ORIGINAL: cavediver

I'm showing my age here but "back in the day", being the late 60's and early 70's 'Posers' were quite different. I never saw or knew of anyone putting SS 427 emblems on their 6 cyl. Chevelle or 428 CJ emblems on their 289 'C' code Mustang. To do such would get you laughed and shamed out of town! The oposite was very common though.

Sleepers! Those were a different story.

It wasquite common to de-badge your muscle car (we actually called them 'super cars' back then, muscle car is a later term). I had a friend with a 62 Chevy with a factory 409 and he put 283 emblems in it. He surprised quite a few in stop light races. One of my best friends inhigh schoolhad a black 65 Mustang fastback with a real solid lifter Hi-Po. He took off the factory Hi-Po badges and just left the regular 289 badges in place. He also installed a set of 'cut-out dumps' that could be opened from inside the car by pulling out 2 control *****. He surprised quite a few GTO's and 442's at red lights. Whena race got set he would pull out the ***** and the sound of that solidlifter small block with open headers was awsome!

Anyhow, those kind of 'Posers' were absolutely cool and RESPECTED.

That was a great time to live through, there were fewer cars on the road and street racing didn't get you sent to jail. Cars were everything to us back then and what mattered was how it performed, and placing fake badging never crossed our minds.

ORIGINAL: MexGT

We are living in the new era of muscle now.

ORIGINAL: okbfd

I was in high school during the end of the muscle car era. Those old big blocks were fun, but let's be realistic......todays numbers absolutely smoke the cars from back then and the handling is so far superior it's not a contest.

ORIGINAL: xyster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKvrfyULhU

"dump"

Hear it roar... :P