Real sports car buffs always sneered at Detroit’s muscle cars for their lack of subtlety, which boiled down to a Euro/American dichotomy between the Old World road course and the US format in which oval racing (all left turns) was the big step up from straight-line drag racing. I actually saw the NASCAR greats run back in 1969 or 70 at the Michigan 400, David Pearson, Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough… those cars were still closely related to the street models but the oil crisis and new safety regulations changed all that by the mid-70s. All of which is to say that, while the present vehicle is nice enough, I’d hold out for a Hemi.
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- alex 3-24-2009 1:43 am