Wednesday, November 30, 2016

We should all adopt "Dominic Toretto's" attitude from "Fast&Furious.....

I get so tired of people arguing that whatever niche of hot-rodding they personally like is the "right" one, and everyone else is an idiot. I loved Vin Diesel's answer to Gal Gadot when she caught him inspecting his rivals Gran Torino. "You like that car?" "I appreciate a fine piece of machinery, no matter who builds it." We should all take that stance. I get so tired of the Concours crowd deriding an awesome car because it has the wrong kind of hose clamps, or BFG T/A radials instead of bias-ply Coker Tire Wide Oval repro tires!  Or the idiots that say no "real" musclecars were built after 1971. Really? You don't consider the 1973-74 SD-455 Trans-Am a real musclecar?  A 1974 Dodge Charger with a 440, a 4-speed, and a 3.55:1 geared Dana 60 rear end isn't a real Musclecar?  A 1987 Buick Grand National-that ran high 13s off the showroom floor isn't a musclecar? The LT1 engined 1994 Impala SS isn't a musclecar? A new, 465 hp SRT8 Hemi Charger of Chrysler 300 isn't a musclecar because it has 4-doors?  A new "5.0" Mustang or Camaro SS that run 12s off the showroom floor aren't musclecars?  Shut the F%*&k up!  I also hate people who deride import swaps, or import cars, period. A small-block Chevy in a Datsun 240Z makes an awesome perfromance car. The SBC doesn't weigh any more than the old Datsun straight six, but has twice the power! Does anybody realize that Carrol Shelby took the AC Ace-a small British sports car and stuffed a small-block Ford V8 in it and created the legendary Cobra? Back in the day guys would put 327 Chevys into Austin-Healey 3000s. The buff magazines called them "The Poor Man's Cobra". I guess a Porsche 928 is technically a "sports car", but with a front-engine big V8, a five-speed, and rear-wheel drive, it sounds an awful lot like a musclecar to me. With a base price of $29,000-a new 332 hp Nissan 370Z isn't a screaming performance bargain? With sub 5-second 0-60 times and high 13 second 1/4 mile times, a Subaru WRX ISN'T a performance car??  Your going to argue that a big-block Corvette isn't a musclecar? How about the Pantera? Back in the day the buff magazines called them "The Poor Man's Lamborghini". However with a price over $10,000 in 1972 dollars-( a 455HO Trans-Am was $4255.75 ) I doubt that any "poor" people bought them. But the mid-ship mounted 351CJ gives it quite a bit of muscle if you ask me. Build your car any damn way you want and enjoy it, but don't make fun of other people's pride and joy. I swear, if I see one more Dodge Ram pickup with a sticker of Calvin ( of the comic strip "Calvin&Hobbes" ) pissing on a Ford emblem or a Chevy Bow-Tie, I'm going to vomit. And then shoot the offending vehicle with a paint-ball gun....Ok maybe not, but it's a nice thought.... Can't we all just get along?  Mastermind        

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