56 years of high mileage and still running rich. 🍷 | Collecting classic Porsches & critiquing modern policy. | You can’t handle the torque, or the truth. 💋🏁
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At 56, I have no patience for slow drivers or bad legislation. Here for the torque and the truth. Try to keep up. 💋🏁
Did you know the muscle car era kicked off with a clever loophole? In ’64, Pontiac’s John DeLorean stuffed a 389 V8 into a midsize Tempest, named it GTO after Ferrari’s icon, and launched the American performance boom. What’s YOUR favorite muscle car? 📷
It looks more like a home studio than a real car. We already have enough screens around everywhere else...
That ’94-’96 Impala SS still hits different.
Grew up in a Texas garage where my old man fixed everything, so a full-size sedan with a real V8 and police-car guts just made sense.
Quiet, mean, and no nonsense. Still think it’s cooler than half the stuff they build now.
Y’all ever owned one of these sleepers, or is it still on the list?
Man, that first-gen Dodge Viper still gets me.
Grew up watchin’ my old man wrench on everything under the sun in that Texas garage, and when this thing showed up in ’92 with that big-ass V10 and no real roof or door handles, I thought “well I’ll be damned.” Straight-up raw. No fancy electronics tryin’ to save you. Just you, the road, and a whole lotta noise. Still feels like one of the last real ones they built.
Y’all ever get behind the wheel of one of these bad boys, or is it still on the bucket list?
The pony car boom kicked off hard in April 1964!
Ford’s Mustang crushed expectations, selling over 418,000 in its first year and sparking a whole new class of fun, affordable sports cars.
What’s your favorite classic Mustang year?
The 90s were when Detroit got its swagger back.
These are the best cars built in America that decade:
⚪️Dodge Viper RT/10 — 400 hp V10, zero compromises, pure insanity
⚪️Corvette ZR-1 (C4) — Lotus-powered “King of the Hill” that could hang with exotics
⚪️Mustang SVT Cobra — The ones that made the pony car cool again
⚪️Impala SS — The sleeper that still turns heads
⚪️Camaro Z28/SS & Firebird Trans Am — Classic 90s pony-car attitude
What’s your pick for the best 90s American car? Or did I miss an obvious one?
1954 was a golden year for purely mechanical, driver-focused machines. 🛠️✨
It gave us absolute legends like the Le Mans-bound Jaguar Type D, the gorgeous Pininfarina-bodied Maserati A6GCS/53, and the iconic Porsche 550 RS Spyder prototype.
No computers, no driving aids, just you, a wrench, and the open road.
Which ’54 classic would you take for a canyon run? 👇
#ClassicCars #Porsche550 #Wrenching #BuiltNotBought #WomenInAutomotive
New cars trying to resemble historic ones. I still choose the original.
