Great article on owning a muscle car

Hm, let's see..

Muscle car- Check
Under 25- Check
Heavy Clutch- Check
Bad Brakes- Check
Questionable Steering- Check
Carburetor and Points- Check

Yet I'm still alive and have been driving this thing around since I was 16 (21 now), although I've had it much longer.

They're different from modern cars but I think he blew things out of proportion. You can keep a muscle car in a carport and not have it rot away. I've daily driven my Dart and the biggest issue I had was the fuel economy. Its never left me stranded but I always carry a set of jumper cables and a tool box in the trunk just in case. Cops are usually more curious than anything, been followed a few times but never pulled over, and my speedometer has been broken for years.

Driving an old car is awesome though! The "cars" on the road today just aren't as interesting as the old muscle cars of the 60's and 70's. And the "muscle cars" of today are just labeled as such because they're too fat to corner like real sports cars and they share a name with a muscle car from 40+ years ago. I drive a '14 Camaro daily and am a member on Camaro5, which is the forum where most of the 5th gen (2010-2015) Camaro owners congregate, and a lot of them consider their cars to be muscle cars just because a Camaro is (was at one time, long ago!) a muscle car. Especially the SS owners. Bought not built, and most of them never turn a wrench on their cars. Now I'm just getting off topic lol

Are old cars really that bad? Driven correctly, they're not too different from a modern car aside from a few things that have been mentioned.