Making power out of the 318
No wonder teenagers give up and put fart pipes on hondas instead of building musclecars.
Then there is the price of muscle cars and almost muscle cars that need a **** ton of work that min. wage won’t cover. Enter in the new hot rods that are actually affordable and have the ability to get double the mileage.
The kids don’t even care if there as fast as the old iron, they just care there faster than there friends **** box.
Sounds exactly like how it was when I was coming up. Only I bought Dusters, Cúda’s Impalas, Poncho LeMans & Tempests, Olds Cutlass’s… etc….
They were all loooossssssrs against the guys that had knowledge and a few years experience and money behind them but we did t care. As long as my **** bills was faster than anyone else’s in my 12th year of schooling and a few years after, that’s all that mattered.
Back in the early 80’s, I started with a $600 rot box ‘73-4spd Cúda, then a $700 Duster, A pricey but sweet ‘79 El Camino,, then a free ‘74 Duster, (did work for the owner around his house to “Earn” the car he could t stand.) a ‘73 LeMans for a amazing price of a case of beer, a ‘74 Tempest free for the asking,
Young kids don’t make the money required for a muscle car and simply go to the cheapest option that’s easy to get… a Honda or Toyota or Nissan, or Hyundai or whatever the hell falls in that lab cheap as ****. Then they do the same crap we did in modifying the cars. Again, as long as they’re faster than their body **** box, they don’t give a crap.
They are simply priced out of the muscle car market. So they use the next best thing.