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A nicely done up 440, 409 or even 351 could rock your world the way a buzzy little four cylinder never would. ![]()
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@Tcoat. Your evaluation of 60s/70s muscle cars hit the mark. I wasn't a die hard muscle car guy, but I could neither fit inside nor afford a legit sports car. I did have a '70 Chevelle SS. At the time I really liked it. It was a "350 hp" automatic. It was reasonably comfortable, reasonably fast and drank like Lindsay Lohan. I replaced the QJ with a Holley spreadbore and it ran a little better and the highway fuel economy went up slightly. But there was no getting around what it was. It was a rust prone elephant. To say it "handled" is a gross overstatement.
I friend of mine occasionally asks me if I wish I still had it. The answer is unequivocally NO! If someone is interested in performance vehicles, 4 or 2 wheeled, these are the "good old days." If they just want "old," well, as humfrz would probably agree, "old ain't much to write home about."
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the benefit to an rx8 is that they need a full motor rebuild every 60k miles, so they're getting rarer and rarer than any '71 every year as the rebuild costs come closer and closer to their reselling price..
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Then somebody on here brings the subject up and back to Hemmings I go! https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...t/2562995.html https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1968-dodge-dart-601306 https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...e/2562776.html https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...t/2560220.html https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...t/2538269.html
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