Cuda Gills on a Dart?

barbee6043 said

If you forget about numbers, $$$$, purist this and that.....the real thrill of driving any car from decades ago, is the feel of what it was actually like back then. Some people never drove one back then and don't relate. Some want to experience that feel.
Trust me, I get the guys that want better brakes, steering, comfort, HP, etc. I have no issue with anyone doing what they to their car. Its theirs. Its a hunk of steel and rubber and plastic!
I figured what back in the 80s, one day people would be making "street rods" out of 60s Mopars and such. Call them customs, restomods, pro touring, whatever.
Everyone has a car! Not all have the same purpose!

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Not really sure I agree with that (which is fine). I've driven these cars as they were "back then", and really it's not that impressive. Of course full disclosure, I did not drive them "back then" either, I'm talking about driving them today as they were then because I wasn't around when these cars were new. Especially if you go purist on it and run those seriously sketchy bias ply tires. All you get is a poor handling car that stops lousy. But driving them like that doesn't "take me back" either, it's just driving a poor handling, ill mannered car.

I'm more interested in maximizing their potential, and in driving them as much as I can. And quite frankly, you can't drive them all the time in modern day traffic and freeway scenarios safely if you leave them the way they were. But that doesn't ruin them to me, they still aren't new cars and don't feel like new cars, even if they've been upgraded to take advantage of more modern technology like brakes and suspension. Maybe they're not like they were from the factory, but they're nothing like a modern car from the factory either. And certainly you can't say my cars are upgraded much for comfort, if anything I've made mine less comfortable with exception of the seats maybe.