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Question of the Day: Do You Care About Modern Tuner Muscle Cars?


Question of the Day: Do You Care About Modern Tuner Muscle Cars?

Today’s question revolves around modern “tuner” muscle cars. From Shelby Mustangs to Hennessey Camaros, there are a gaggle of shops across the country that makes piles of money modifying brand new cars for their customers. Do you care about these cars? Hey, someone has to because if not, all of the shops that build them would fold up and close the doors in a hurry.

The majority of the packages, no matter the car or the builder, seem to follow the same template. Normally the already low car is lowered, a supercharger is bolted on, there are wheel/tire/brake upgrades, and then there’s the obligatory decal and logo package (inside and out). Oh, and outlandish horsepower is always on tap as well as well as claims of custom dyno tuning.

Those horsepower numbers work great in headlines written by automotive writers who still go to sleep with a poster of a Lamborghini Countach over their bed, but for the rest of us that have the slightest bit of real world experience, an 800hp car that’s sprung link a dump truck and rolls on rubber band tires with no sidewall raises more questions than pants tents.

We’ll absolutely say that not all of these cars are as over the top as the example given above. Shelby had the Terlingua package that took the V6 Mustang, attached a blower and suspension upgrades and literally transformed the car into something very fun to drive. That package was also $8,000 on top of the price of a brand new car.

So here’s the question of the day.

Do you care about “tuner” muscle cars or do you see them as lots of bucks for not enough return?

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62 thoughts on “Question of the Day: Do You Care About Modern Tuner Muscle Cars?

  1. GuitarSlinger

    NO !!! … to be honest I take more interest in all the DIY hot rodding and muscle cars than I do in the wretchedly excessive POYW ( pull out your wallet ) stuff going on today .

    Add to that the fact that I find todays so called muscle cars to be nothing more than the Big Three’s cynical attempts at plying our wallets open for over sized and overweight design ‘ blobs ‘ attempting to remind us of the days when a muscle car WAS a muscle car… rather than just a re-badgd Mercedes [ Dodge Charger Challenger ] Holden [ Chevy Camaro ] or tired old platform given yet one more go around [ Mustang ] with a semi nostalgia look to them all vying for the American EuroSnob Wanna Be crown . Because in truth if its a EuroSnob I want … it sure as heck won’t be a ‘ Wanna Be ‘

    So once again in answer to the question ..

    NO !!!!!!!

  2. grancuda

    No, don’t care about the shop tuned ones or even the stock ones. Had a 2011 Mustang and it was just missing what it takes to have a real muscle car. It just felt like a wannabe muscle car.

    1. The Outsider

      I’ve owned and driven muscle cars since the mid ’70s. My 2012 Mustang GT is by far the best one that I’ve ever had . . . 7,000 r.p.m. . . . 12s in the quarter . . . 25+ m.p.g. (if you feather it). A simply brilliant piece of machinery (An automotive “Stradivarius” according to one magazine). So I respectfully disagree with your “wannabe” broadside.

      (BTW, Shelby GT500 is the best OEM stocker I’ve ever driven).

      1. GuitarSlinger

        If in fact your 2012 Ford Mustang is truly the best you’ve even owned … my condolences . And btw …. what ‘ idiot ‘ automotive pundit ever said the Mustang was an automotive ‘ Stradivarius ? Fender Tele maybe … more like a Gibson Les Paul in reality …. but Stradivarius ??? That over weight , crude excuse of a EuroSnob wanna be ? Give it a rest son . Heck .. the new Mustang Boss 302 … and the new Shelby doesn’t even rate as the automotive Paul Reed Smith .. never mind Stradivarius . . You’re showing your true colors … or should that be … errr … ignorance .Not to mention a whole lot of Ford Mustang bias …

  3. Scott Liggett

    Not especially. Most are just going for the internet glory of big HP numbers. They take an already expensive car and doubles it’s price. And, they take an overweight car with gaudy body kits and make it even more gaudy. Personally, I’d rather read stereo instructions than about these cars.

  4. Gonkulator

    Well modern technology is a wonderful thing I dont consider using a lap top to change parameters tuning . There is something to be said about getting your hands dirty and taking the time turning screws and adjusting things to get the perfect tune now days its plug and play crap and takes no real talent

  5. Michael Craven

    I’ve always wondered about long-term service support to what are essentially ‘custom’ cars. I suppose it’s no problem as long as Hennessy, Saleen, Lingenfelter or whoever are still in business, or the owner has a gearhead inclination and can work on his or her own car. But I suspect that many of these vehicles are sold to bucks-up folks who have no inclination to do their own work. What happens when the company that did the conversion is long gone and one of these hot rods needs work?

