When I was coming of ( driving ) age in the early '70s, I thought American built cars of the time were crap. Poorly built. Gas guzzling. Poorly engineered. Poor performance (other than straight line acceleration). Cheap materials. The US cars of the 50s and early 60s were pretty decent, but they seemed to be slapped together by the mid to late 60s.

Growing up , I started buying English cars ( Austin America, MGB) ,then Jap cars (3 sucessive Toyotas) and finally bought a then-new 96 Camaro ( it was just OK).

I still just shake my head in amazement at the prices that these 60s Chevys and Mustangs are selling for. They were fairly crappy cars back in the day, and age hasn't improved them, IMO

Rick

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)