Sign of the times

[YarisOwnersDad]

Originally Posted by NJBob

From one old codger to another. Back in the day My brother's 68 Olds 442 would do the quarter in the 14s from the factory...This is a 400hp 4brl w/ Ram air ....My 98 Dodge Neon R/T would match it from the factory( 150hp). With a few mods like CAI, UDP , headers etc...My Neon would blow his doors clean off! (and still get 30 mpg) LOL Cars have changed quite a bit.

Well, good to know that I am not the only Old Timer here.

On another message board that I frequent, someone posted some stats on a a 1965 Impala with a 409 engine in it. It listed the 0-60 MPH time as 8.0 seconds. Man, there are a lot of cars today that would beat that, and, like you say, they would have much less HP and would get a whole lot better MPG.

I still like those old muscle cars, though. I was born in 1949, so I was a teenager and young adult during the height of the muscle car era. Those were some GREAT years in MANY different ways. I would like to go back to those days and relive them. I wouldn't change a thing!

Tom

[tomato]

Originally Posted by YarisOwnersDad

Well, good to know that I am not the only Old Timer here.

Tom

I highly doubt that. Most Yaris owners are young but not all.

In your thread alone, I noticed some posters that were ahem.. more mature than others (to put it diplomatically!)

Remember, people in your age group INVENTED COOL.
We're just following in your footsteps and some of us are not too far behind you