  6. Michael Craven

    To answer Brian’s question, NO, they don’t enthuse me, not to look at when I see them at the shows and certainly not enough to ever think of buying one.

  7. Gary Smrtic

    Not in the least. I like a homebuilt car, not a resto, but something that someone has really made their own. I do like the pro touring cars, if they aren’t stupid low to the ground so you can’t clear a speed bump. Now cars are just too pricey, and one other thing that is tragically un-reported by the automotive media, is how many of the supposedly well known “tuner” shops build absolute crap and screw their customers. I’ve dealt with a good number of them as a supplier of composite components to them. I can tell you I’d run from the one shown on the flanks of the Camaro aove. Lingenfelter is a reare exception and shining star in the field of tuenr shops. They are a first class operation, and this coming from about as anti-Chevy a guy as you can imagine. But they have integirty and build a quality product, and support it well.
    Too few out there like that, and, as I said, it remains unreported, I think, because the automtive media doesn’t want to shed any disparraging light on the hobby for fear of it affecting their ability to raise advertising revenues.So to my way of thinking, the automotive media is complicit….

  8. BBOB

    The car makers have missed the point of what made a muscle car. It was buy your engine and drive train and throw it into the cheapest and lightest body shell that came with it. I could afford the payments and modify it with good stuff at my own pace.

    1. Ron Ward

      Yep… this is exactly how I feel. I don’t need (nor want) power door locks, power windows, power seats, GPS, independent rear suspension, heated leather, 13 air bags, remote start, yadda yadda yadda….

      Gimme 400+ HP and a manual transmission in a 2-door coupe for around $20K.

  9. jerry z

    If I had the money, a ZL1 would be in my garage instead of buying a SS and have a tuner upgrade it. A 580hp that sticks like glue would fun enough.

  10. The Outsider

    Yes . . . because they lead to the development of more parts for new muscle. They also lead to the emissions homologation of aftermarket parts. And they give us home builders performance benchmarks to shoot for.

    If the people who say they “don’t care” were honest, they’d admit that jealousy and envy are prime motivating factors in their negative attitudes.

    Building a well-integrated, fully-functioning, daily-driver reliable new high-performance car is a lot more challenging and expensive than the average old-school “catalog build” (there’s nothing “plug and play” about modern performance cars).

    Unlike some of the “keyboard racers” commenting here, I’m steeling myself for yet another week (next week) of the self-appointed jacka$$es (you know who you are) looking down their purist noses at my late-model “wannabe” performance car (that will most certainly punish some traditional muscle along the way).

    That being said, most of the turnkey “tuner” cars seem overpriced for what you get.

    1. Anonymous

      @ The Outsider ( who’s really as ‘ inside ‘ as it gets 😉 ) Envious ? Really ? Hmmmn … lets see now .. 1/4 mile in 11 seconds flat .. in the 70’s … in a 65 Olds I BUILT … a EuroSnob SUV that can keep up with all but the top models of todays so called ‘ muscle cars ‘ ( I’ll let you guess what that might be …. as I blow by your Mustang muscle car wanna be ) …. And if its racer you want ? Try this on for size .. Drag racing champion in class … when I was 17 …. SCCA FF FV and FSV in my 20’s … along with FIA ERC rally contender .. kart champion when in my 12’s ..etc etc etc ..

      So envious ? Methinks not . Just realistic , honest and with a historical sense of perspective you seem to be missing ….. as well as being able to distinguish numbers on a page from genuine driving pleasure ( its kind of hard to derive pleasure driving a car your baby niece can drive as fast as you can due to all the electronic aids ) and more importantly …… FUN ! FYI… that SRS Mustang of yours ? Sure IMO the best of the modern muscle cars ( which is in fact a bit of an oxymoron ) … but still a dated design and technology from the ‘ Dark Ages ‘ of performance motoring that in fact has barely evolved at all

      And errr btw …. anytime you’d like to take this discussion to the track son … any track ….. bring it on !

