The best musclecar around 30K?

[markjohnson]

As far as "buying from the heart" it seems to me that a fella seems to gravitate to what you originally liked in your "formative" years . . . roughly 15-21 years old. Kinda seems that way with cars, even music, etc. Sure, we all seem to get sidetracked in our 20's and 30's but by the time you reach your 40's you've realized what you really like from those precious early years and you start looking for that LS-6 Chevelle that you used to ride to high school in or even the IROC Camaro/Trans Am GTA/Buick Grand National that you were insanely jealous of and the rich kid at your school that had the car has no idea of the impression he left on you 25 years ago! I'm gonna steal this photo from another thread on this site just to say that I'm just absolutely nuts about Grady's Red '67 BBC Camaro. I just love that car and if a fellow had an insatiable lust for a $200,000-$400,000 1967 Yenko Camaro, a car similar to that would have to satisfy you for a fraction of the cost. This car is every bit of the car that a Yenko/Motion/Dana/Nickey Camaro is. It was just put together by somebody else . . . . that's all! I've always been a bit flabbergasted to see something like a Yenko Camaro/Chevelle/Nova sell for a quarter million dollars like they typically do because they're just way to easy to duplicate for the last 40 years. Clean Small Block cars have always been available and so were crate LS-6's and LS-7's and now we have 502's and even 572's now! Heck, all the original Supercars were just "transplant" cars anyway that were put together by dealership mechanics that couldn't wait to clock out and go home. I miss the days when you showed up somewhere with your car on a Saturday night and the questions were "How fast is it?" or "What are the cam specs?". Those questions have sadly been replaced by "How much you think its' worth?"