Ooh... well, you can still find one!!
Without a doubt. You can fling a new one around very irresponsibly compared to the deliberate, skilled hands needed to muscle around an early one. I enjoy that, because you're more involved with the driving it seems. Driving them is an event anyway. But the old front ends were crap, let's just be honest about it. Structural integrity of the cars is questionable in several places, they bump-steer horribly, and have other bad manners as well. I have taken mine tear-assing down a twisty rural highway I know well, with the leaves gone, so I could see through corners, and yeah it would -do- what I wanted, but it was work. It gave me a shot of adrenalyine a couple times with its skittishness. The smoking, uphill, 3rd-gear back-and-forth was fun, but you'd better set up correctly, and dare not think of lifting the gas while leaning on it. I got a reminder of that with a not-so-fun slide. Better not overcorrect, either. Here I am, physically wrestling this car along, and meanwhile, bro-in-law is one-handing is ahead of me in his SS Camaro (sorry, that sounded bad). Manual steering is both better and worse in the old ones.
But the new ones don't bring back any memories. Every
True... and sometimes I do long for the turn-key EFI easiness. I know I'd get bored with it. Wish I could have both. Hell, I'd have one of each era (except 74-78) if I had enough $$ :)
Marketing guys in Dearborn, I imagine.
True enough. I have no idea. I'm an expatriated tri-state-area guy, formerly a Yanks fan. Dissing the Sox is sort of automatic to me. :)
I wish they hadn't lured Renteria away. And the Yanks got Womack. The Sox had to win sometime, just WHY against the Cards, in our best season in years and years?
RUN, SUPPAN, RUN!!!
Dammit.
:)
J