      1. The Outsider

        So I guess if I swapped out the brakes for some 9 1/2 inch drums (what my first ’60s muscle car had), fitted some six-inch wide bias ply tires on heavy 14×6 wheels, cut 1000 r.p.m. off the red line, half of my car’s valves, 3/4s of its camshafts, its twin independent variable valve timing, and a 100+ horses from the engine, and increased the revs on the Interstate to about 3,500 @ 70 m.p.h. . . . all the while sitting on a board-flat piece of un-airconditioned vinyl, and filling the air with copious amounts of unburned hydrocarbons I’d be having more “fun?”

        1. grancuda

          You convinced me with that spiel. I’m geting some for sale signs & getting rid of all my old pathetic cars & getting a new Mustang 5.0!!

  11. Turbo Regal

    These new ones try to cash in on the glory of the originals (Hennessy stripes that copy the Yenko ones). Until the modern tuners do engine swaps like putting the Z06 427 in a base Camaro 1SS, no thanks.

  12. bkb

    The “tuner” biz has been around for a long time. Mr Norms comes to mind immediately. Nothing wrong with a little dyno tuning work either. From what Ive seen most carbureted cars could use some! Seems like today is a lot like yesterday, just with a bigger price tag. So yeah, I’m interested! The new drivelines of today are tomorrows junk yard swaps. I am tired of the crappy look under the hood on the new cars though, and I miss the wild induction set-ups of days gone by…
    BKB

  13. Mopar or No Car

    Yes. Today’s big bucks snob equipment is tomorrow’s mainstream technology. Always been that way, always will be.

  14. Mrocketscience

    There’s nothing wrong with ’em, shoot I’d like to have one for my work commute. That being said, I don’t really have too much interest in them in general. I like to work on my own stuff and frankly I don’t know anything about modern cars. I had a 2006 Mustang for a couple of years and I don’t think I opened the hood more than a couple of times. Drove nice though.

  15. Joe

    Lots of anger here. I see lots of people living in the past. Seeing as how I never got to experience the “good ole days” I would be happier than a pig in shit to have any one of these cars in my driveway. Every douchebag with an old car covered in layers of dirt and grime, sitting there not being used is expecting top dollar. The run of the mill hot rodder is priced out of the market. So what is a guy to do, spend tens of thousands on a rusted POS, then spend tens of thousands more on said POS to have what? A car that in reality is only woth half what was spent and is not what they had wanted or envisione in the first place, Or that guy can go out, buy a car that is reliable, comfortable, has nice options and can go like stink for the same price…I am sure a bunch of wrinkled old farts will crap all over this but…I think the modern muscle car is the way to go. Dont get me wrong, I love old cars, I love my old car and I loved wrinkled old farts….but I sure do love my new V8, manual trans car with AC and a nice radio more….to each their own. It aint the 60s no more folks…build a bridge and get over it.

    1. coffeejoejava

      The best answer on this ENTIRE thread. I was not born in the 50’s, wasn’t into cars in the 60’s. Do I have a healthy appreciation for the classics? Hell yes. Does my head turn when a classic drives by? Hell yes. Can I afford one? Hell no. But if I could, I would. But there is not a bank in the world that will give you a loan for a 1969 RoadRunner!! Yet, I can get a loan for a SRT Hemi Challenger. AND it has A/C, manual transmission, humpin V-8 engine…and great gas mileage…IF I can keep my foot out of it.

      1. grancuda

        “But there is not a bank in the world that will give you a loan for a 1969 RoadRunner”

        100% incorrect, I got a loan on a ’69 RoadRunner just a little over 2 years back & at 3% interest. It’s just not as easy as wheeling into your local mega-dealership and getting one. You have to shop around to different banks to see what they loan for and what the criteria for the old car is.

        1. Scott Liggett

          You know that info on the Road Runner loan can be really really dangerous to someone like me. I was better off being ignorant.

          1. The Outsider

            Just price adequate full coverage insurance on a pristine, daily-driven ’69 Beeper . . . and compare it to the cost of insuring one of the modern muscle cars . . . the difference will certainly take a hunk out of the transportation budget.

