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They still ran high 14's and barely trapped 90mph on the track, slow even back then.
They were actually the match for most modern shop-built street rods, however, that had basic crate 350s and TH400s. And no street rod was taken to the track to find out how slow they were. Cars like this were what the Prowler was competing with:
The Prowler matched them in acceleration, beat them in handling and braking and came with a warranty. Take off the bumpers and they look the part, too, which is why they tend to hold their value pretty good.
They were also test beds for low cost, low volume construction with high tech materials (like the aluminum frame) and small team manufacturing. But they were never intended to be muscle cars or sports cars. Just factory built street rods with a warranty.
Agree to disagree. To me it's like going through cosmetic surgery to make you look old and modern doesn't mean generic.
Cars like my Mustang don't look old. They look, like 911s do, like continuations of the bodystyle updated as time goes by with modern cues. In fact, I think my Mustang now looks better than my 1970 Mustang fastbacks did.
Now, the Challenger looks like Chip Foose got ahold of an original one and modernized it. I'd have a Plum Crazy R/T Classic in a heartbeat as a cruiser.
And if the Mustang takes on the new Ford styling cues, it will look like a generic Taurus/Fusion/Focus or worse, a Japanese/Korean car.
Never said they were a hotrod or fast just a little faster than average. Hotrods are built not bought.
Street rods are indeed bought from rod builders around the country. I even built them for customers at my shop. If you don't have the time or talent to build them, then buying them already built is a viable idea.
Meh a crate 350 mated to a turbo 400 would provide more enjoyment then the dog powertrain in the prowler. Seems the market was old guys that wanted to look like they had a street rod. I do enjoy the 6.1 hemi swapped prowlers tho.
Cars like my Mustang don't look old. They look, like 911s do, like continuations of the bodystyle updated as time goes by with modern cues. In fact, I think my Mustang now looks better than my 1970 Mustang fastbacks did.
Now, the Challenger looks like Chip Foose got ahold of an original one and modernized it. I'd have a Plum Crazy R/T Classic in a heartbeat as a cruiser.
And if the Mustang takes on the new Ford styling cues, it will look like a generic Taurus/Fusion/Focus or worse, a Japanese/Korean car.
Are you kidding? By the fourth gen the Mustang looked pretty much nothing like the first get. The current Mustang has a LOT of similarities to the first gen. In the case of the 911 every gen has been an enhancement of the previous and has never had any huge change. As far as claiming the Mustang would look generic if it didn't go retro maybe, maybe not. If it did it would be because Ford wanted it that way not because it had to be.
Street rods are indeed bought from rod builders around the country. I even built them for customers at my shop. If you don't have the time or talent to build them, then buying them already built is a viable idea.
What I mean is they don't roll off assembly lines.
Are you kidding? By the fourth gen the mustang looked pretty much nothing lke the first get. The current mustang has a LOT of similarities to the first gen. In the case of the 911 every gen has been an enhancement of the previous and has never had any huge change. As far as claiming the Mustang would look generic if it didn't go retro maybe, maybe not. If it did it would be because Ford wanted it that way not because it had to be.
The '05-up cars look like continuations, not clones, of the '69-73 cars, as if the MII and Fox cars never existed. They didn't do what the Challenger did and blatantly copy the old cars, just made new ones that were evolved. As though they had been on that continuous path from '70, just like 911s (which did have the continuous production going for them). Which is different slightly from truly being retro.
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