Where's the Hard-Core hot rodders with wicked fast beaters?

Maybe I'm showing my age, but nowadays it seems there's the Concours "Just as it left the factory" crowd and there's the Blown / Nitroused / Modern engine and tranny crowd, and nothing in between. There's no badass beaters around. When I was younger yes, there was the meticulously restored show car types, and there was the radical "Pro Street" type cars, both of which cost their owners many thousands of dollars even back then. But there was also the dangerous "beater" that could stomp the ass of a $30,000 ( In 1980's dollars) show car or Pro Street hero in a drag race. I'm talking about cars like my buddy's 1965 Plymouth Barracuda. Yes, the ugly Valiant model with the huge fastback window. But it was light, and it was all motor.  It was primered, and he never got around to painting it. He had crudely radiused the wheelwells on the rear to clear the soft-compound N50-15 Mickey Thompson tires that were mounted on 15X10 Center Lines, while still running E78-14 tires on stock steel wheels on the front. His crude, home-made exhaust system exited in front of the rear wheels and was excessively loud even by kid hot rod standards. But it had a very nasty solid-lifter, tunnel-rammed 340 backed by a four-speed and a 4.90 geared 8 3/4 rear end with a pinion snubber. He would pop the clutch about 4,500 rpm, and the car would just rocket off the line, and he'd shift it about 7,500. He smote everyone in biblical fashion, even expensive big-block cars. Another guy I knew had a ratty, primered, '66 El Camino with a 455 Pontiac under the hood that showed it taillights to quite a few aghast expensively restored musclecars. There was also a guy with a 383 powered Duster that kicked a lot of ass, and I took the 400 out of my wrecked Trans-Am and stuffed it in a 72 Ventura that looked like Eddie Murphy's crappy Nova in "Beverly Hills Cop".  But it smoked a lot of "Hot" cars that had pricetags 10 or 20 times what I had invested. You don't see that anymore. I mean, I'd love to see a beat up, but wicked fast '88 5.0 Mustang, or an '84 Camaro with a 383 stroker in it, or an '85 Olds Cutlass with a 403 or 455 V8 stuffed in it, or even a '90's Crown Victoria with a blower on the "Cop Car" 4.6 mod motor. All I ever see is megabuck cars whether their restored or butchered. Let's see some cheap, but quick cars, please. Mastermind