Great article on owning a muscle car

AJ/FormS said
I bought my first muscle car at age 17. It was a 70Swinger340-4spd.3.55s with Rally Suspension, and E-70-14s. It was incredibly dangerous. And incredibly much fun.It earned me the nickname of "ditcher" in grade 10, cuz that beast was always putting me in there. But the boys all lined up for thrilling rides, and coughed up gas money.Boy, she was hard on tires. I worked after school,and Saturdays, at Canadian Tire, so I could get deals on rubber. In the 4years I owned it, I seem to remember installing 7 sets of rear tires. I did finally learn to keep the back, in the back.I sold that worn out puppy in spring of 75, to another young kid,who was thrilled.
BTW;That Dart had great power disc brakes. Trouble was those tires. Those Es were pure junk, loc-em-up at 50 miles an hour, and flat spot 'em at will. And you know when they're smokin' on the front;you can't steer right? Oh look, here comes the ditch again!

I had 5 cars and trucks by the time I as was 15, but my first actual "muscle car" was a 440 Mag 1969 Roadrunner. (at 21 years old)
Bought it in 1976 for 1,200 and it was really close to perfect condition.

Out of all those cars and trucks I have driven and owned over the years I only wrecked one, and it was a friends GTO convertible that ran into an apartment complex building when the owner's girlfriend kept wanting me to hot rod it so she stuck her foot on top of my gas pedal foot and held it down.
The rear end came around and we went right across the front lawn and BAM!
We hit the corner of the building and knocked a guy right on the other side of that wall right out of his bed. :D

I got to drive a lot of 60's Vettes because my father in law was the President of the local Corvette Club and had 11 of them.
My two favorites were the metallic blue 66 stingray 454 with a four speed, and his 1953 Corvette "Hurricane" serial number 03 (1.5 million dollar car at the time)

He had 5 kids and gave each one their pick of a selected group for high school graduation.
The 66 Stinray and the 53 were not in the choices. :D
My wife picked a factory gold metallic 63 split window for her graduation. (we were not together yet then though) but she still had it when we met.