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12. The muscle car gang that has car shows and cruise ins all time talk

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 31, 2022, 08:25 AM

Mar 2022

about how the cars back then were built like tanks. Nothing could be further from the truth they were unsafe plus
the claim they were made out of real metal doesn't fly since cars from that era were a pile of rust in 3 or 4 years. I had a 1977 Chevy Blazer that rusted clear thru in 18 months.

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