I can't agree here.....
This is 2011 and today you can make a muscle car everything you want it to be. We have Wilwood brakes,bigger rims,Alterkation K member with rack and pinion steering, fuel injection and overdrives...
Is it expensive? Of course! but so is buying a $30k import and dumping more money into it. Can we get most of the money we put into our old school rides? no way...however, the newer car looses value everyday that you drive it.
I have a respect for about anything fast but here is the truth. It costs a lot to get these things to run with the production V8's made 40+ years ago. Sure there is VVT and DOHC plus power to weight ratio but put a turbo on a nicely prepped 360 in an a body and see what happens.
There are not to many younger guys into Mopar muscle anymore but the people that are just happen to be doing amazing things with them. Stay tuned because I should know. I am one of them...