Originally Posted by G-Benz

The Barrett-Jackson auctions are terrific! Wish I could go someday.

Amazing how nostalgia can fetch such ridiculous figures!!! All for cars that during the fuel crisis of the 70's were getting dumped for a few grand!

Back in high school, most of my senior class drove in less-limited versions of the same cars!

I wonder when the baby-boomers finally die off, if any of these cars will still retain their astronomical values?!!!

After all, these cars were all crappy by today's build standards. Handling was god-awful, and the appointments were cheap and brittle. GMs formula was to stuff giant motors in an anemic coupe, put some decals and disctinctive trim and voila! A muscle car!

Note the waste of fuel and horespower due to the lack of more precise technology. Today's fuel management and induction techniques could extract twice the rated horsepower of those same engines!