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Originally Posted by speeder
That car is a bit of a pink elephant, sort of a vestige of the last dying breaths of the muscle car era. All of the muscle had been removed by then but it still had the emblems and unfortunately ugly 100 lb. bumpers on each end.
I could see how it could have enormous sentimental value, however, if it had been in the family for decades. I would give anything to have any of my dad's cars from 1967-1976.
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Exactly. The "muscle car" era only ran for about six to eight years, and came to a crashing halt in about 1971. They still used the names, but performance had suffered mightily by then, as had styling.
My dad and my uncles had some amazing iron in those days. They were the ones that planted the seed for me, a decade later, to go search out what they were driving when I was a kid. As a result, my first car was a '67 GTO 400 four speed. After that came a bunch of 383 and 440 MOPARS, but none newer than 1969. Some of the 1970 models were still o.k., but definitely by 1971, they were just stickers on overweight, underpowered turds.