re: NSFW: You Millennials and Gen Xers will never be as cool as your mothers and grandmothers

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The whole thing started with OP saying they had better cars.

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"Better" is the opinion of the individual.

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We've veered so off topic

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That's one problem with the written word.

Your post while probably correct, appeared to be saying something different.

I'm a car guy. I've met few cars that I didn't like.

I've never been in love with them I do like them.

I know a lot about them generally speaking. I read a lot of Road & Track, a rag not always correct, and others.

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It's a plain fact that in stock trim, those old muscle cars (while fast for their time) would not keep up with even low level performance cars of today. That goes for quarter mile, road racing, auto x etc.

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Here is where I totally disagree when we are throwing a blanket over each group separately.

The old ones were very bad in the breaking department. The suspensions were never intended for ANY racing with turns.

1/4 mile is where people go wrong. People look at numbers from back in the day.

I had F70's on both my 66 SS and my 70 Challenger. Getting one off the line is where many races were won and lost. Even the layer of rubber on the 1/4 mile line helped very little and even worse on the street.

I once had an excellent website that had times from a lot of cars with notations of what year they the passes were made.

A quick back to back ride in my old 14.5 SS and then my 13.0x 02 T/A would have you wondering why the numbers were so different.

Sadly 1971 time slips didn't have mph or we could have calculated.

That chart DID have more current info on some SSs.

I drove a couple of GTXs back then. No use argue about it but you would have to prove it to me.

Last time I was at the track front wheel drive cars ran in a class of their own. Most were obnoxiously loud and none were interesting. We paid very little attention to them. It was a good time for minor repairs, heart burn burgers, piss, and study time sheets.

Technology has only gotten better since I was at the track but my buddies 18 Accord simply isn't fun. We should know. He had a '69 GTX 6 pack back in the day.

Once we got the tires to hook that baby was fun .. especially when all traction was lost when he shifted to 2nd.

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Car and Driver

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Find a better source. They were worse than Road & Track ... seriously. I think they pull 1/4 times out of their arse. Neither compares to actual times we were getting and seeing others get.

We thought maybe they were a mile high while we are running at 10-15 ft. but computations didn't indicate their stuff.