While the cars of the 60's and very early 70's were impressive for their time, we actually are living in the good old days now. What we have available today was absolutely unimaginable back then. The fastest/quickest cars of that era would be hard pressed to keep up with Mom's V6 Camry and definitely couldn't handle or stop as well. I had a hot rodded 1970 Mustang 4V 351 Cleveland with a Lunati solid lifter cam Hooker headers, single plane intake 4.30 rear gear, etc. It was a beast light to light and yet, I'd bet the farm that my wife's Mercedes Benz would destroy it in the 1/4 mile, top end, through the twisties and do it in the comfort of multi-zoned climate controls, Harmon Kardon surround sound, all the while getting 26-32 mpg.
Edit: Upon re-reading my post, it sounds like I was trashing the older cars in the above posts. I am not, at all. I was part of that time, owned, drove or rode in just about every muscle car that rolled out of Detroit in the era. When what's left of my old hot rodding buddies get to talking cars these days and fondly recall the scream of big blocks running open headers, the discussion always turns to how amazing today's cars and trucks actually are and how fortunate we were to have survived those years.
This is so true . But I would bet your 1970 Mustang sounded WAY better than your wife's Mercedes ever could !!!!
I went to a car show a few years ago in Carmel , they had about a dozen 1969 and 1970 SCCA race cars all lined up together . All small blocks ( I think 350CU was the max ) MOst of them were around 600+ HP , straight headers out the side . They started them all up at once and started revving the motors . I stood there and grinned like a kid in a candy store . LOVE that old school V8 muscle sound and nothing could ever replace it . If I had the money to waste , I would buy a full restomod , 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T , big block --fuel injected so I could drive it anytime --- and just cruise around waking up the neighbors .