I bought my first pony car because I couldn't take my eyes off of it. I will look for an actual picture of it but I found one on the net with the EXACT displacement and options of mine:
1970 1/2 Dodge Challenger Trans Am
It was a shiitty car by todays standards, finish wise at least. It couldn't corner and was dangerously light in the front end, which caused tremendous under-steer; but it was really fast, and girls liked it. More importantly, they liked me in it.
It featured a 340 CID engine, with a 3/4 racing cam, solid lifters, mechanical linkage, high rise Edelbrock intake manifold, a Holley Series 2300 six-pack and more. I replaced all the vacuum linkage, raised the compression with copper head gaskets, put a high-end overcapacity water pump on the front, dropped the tranny, saved it, and put one with a Muncie brainless shift kit, and a positrack 4.11 (truck axle) rear differential in the beast. I could break 'em loose any time I shifted if I wanted to. A great trivia question is that it was the only stock car sold with different sized front and rear tires. The fronts were E60-15's and the rears were G60-15's, to make it street legal Chrysler ran the exhaust to the rear axel, on a long straight pipe, and then brought the megaphones out of the front of the muffler, so the megaphones could come out in front of the rear tires!
Once I was going past 125, the front got I little light, I could steer the wheel back and forth enough to change lanes and it wouldn't budge. That gave me pause to look for a deep spoiler to put on the front underneath, which I never found before I sold the car.
The rear seat had the most worn upholstery in the car.
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