Thread: Muscle cars are back!!!

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Compare the new cars with the old cars using the old pounds per cubic inch factoring! The new 'Maro's are 3800+ pounds! In the 70's for most, quarter mile time was all anyone looked at....the new one's handle light years ahead of the plowing front end big block cars, will out run them on top end, and double the fuel mileage while doing it!!!! If you want to see the good quarter mile times for today's cars then look at the Supercharged Mustang's, the Z-28's, and the Supercharged Challengers (brand new) that are starting to show up! You are right, not fair to compare one era to the other.

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Compare the new cars with the old cars using the old pounds per cubic inch factoring! The new 'Maro's are 3800+ pounds! In the 70's for most, quarter mile time was all anyone looked at....the new one's handle light years ahead of the plowing front end big block cars, will out run them on top end, and double the fuel mileage while doing it!!!! If you want to see the good quarter mile times for today's cars then look at the Supercharged Mustang's, the Z-28's, and the Supercharged Challengers (brand new) that are starting to show up! You are right, not fair to compare one era to the other.

Exactly my thoughts......24 mpg from 600 hp plus ride and you can pull around a g in the corners, not to mention the stop distances from 65 mph.

In my old 66 truck with drum brakes I believe the stop distance is over 250, closer to 300 feet I think ........run of the mill cars now stop in the mid 100`s....that means any closer than a 150 foot behind any car on the highway and it does not matter how much attention I am paying, just can`t wheel here down to zero in that distance and surely not in a straight line....