Your new musclecar

[Rory McNeil]

As a relative "youngster" (51 years old) I was unable to buy a "real" performance car new, but I`ve had a few "used" ones. In high school I had a blue 65 Valiant 2 dr hardtop with a 273 4 barrel "Commando"& 4 speed. Followed by a 1970 Mustang fastback 351C 4barrel auto Shaker hood in 1976(14.7`@96 mph stock, with 3.25 open diff), a 66 Fairlane 390 GTA in 77 (12.62@110 with 428CJ heads, bigger hyd cam and 4.56 gears with slicks),from 1979 until 1987 I owned 3 different 69-70 Mach 1 with 428Cobra Jets (the 69 auto ran 13.5@102 mph almost bone stock, the 70 4 speed ran 12.5@111 with open headers, slicks, 4.30 gears etc). Followed by 2 1969 Fairlane /Torino fastback 428CJ`s. Although I didn`t have the opprotunity to buy cars like this new, having a decent paying job in the 70`s meant LOTs of late 60`s musclecars werer available for pretty cheap, often under $2000 would get you a 6 year old Boss 302 Mustang or Z/28, Hemi cars were not a whole lot more, and my god, 383 Road Runners and 340 Dusters and Darts were EVERYWHERE for $800. to $1500. for a really nice one. Good times indeed.