Why Sports Car guys are smarter.....

Sports car enthusiasts often look down their noses at musclecar enthusiasts and I'm sad to say I think their right. Doesn't matter if it's Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding, Mopar Action, Mustang Monthly or anything else. From cover to cover all you see is classic iron with Chevy LS motors, 5.7, 6.1 and 6.4 fuelie Hemis in vintage Mopars and 4.6 and 5.0 or 5.4 Ford mod motors stuffed in classic Mustangs, T-Birds and Toinos. And it's not just the engines; a '55 Chevy with a Morrisson frame, 2009 Corvette suspension and brakes and an LS9 backed by a 4L80E is not cool.  Neither is a '70's T/A with an LS motor, DSE front and rear subframes, rack&pinion steering, a four-link rear suspension with a narrowed 9" Ford rear end. You buy an old car because it's OLD, because it's totally different from what's NEW. You buy it because you love it's charachter, flaws and all. Sometimes the flaws are what makes them great. '60's and '70's Porsche 911s are beasts that don't suffer fools lightly. If your not a skilled driver with balls of steel, at track day or on a country road, let off the gas in a curve and they'll swap ends on you sending you into the ditch or worse. ( That's what happened to Paul Walker and his pal, even all the electronic nannies in the world can't save you if you push a 911 too hard ). Indy 500 winner Danny Ongais responded when asked by Car and Diver- "How do you corner fast in your 911 Turbo?" He responded- "I don't corner fast in my 911 Turbo". Porschephiles are proud of this. Either your a man or a mouse. If you don't like the way they handle then don't buy one. "Drivability?"  Get a Jag or a Ferarri, candy-ass. Check out the Porsche enthusiast magazines.  You NEVER, EVER see a 1969 911S with a modern 3.6 fuelie engine, and suspension with all the electronic nannies that the factory has added since the '80's to keep yuppies from wrecking them and make-them more user-friendly. Now, you may see a 1971 911T with headers, two Weber carbs, some hot cams, Koni shocks and Mini-Lite wheels mounting larger, stickier tires, but that's still keeping the faith and improving the car's performance within reasonable parameters. You'll never see one with a 2010 Cayman powertrain and suspension. Yet you see '70 Charger R/T's and '70 Z/28's and '68 GTOs all desecrated with modern fuelie motors and more. Why?  The Porsche guys aren't "Lone Wolves" either. Got to a Jag club meeting or an Aston-Martin owners show-n-shine or a Ferarri club meeting. Again-you will NEVER see a "Goldfinger" DB5 with a V8 out of 2006 Vantage or a '70's Volante with a V12 out of a Vanquish. You won't see a 1973 Ferarri 246 Dino with a 2007 F430 engine and tranny in it;s ass end. Ditto for a Pantera owner's club. You may see some Edelbrock aluminum heads, or even a 429 swapped in place of the 351; but you'll NEVER, EVER see a Pantera with a blown 5.4 Mod Motor out of 2011 GT500 Mustang. They tweak 'em with carb,or fuel-injection ,cam and exhaust tuning, they play with shocks and sway bars and wheels and tires. You might see some Brembo calipers and cross-drilled rotors, but the cars aren't butchered beyond redemption. They have all their original charm with a litlle more grunt and grip. Even Datsun Z guys are the same. You'll see some headers and Weber carbs, or maybe a 5-speed out of a '78 280 in a '73 240, but you won't see a 2009 350Z motor and tranny in one. Sports car guys respect the old iron and want to preserve them for future generations. They get it. Like I've said before-you don't buy a WWII Vintage Colt .45 and put laser sights on it. If you play with airplanes you don't buy a P51 fighter plane and put a jet engine in it. You don't have to say it guys. I'm already looking for a 1968-73 911 ( with the small bumpers and no smog equipment; '74 and later models had big 5-mph bumpers and like American cars of the same vintage, ever-tightening emission controls ). And I'll be giving the "finger" to every '65 Mustang with an '80s "5.0" powertrain that I pass. Mastermind