Yesterday I was looking at the new Mopar Muscle as I grabbed it off the mag stand and read it while sitting at the Pharmacy waiting for my oxycodone refill. Well I see this red 64 Dodge with a Max Wedge scoop and one of the captions says he built it going for the 60's SuperStock look. Well I am looking at an eng with modern billet aluminum valve covers and not one bit of orange on the eng not to mention no "Ramcharger 426" emblem and two inline carbs. Then the interior in basically all modernized. I mean I went for the 60's SS look myself and of course I do not have a crossram but I do have an orange eng with the "SuperStock 426" emblems and a stock looking interior.
Maybe its me but it sure did not seem to carry the 60's SS look to me other then the Torque Thrust wheels and the maxie scoop. Oh and it had wheelie bars on it also. Ron

It being a 64 b-body V-8 was about all it had in common with a Ramcharger in my quick glance of it

Ron I thought the same thing when I saw it.. I guess its what he maybe thought it would look like today ??/ It was okay but it sure as h@#% didnt look like it came from the 60s ....

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This type of thing is quite common.

The 62 Plymouths/Dodges with Max Wedge scoops come to mind.

Early evening pass at US30 drag strip in Indiana.

Sorry, no orange.

I saw it too.Its just the younger generations perception of the REAL RACE CARS from 62-65. They go to all the trouble to make a clone then put a MSD distributor and aluminum rad. with all the rest of the new stuff. How can they have a real opinion and did not live in those times.

Last time I checked this was America and you can build any kind of car you want any way you want it just sayin
If you look at any of the competitive NSS cars or almost any car running Super Stock classes they look NOTHING like they did back in the day.Don't get me wrong,I like the old school race car look but I wouldn't compromise performance for looks.
Gus

You know I did not mean to say that it was not a nice car as it is of course. Its just nothing like the eng and interior would have looked like in the mid 60's. I apoligize if I gave the wrong impression as its a nice car by all means I just would not advertize it as a 60's SuperStock look-a-like. Ron

I am with Ron on this one.

OF COURSE we are all free to build them to our own tastes, etc.

IMO calling some of these modern builds "vintage" or "clone" or "Nostalgia" or whatever when refering to how they look or what they are supposed to resemble, is a big fail.

If you are going to build a car and call it a name that relates to a car of the past, at least build it to actual resemble a car of the past. It takes more than a clean body with shiney new paint, some (usually reproduction) vintage wheels, and a hood scoop and think that's all it should take to get you there.

The interiors and ESPECIALLY the engine bays should actually resemble something seen back in the day (void of all the modern Ricky Racecar junk). These are still cool cars for sure, but please, refer to them as something else, what they really are, Customs, Hot Rod, Modified, whatever.

Just my

Only thing STOCK about the NSS cars of today is some of the sheet metal. Nothing wrong with it, except it is a misrepresentation to the younger crowd in a lot of ways. Pre 65 cars were very fast if they ran mid / low 11's and of course, wheel stands, wheelie bars, parachutes, 10/12 point cages, 500 CU motors, 13" wide tires, etc, never happened. I really like the NSS cars of today. They are fun and exciting to watch. Just not a true representation of how it was.

I agree with Ron as well. As a side note, with all the downfalls to fenderwell headers, am I the only guy that just thinks they are super-cool or what?

Sheldon

This used to be a stock heart pounding hi 12sec car...but keeping it still heart pounding after all these years....ah well wth. Cost as much as 1964 did.

Back in 63, the stockers were limited to 7 inch slicks. Show me one today that run those 7 inch pie crust slicks. Not too many of the N/SS cars even run 9 inch tires. When did the S/S springs come out that raised the cars up 3 inches in the rear? 65?

I ran 12.41 @116.88 with some "Atlas Bucrons" and 4.56 gears on my 63. At the time, that was FAST!!