  16. Ed

    Definitely some closed minds in this thread. I’m a middle aged guy. I have old school, radio delete, manual everything, high compression musclecars from the ’60s. I love their noise, smell, vibration, etc. Crude, raw, real man stuff I’ll never give up. But I also have modern muscle. They easily outpower/outrun my old stuff, start every time, don’t leak, are WAY more comfortable, get WAY better mileage, don’t offend the women passengers (or nearby outsiders) and you can drive them in the WINTER, with pump gas, at highway speeds without having to change the valvesprings ever year, and set the lash every week. While I agree the modern muscle is overloaded with power ashtrays, etc. that unnecessarily drive the prices/weight up (I would love to be able to order a GT500 drivetrain in a stripped down “Bullitt” style Mustang for cheap), these really are the glory days for American Muscle cars. It takes very little to have 1000 HP, RELIABLE daily drivers. Try that with your old junk and let me know how it works out.

  17. cyclone03

    THis is a real deep thoughts QofTD.
    My first gut thought is I hate them. But then I remember history,only ’60’s because I know those custom coach builders in the 20,30,and40’s did the same but I don’t know thier names.
    The Shelby Mustangs are some of the most famous and valuble “tuner” cars of all time. Yenko,Hurst,(I know there are more).
    Then Saleen,Mecum(remember those?) Callaway.
    I drove an 85 Saleen New,should have bit the payment.
    The factorys have gave us great “tunner cars”, I would say Z28,The first Ram Air 4,Boss, and TA’s are “tunner cars”.

    Once we moved into the mid-late 70’s the tunning was stickers only so they got a bad rap for several years.

    Mid 80’s to 2006 gave us great cars too. I cut it at ’06 because that was the last year for the Ford GT. Major Safety changes came for ’06 and new cars gained lots of wieght and required those huge side walls (doors).
    ’07 to now Super Chargers seem to be required and we now have 5+LT engines with 450-500hp from the factory,these are true “tuner cars”. Tuners have always seamed to require forced induction.
    Our Muscle cars do it all on Motor.

    Seems the lines are blurred even for me.

  18. CharlesW

    buy a tuner car already done up is like ordering a pizza – yea I could cook it but im too lazy to get off the couch so i’ll call someone else and have them do all the work for me

  19. Remy-Z

    Congratulations, Brian…way to stir up teh internetz…

    I have had one old and one new for years now. Nothing beats wrenching on your own junk, but there’s something to be said for being able to go 13’s unmodded and pull upper 20’s or even low 30’s MPG cruising with AC and tunes on. Joe said it better than I could: they are two separate and different worlds. I could find a better comparison between apples and oranges.

    And you all know, damn well, that except for a tiny handful of people here who would, NOBODY ELSE would buy a rubber floor, crank window, stripped coupe. Business-wise, it’s suicide. Closest thing you can get is a Ram Tradesman right now, and I think you can get that (short 1/2t, rubber floors, only PW/PDL, 5.7) for about $25g.

  20. Turbo Regal

    The worst are these new cars chopped up to look like car once made by a company no longer in business. Those Camaros modified to look like some sort of Trans Am of some year back or a Challenger modified to look like a Cuda are freaking ugly! Let Plymouth and Pontiac rest in peace.

  21. curt

    those cars are impressive,but lets look at who’s buyin them ….wanna be rodders, those of us who know what we really want build them ourselves. The few rich guys that don’t know a screw driver from a ratchet buy them. My only hope is they have the talent to driver them.

  22. Joe

    HELL YEAH! Real hot rodders are hard core, real hot rodders would never, ever be caught driving a hot rod someone else built….I wonder how places like Yenco, Motion, Norms, Gibb, Harell, Nickey, Berger, Grand Spaulding or Tasca survived. With all those hot rodders building their own cars those guys must have never sold a single car that was built with performance in mind. I bet a real hot rodder would never by a COPO car either because they didnt “build it themselves.”

    Lets not kid ourselves here. Not every car guy can build his own car. Tools, parts, space and so on are a commodity not everyone has access too. You can have a healthy respect/love for cars and not be someone who has the capacity to built it themselves. Building one doesnt make you any more or less a car guy than someone who payed money to have one built. The difference is that the guy who built his, built his and has the ability to do so.

    Sure there are those who are just going with a “trend” but far more just can’t do it.

    This holier-than-thou-because-I-built-my-car-myself is elitist bullshit that has no place in the hobby IMO.

    1. cyclone03

      “This holier-than-thou-because-I-built-my-car-myself is elitist bullshit that has no place in the hobby IMO”
      Except it built the hobby.

      .
      I have done 3 cars ground up,my current Mustang is the only one that could be called “finished”. Paint,Interior,Chassie,Engine all done by me. In that sense I am better than “average” IMNotSoHO.

