OK - I kinda hate to do this, it's really not my style.
But I'm about to bust...
Here's a pic of my Orange King. Just got it home and washed it down.
This car I picked up in Delaware. It was turning mid-to-low 10's in the 1/4. Has a 4.30:1 mini-spool, 9", top loader, 306.
And this poor soul I bought for $750 from a guy in Minnesota who was already stripping it to sell for parts. (I got them all back too, see in the back of the truck!)

I think there is something in all this writing to be learned for the upcoming F5... It REALLY doesn't have to be lightning fast, but it needs to have A SOUL. If it has that certain something that Camaros used to have, almost regardless of it's power or looks, it will be just fine.

 

Oh yes he will - he wouldn't dissapoint me! J/K

 

Very nice!Man that orange is just kick@$$!

 

I just don't get where this mid-70s nostalgia is coming from? I remember all of the Aspens, Volares and Mustang IIs as complete crap. Even today, these cars don't seem all that much hipper.

Strangely, even the pokiest 1978 Corvette is still vaguely appealing. Similarly, the worst of the Gen 2. F-bodies defies dorkiness. Burt Reynolds was driving a 2-ton pig of a car in "Smokey and the Bandit," but a black T/A with a intact screaming chicken decals is still exciting, in only an offhanded way.

I still think of the 1974 and '75 model years as the beginning of the lowest ebb of Detroit products. We should remember the seventies as the decade when domestic products lost their reputation, performance and almost any desirability. The first rays of hope in this downward spiral were the '79 Mustang, '82 F-bodies and the '84 Corvette. Even then, the drivetrain picture was still pretty horrible until just before the dawn of the 1990s.