Some people are just never happy....The Golden Age of Musclecars is now.....

As much as I like the "Old-School" Musclecars that I write about-I get tired of a certain type of people lamenting that "They don't make 'em like they used to."  Really? Think about this. The base-model Camaro that anybody can buy for under 25k has 323 hp and runs 0-60 in under 6 seconds and the 1/4 in like 14 flat. That's faster than a 1969 Z/28 or a 1969 SS396.  And that's the basic V6 model. The 425 hp SS and 580 hp Z/28 go way beyond that. Ditto for the Mustang. The V6 model has like 319 hp and again-runs high 13s in the 1/4. The GT has 435 hp and runs high 12s off the showroom floor and costs 32K. Then there's the 662 hp Shelby GT500 with the blower.  The V6 Charger and Challenger have 300+ hp. The Hemis range from 370-707 hp if you count the blown Hellcat models.  Sorry old chaps-any of these new cars would smoke your LS6 Chevelle, Hemi 'Cuda,  428 Mach 1, etc in a "Stoplight Gran Prix" on street tires-and get 20 mpg with the a/c on while doing it!!  And the premium ones would smoke a Yenko or Baldwin-Motion Phase III Camaro, or a Shelby Mustang. I drove a Roush Mustang with 675 hp. It felt like any other Mustang. Until I hit the loud pedal. What a rocket!! This car was as close to a NASCAR racer in street clothes as you can get. And it handles and brakes way better than the stocker too. Car and Driver lamented that in the 1/4 it wasn't "substantially" faster than the 435 hp GT model. That's because the times differed depending on whether you fried the tires halfway down the strip or all the way down the strip!!. The car was going about 110 when the spinning tires finally matched the speed of the road!!  With drag radials or slicks this would easily be a low 11 second, possibly high 10 second car. It just couldn't hook up on street tires. Yet C/D acted like it was an overpriced pile of shit-that the base model was a better deal. For 99% of the population it probably is. How many times do you see some white-haired 75 year old guy in a Corvette or an Audi R8 or a Porsche 911 going 65 in the right lane on the freeway and wonder "Why did you buy the freakin' thing if your not going to go over 70??!!"   Buy 'em now while you can. They will not pass this way again... Mastermind