by waaytoomuchintothis » Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:08 pm
Compared to these guys, a slug is super interesting...
I suppose I'm jealous, really. I know dozens of guys, and a few women, who would do so much more and have results that are deserving of the subject. Aside from being egotistical, ignorant jerks, the truth about what ticks me off about these guys is their total lack of respect. False praise to keep the audience buttered up isn't the same thing.
We knew these cars were special from the moment we saw them. It didn't take 35 to 45 years of history and retrospect to see it because we respected the car for what it was. That mindset is absent in these guys. In that era, there were other spectacular cars that didn't have the eye-grabbing appeal of Mopar Muscle, particularly the Wing Cars. The early Mach 1 Mustangs were remarkable cars, although somewhat complex to maintain, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, even Buick had two serious muscle cars. We knew these would be the cars we would be talking about for the rest of our lives the first time we saw them. Oh well..