Driving around today for the pure hell of it, as I regularly do(w/o a pretentious hat I might add). I was wondering how many of you would rate the ride on your 20+ year old car.
Expounding on that, how would rate the experience?
Having had two of the best riding(I.M.O.
My car is tight, and rattle free w/ the exception of the harshest of bumps. The ride is a little stiff, and I'd say choppy due to the short wheel base. The noise level inside is good w/ the windows rolled up at 70 MPH, no wind noise to speak of, The exhaust is very audible at w/o throttle, but I can hear the cooling fan and the fuel pump while cruising or stopped at an intersection.
I get alot of heat from the firewall, around the footwells and my damn feet about bake off after the car has been running awhile. The dash heat reflection is another gripe. And of course, I frequently get blasted w/ exhaust fumes depending on whether or not I came flying up to an intersection and had to stop hard w/ the windows down.
As for the experience, taking all of the above into consideration,...I'd say it's one of the most fun cars I've ever owned, not counting the reaction it gets from the few drivers who aren't staring straight ahead. I know it won't ride like any late model regardless of what I do to it, ( short of adding another 800 lbs to make it weigh the same as the GTO)
I do know this. You pull up to a Harley, and every inch of that bike is shaking to beat hell, and it in turn is keeping the rider equally tingly purely because hes sitting on it. That has got to suck, but there are tens of thousands of Harley riders that wouldn't trade it for anything.
Maybe there'll be some negative attribute that'll be globally assigned to these cars that'll one day identify the driver of one of them as a similar masochist to a Harley rider,...
Like "look,..that guy is holding his back, he must have a fox mustang w/ the Eibach mega-sport spring package". Maybe a fox Mustang will be the new cool,.....maybe those of you that continue to own one despite contrary advice from your kidney doctor will get inducted into some club for large balled men,......... Maybe, history will mark the body style as so ahead of its' time, simply owning one of them makes you a visionary. I don't know,...it could happen
Just curious
Expounding on that, how would rate the experience?
Having had two of the best riding(I.M.O.
My car is tight, and rattle free w/ the exception of the harshest of bumps. The ride is a little stiff, and I'd say choppy due to the short wheel base. The noise level inside is good w/ the windows rolled up at 70 MPH, no wind noise to speak of, The exhaust is very audible at w/o throttle, but I can hear the cooling fan and the fuel pump while cruising or stopped at an intersection.
I get alot of heat from the firewall, around the footwells and my damn feet about bake off after the car has been running awhile. The dash heat reflection is another gripe. And of course, I frequently get blasted w/ exhaust fumes depending on whether or not I came flying up to an intersection and had to stop hard w/ the windows down.
As for the experience, taking all of the above into consideration,...I'd say it's one of the most fun cars I've ever owned, not counting the reaction it gets from the few drivers who aren't staring straight ahead. I know it won't ride like any late model regardless of what I do to it, ( short of adding another 800 lbs to make it weigh the same as the GTO)
I do know this. You pull up to a Harley, and every inch of that bike is shaking to beat hell, and it in turn is keeping the rider equally tingly purely because hes sitting on it. That has got to suck, but there are tens of thousands of Harley riders that wouldn't trade it for anything.
Maybe there'll be some negative attribute that'll be globally assigned to these cars that'll one day identify the driver of one of them as a similar masochist to a Harley rider,...
Like "look,..that guy is holding his back, he must have a fox mustang w/ the Eibach mega-sport spring package". Maybe a fox Mustang will be the new cool,.....maybe those of you that continue to own one despite contrary advice from your kidney doctor will get inducted into some club for large balled men,......... Maybe, history will mark the body style as so ahead of its' time, simply owning one of them makes you a visionary. I don't know,...it could happen
Just curious