Beautiful cars! My neighbor has a very nicely redone 1970 El Camino SS which is currently being upgraded from stock 396 to modified 502. Should be fun.
The thought of these old muscle cars entices me - they're not particularly my style - big, obnoxious and handle like a greased pig on a skating rink, but they are fun as hell to listen to (American V8s can be made to sound SO great, can't they?), fun to drive (in a straight line), and they look awesome. Just looking at them makes one think back to another era - particularly here in Southern CA. A time when life was maybe a little simpler, when the world was maybe a little more laid back, when you weren't tripping over people in an overpopulated morass of strip malls like today, when you could actually go surf after work and when you could drive down the road seeing stuff like that and more people seemed to appreciate a "cool car". Today's stuff is SO boring, bland, soulless and dull compared to what those days produced. In some ways I wish I'd been born 20 years sooner, but OTOH, I might have ended up a Corvette guy (oh, the horror!)