      I have been paid to work on cars that the owner wanted “just like mine” and they cant afford it.

      Those of us who have done a car just like we want it have earned our “hollier than thou because I built it” badge,those who have never done it dont understand and call us “elitist”. Guess what your right.

      That said it takes three things to build (or rebuild) a car from the groound up. Money,Time and Skill if you dont have all three you pay for the other.Yes you pay for money because it cost more to get what you want.

      As far as being “better” I am, and I know it everytime somebody ask who restored my car and I tell them “I did” and they say “I wish I could do that”.Im not better than the pros but I am better than most at building cars.

      1. Joe

        Building your own car built the hobby, sure. No doubt about it, but to think you’re better than someone becasue you had what they don’t is’nt cool. To shit on someone elses dreams because you have the skill and money is’nt cool either.

        I admire and respect those that can, even those that try….but as a person who turns wrenches for a living, there are a lot of people I have seen that can’t…and should’nt….even tho the desire is there. Should I turn my nose up to them…I dont think so.

        1. cyclone03

          this should be what I was trying to say….but it wont type out right either.

          We are heading into the Check Book Rodder/ Do It Yourself Rodder debate. Overdone forever.

          But the CBR’s do help the DIY guys because they put up the R&D money that gets us Retro fit Brake,trans,engine,gauge etc etc kits…

          I also know that the guy who found a shop,planned and payed for his car did “build” it,in a way. But he didn’t build the car,he had it built.

          as for this “but to think you’re better than someone becasue you had what they don’t is’nt cool. To shit on someone elses dreams because you have the skill and money is’nt cool either”.

          Im not doing either. Ive found that the car owners that tend to shit on others dreams AND think they are better,and tell you so tend to be owners who have the money to have a car built then sell it and do the next fad that comes along.

          I hold ALL car guys that do as much as they can themself or with help, above the guy who is just an owner.

          Yes the guys with dirty hands are “better” than just the owners.
          They have a piece of themself in every car the do.

  23. Appaloosa 0012

    Adding to what had been said, I believe in supporting the U.S.A. economy. I would not give the car market to imports. My son thinks there the best !! They are the future.

  24. Whelk

    I like cars. i also like power, and handling, and braking. The tuner cars fit this. So do a lot of other cars. So yeah, I like them. They may not be what you are really into, but they aren’t appliance Camry’s either. I’d prefer to do my own, but I wouldn’t hesitate to rock a tuner if the situation was right.

    1. grancuda

      “…..but they aren’t appliance Camry’s either”

      Not much different, the plastic is molded in a different shape, more hp & emblem is a little different…..

  25. The Outsider

    Except for the on-line component, they could have had this same debate back in 1965 . . . “Real rodders build [fill in the blank . . . T’s, A’s, Deuces . . . .]

    “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

    BTW, my disrespected “wannabe” will incinerate any “appliance Camry” . . . and E.T.s quicker than every published road test of a ’60s Ram Air G.T.O. . . . but it’s a “wannabe” and “not much different” from a FWD Camry because a few old mossbacks (and some “never weres”) say so. What a great hobby.

    Note to all young Bangshifters: Stop dreaming. If you can’t build a copy of Larson’s Nova from scratch (no help, no outsourcing, no check writing) or a 100-point, numbers-matching OG 60’s big block, you’re just another “wannabe” faker.

    And just to set the record straight, every ’60s muscle car ran 11s, if not 10s . . . because “they” (the self-appointed Knights Templar of Bangshifting) said so! .

    1. The Outsider

      Guess the news . . . Most owners of modern muscle cars really don’t care if you walk on past. Plenty of others stop and ask questions . . . .

  26. J-F

    I’d buy one right now, given the money a nice Hennessey CTS-V would be in my driveway.
    What’s not to like? All the commodities of a new car and power to spare.
    No one said you couldn’t have both? A gnarly gasser would be great to keep the caddy company.

    1. hoosierl98gta

      I really have no interest in tuner cars. Factory new muscle cars, yes. Muscle cars were detroits way to cash in on hot rodding. People that had no idea on how to build a hot rod could now write monthly checks.

  27. SoCalCamaro

    I will say this, my 2013 Camaro 1LE has been driven cross country this, driven hard in multiple events in the Midwest, will be at LS Fest and then driving it back to So Cal…not many classic cars can do that, in fact most of what I am competing against is trailered in to the events, not street driven with a few rare exceptions…New Muscle can reliably do this…there are advantages to the New Muscle Cars….

