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coffeedart67 said

I am not a tuner fan, but when stop and think, a lot of us did the same things (just with different cars) when we were young, if it had a v8, throw a 4 barrel and dual exhaust on it(headers if you could afford them), couldn't afford the right size carb, put what could be afforded even if it was too big, put a cam in that was too big to get the lope. Jack em up to fit wide tires on the back....

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I heartily agree. If we were young now, we would likely be building tuner cars as well. I don't hate them, and I go to a car show on occasion that is a mix of ricers, classics, new muscle and mods. It's quite an eclectic mix of cars. I am just happy to see kids getting into cars. I do end up running against them a lot, because they either try or they brag about their 9 second car and I race them only to find that it isn't a 9 second car. Either way, if you look at some of the engineering these kids come up with, it's either impressive or scary, but it's just a modern way of doing what we did as kids. More power to them, I just love my old muscle better.