Frenchy we're talking apples to oranges here. Muscle cars weren't made from factory to road race.
In the 60s they were actually made to run from light to light and on the quarter mile.
Win on Sunday sell on Monday was the creedo. NASCAR and drag racing were the biggest influences on car sales.
Who could afford an open wheel racer or an F1 racer' Porsche or Ferrari? At that time one could go to the showroom, purchase
what you wanted and with little or no alteration race the car on weekends and be competitive, then drive the car to work on Monday.
We did that quite regularly then........you're from a different era, much younger. A lot of us were there and participating.
Indeed, and it's exactly the point I'm making, it's a gimmic car targeting you, the middle life or young geriatric
trying to re-infuse a breath of viagra via hardware. Or the 20 year old bodybuilder type that thinks he's a bad arse. What good is this car nowdays?
Red light to red light, we all know any mildly modified AWD will leave you frustrated. 180 MPH highway stint? The laws of aerodynamics on a brick will start to bite you back at 130+ and that sportcar with 200-250HP less will give you a run. Sunday canyon war, too heavy you'll get humiliated by Nipon incorporated. Your hunting ground will be freeway '70 MPH - 130' pedal mashing.
Anyway, car guys know that HP numbers mean nothing, the car needs to be ballanced. Nakamura got it right, he designed the GTR starting with the tyres contact patch. Why 480HP only he said? Because it's all what the tyres could effectively handle and yet he created a UFO, granted you are just one of the input to the computer that drives the car
Please don't take my comments the wrong way, I love you guys but I can't help smiling when I read Frank feels he's driving a UFO because he pushed 160, INK thinks his old Challenger was a supercar and his 340 could be reved @ 8K old day long. Cars are made to be enjoyed and we like different things and purposes, none of us should lose track of what our cars can really do.
Otherwise we fall into that pompous maskarade poluting car shows. One of my past time is to drive around and stop at people's house and say :' Hey sorry to bother you, I'm a car guy and noticed your ____, would you mind telling me about it?'. When the first thing I hear is :'It's got XXX HP', I know I made a mistake.
True car guys can be marvelled at a 20HP Fiat 500 as well as a Muscle car or the markmanship of a Rat Rod. The engineering, the how did they did it, the tricks and inovations is the kicker. But I disgress
Oh and ... a 707HP factory car IS cool
probably looking at $70K with ADM and some options.
