Sign of the times

[YarisOwnersDad]

Originally Posted by NJBob

From one old codger to another. Back in the day My brother's 68 Olds 442 would do the quarter in the 14s from the factory...This is a 400hp 4brl w/ Ram air ....My 98 Dodge Neon R/T would match it from the factory( 150hp). With a few mods like CAI, UDP , headers etc...My Neon would blow his doors clean off! (and still get 30 mpg) LOL Cars have changed quite a bit.

Well, good to know that I am not the only Old Timer here.

On another message board that I frequent, someone posted some stats on a a 1965 Impala with a 409 engine in it. It listed the 0-60 MPH time as 8.0 seconds. Man, there are a lot of cars today that would beat that, and, like you say, they would have much less HP and would get a whole lot better MPG.

I still like those old muscle cars, though. I was born in 1949, so I was a teenager and young adult during the height of the muscle car era. Those were some GREAT years in MANY different ways. I would like to go back to those days and relive them. I wouldn't change a thing!

Tom