With all the ways we can sound off these days—online forums, YouTube, social networks, and so on—opinions are flying. And with the electronic buzz buzzing along at an all-time high, there’s plenty of discussion about muscle cars and their achievements on the dragstrip. Some of it is woo-hoo celebration. Some chatter has been dubious about the very quick e.t.’s that the faster cars regularly run, primarily at the Pure Stock Drags. “They didn’t run that fast when they were new,” is how the skeptical talk often goes. “How could they run faster now?”
It’s a fair question, worth asking and answering … More