"Old Guns?" Or the "Unforgiven"?
Great post, Popdart! Congrats on your retirement.
You're 100% correct on the glory days growing up with musclecars. I feel so fortunate to have grown up in SoCal during the height of the musclecar era and the great memories I have of it:
Cruising Whittier Blvd. (1966) after high school football games in my buddies '63 Impala SS with a 425-horse 409 and 4-speed
Buying my first '69 340 Swinger used in November 1969 for $2000
My very first car club - Orange Coast Darts
Buying my first set of gears from Gale Banks and his first little shop
Picking Bruce's brain at J&N Speed Shop in Whittier
Racing at OCIR, Irwindale, and Lions drag strips
Waiting in line to pull into Bob's Big Boy on Whittier Blvd. with a class win trophy won earlier that night at OCIR
The street racing I "never did" on Whittier Blvd. and at the 'box factory' in La Mirada
Hanging out with Big Willie and the International Brotherhood of Street Racers at the ball field in south Whittier
Great times and great memories.
That's why I'm building my "new" '69 Dart. It's gonna keep me feeling like the late '60s and early '70s - the years, not my age!