Come Rob. Don you know "Rice is nice" ??
They are doing all they can with what they can afford. Does that sound familar? The only things that have changed other than 30 years later is they don't have the choices like we did way back then.
I had a Honda CRX Civic Si, that beat a New Black SS454 chev pickup off a stop light and about 3 blocks down to a place where the street narrowed down to one lane. Suprised the shxt out of that guy.
I loved to blast around in that thing. I once beat 4 kids in a 86?? Z-28 convertable and even missed 2nd. I kinda miss the little car in fact. It was fun to blast around in. Fuzz didn't even give you one look back then.
One thing about it! We are lucky that we grew up in the era that we did. We got the memories and the neat cars. They have their own and they are no slouch for the size of the motors they have not to mention the bummer front wheel drive they have to put up with. I know better to square off with one unless I have some ponys under the hood.
Pantera