Hemi Yes or No

A little trip down memory lane, at the risk of showing my age, but who cares. When I was a street racer (now a 20 yr veteran cop, ha) we would travel from the Bronx to Queens to race on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (aka the Connecting Highway). A buddy had a Hemi Roadrunner and did quite well but after a while stopped going on the approx 40 mile roundtrip, because it was costing too much for gas (about $5 of gas @26 cents/gal).
Another Hemi memory. My mailman had a Dodge Coronet Hemi with dog dish hubcaps. He would drive his car on his route, park it, deliver the mail for 2 blocks, walk back to his car, drive it another couple of blocks and deliver more mail. Repeat until done.
I sometimes wonder if these guys, if they sold their cars, ever stayed tuned to see what these cars bring today.
Hmmm.