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Old 05-21-2008, 12:33 AM
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RoswellGrey
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Default RE: Battle of the Mopar Small Blocks!

Let me ask you, tdub, what exactly are you going to do with a 340, assuming you find one? Are you quitting school to be able to pay for it? Is your father so independently wealthy that he can afford to give you something like that to play with? (If he is, I want to be adopted!) Seriously, kid, gas is nearly $4 A GALLON. For MOST of the people I know -- and I mean adults, NOT people not even old enough to get a driver's license, $4 represents most of one hour's work per day. To get a mere 8 gallons, in other words, shoots up most of a day's pay for them -- and 8 gallons ain't gonna take you all that far, no matter what you drive. So how, kid, do you even propose to operate something like that -- assuming, of course, you could afford to get it rebuilt (since you probably lack the tools and knowledge to do it yourself), you even have a car to put it in and a license to drive it, and insurance and money to pay for operations...etc, etc, etc. Seriously, kid, for someone your age, you CANNOT afford a new Challenger. And forget about bothering with ANY old junker from the '60s and '70s. They may have looked cool, but they were pieces of crap the way they were built. Get yourself and early- to mid-'90s Honda or Toyota to drive and play with. You'll be a lot less frustrated than ANYONE who EVER dealt with anything out of the days when your father was young -- myself included. Besides, seriously, how many people out of YOUR era even know, for example, what a 1970 Dodge Challenger is? Damn few. So who you gonna impress? People like me? Hardly. I saw -- and drove -- all those cars when they were new.