      1. SoCalCamaro

        Yes, and it was be raced at Heidt’s Muscle Car Challenge, Midwest Muscle Car Challenge, Optima Face Off at Road America, Run to the Music City and now LS Fest and get me too and from the events….whether you like them or not is your problem, I’m out driving the crap out of mine….

        1. grancuda

          I’m out driving the crap out of mine too but my stuff is 41+ years old. Put 38,000 miles on my ’72 in the past 18 months & 2,500 on my ’69 in the past 4 months.

  28. Jeff Lee

    This turned into a “do you like Modern Musclecars” debate, but the question was really about the high end tuner muscle cars. I do like some of them, but some of the “style choices” are not good IMO. Especially giant wheels or body kit “conversions”. I’d personally rather get a car and do the upgrades I want to do to it myself (and most us guys can only do things as they can afford them). But the certified tuner cars can also be looked at as a collector investment. The names Shelby, Lingenfelter, Hennessey, SLP, or Petty do add a premium price, but also make them worth more than your “Joe Dirt” Camaro down the road a bit. But you don’t care because its yours and just how you wanted it.

    As for the platform debate. Yes these are heavy cars that could go on a diet, but safety regulations and creature comforts have crept upward since the 1965 Mustang debuted and it’s not all about drag racing anymore. Also in their day muscle cars (like our wicked near 4000 LB 1971 Monte Carlo SS 454) were not exactly light cars. And while I like the old stuff we’re talking about 50 years of technology advancement. We’re looking at modern suspension and a tuned up LSA in our old Monster Carlo (TM). Please tell me how that will suck.

  29. rodzilla

    I grew up during the muscle car era, but was never able to afford one, then. Now, one in even decent shape is too expensive to be available to the average guy. So I will agree with those who believe a stripped down, modern version, of the Challenger, Camaro, or Mustang, with a high output engine, would be very popular. Sell them through the dealerships, with a small down payment, and monthly installments.

  30. Matt Cramer

    There are good and bad examples of the modern tuner cars. I can’t afford to buy a new one, and they’re not all that common secondhand – but I’m glad they exist.

  31. 3nine6

    Agree with Road Rebel, I tend to walk right by a new Mustang/Camaro/Challenger/Corvette at a show for a nice ’56 F-100, 60’s or 70’s Olds or even a modified ’65 Bug, etc. I appreciate the performance of the new cars, but they are just not that interesting to me…….

  32. Anonymous

    I have a 1968 462 ci 4 speed firebird. I also have a 2006 GTO, both have 450 HP and run low 12’s.They both are worth around 16k and are a blast to drive. One of them has power everything and gets 22 MPG !! Which one do you think I drive to work everyday? I have the best of both worlds for way less than the price of a tuner. Built them both myself … Drive them both myself = )

  33. Captnfrank

    I grew up in the sixties,had several used big block cars Ford,Mopar and a GM
    I owned and built a new 74 Maverick 302 that ran high12’s (for real)
    I liked tuner cars then,but couldnt afford one,I like tuner cars now but cant afford one
    I agree they do alot of R & D for the rest of us
    You have to love cars to own either,Isn’t that what it’s all about ?

  34. vawinger

    Tuners, just like restomods,concoures,and rat rods all have a place in the hobby. I am one who can’t afford one but If you can afford one then GOD BLESS the people who take the RISK to develop these monsters so that soneone can support their efforts. Look what Petty’s garage has done with the challenger, converting it into a modern day evellotion of the superbird/daytona cars of yesterday.Again I stress that No Risk,No Reward is what made the automotive industry what it was, until the goverment stuck it’s nose into it. I for one say let the Free Market reign. After all, our hedders, mags,carbs and the like and companies like Eldebrock,Year One and Mags like musclecar review, came about because of Risk Takers. Nuff Said

  35. Brendon

    Care about? Yes. People are making performance cars perform even better. It’s really not much different than what tuners did back in the 60’s. And unlike those cars you now can have the best of everything- high power, handling, braking, creature comforts, reliability, and most come with a warranty. You never got all this in the 1960’s.

    However, this doesn’t mean you’ll see one in my driveway. I’ve never owned a new car, and likely never will. I prefer the styling of cars from the 1950’s and 1960’s and enjoy building my own cars too much to just buy something off the lot.

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