Old vs New.....You have to go "Apples to Apples."

If your a football fan I'm sure you get tired of hearing about Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Terrell Ownes, Chad Ochocinco, and all these other superstar wide recievers who played their whole career under the current rules where you get a flag if you look at one wrong, much less actually hit him. The debate is how would these Divas fare back in the '70's when you could hit the reciever all the way down the field ( now the rule is five yeards ) when fearsome DBs like Jack Tatum, George Atkinson, Cliff Harris, and Mel Blount spent Sundays practically decapitating pass-catchers? And conversely, how awesomely unstoppable would '70's star recievers like Lynn Swann, Lance Alworth, Drew Pearson,Paul Warfield, and Cliff Branch have been if you couldn't hit them?  The way this applies to musclecars is the debate over whether the "King Kong" cars of yesteryear could compete with the "King Kong" cars of today. Well just like there's the rule change asterisk comparing Lance Alworth to Jerry Rice, the same goes when comparing an L88 Corvette to a Z06. Tire technology has changed the game drastically. The L88's were drag-tested on bias-belted F70-15 tires. Times varied on whether you smoked the tires halfway down the track or all the way down the track. How would a new Z06 do on F70-15 bias plys? And how would the L88 do with 12 inch wide 335/35/ZR20s?  Musclecar review drag-tested a pristine reader-owned L88 a few years ago with BFG drag radials-and it ran a blistering 11.88 at almost 120 mph. About the same as a new Z06 with a professional driver. Hot Rod's May 1970 LS6 Chevelle test car ran a 13.44 on F70-14 bias-plys. A new Camaro SS runs 13 flat on 275/45R20 Z-rated tires. Obviously, the LS6 could easily dip into the 12s with better tires. What would the new Camaro run on F70-14 Wide-Oval Coker tire repros?  The same applies to cornering as well as drag racing.  A 1978 WS6 Trans-Am is regarded as the pinnacle of '70's handling. Car and Driver tested one that pulled .82G on the skidpad on 225/70R15 Goodyear Polysteel Radials. By comparison Road and Track's 2010 Camaro SS test car pulled .88G, and the 2010 SRT8 Challenger pulled only .85G-on 245/45R20 front and 275/45R20 ZR rated BFG Comp T/A's. Again-what would the old T/A do with modern Z-rated performance tires?  The point I'm making is, there were some awesome cars built in the '60's and '70's and there are awesome cars being built now. But if your going to compare them-at least keep the playing field as fair as possible. Mastermind