i dontthink those 3 cars look the same at all. maybe a resemblance but in the case our cars look like a camaro/firebird.

[mcshooter]

i have had quite a few folks and not old ones ask me at a cruise in if my sons vr4 is a pontiac or caramo. at one cruise in when you leave the mc will anounce there goes a 1936 5 window ford but when the vr4 goes by he says i dont know what that is ...