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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
70's Firebird? Can we please stop treating this car as if it was some sort of American Ferrari? Just because it had a big cubic inch engine doesn't change the fact that it was a 2 ton car with a 210hp V8.
What's wrong with the Charger? Dart is a toss-up (the new one is a very good car), but the revised Charger is head and shoulders better looking that the last one.
There is no better time to be into cars than right now.
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Nobody will argue that the 70s cars did virtually
nothing well performance wise off of the showroom floor.
But they were what the public wanted.
Firebird aside, just in 1979 GM sold more Camaros than GM has sold 5th gens since they hit dealerships- by 50k units. In '78 it was 40k units, and in '77 it was just about the same. 3/4 million Camaros in 3 years. The performance was horrible, the camshafts were pencils, compression ratios were awful, but the buyers were still there for some reason. It is nice to see the 5th gen building some steam as it's a fantastic car. They just need to get it in the hands of the right people.
Performance wise nobody will argue that now is the best time. That's obvious in the huge trend of people doing engine swaps to modern stuff. Same with transmissions.
And FWIW, 1979 Ferraris were **** too. They looked nice but were a far cry from what we have now.