10-12-2009, 03:25 PM
Any new muscle car beats any old muscle car simply based on the brakes, creature comforts, suspension and electronics. An Editor at Car Craft said as much a few years ago when he as sitting in hot LA traffic in a new Mustang GT with the air on freezing, no issues, no headaches, etc.
That old stuff is essentially gigantic engines stuffed in lumberwagon chassis with really bad brakes and with suspension that at times had not changed significantly since the 1600s (many coaches in that period used leaf spring-style suspension).
These are hard words for me to swallow at times as when I was a teen and in my 20s I loved muscle cars. I had as my high school car a 1969 Chevelle SS396.
They are kind of cool to look at, today, but it ends there.
That old stuff is essentially gigantic engines stuffed in lumberwagon chassis with really bad brakes and with suspension that at times had not changed significantly since the 1600s (many coaches in that period used leaf spring-style suspension).
These are hard words for me to swallow at times as when I was a teen and in my 20s I loved muscle cars. I had as my high school car a 1969 Chevelle SS396.
They are kind of cool to look at, today, but it ends there.