I am a fan of both. The old and the new.
Totally agree about the classics and muscle cars. Majority drove like you were in an army tank, or trying to steer a battleship thru a ditch without hitting anything. Then in some turns you hung on in hopes you would not do a roll over due to the shabby , plain poor oem suspensions. Of course one could pay extra for suspension upgrades which were really not much better and mostly designed for helping you get down the drag strip and not a curvy highway. From my experience with the Big Three USA auto makers ..... Buick and Pontiac were far ahead of others in the suspension game. Some Buicks/Pontiacs/Olds handled extremely well for what they were back in the day. For me the classics and muscle cars I usually admire so much are mostly 100% factory "survivors" and some even are over-restored. Unless they are set up for the race tracks or drag strips they mostly end up being like something in a museum because the folks with deep pockets who spent so much to restore them to exact/oem/factory specs mostly are doing so in an attempt to win contests and trophies. Then they can or will not drive them for fear of a mishap on the roads. If I had some of those deep pockets, I would go for what is called a "day two or resto-mod" build. I would restore to the level that the exterior and interior look factory fresh but upgrade suspension/brakes and engine internals to juice up the horses while keeping the engine bay looking correct. The other thing I would do that would give many "deep pocket" collectors a stroke is that I would drive the heck out of it and enjoy it as it was meant to be.... DRIVEN. I too am a big fan of the newer stuff being made these days and am actually in awe of how it appears that at some point around the late 1990s the auto makers either learned how or decided they had to start making some real quality / innovative cars that average Joe can walk into a dealership , test drive and leave taking a really nice quality vehicle home that is now far and above what they used to offer to us car buying folks.
