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Originally Posted by rice_classic
I think the wannabe youtube stars have done this car a disservice. It's like it became fashionable to hate on it... then all those other sack riders of these YT clowns who haven't driven the car simply echo-chamber the nonsense.
So much BS surrounding these cars that any potential buyer has a much greater than job than simply sifting through it... sifting isn't enough, it's more like navigating an ocean of BS using only a compass and the setting sun.
BTW: these YT wannabes are only growing in number, and the phrase "those who know it the loudest, know it the least" has never been more appropriate to describe them. This doesn't only apply to cars either. Photography, fashion, Investing, gaming, eating, tech - every category has a self-proclaimed expert trying to get more people to "click here to subscribe" while wildly speaking out of school on the subject.
The Dunning Krueger effect is rampant on YT.
/end rant
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Yep, back in the 50s (ya, here we go again -
), some of the relatively economical, light, sporty, quick handling cars are shown below.
I don't recall the boys driving the "muscle" cars of the day, beating up on the folks that drove these cars. Nope, they were relatively slow on the 1/4 mile track, they couldn't get 2nd gear rubber nor could the lay a 100 feet long patch of rubber.
They served a different driving enjoyment and we (me and the 50s motoring crowd, just let them do their thing), while we continued to add cubic inches, add more carburetors and blowers, all for the purpose to see who could get to the end of a quarter mile the soonest.
Who had the most fun, the folks spending the day at a hot, smoky, stinky, drag strip, listening to the roar of big iron blasting down a drag strip or the folks spending the day in a rough riding, cramped machine cruising around the countryside.
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