>>>So, what do you drive, and if you use it for a pvssy magnet, what's your hookup? Is it a conversation starter, or do you find (like mine) that it often "seals the deal?" What do you think your ride says about you?<<<
I’ve got a Dodge Viper RT/10 (pearl white color for those who care about such things). As for it being a chick magnet: HA!, not at all (refer to my reply post regarding cars and picking up chicks:
http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=66320&highlight=cars), despite what guys like you seem to think about “wearing their balls out in public”. It doesn’t start conversations with chicks, and it doesn’t end them! Like I said before, get a car because YOU enjoy driving the thing, not to impress anyone else. What does it say about me? It says that I enjoy driving for the sake of driving, not just meditating from point A to point B. It says that I’m a little bit edgy and thrilling. It says that I’ve got a taste for nice aesthetics. It says I’m a bit more of a stand-out individual than just another guy in a Corvette (not that there’s anything wrong with Corvettes, they’re just a bit homogeneous and commonplace). I guess it probably also says that I’ve got a bunch of money that I don’t really have as well... lol!
As for said duder in the Charger “having the nads to be different”, you’ve got to be joking! Seriously. Maybe where you live, but if you go to car meets out here, there are just as many young guys showing up with their “mullet revival” rides from the seventies as their are punks wearing Gumby-pants with riced out Civics. In fact, Motor Trend did a poll of high-school aged kids and what kind of car they’d like to buy (within reason) and the largest segment of male respondents chose the “classic American muscle car”. I think you’d see a lot more twenty-somethings in American classics if guys my dad’s age weren’t dropping $100,000+ plus for the damned things at the Barrett-Jackson and whatnot.
Personally, much like the boy-racer sedans, I don’t really get what the big appeal of the muscle car is. They’re all some mild divergence from the same unexciting shoebox template, they drive like soft-turds (even the modern renditions), and they’re way too F’ing big. But I guess it all depends on exactly what particular car it is… I’d most definitely rather have a 1970’s Z28 w/ a Trans-Am (the series, not the car) IRS road race setup on it like my buddy’s got, over some riced out Civic hatchback with a fart can and a giant dragon sticker on the side… But on the other hand, given the option of a late model RX7 with a 2JZ-GTE swap and the aforementioned 1968 Charger… well… you can keep the antique. Truth be told, the best place for that “good ol’’ Chevy small bock OR that high specific output Honda four-pot is (still) in a British chassis anyway. Carroll Shelby and Colin Chapman are still right to this day.
